53 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Danger won't play. Spoke to snr Geelong person today. Said they would be mad to play him if there was the smallest chance he does it badly and misses 6.

Any news on Ablett or is he definitely playing?

10 hours ago, A F said:

Any news on Ablett or is he definitely playing?

He said Ablett would play

2 hours ago, jnrmac said:

He said Ablett would play

We should have pretended Jack Viney was playing!

Ablett was always going to play unless he re-injured himself.

Lets be honest, if we had Ablett on our list and he had zero pre-season, we too would back him in. He has enough runs on the board to suggest that even on half a leg at FF he will still do a very good job, certainly better than whoever else would be up for replacing him (Geelong has very little depth.
I suspect/hope Nev takes him when he's forward of the centre, I think they're a good match up.

As for Danger, this is a long season and Geelong are certainly backing themselves in for a top 4 and a tilt at the flag, why else would you get Ablett back? So to risk their best player 2 weeks into a hammy injury, would be sheer madness. Their next game is Easter Monday against arch nemesis Hawthorn, so it gives Danger 4 generous weeks to get himself perfectly ripe.
I think they back themselves to win against us without him, and won't take the risk. 

Oliver likely to miss and danger and ablett near certainties to play according to this article, they are just guessing 

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/melbourne-star-clayton-oliver-in-doubt-for-round-1-due-to-knee-injury-as-tom-mcdonald-faces-uphill-battle-to-play/news-story/63589a3f8e377f8490c20ddc8f7f1d33

2 minutes ago, brendan said:

Oliver likely to miss and danger and ablett near certainties to play according to this article, they are just guessing 

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/melbourne-star-clayton-oliver-in-doubt-for-round-1-due-to-knee-injury-as-tom-mcdonald-faces-uphill-battle-to-play/news-story/63589a3f8e377f8490c20ddc8f7f1d33

I still can't work out how a player misses just 1 week with a grade 1 hamstring strain?

2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I still can't work out how a player misses just 1 week with a grade 1 hamstring strain?

Maybe bomber is back at the club 

8 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I still can't work out how a player misses just 1 week with a grade 1 hamstring strain?

If he played for the Dees he'd be out for 6 to 8 weeks.

And furthermore, how does Dangerfield go from doing stationery drills late last week to near certainty by Monday?

17 minutes ago, brendan said:

Oliver likely to miss and danger and ablett near certainties to play according to this article, they are just guessing 

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/melbourne-star-clayton-oliver-in-doubt-for-round-1-due-to-knee-injury-as-tom-mcdonald-faces-uphill-battle-to-play/news-story/63589a3f8e377f8490c20ddc8f7f1d33

How is Danger a near certain starter if he hasn't even trained yet?!?! That would suggest he's certain to miss

Thursdays teams can’t come quick enough but that probably won’t tell us much I guarantee danger gets named either way 

1 hour ago, brendan said:

Oliver likely to miss and danger and ablett near certainties to play according to this article, they are just guessing 

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/melbourne-star-clayton-oliver-in-doubt-for-round-1-due-to-knee-injury-as-tom-mcdonald-faces-uphill-battle-to-play/news-story/63589a3f8e377f8490c20ddc8f7f1d33

Where does it say "Oliver likely to miss" ?  'Likely' being the operative word. 

1 hour ago, brendan said:

Oliver likely to miss and danger and ablett near certainties to play according to this article, they are just guessing 

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/melbourne-star-clayton-oliver-in-doubt-for-round-1-due-to-knee-injury-as-tom-mcdonald-faces-uphill-battle-to-play/news-story/63589a3f8e377f8490c20ddc8f7f1d33

The club still expects him (Oliver) to play, but sources have indicated it is too early in the week to categorically lock him in.

Chinese whispers strike again...no likely there as far as I can see.

As I read it...

"Oliver not categorically locked in."

Edited March 19, 20187 yr by rjay

Just our rotten luck.

Danger and Ablett  play and we're without Viney and Clarry to do them both over.

 

5 minutes ago, rjay said:

The club still expects him (Oliver) to play, but sources have indicated it is too early in the week to categorically lock him in.

Chinese whispers strike again...no likely there as far as I can see.

As I read it...

"Oliver not categorically locked in."

Says in 1st line Oliver remains in some doubt, I think he will play I was just pointing out the guessing going on by media outlets they all have no idea what’s going on 

I reckon:

Oliver and Ablett will both play.

Tom Mac and Danger will both miss.

They will come up with sensationalist headlines until the teams are announced to get a few clicks, but I can't see Geelong being dumb enough to risk Dangerfield for just one match.

Beware Click Bait. Pencil him in.

The miraculous healing power of Patrick Dangerfield. I'll have what he's having.

Dangerfield is a confirmed starter for Sunday.

Sauce - Tom Morris, 3aw’s Sports today show.

 

Damien Barrett just said on MMM he won't play

I won't believe it until he's announced to play 90 minutes before the game when the final team list is in.  

For the record, they're crazy to play him, especially with Ablett going in with no match practice as well.  I actually think it works in our favour to have them playing blokes who aren't 100%.

Maybe I'm just coming up with conspiracy theories today, but I wonder if Oliver's 'knee soreness' is our way of keep them guessing as well.

34 minutes ago, brendan said:

Says in 1st line Oliver remains in some doubt, I think he will play I was just pointing out the guessing going on by media outlets they all have no idea what’s going on 

How do you extrapolate "in some doubt" and turn that into "Oliver likely to miss" ?  Especially when it says in said article "the club still expects him to play".

You surely see the problem here.

8 minutes ago, ProDee said:

How do you extrapolate "in some doubt" and turn that into "Oliver likely to miss" ?  Especially when it says in said article "the club still expects him to play".

You surely see the problem here.

It’s just the way I read it, people read things in different ways, again I was trying to point out that the media are just guessing, if people want to only pick up something I may or may not have read differently to them by 1 word well then I apologize clearly I have upset a few posters so for that I am sorry, I will edit my original post as to cause no more confusion 

2 minutes ago, brendan said:

It’s just the way I read it, people read things in different ways, again I was trying to point out that the media are just guessing, if people want to only pick up something I may or may not have read differently to them by 1 word well then I apologize clearly I have upset a few posters so for that I am sorry, I will edit my original post as to cause no more confusion 

No problem.  I just think people need to be careful how they interpret articles they're sharing.