11 minutes ago, 640MD said:

JV7 not playing, so it’s been 3 weeks and he is not quite right. Then I am thinking there is no way known he should play again next year and he needs very careful management for the rest of this year.

But I am pleased that if there is any doubt he was not picked. You cannot run your head into brick walls and expect to do if forever.

What? You dont think he should play at all next year?

Yes

Maybe wear a helmet

5 hours ago, Demonstone said:

Binman: I think your missing drevs point ds - as I noted it's also 5 metres narrower. Which means there's less area.

@D Rev is clearly talking about going straight to goal from the centre bounce. Nothing to do with the width of the ground or overall dimensions.

Apologies DS, apologies I missed the original quote.

Ironic given the massive score a KP tonight.

1 hour ago, 640MD said:

Maybe wear a helmet

helmets do nothing to protect against concussion unfortunately

On 20/05/2025 at 08:52, Adam The God said:

As you probably know, I've been asking for Viney to play a forward role for 5 years, but they never do it. There's always a chance they start it this week.

While i'm not suggesting he is being played in a dedicated forward role, there is enough evidence in Viney's last three matches (prior to concussion) to suggest that he is now playing significantly more time inside 50 already.

At least vs his first 5 matches anyway.

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by Demon Dynasty

On 21/05/2025 at 14:30, old dee said:

The original stated return was said to be 2 games at Casey. He played half a game last week. I expect he will be at Casey again this week. With an ankle injury he would have had little running over the last 2 months.

According to supporters st the Casey game he literally played 20 mins of each qrt ,,, He also said (Lever) he would play one game at Casey …if everything was ticked off with coaches ..into the firsts

Possible team

B: Lever, May, McVee

HB: Salem, McDonald, Bowey

C: Windsor, Oliver, Langdon

HF: Sparrow, Turner, Petracca

F: Melksham, Petty, Chandler

FOLL: Gawn, Rivers, Pickett

IC: Lindsay, Langford, Spargo, Johnson

SUB: Fritsch

On 21/05/2025 at 07:07, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I think Sydney have been pretty rock solid this year as evidenced by a competitive percentage of 99 amidst a bad run with injury and suspension.

There's only two games that they've let themselves down in and that's the second of the GC game and the first half of the Essendon game. The rest of the games they've been fine. In fact it's a little hard to believe we're on the same amount of wins as them.

Therefore, I'd expect Sydney to be a very hard nut to crack Sunday and we need to lead early and be accurate.

Despite our tremendous win last week, I think the bookies have it correct with Sydney slight favs.

I don’t agree. I actually think their percentage hides their true performance. They regularly only play 1-2 quarters per week.

Last week they kicked 5 of their 12 goals in the fourth quarter. The week before v Essendon, as you’ve noted, they kicked 2.4 in a half.

The week before v GWS they kicked 5 goals in the first 10 minutes and then 7 for the rest of the match.

Against GC it was really just one quarter - 6 goals in the first, 6 for the rest of the match (3 of which came in the last 10 minutes of junk time).

They were 5 goals down to Port at 3QT (at home) before kicking 5 of their 10 overall goals in the fourth to narrow the margin.

We’re not good enough yet to be raging favourites but if we bring last week’s form (big if, I know), we should have Sydney’s measure, even (I think) with Mills and Adams back.