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Just now, 64" said:

Listen [censored], you obviously suffer from paranoid thoughts.l have barracked for the dees since a kid.Decided to comment on the state of our great footy team and how poorly certain players are performing.

With fans like you.......

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Regarding Salem if he was injured they wouldn't bother having him as omitted. I know he hasn't found form yet and had a bad game last week but I thought his ball use and touch of pace off half back would be pretty key against this faster side who really feast off poor ball use coming out of the oppositions backline.

As for Frost I thought he would potentially be the best match up (in tandem with the Macs) for Roo with his closing speed. So I'm sure its probably not true but would the club know that Reiwoldt is out?. Anyway I guess they're wanting more from Sam which hopefully he can achieve with a week at Casey.

 

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1 minute ago, 64" said:

Listen [censored], you obviously suffer from paranoid thoughts.l have barracked for the dees since a kid.Decided to comment on the state of our great footy team and how poorly certain players are performing.

Humour me. What is your favourite memory of a game you have attended from say more than 10 years ago

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Just now, binman said:

Humour me. What is your favourite memory of a game you have attended from say more than 10 years ago

 

Just now, binman said:

Humour me. What is your favourite memory of a game you have attended from say more than 10 years ago

Spare me numbnuts you really are disturbed.lm not wasting my time justifying my loyalty.

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22 minutes ago, Luther said:

Agreed.

Weird that they don't state injury as the reason for dropping Salem, despite looking very sore at one stage last week. Surely he wasn't dropped on form?

I thought he and Watts were both off in the non negotiables and said so after the game.   He deserves to be omitted. 

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15 minutes ago, 64" said:

Listen [censored], you obviously suffer from paranoid thoughts.l have barracked for the dees since a kid.Decided to comment on the state of our great footy team and how poorly certain players are performing.

Please spare us from your veil of negativity. :roos:

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13 minutes ago, Stretch Johnson said:

I thought he and Watts were both off in the non negotiables and said so after the game.   He deserves to be omitted. 

While he may deserve to, this is not a game to be making a statement. If he goes then we have pedo and weideman as the talls up forward... that.. is terrifying.

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20 minutes ago, mongrel said:

Regarding Salem if he was injured they wouldn't bother having him as omitted. I know he hasn't found form yet and had a bad game last week but I thought his ball use and touch of pace off half back would be pretty key against this faster side who really feast off poor ball use coming out of the oppositions backline.

As for Frost I thought he would potentially be the best match up (in tandem with the Macs) for Roo with his closing speed. So I'm sure its probably not true but would the club know that Reiwoldt is out?. Anyway I guess they're wanting more from Sam which hopefully he can achieve with a week at Casey.

 

Given it was official news this arvo, yea the club knew he was out 

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I have a feeling we will get flogged.  Unfortunately. Iwould have both Watts and Weideman playing but if wet then only one. Don't like the 2 outs especially Frosts run so I hope goody has this right. Our full forward line looks horrible. Put petracca at full forward.

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19 minutes ago, 64" said:

 

Spare me numbnuts you really are disturbed.lm not wasting my time justifying my loyalty.

That's just wrong. 

Binman's nuts are actually quite sensitive

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6 minutes ago, watchtheeyes said:

While he may deserve to, this is not a game to be making a statement. If he goes then we have pedo and weideman as the talls up forward... that.. is terrifying.

I don't think it's making a statement dropping a non performing footballer

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28 minutes ago, mongrel said:

Regarding Salem if he was injured they wouldn't bother having him as omitted. I know he hasn't found form yet and had a bad game last week but I thought his ball use and touch of pace off half back would be pretty key against this faster side who really feast off poor ball use coming out of the oppositions backline.

As for Frost I thought he would potentially be the best match up (in tandem with the Macs) for Roo with his closing speed. So I'm sure its probably not true but would the club know that Reiwoldt is out?. Anyway I guess they're wanting more from Sam which hopefully he can achieve with a week at Casey.

