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monoccular Legend

monoccular   17,574

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We're a 4 goal better side with the dropping of Brandon Jack.

He killed us last year with 4 goals.

OMG....here we go again.

Every missing player or players in an opposition team are replaced by someone.

How about just concentrating on beating whomever they put out against us.

Flashback to round 1: can't remember just who, but Saints had a mounting injury list, and posters here were in effect saying how that would make things easy for us. Result ?????

Happens several times every year and we don't improve as a result.

FCS....just beat the opposition, whomever it may be !!!!!!!

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Whispering_Jack
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Love it guys. "Get stuck in" and "Red hot go". I just need another half dozen of those cliches and my preview will write itself.

Grapeviney
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Good to see Byrnes back in - he's our best exponent of the kick into the man on the mark.

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congrats to Christian Salem and its well deserved after great form at Casey

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Not surprised to see McKenzie and Evans out, neither was giving us anything.

Spencer for Jamar is a bit surprising but I guess Spencer's paying the price for two rubbish games sandwiched around a decent game (against a terrible opponent).

Not sure I'm in favour of Byrnes or Salem being included though. Would have liked to see Salem ply his trade a little longer at Casey and not get picked on the back of one great game, but that's where we're at right now. I guess that also goes for Byrnes, who I don't see any future for at all, but oh well.

I guess this also means Pedersen will stay forward to be the second ruck and Dunn will stay back - hope I'm wrong about that though.

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Demon Dynasty   17,109

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Goodes will be rusty as hell

Kinda glad hes come in to be honest

Rusty players have a habit of a good first up game against us before the rust kicks in. But here's hoping. He is 34 after all and the game does seem faster this year.

The said Adam Goodes is the Australian of the year and is said to be as strong as an...

Goodes is a massive in and has torn us to pieces in the past, but he will be as rusty as an old iron gate. But please no-one has ever effectively tagged him so don't waste a player on him this time.

Great to see Salem in. You can't ignore genuine young talent when it shines in a quality game at VFL level.

Not surprised to see Jamar come straight in. Roos' method in the past has been for an older, big bodied ruckman to hold the spot against all challengers.

A bit surprised about Byrnes, even though I am not his biggest critic. It will be interesting to see how he goes with Dawes and Frawley doing the big man work.

A bit surprised about Watts being kept in.

Unfortunately their midfield will kill us.

All this negativity..... a little overwhelming :(

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Whispering_Jack   30,673

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I take back my match preview. It's all about playing with intensity for four quarters or at least three of them like Collingwood did today. Of course we don't have a Swan, Pendlebury, Sidebottom or Beames either.

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dazzledavey36   55,359

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We bring in more experience with Jamar and Byrnes.

I have a feeling Mckenzie days as a footballer are nearly finished.

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picket fence   17,510

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We bring in more experience with Jamar and Byrnes.

I have a feeling Mckenzie days as a footballer are nearly finished.

Nearly finished?? was lucky to be drafted in the first place, average tagger, no upside or ancillary position, limited skills and we gave him a three year deal!! dohhh!

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Not a great footballer, but McKenzie's played some good games for us. Didn't he shut down Gazza last year to a handful of touches? Adelaide were very keen for him to go back there a number of years ago when he was on our rookie list, and they were a very good team then......unlike us. Maybe he's been 'Melbournised'.


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old dee   23,872

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Not a great footballer, but McKenzie's played some good games for us. Didn't he shut down Gazza last year to a handful of touches? Adelaide were very keen for him to go back there a number of years ago when he was on our rookie list, and they were a very good team then......unlike us. Maybe he's been 'Melbournised'.

Maybe he was just not that good at the start

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Jamar and Salem are both good ins in my opinion, but Byrnes will need to do more around the forward line than just get on the end of a couple of cheap ones, hopefully Byrnes is sub because he doesn't have the ability to play well for 4 quarters.

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Jamar and Salem are both good ins in my opinion, but Byrnes will need to do more around the forward line than just get on the end of a couple of cheap ones, hopefully Byrnes is sub because he doesn't have the ability to play well for 4 quarters.

But give 'em hell Shannon! Woo!

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