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PREGAME: Rd 04 vs Sydney

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15 hours ago, Jaded said:

I have a feeling I’ll be crying into my wine by quarter time as Buddy kicks his 17th goal. 

This sounds like the first line of a country and western song.

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    Usually by the weekend im more optimistic, but this game is coming up so fast....

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    2 hours ago, old dee said:

    How do you test a broken jaw?

    I can think of other years

    when barracking for my team

    was everything a younger fan could do

    I could never see finals

    for there were always better rivals

    How can you mend a broken team

    How can you stop the raining goals

    How can what's begun stop declining

     

    What makes this club go round ?

    How can you mend, this broken team

    How do these losers ever win

    please help them mend this broken start

    and let them play again

     

    I can still taste the Bries

    pass the mussels if you'd please

    and a dusty Sangiovese while I cry

     

    we will never watch'em in finals

    been outplayed by better rivals

    how can you mend a broken team

    how do we stop them falling down

    …....

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    I see nothing in Hore that screams he will make it. Poor decision if he is in the side.

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    7 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    I see nothing in Hore that screams he will make it. Poor decision if he is in the side.

    a screaming Hore - well i never.

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    So who is the player from Friday not on the plane? Neal-Bullen?

    Hore and Spargo should be nowhere near the AFL side. At least playing Preuss would give Sydney something different to think about.

     

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    45 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    I can think of other years

    when barracking for my team

    was everything a younger fan could do

    I could never see finals

    for there were always better rivals

    How can you mend a broken team

    How can you stop the raining goals

    How can what's begun stop declining

     

    What makes this club go round ?

    How can you mend, this broken team

    How do these losers ever win

    please help them mend this broken start

    and let them play again

     

    I can still taste the Bries

    pass the mussels if you'd please

    and a dusty Sangiovese while I cry

     

    we will never watch'em in finals

    been outplayed by better rivals

    how can you mend a broken team

    how do we stop them falling down

    …....

    If only you had said Hawthorn in 1965!

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    3 minutes ago, old dee said:

    If only you had said Hawthorn in 1965!

    funny.....sliding doors OD...sliding doors...and windows that slam shut ;)

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    1 hour ago, DeeZee said:

    TMac Stretch Hore and Spargo are on the plane.

    No Preuss

    Source?

    If Ben Guthrie is it possible he just missed preuss in that second tweet?

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    16 minutes ago, binman said:

    Source?

    If Ben Guthrie is it possible he just missed preuss in that second tweet?

    Maybe he’s hiding behind Charlie.

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    17 hours ago, Oneday said:

    Alir Alir will have a field day picking off our i50 entries!

    He did last year! Let's see what we have learnt...won't hold my breath

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    3 hours ago, Demonland said:

     

    we are bringing in the big guns!!

    gees we are screwed.  50 pt loss coming up

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    2 hours ago, Wadda We Sing said:

    Usually by the weekend im more optimistic, but this game is coming up so fast....

    Might be because it is not on the weekend.

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    They are taking a kid who had a broken jaw two weeks ago. This is way more serious than I thought. 

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    5 minutes ago, old dee said:

    They are taking a kid who had a broken jaw two weeks ago. This is way more serious than I thought. 

    Spargo is tough as guts but.

    i'd prefer him out there compared to a lot of others.  even for a kid you generally know what you'll get

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    1 hour ago, binman said:

    Source?

    If Ben Guthrie is it possible he just missed preuss in that second tweet?

    Yes I think he must’ve left him out in the first tweet.

    I heard SEN mention all but Preuss as well though.

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    6 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    Spargo is tough as guts but.

    i'd prefer him out there compared to a lot of others.  even for a kid you generally know what you'll get

    Not discussing how tough he is. Surely it takes longer than two weeks to heal a broken jaw. Has the smell of continuing to playing Smith with a injury in a practice match. Oh that's right we did not think it would get any worse. God deliver me.

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    3 hours ago, sue said:

    Well combined with the issues around lack of fitness due to pre-season factors, it sounds like it would be a quite justifiable one.   

    Hopefully that is offset/mitigated by Sydney's 5 day break.

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    1 hour ago, chook fowler said:

    Maybe he’s hiding behind Charlie.

    Second sharp one for the day cook!

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    Just now, chook fowler said:

    If you don’t laugh you....

    Yes I have done too much of that over the years.

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    Dark cloud over this team. Seem really bereft of confidence.

    Goodys pressers make it seem he isnt quite sure how it all went wrong or how to fix it.

    Would love if we turned it around, but history shows how poor we are against them... and up there its been how long since we won?

     

     

     

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    Spargo wont play unless Hunt or Lockhart are a late withdrawal.

    Or if we want to try a three amigos small forward set up.

    Or if he plays in the midfield (which by the way is his natural position).

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    32 minutes ago, old dee said:

    They are taking a kid who had a broken jaw two weeks ago. This is way more serious than I thought. 

    He got dropped and then had his jaw broken in his VFL match. He got dropped for a reason and hasn’t had time to rectify the cause of his  dropping and build form to return to AFL level. If he plays, it’s poor decision making by the coaching staff.

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