The Demons return to the MCG as the the visiting team on Saturday night to take on the Blues who are under siege after 4 straight losses. Who comes in and who goes out?

The people riot if he drops T Mac.

The people riot even harder if Carlton beat us by under a goal yet again.

Edited July 13, 2025Jul 13 by Bring-Back-Powell

Like to see Howes come back in - and May of course

Out Sparrow Lever

In May Brown

Out Lever in May.

I’d probably rather someone else, but I’d assume Sharp would come in for sparrow? Not sure who else you’d give the nod to, I’d like to see Culley get a run

Going to be in an interesting week at selection.

May, Petty and Howes could all come in while Sparrow is the only definite out.

Billings the other one at Casey to put his hand up for selection.

Tholstrup, Lindsay, Windsor and Lever the most at risk of being dropped based off today's performance.

Edit: Sharp played OK as well and while I'm not his biggest fan I could easily see the selection committee putting him back into the squad.

Edited July 13, 2025Jul 13 by Random Task

IN: May, Windsor
OUT: Lever, Sparrow

OUT: Tholstrup, plugger Mac, Sparrow

IN: May, Petty, Mentha

In. May Howes Petty

Out. Kolt Lever Sparrow (concussion)

Would you bring spargo back in for sparrow?

Even Goodwin must surely see that TMac is currently an asset and Lever a liability.

19 minutes ago, adonski said:

IN: May, Windsor
OUT: Lever, Sparrow

Windsor played.

1 minute ago, Nasher said:

Windsor played.

Some may disagree

@The Panglossian can you please have the same weird feeling for this game that you had for the kangaroos game

Thank you

Howes should be in the team. Best on ground last night and too good for the vfl. Culley was good too. Wouldn't be surprised if they slot him in for Sparrow.

First time we may go in as favourites

IN - Howes, May, Petty

OUT - Sparrow, TMac, Lever

Rivers takes Sparrow’s role.

Gotta play younger if we’re looking to next season. Petty plays back.

Edited July 13, 2025Jul 13 by PaulRB

A very different challenge: we could easily bring in May and Keep TMac.

Going to need to replace sparrow (maybe Culley?) Kolt, Windsor and Lindsay under the pump. Billing’s could even put his hand up…

Going to need to be stronger in the contest and may need 2 rucks to take on Pittonet and de Koenig.

Should win, depends if we show up and dont dispose of it as poorly as we did today.

Looking at Collingwood’s draw, asides from Richmond, it’s a tough draw. If we could overturn the losing streak against Carlton on Saturday night and send them deeper into purgatory and then ruin Collingwood’s top 4 hopes in the last round, it’ll make me very happy!

Would love to see Fritsch persisted further up the ground essentially playing as a high half forward. North’s defense has been pretty good this season, but the chaos playing Fritsch further up unwound them and took pressure off Jefferson and JVR.

Perhaps the Jack Gunston role going forward is the answer instead of playing as a pseudo full forward. It was about time we saw a meaningful tactical change with him.

Either way, gotta persist with Jefferson and JVR and just keep playing them as the 2 pillars up forward.

We owe Carlton, time to make their season from hell even worse

I have not seen a player not do the fundamentals that are expected from every player. It has been a long time since we've seen players just not chase or push to run into space to create. All of those really simple basic non-negotiables are not there. And it's getting worse he looks very disinterested. This is on top of the Lack of footy smarts and the consistent fumbling and giving away free kicks.

had forgotten about spargo; his vfl game was excellent

IN: may, spargo, petty
OUT: plugger mac, sparrow, tholstrup

i love tommy, but if may is fit it's the only change to make - big body tall defender for bigger brute tall defender

tholstrup doesn't really play as a 'small' forward so petty can replace him in the forward line, while spargo gives the forward pressure position coverage in sparrow's enforced absence

the other one is howes might come in for lever, although i suspect he'll stay in the side

30 minutes ago, Wizard of Koz said:

I have not seen a player not do the fundamentals that are expected from every player. It has been a long time since we've seen players just not chase or push to run into space to create. All of those really simple basic non-negotiables are not there. And it's getting worse he looks very disinterested. This is on top of the Lack of footy smarts and the consistent fumbling and giving away free kicks.

Who are you talking about?

To everyone wanting Howes back in as he played a good VFL game

He has played 6 games this year and not been great. Surely it is better for him to continue to gain confidence in the VFL with 3-4 good performances and then comes in?