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Tonight at 5pm.

Not sure why we're playing on a Thursday, strange time, but I'm happy that it breaks up what is already a short week. Looking forward to the telecast tomorrow night!

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Bails seemed pretty happy with the thursday night game - he said that the travel factor has been taken out of the equation as they have arrived here early and by the time the next game rolls along they will have had 9 days in between to recover so no excuses based on flight times / recovery etc

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It suits well for a Perth game, apparently you lose a day of recovery with travel, according to some comments I've heard.

At least Channel Ten have the decency to show it live.

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Tonight at 5pm.

Not sure why we're playing on a Thursday, strange time, but I'm happy that it breaks up what is already a short week. Looking forward to the telecast tomorrow night!

yeah I rate it, at the end of this weekend it will have been an 11 day period with footy on 9 of those days, wish it was like that al the time

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yeah I rate it, at the end of this weekend it will have been an 11 day period with footy on 9 of those days, wish it was like that al the time

Be careful what you wish for. I wouldn't be overly keen on playing home games on a Thursday night

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Yep, those notorious return trips home from WA should be rendered mute when we play Adelaide, as we would have had a 9.5 day break. I like it from an MFC point of view, not sure why it's on a Thursday though.

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It suits well for a Perth game, apparently you lose a day of recovery with travel, according to some comments I've heard.

At least Channel Ten have the decency to show it live.

Well it's an 8.40 game on the other side of the country, so it's hardly revolutionary that they are showing it live!

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Well it's an 8.40 game on the other side of the country, so it's hardly revolutionary that they are showing it live!

yeah but apparently these days it is more important to cater to your everybody loves raymond re-runs or whatever reason was given (or not given) for our game agianst GC to be delayed half an hour

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yeah but apparently these days it is more important to cater to your everybody loves raymond re-runs or whatever reason was given (or not given) for our game agianst GC to be delayed half an hour

Their excuse is that it leads straight into the news, as a 3:10 start (delayed) would have the telecast finishing pretty much at 6.

It's a [censored] attempt at making their news ratings higher.

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Melbourne

B: James Frawley, Jared Rivers, Clint Bartram

HB: Jack Grimes, Colin Garland, Luke Tapscott

C: Brad Green, Nathan Jones, Rohan Bail

HF: Jordan Gysberts, Colin Sylvia, Aaron Davey

F: Austin Wonaeamirri, Liam Jurrah, Jack Watts

FOLL: Mark Jamar, Brent Moloney, Jack Trengove

I/C: Jamie Bennell, Cale Morton, Lynden Dunn, Stef Martin

EMG: Matthew Warnock, Ricky Petterd, Addam Maric

IN: -

OUT: -

West Coast Eagles

B: Ashley Smith, Darren Glass, Shannon Hurn

HB: Sam Butler, Eric Mackenzie, Scott Selwood

C: Andrew Embley, Matthew Priddis, Matthew Rosa

HF: Luke Shuey, Josh Kennedy, Mark Nicoski

F: Mark LeCras, Quinten Lynch, Jack Darling

Foll: Dean Cox, Daniel Kerr, Adam Selwood

I/C: Bradley Ebert, Nic Naitanui, Patrick McGinnity, Andrew Gaff

Emg: Will Schofield, Thomas Swift, Gerrick Weedon

In: Mark LeCras, Ashley Smith, Patrick McGinnity

Out: Mitch Brown (Hand), Will Schofield, Bradd Dalziell

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Their excuse is that it leads straight into the news, as a 3:10 start (delayed) would have the telecast finishing pretty much at 6.

Thursday night is a lousy option, I'm off to the Jethro Tull concert (I wonder if they will interrupt to give us the scores in the middle of Aqualung ??)

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Thursday night is a lousy option, I'm off to the Jethro Tull concert (I wonder if they will interrupt to give us the scores in the middle of Aqualung ??)

Rocks for me. Knock off work at 9pm, fly home, rewind on the set-top box so I can skip straight through the ads and QT/HT, generally catch up by 3/4 time and watch live.

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Thursday night is a lousy option, I'm off to the Jethro Tull concert (I wonder if they will interrupt to give us the scores in the middle of Aqualung ??)

Thursday night is hard when the game is played here and you have to rush after work, but being interstate and starting later due to time difference, it's pretty non intrusive to life and it means you have a free weekend.

It's going to be a nice way to end a first day back at work after a holiday and a knee procedure. Unless we lose! :lol:

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WHERE oh WHERE is pettard?? why hasn't he played the last three rounds and why is he listed as emergency against WE?? is he injured or something or does the FD consider him not good enough to be in team at the moment? if thats the case then they're dreaming cos he's clearly in our top 22!!! he demonstrated that against sydney as the sub in rd 1

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Cool, send us a review.

Last saw them over a decade ago and boy they were old then!

Last time i saw em was 73 (I think)at festival hall.....Ian Anderson referred to it as "British Airways overseas Aircraft Hanger!"

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WHERE oh WHERE is pettard?? why hasn't he played the last three rounds and why is he listed as emergency against WE?? is he injured or something or does the FD consider him not good enough to be in team at the moment? if thats the case then they're dreaming cos he's clearly in our top 22!!! he demonstrated that against sydney as the sub in rd 1

..... in about about 10 minutes of footy.

Was then mediocre against the Hawks (admittedly, along with more than a few others), and has had games described as "Flakey" and "OK" at Casey.

Not really guaranteed, walk-up, first 22 performances. I was even surprised to hear that they'd taken him to Perth to be honest.

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LeCras sounds like a bluff, anyone know how long hes been training for?

On 3AW Rumour File today it was 'reported' that Le Cras has returned more quickly than expected because he had not torn his groin muscle off the bone - as was reported at the time - but had instead suffered from a twisted [censored]. Makes my eyes water just writing this.

Have to believe he's going to play. What would be the point of naming him and then saying he's not quite ready? Either he was or he wasn't ready yesterday when they named the team.

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..... in about about 10 minutes of footy.

Was then mediocre against the Hawks (admittedly, along with more than a few others), and has had games described as "Flakey" and "OK" at Casey.

Not really guaranteed, walk-up, first 22 performances. I was even surprised to hear that they'd taken him to Perth to be honest.

To be fair he has had almost a season out.....he needs time to find his form again surely!

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