Our chances against the Swans must be looking a little more positive with the fact that Sam Reid has a calf strain and now Buddy with a possible hamstring injury.  Given Buddy's injury history in recent times, I think they will be taking extreme care with his recovery, so unless it turns out that there was no damage, then I think he will be off the track for a few weeks.  Reid and his calf strain though... no idea.

8 hours ago, binman said:

I sort of see what twomey is getting at but really he is talking about a parallel universe where covid don't happen. What's the point of thinking about that?

You might as well say wc and Freo are the losers because they lose their considerable home ground advantage.

Where we are unlucky is having to play west coast in round one. Both in terms of the game coming straight after the announcement the season was on hold and having that game in Perth. It's possible, but probably unlikely, that no other teams will have to play there.

But personally I love the fact we only play each team once. It is how each season should be (with an expanded finals series of some sort). The finalists will all deserve their spot this year

Freo and WC have lost a home game, WC is playing the premiership favourite on neutral ground. Maybe we have lost out in terms of double ups but that as already been partially compensated with no longer traveling to KP.  

I’m not fussed about what we’ve lost.