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Just now, Wiseblood said:

He didn't.  He's guessing.

Yeah sorry I did realise this. Just getting a bit tired of the guessing. Within minutes of hearing injury news its been either 'well thats his career done' or 'well thats him out for a month'. I guess its the MFC way to go straight to doom scenario.

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3 minutes ago, Yung Blood said:

Yeah sorry I did realise this. Just getting a bit tired of the guessing. Within minutes of hearing injury news its been either 'well thats his career done' or 'well thats him out for a month'. I guess its the MFC way to go straight to doom scenario.

I feel you mate.  Plenty of amateur doctors post here.

From what I can gather Jones was going to train today to see if he was fit enough, but obviously they've given him another week to get over it.

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Just to clarify for people who are just looking at the team sheet and aren't up to date.

- Bedford and Kozzy are in as announced

- Jackson was not announced to debut so will be an emergency

- Two bench players will be picked from Weid, Brown, Hore, Lockhart and Sparrow. 

So it will be one of the two tall forwards and one of those backs I would imagine. Sparrow being emergency mid.

I'd say Lockhart and Weid will round out the team. Weid being the backup ruck.

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8 minutes ago, Yung Blood said:

Where did you read he was out for month?

As of yesterday he was listed as 'test' so I'd imagine he will be in line for next week.

Jones took aN accidental drive by kick to his calf in the last 10 minutes of the last Marsh game. He limped off and unfortunately it is still an issue. Odd it seems that match was played months ago but it was just 2 weeks? 

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37 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Has an Achilles injury according to the MFC website.

 

25 minutes ago, Leoncelli_36 said:

Well that’s him out for a moth or more. That hurts us. More than people realise. Probably not so much against West Coast. In the next few games though

Achilles soreness rather than injury. Was listed as 'test' so don't reckon he'll be out a month.

 

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57 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Did you miss the big article where it said he's out for three months?

Yup, I did.

The MFC have been so poor on sharing this kind of info and there hasn't been much news asides from COVID 19 stuff that I've given up on checking the MFC website and even Demonland for actual player/footy news for the last week or so.

Actual footy will be a great break from the real world for a while, while it lasts.

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42 minutes ago, brendan said:

Both Bedford and picket have already been announced as debutants

Big show of faith in the club for both to debut in the same game.

Good outcome and well deserved as both apear to have shown great application and have been quite impressive.  I'm just surprised we have gone with so many smalls.

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41 minutes ago, Yung Blood said:

Just to clarify for people who are just looking at the team sheet and aren't up to date.

- Bedford and Kozzy are in as announced

- Jackson was not announced to debut so will be an emergency

- Two bench players will be picked from Weid, Brown, Hore, Lockhart and Sparrow. 

So it will be one of the two tall forwards and one of those backs I would imagine. Sparrow being emergency mid.

I'd say Lockhart and Weid will round out the team. Weid being the backup ruck.

It would be pretty hard to leave Lockhart out based on the form he has shown over the preseason I recon.

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8 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

I'm just surprised we have gone with so many smalls.

I remember the first night game we had against WC last year over there. From memory we were really undermanned and went over with a smaller side. I remember thinking we looked unrecognizable for three quarters, we took the game on literally every time running the ball through the corridor with link handball (also forward handball from contests) and we really had them for three quarters. But we tired and their experience wore us down late.

Will be interesting to see if we take some things from that game into this one with the small lineup. Fitter and quicker then last year.

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34 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Big show of faith in the club for both to debut in the same game.

Good outcome and well deserved as both apear to have shown great application and have been quite impressive.  I'm just surprised we have gone with so many smalls.

I’m not with the shortened game speed will be king, plus they should provide us with plenty of forward pressure 

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Why are people saying we are too small?   Have they not watched footy the last 4 years and missed seeing Richmond dominate with their fleet of small forwards?

Just look at tonights game and you will see nothings changed -

Halftime

Castagna 2 goals
SHai Bolton 2 goals
Lambert 1
Rioli 1

 

Team selection was spot on.

 

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1 minute ago, JakovichScissorKick said:

Why are people saying we are too small?   Have they not watched footy the last 4 years and missed seeing Richmond dominate with their fleet of small forwards?

Just look at tonights game and you will see nothings changed -

Halftime

Castagna 2 goals
SHai Bolton 2 goals
Lambert 1
Rioli 1

 

Team selection was spot on.

 

Your first parsgraph is correct

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56 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Yup, I did.

The MFC have been so poor on sharing this kind of info and there hasn't been much news asides from COVID 19 stuff that I've given up on checking the MFC website and even Demonland for actual player/footy news for the last week or so.

Actual footy will be a great break from the real world for a while, while it lasts.

What a pathetic answer, the club has hit all media channels to provide info, did you not watch Max on Facebook, the Inside Melbourne with the 3 Amigis etc etc  a cheap pot shot again

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32 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

What a pathetic answer, the club has hit all media channels to provide info, did you not watch Max on Facebook, the Inside Melbourne with the 3 Amigis etc etc  a cheap pot shot again

I wasn't necessarily taking a pot shot at the club, it was more just a matter of fact statement.  That's kind of the way it is at the moment.  By the same token, I'm also assuming why when he probably broke it a fortnight ago it's taken the club a whole fortnight to get this info out there.  But you know sheesh whatever, I'm over it, there is a lot going on and I'm sure the club has had other priorities and so long as we win on Sunday, that's the only news from the club I really care about, so GO DEMONS!

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58 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

What a pathetic answer, the club has hit all media channels to provide info, did you not watch Max on Facebook, the Inside Melbourne with the 3 Amigis etc etc  a cheap pot shot again

Are you for real? Was a completely reasonable comment from RBG.

Not for the first time you are well out of order.

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I know I wouldnt say anything about a certain player so I won't

But HTF a slow,no skilled player,that plods gets a game and others with REAL TALENT miss out is perplexing! To say the least.

We will go nowhere whilst he is in the team IMV

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1 hour ago, Yung Blood said:

I remember the first night game we had against WC last year over there. From memory we were really undermanned and went over with a smaller side. I remember thinking we looked unrecognizable for three quarters, we took the game on literally every time running the ball through the corridor with link handball (also forward handball from contests) and we really had them for three quarters. But we tired and their experience wore us down late.

Will be interesting to see if we take some things from that game into this one with the small lineup. Fitter and quicker then last year.

I reckon we can win this one with all the factors in our favour No Crowd, Fitter than last year by a country mile, full compliment of player except Salem, Strong back 6, Mobile Fwd line, Experienced strong running Wingmen.

Carn the Dees.

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