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PREGAME: Rd 18 vs Brisbane

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41 minutes ago, Bates Mate said:

Grundy out jvr in, all the talk will be about a "failed" experiment. I'm still glad we have Grundy at the club and he still might be best 22 by end of the year. I'm glad the footy department are having a look at different combinations. I look forward to seeing what BBB and JVR look like together.

I get you and aGrundy despite his marking is a good player. But by good player, I mean he's a good ruck but around the ground hasn't been fantastic. I guess if you throw in Max having an average season, it's fair to say that to some degree that it has failed. If the objective was to bolster our fwd line than it has most definitely.

 
11 minutes ago, layzie said:

First game with BBB and JVR together? Interested to see how they work together.

Yep, it's the experiment we all wanted to see!

I'm not a great fan of Smith as a sub though.

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    Grundy dropped.

    Puts to bed on some whom were saying he was rested lol.

     
    3 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

    Yep, it's the experiment we all wanted to see!

    I'm not a great fan of Smith as a sub though.

    As big Kev would say...Im excited.

    And I.

    As for Smith he does make sense as a sub. More so than most of the ones we've had this year at least.

    Does Bbb play ff?

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    Is the 4th umpire our ex-rookie, Andre Gianfagna?

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    Just now, Left Foot Snap said:

    Is the 4th umpire our ex-rookie, Andre Gianfagna?

    Yes - lets hope he's not bitter

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    So clearly not a fatigue issue based on Richo’s comments. 

    Just wondering why isn’t Schache getting a look in? He’s probably in better form and is a better ruck option than JVR.

     

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    3 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

    So clearly not a fatigue issue based on Richo’s comments. 

    Just wondering why isn’t Schache getting a look in? He’s probably in better form and is a better ruck option than JVR.

     

    Because Schache is a very ordinary AFL player and JVR is going to be a very good one. 

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    How many chances will Kozzie get?

    Harmes, Chandler,  Grundy, van Roo have all paid the price.

    12 minutes ago, Roger Mellie said:

    Yes - lets hope he's not bitter

    Yes, my thought too. My memory has him reportedly being quite miffed that he was cut to accommodate the risky young Hayes (??)

    18 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

     

    Sadly due to the cr@p competition known as VFL Casey have another bye so the Brundy getting to learn forward craft in VFL will have to wait another week. 

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    6 minutes ago, monoccular said:

    Sadly due to the cr@p competition known as VFL Casey have another bye so the Brundy getting to learn forward craft in VFL will have to wait another week. 

    So I guess he gets a good rest then.

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    12 minutes ago, dee-tox said:

    How many chances will Kozzie get?

    Harmes, Chandler,  Grundy, van Roo have all paid the price.

    He is literally the only forward we have left who can turn a game in a matter of seconds. Now is not the time to make our forwardline less potent 

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    3 hours ago, RyanD said:

    Out of interest, what is your understanding of what the 'loading period' included? From a numbers perspective? There are so many question I would love to ask Selwyn.

    E.g. in an average week player X does 60 mins at zone 2 + 20 mins in zone 4 (excluding game time). Therefore the loading period increased the running minutes for player X by? P.s. these numbers are totally made up. If we could find out the additional minutes or kms the player ran (even very roughly), there is plenty of normalised data you can use to predict an increase in aerobic performance. 

    Did Selwyn speak about what the loading involved? Assuming it's purely low heart rate base running (zone 2). 

     

     

    This may have been answered already but last year I believe they were talking 35km’s a week as the norm and then upped it from there.

    They may go up between 5-10% but that’s probably higher end 

     

     

    RUBBISH SELECTIONS 

    Goodwin and Selectors have lost the plot, totally .... so you drop a guy that got very good contested possesions last week for a kid that was Shizzen last week at Casey and is second Ruck???? GOOOD LUCK SIMON.And while we are at it Schache kicked 4 last week and was super impressive , yet no cigar??

    Watch this explode in our face tomorrow night

    NO IDEA🤮

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    27 minutes ago, binman said:

    So I guess he gets a good rest then.

    Rested and ready to learn some forward craft.

    Girl Why Dont We Have Both GIF

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    35 minutes ago, monoccular said:

    Sadly due to the cr@p competition known as VFL Casey have another bye so the Brundy getting to learn forward craft in VFL will have to wait another week. 

    No doubt the FD failed to look at the VFL draw on the fridge in the staff kitchen before making the decision?

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    Brodie is on 193 games. I hope he plays his 200th this year. 🥹

    Hibbo and Max are on 194. Barring anything unforeseen Max will play his 200th vs Hawthorn in round 23, our home game at the ‘G, which is also our BCNA Field of Woman match. Hibbo… who knows?

    Langers plays his 149th game tomorrow night. His 150th will be next Sunday vs the Crows in our home game at the ‘G. That is, barring injury or being rested, managed, omitted, dropped, dumped, 86d, jettisoned, kicked to the kerb or in any other way not there. 😁

    There is acknowledgment of a milestone on tomorrow’s banner, but it’s not a player. It’s the 500th game of John Stanaway (father of Clint) who is a trainer and has been with the MFC since the 1990’s. This probs explains why Clint is a diehard Dees fan. He’s a cheer squad favourite and was actually in the cheer squad growing up.

    Oh and lil Spargypants is on 95 games. Nibs is on 144. It’ll be great to see them celebrate their milestones in five and six weeks (respectively) for the obvious reasons but also to annoy the “fans” who bag them week in and week out. Cheers Big Ears 🥳 🍻 😂

     
    1 hour ago, The heart beats true said:

    God I hope Brodie comes back in and plays an absolutely blinding finals series.

    I’d like nothing more for him to show what a good player he is. Far too many being smug about a guy whose best makes him a top 20 in the comp player.

    I think it's probably a mixed bag. There are probably a few haters but to be fair he hasn't kicked many goals or taken many marks. He's certainly a good at his designated craft of ruck but we already have one in Max. I think we all expected the player not in the ruck to drop back or present up forward. Grundy hasn't really dominated in that role...perhaps a few times in defence he's been good but since Max is having an average season by his standards, the combo hasn't really kicked on. Would love to see it working like it did pre season, so there's still hope. But given we lose a tall fwd option in having them both and our fwd line is struggling, it will be very interesting to see how we go this round. Let's face it, Grundy will kill it at Casey if he plays there so I imagine it would be hard to keep him out. 

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    Strange decision for mine…Max is looking quite banged up and McInerney is a physical ruckman could bash Max up without having Brodie to help out


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