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can we just make sure Steven doesn’t hit the turps as he’s injured and it’s Paddy’s day. 

i’ve already been to the Drunken Poet and the Last Jar today. no sign of him. i’ll stay on my quest

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can we just make sure Steven doesn’t hit the turps as he’s injured and it’s Paddy’s day.  i’ve already been to the Drunken Poet and the Last Jar today. no sign of him. i’ll stay on my quest

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2 minutes ago, DubDee said:

can we just make sure Steven doesn’t hit the turps as he’s injured and it’s Paddy’s day. 

i’ve already been to the Drunken Poet and the Last Jar today. no sign of him. i’ll stay on my quest

By the end of your quest you won't know if it's Maysie or not

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11 minutes ago, DubDee said:

can we just make sure Steven doesn’t hit the turps as he’s injured and it’s Paddy’s day. 

i’ve already been to the Drunken Poet and the Last Jar today. no sign of him. i’ll stay on my quest

great to see someone is going above and beyond to protect the interests of the players and the supporters

Give yourself a Gold Star Dub !!!

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1 hour ago, old55 said:

I guess you're referring to Pickett, ANB, Spargo, Chandler and Laurie.  In the pre-season we rotated Pickett and ANB through the midfield to lessen the load on last year's core. 

Opponent: Richmond
CBAs: 31 - James Harmes 20, Clayton Oliver 20, Max Gawn 16, Christian Petracca 15, Brodie Grundy 15, Kysaiah Pickett 13, Tom Sparrow 12, Alex Neal-Bullen 7, Angus Brayshaw 4, Taj Woewodin 1, Trent Rivers 1

So that means 3 specialist small forwards under 183cm.  We could play an extra tall, say Schache or JVR, in place of one of them but that would be in addition to Brown, TMac and Gawn/Grundy in the forward line.  I'm pretty confident you'd be complaining that is too top-heavy.

FWIW, I think it will be a very good win if we can beat the Dogs (who are really only missing Gardiner and Weightman) without May, Fritsch, Viney and Salem.

Our premiership forward line was Tmac, Brown, Fritsch, Gawn/Jackson. Not top heavy at all to add another tall in the mix tomorrow night. Obviously isn’t happening but our forward line functions best when it’s two talls + Fritta. 

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33 minutes ago, 12345_54321 said:

Our premiership forward line was Tmac, Brown, Fritsch, Gawn/Jackson. Not top heavy at all to add another tall in the mix tomorrow night. Obviously isn’t happening but our forward line functions best when it’s two talls + Fritta. 

Adding Fritsch is a different proposition to adding Schache or JVR - the players who are currently available.  If Fritsch was available this week then I doubt Laurie plays.

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Interesting that Melksham is the sub had no pre season. Hope he's fit enough.

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1 hour ago, DubDee said:

can we just make sure Steven doesn’t hit the turps as he’s injured and it’s Paddy’s day. 

i’ve already been to the Drunken Poet and the Last Jar today. no sign of him. i’ll stay on my quest

Not at the All Nations either.

Great parma nonetheless.

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2 hours ago, DubDee said:

can we just make sure Steven doesn’t hit the turps as he’s injured and it’s Paddy’s day. 

i’ve already been to the Drunken Poet and the Last Jar today. no sign of him. i’ll stay on my quest

Your commitment is admirable Dub

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7 hours ago, DubDee said:

can we just make sure Steven doesn’t hit the turps as he’s injured and it’s Paddy’s day. 

i’ve already been to the Drunken Poet and the Last Jar today. no sign of him. i’ll stay on my quest

Have you checked the Dan O'Connell in Carlton?

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16 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

I think we will go easy on May. Calves are very tricky injuries especially at his age and especially with his body size.
He is just so important to us, if he does it again it could well be a 2 month injury. If it’s just a strain now then surely they take no risks and get him cherry ripe. 
We cannot win the flag without him. I don’t care what anyone says. As a defense first team, you can’t afford to lose the best defender in arguably the competition, and not have it ruin your season. 
He is up there with Oliver in terms of critical importance. 

We looked [censored] horrific when he missed those mid year games last year. 

The irony is now we have a chance to create some depth out of learnings from 2022. Different attitude with 3 missing and not obviously fit enough and Salem who clearly hadn't done the vote season that Jack and Stephan have. Fritta IMO could play with another week's training but Salo needs at least 2 good Casey games ( practice game counts) to be ready based on last season.

Lets see if our 2021 buy in is back in 2023 because if it is then despite our replacements we will be in good shape with 20 plus really good AFL stars who can get support from the new boys.

PS Would have thought that JVR on this night might have been an inspired sub selection to add to the forward line even if Tmac is forced to the  backline. We know what Melky brings but I think it's more important for our 2023 and development to try JVR and not stall his career when like Chandler all things in training show he deserves this opportunity. 

Secretly JVR must be musing what Laurie has done ahead  of him to get the nod. Maybe it's Laurie time to test him. The great Greg Wells was promoted on ordinary form in the second last round vs Carlton and ended up kicking 4 goals from the pocket yo beat the premiers Carlton 6 weeks prior to thief triumph I think. 

Of course it might just be a simple thing as team balance for Bailey who we all hope ".... the day" as do Judd does also. 

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19 hours ago, old55 said:

Adding Fritsch is a different proposition to adding Schache or JVR - the players who are currently available.  If Fritsch was available this week then I doubt Laurie plays.

At this stage, I don’t believe they’re much of a difference between Fritta and JVR. in future there will be, but not right now. And if the dogs forwards get a hold of us and Tmac has to go back, we severely lack a forward target because Brown will be by himself 

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