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PREGAME: Rd 01 vs Western Bulldogs

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Looking forward to seeing McVee and Laurie in their debut games tomorrow night. Not enough positivity around this for my liking.

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      On 17/03/2023 at 04:32, Roost it far said:

    $161 for 3 people to have a reserved seat at the footy is nuts. We’ve all be fooled

    That is for sure! Who are these rancid, isolated opportunists?

      On 16/03/2023 at 21:35, Jaded No More said:

    And lastly, I bet that when Bowey debuted you thought "who and why", and he turned out to be a gun and best 22 players.

    I remember getting into an argument with a poster here (can't remember who) that slammed Boweys selection. They more or less wrote him off from the start of the year because of his build stating he would get destroyed in finals. Was one of the more odd interactions I've had on here.

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      On 16/03/2023 at 09:18, ucanchoose said:

    Top level of the ponsford is shut.

     

    Where will @Supermercado and I sit instead?

    They're not doing this nonsense again are they? People's ground my [censored].

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      On 17/03/2023 at 04:53, Vipercrunch said:

    I've been watching our round 23 game from last season.  The one where we were up by 66 points at half time against the Lions and playing some great footy.  If we play anywhere near that level, the Bulldogs don't stand a chance.

    Assuming Melksham who trained with the main squad at training today is the sub, the team changes from that night to tomorrow night are:-

    OUT: Hibberd, May, Hunt, Jackson, Viney, Fritsch, Jordon (came on as medi-sub for Jackson)

    IN: McVee, Tomlinson, Hunter, Grundy, Laurie, McDonald, Chandler

    I'm not going to try and mount a case either way as to which night was the better line-up because as far as I see it, it's really quite close.

    The outs are better than the ins. 

    We lose our premier defender and our premier forward.

    There are some terrific ins in Hunter, Grundy and T Mac, but I just feel the loss of May and Fritta tip the scales to last year's round 23 squad. We saw how we functioned without May in the Sydney, Collingwood (and most of Freo) losses and it wasn't great.


      On 17/03/2023 at 05:36, Supermercado said:

    They're not doing this nonsense again are they? People's ground my [censored].

    Must be predicting a crowd of sub 30,000 if they're closing the top of the Ponsford.

    If they opened it up for the Melb V Freo game last year where just a couple of blokes and a dog sat up there, then surely it's opened for this one. 

    As if the top of the Ponsford is closed for Round 1? Just seems really odd. 

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      On 17/03/2023 at 05:40, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Must be predicting a crowd of sub 30,000 if they're closing the top of the Ponsford.

    If they opened it up for the Melb V Freo game last year where just a couple of blokes and a dog sat up there, then surely it's opened for this one. 

    There was one game last year - either GWS or Freo - where they opened it by mistake and went around kicking people out at quarter time.

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      On 17/03/2023 at 06:26, layzie said:

    As if the top of the Ponsford is closed for Round 1? Just seems really odd. 

    Yeah layz,  it states it on the MCG website when I last checked…baffling.

    A lot of negativity with regard to the Tomlinson selection but we will not know how good or bad the selection is until the game is played. We could see Tmac and Tomlinson swapping ends if the game is going against us.  

    Will be watching a replay during a stop over in KSA.


      On 17/03/2023 at 09:21, Demonland said:

     

    This would be my responce

    21.14 (140) 10.6 (66)

    😁🏆😁🏆😁🏆😁🏆😁🏆😁🏆

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      On 17/03/2023 at 09:51, DemonOX said:

    This would be my responce

    21.14 (140) 10.6 (66)

    😁🏆😁🏆😁🏆😁🏆😁🏆😁🏆

    Go read the comments. They’re not far off. Pretty good. 

    Would have gone Turner myself but i back the FD to make the right decision.

    And best of luck Tommo. He deserves a bit more love around here given he was in AA form until he was injured in 21. And missed out on a premiership because of it.

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    Eat rubber!

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      On 17/03/2023 at 04:17, Deebauched said:

    How could sportsbet have us as favourites?

    Bulldogs must be a huge chance now that May is also out.

    There will be alot of money going on the dogs today before the odds even up.

    I hope they know something we dont.

    Who actually cares what those parasitic blights say about us?

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