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As well as Frawley, Campbell, Newton, Wonaeamirri, Tapscott, Davis and Fitzpatrick... and, of course, Davey, Jurrah and Bennell

Green may be on a modified program because of his age, and the 3 all stars must be fit, so that leaves 10 players not ready for the game. I thought the injury list was less than that.

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I'm surprised Jones isn't playing. Funny story actually, on Monday morning i was in the city, and I saw the Dees training at Gosch's paddock so I got off the train and watched them do their private training session. Unfortunately it finished soon after I got there, but afterwards Max Gawn and Nathan Jones were doing intense running drills and I said hi to them. Jones looked fighting fit

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I'm surprised Jones isn't playing. Funny story actually, on Monday morning i was in the city, and I saw the Dees training at Gosch's paddock so I got off the train and watched them do their private training session. Unfortunately it finished soon after I got there, but afterwards Max Gawn and Nathan Jones were doing intense running drills and I said hi to them. Jones looked fighting fit

Where's the funny bit??

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I'm not too upset that 10 players are not fit enough to play the intra-club game 2 months out from the start of the season proper. Especially considering the guys who aren't playing.

Warnock, Gysberts, Tapscott, Davis, Campbell and Fitzpatrick are not in our best 22. I want all of them to get back playing and improving at vfl level asap, but it really doesn't impact too heavily of round 1. Gysberts is probably the best of that lot and he's recovering from a soft-tissue injury so he should easily be fit by the nab cup.

Only 4 players are not playing intra-club game from our best 22- Jones, Green, Frawley, Wonaeamirri. Wona is not injured, he just needs to catch up on fitness after some family tragedy over the summer. Green and Jones should easily be right for nab cup as far as i understand. Only Frawley is in doubt for round 1, and he should play by round 3.

Of those not playing, only Green and Frawley are genuinely critical players to our team and structures.

The real issue is going to be keeping the rest of the squad fit before round 1. Last year we lost Morton, Sylvia and Jurrah just before round 1, and it really impacted us. Hoping for more luck this time around

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well hopefully they make it a twilight hit out. i'm flying in to Melbourne on friday afternoon, so it'd be awesome if it's say 6.00pm, olympic park, with a bbq for the families.

as good as it is to watch the boys as much as possible, its only a hot out and they are probably not too fazed about it fitting in with the public as they are trying to get game plan right etc. just a thought

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We would be remiss if we didn't thank the MFC for making the team lists available in advance of tomorrow's game.

As indicated by WJ it's been a running sore at some other clubs where no lists or inadequate lists are privded to spectators.

Thanks to the MFC we can download the numbers and have them for reference at tomorrow's game.

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We would be remiss if we didn't thank the MFC for making the team lists available in advance of tomorrow's game.

As indicated by WJ it's been a running sore at some other clubs where no lists or inadequate lists are privded to spectators.

Thanks to the MFC we can download the numbers and have them for reference at tomorrow's game.

Or how about one club who closed their intra club match to the public? I can only surmise that they want to sell more memberships before their fans get to see their list actually play.

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I was talking about not having the luck, not talent. Not that we know if anything is actually wrong with Ricky, but he tends to struggle to string together more than a handful of competitive matches.

ah right, my apologies

my faith in the injury prone has been reinstated with seeing Sylvia, Rivers and Moloney on the park consistently

the other side of the spectrum is McLean. Yikes.

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