 

completely agree... but not sure salem has a touch of pace? 

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31 minutes ago, mongrel said:

Regarding Salem if he was injured they wouldn't bother having him as omitted. I know he hasn't found form yet and had a bad game last week but I thought his ball use and touch of pace off half back would be pretty key against this faster side who really feast off poor ball use coming out of the oppositions backline.

As for Frost I thought he would potentially be the best match up (in tandem with the Macs) for Roo with his closing speed. So I'm sure its probably not true but would the club know that Reiwoldt is out?. Anyway I guess they're wanting more from Sam which hopefully he can achieve with a week at Casey.

 

Reiwoldt has been named as an 'out' - no guesswork here. Right call to rest Frost.

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17 minutes ago, dl4e said:

I have a feeling we will get flogged.  Unfortunately. Iwould have both Watts and Weideman playing but if wet then only one. Don't like the 2 outs especially Frosts run so I hope goody has this right. Our full forward line looks horrible. Put petracca at full forward.

should be dry and good conditions

Sunday 13 August

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Melbourne area

Partly cloudy. Slight (30%) chance of a shower in the evening. Winds northerly 25 to 35 km/h.

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With Frost out, it certainly wouldn't surprise to see T Mac go back with his brother to play on Bruce and Membrey.  I think Watts survives as Goodwin has shown a preference for 3 talls in the forward line, so I can see him going with the mix of Watts, Pedo and Weideman down there.

Make no mistake, we are a big chance this weekend to turn our season around.  We've had a very disappointing two weeks, but we've hopefully gotten those two weeks out of the way before the season is a total disaster.

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35 minutes ago, 64" said:

 

Spare me numbnuts you really are disturbed.lm not wasting my time justifying my loyalty.

You may be loyal but you remind me of the 'supporter' sitting in front of me at a certain match. Every time Watts went near the ball he'd start making negative remarks, bemonaing the worst #1 pick of all time.  Didn't even notice when Watts did something very skilful which led to a goal.  He seemed to get more joy out of bagging Watts than anything else.  I wondered why he followed the footy at all.

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21 minutes ago, dl4e said:

I have a feeling we will get flogged.  Unfortunately. Iwould have both Watts and Weideman playing but if wet then only one. Don't like the 2 outs especially Frosts run so I hope goody has this right. Our full forward line looks horrible. Put petracca at full forward.

Will be sunny and 19.

We will only get flogged if our mids get man-handled like GWS.

saints mids are so far off from GWS quality that we will need a run of injuries on the day to get flogged 

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1 hour ago, dl4e said:

I have a feeling we will get flogged.  Unfortunately. Iwould have both Watts and Weideman playing but if wet then only one. Don't like the 2 outs especially Frosts run so I hope goody has this right. Our full forward line looks horrible. Put petracca at full forward.

they're saying the same thing

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/a-tale-of-two-seasons-how-and-why-melbourne-has-lost-its-mojo-over-past-six-weeks/news-story/d173eb822bdbb7d912c87b03cf080392

first line is crap though. replace "this year" with "this decade"

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2 hours ago, monoccular said:

MODS - THERE ARE ONCE AGAIN TWO THREADS RUNNING IN PARALLEL.

PLEASE MERGE.

Preferably in the future, leave the speculative one running up until the official team list is announced, and lock the other one until the same time.

Only then can we seperate the speculation from the facts.

 

MONOCCULAR - WE DONT READ OR SEE EVERY THREAD - WE BROWSE THE FORUM AS PER OUR INTERESTS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. IF SOMETHING NEEDS ATTENTION, REPORT THE POST AND ALL THE MODS WILL GET A NOTIFICATION, RATHER THAN YELLING IN A THREAD.

That was annoying to type on my phone.

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On selection, Frost has been hopeless for the last two weeks. I'm surprised people are surprised.

Can't see them going through the hoopla of naming Brayshaw if he's not playing. Think he'll be joined on the bench by Weid, with two of Harmes, Watts and Maynard competing for the last two places.

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