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PREGAME: Rd 17 vs St. Kilda

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Saints get it done. See you next week, hopefully we can get a win and go from there.

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    It’s perhaps too early to put forward a balanced view after what just happened in Alice.  But here it goes. We won just about every stat there is to win except for kicking a winning score so……..perhaps desperately clutching at straws that is a plus so……….I still have some faith that we can turn things around.

    BIG game coming up next week! I’ve already bought a ticket. In the coming weeks we will definitely find out if we are contenders or pretenders. GO DEES!!!!!

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    Surely JVR for the injured Fritsch is the obvious bare minimum.  
    The forwards at Docklands won’t have any wet weather excuses they may have chosen to pretend to have today - though GW$ handled it a lot better didn’t they. 
    Hiw about Bowey HFF and Woey of Howes to have a run?  
    Petty forward and Tommo back in his place. And no more rucks clogging up the attack. 
    Random thoughts.  

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    Hard to pick against St Kilda next week. They kicked 12.13 this week : that's a goal ratio of almost 50pc! We kicked 5.15 - a goal ratio of 25 pc. Twice as good good as us. Hard to ignore.

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    16 minutes ago, SPC said:

    Ok.. so change is need.

    Out- Grundy, ANB, Kosi, Harmes & Fritta

    In- JVR, Tomlinson, Woey, Laurie & Oliver. 
    Bowey or Salem to spend midfield minutes, Laurie needed forward as he can actually hit a target. Petty forward with JVR and Brown. 

    Sorry, Laurie is not the answer!

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    1 minute ago, GOLORDIE said:

    Hard to pick against St Kilda next week. They kicked 12.13 this week : that's a goal ratio of almost 50pc! We kicked 5.15 - a goal ratio of 25 pc. Twice as good good as us. Hard to ignore.

    Yes but the conditions were 100% different

    3 minutes ago, monoccular said:

    Surely JVR for the injured Fritsch is the obvious bare minimum.  
    The forwards at Docklands won’t have any wet weather excuses they may have chosen to pretend to have today - though GW$ handled it a lot better didn’t they. 
    Hiw about Bowey HFF and Woey of Howes to have a run?  
    Petty forward and Tommo back in his place. And no more rucks clogging up the attack. 
    Random thoughts.  

    We should put Petracca down there in the F50 and clear out Gawndy, BBB, Kozzie, Chandler, Spargo. Create Goodwin's paddock. Put our best asset to best use. Oh, wait, he has to learn to kick straight first.

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    Where is this ‘switch’ I was hearing about?

    Indiana Jones Conspiracy GIF

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    2 minutes ago, GOLORDIE said:

    We should put Petracca down there in the F50 and clear out Gawndy, BBB, Kozzie, Chandler, Spargo. Create Goodwin's paddock. Put our best asset to best use. Oh, wait, he has to learn to kick straight first.

    What? And have us not kick a single goal for the game???

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    1 minute ago, Dingo said:

    Yes but the conditions were 100% different

    Conditions wereb the same for GWS and they managed 58pc. St Kilda were up against some sharpshooters: Eagles' ratio was 70pc!  If the Dees had achieved 70pc, we would have kicked 14goals 6points.

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    Just now, GOLORDIE said:

    Conditions wereb the same for GWS and they managed 58pc. St Kilda were up against some sharpshooters: Eagles' ratio was 70pc!  If the Dees had achieved 70pc, we would have kicked 14goals 6points.

    But we are obviously not as good as the Eagles. In front of goal, at least.

    Give Ben another week or two to show his worth, he was never going to impact in today’s rubbish conditions and should have been a late out if anything. 
    I’d be happy for any of ANB, Kosi and Chandler to be dropped, but this is Goodyball, none will be. 
    As for Harmes, what a poor selection, no hindsight needed, just bizarre to drop JJ for him. 

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    59 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    No way Smith goes out.

    Chandler or Pickett out before him.

    JVR for Fritsch and we are still a medium/tall forward short so ideally need someone else. 

    Dare I say Tomlinson in to the backline and Petty forward.

    No way Petty forward. Let’s leave our back 6 settled. I’d give Schache a go, at least he can nail a set shot.

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    Seasons over ladies and gents, time to find a new forum to frequent 🙅‍♂️

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    Shame on this team for pathetic goal kicking.  The Coach in my opinion has stuffed it for 2023 with his arrogance and his damn learnings mantra.  Our skills are woeful.  No confidence this team or any other outside of the top 3 will make any difference come September.  We are just making up the numbers in the 8.

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    I have a radical suggestion.

    He's a top character and plays his guts out but let's see how we go without ANB against the Saints. Try someone from Casey. Someone with poise and can deliver a pass. 

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    Any game with rain involved just mark it down as a loss we have nor the instincts or appetite to play in it.

    I've said it before and I'll say it again our game is built for dry decks, yes for all the do gooders out there footy is a winter sport but we are dog 💩 with any sign of dew or rain.

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    19 minutes ago, BDA said:

    I have a radical suggestion.

    He's a top character and plays his guts out but let's see how we go without ANB against the Saints. Try someone from Casey. Someone with poise and can deliver a pass. 

    We need new faces in the team. Been going to the well too much and it's time for a new look. Taj, Howes, Laurie, anyone. I want to see if these guys can play at all, at least there will be learnings.

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    2 minutes ago, layzie said:

    We need new faces in the team. Been going to the well too much and it's time for a new look. Taj, Howes, Laurie, anyone. I want to see if these guys can play at all, at least there will be learnings.

    I don’t normally get to invested in team selection but I couldn’t believe we didn’t give Taj or Howes a game this week instead of Harmes. We need to give some youngsters a go to find out if they will make it and hopefully be upgrades on our bottom six players. 

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    Hate to say it but next 2 games will be loses .. struggle to make the 8, our captain just doesn’t look right physically or mentally. 

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    2 hours ago, picket fence said:

    Could not give a Tosca,season done, time to shake the joint up and play JVR and blood, Woey, Jefferson, and any others that have played well at Casey!

    🤦🏼‍♂️

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    44 minutes ago, Bang Bang Bang said:

    Give Ben another week or two to show his worth, he was never going to impact in today’s rubbish conditions and should have been a late out if anything. 
    I’d be happy for any of ANB, Kosi and Chandler to be dropped, but this is Goodyball, none will be. 
    As for Harmes, what a poor selection, no hindsight needed, just bizarre to drop JJ for him. 

    Why was BBB picked? It gets laughable when we can see these things days out and the Match Committee is playing 5th dimensional chess. They are a group of very smart men, losing at checkers. Footy is not easy, but it isn’t complicated. We complicate it, and we over think and it leads to dropping in form players for players coming back from injury, and playing talls in the wet.

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