11 minutes ago, roy11 said:

Not knocking the suggestions, but i often wonder what internal targets they put on someone like Laurie.

Every time he plays he seemingly has 'nearly moments', hasn't quite taken the chances as yet.

If he slotted that goal on the weekend would you have looked at him differently? Couple of turnovers but he wasn't alone there, Langford made up for his though.

I would be curious to see some of his running stats but it seems Telstra Tracker (to my knowledge) only has the top 5.

Looking at the Stats he did pop up have some contribution.

• Defensive Half Pressure Act - 2

• Pressure Acts - 10

• Tackles - 2

• Tackles inside 50 - 1

• Score Involvements - 3

Not advocating for / against him, just curious how he's viewed internally.

Not sure about internally, but my guess, along with few others....

Is that it takes time to get comfortable with the pace of the big league.

It looks to me like he is rushing his disposal, even when he has a bit of more time or space than he thinks.

I reckon he will relax after a solid 3=4 game stretch , and show a lot more composure..

Like Tholstrup, Sharp and Latrelle, they all took a bit to settle.

I definitely would not write him off anyway. He played 2 tough games, which we won both in hard fought contests. He is hard at the ball, the polish will hopefully come soon.

Sorry if it’s been covered earlier in the thread…

Is this game sold out? Will there be GA tickets available? I can’t find anything much on Ticketek, but I find it hard to believe there won’t be seats available.

3 hours ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

As a tridents member I was surprised to see that a reserved seat in the outer on level 1 for this game is an additional $38. If that's definitely the case then I think I'll take my chances with the hoi polloi on level 4 which is general admission I think.

Rab, As a paid up member of the blue and red collar of the ‘hoi polloi’. T’was pleasantly surprised to find general admission Level 1 section M55 seating for my family entourage of six. All allocated on my Demon Diaspora interstate membership.

Anzac Eve Onwards and Upwards…

Double up Demons!

7 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

Sorry if it’s been covered earlier in the thread…

Is this game sold out? Will there be GA tickets available? I can’t find anything much on Ticketek, but I find it hard to believe there won’t be seats available.

Hi THBT. My understanding is that most of level 4 is GA and if that's the case I will attempt to snaffle seats up there in the Ponsford Stand. Perhaps others in the know about these things can clarify if that's correct?

1 minute ago, Tarax Club said:

Rab, As a paid up member of the blue and red collar of the ‘hoi polloi’. T’was pleasantly surprised to find general admission Level 1 section M55 seating for my family entourage of six. All allocated on my Demon Diaspora interstate membership.

Anzac Eve Onwards and Upwards…

Double up Demons!

Demon Diaspora is a great name for an interstate or overseas membership. Or did you just make that up? I don't think you could ever be regarded as hoi polloi however TC.

Just went to the AFL site.

How do you find out these days if a game is fully ticketed.

I prefer to just roll up (AFL member)

Thanks

2 hours ago, rpfc said:

TMac is slow and in his last year, but we are trying to win games and if he helps us win…

We have enough kids in the team tbh

I'm hearing you but I'm finding the turnover of the list exciting and refreshing

It's not about 2026...it's getting ready to win another premiership in 2028/9

T Mac is blocking development

He's a great guy, but he's done

I had a quick look on ticketek and there are very few if any GA seats available. even on Level 4

Don’t know if it’s been posted but these are the training times for the dees this week

21 minutes ago, DubDee said:

I had a quick look on ticketek and there are very few if any GA seats available. even on Level 4

They don’t put all GA bays on Ticketek. They will announce whatever bays are walk up GA 24 hours prior to the game on the MCG website. If GA tickets on ticketek have sold enough as well as club membership GA tickets they would’ve put something out around now to say that it’s a fully ticketed event and you need to upgrade to a reserve seat but as they haven’t announce anything I think they’ll be plenty of GA 😊

2 hours ago, old dee said:

Hmm that does not sound good.

TBH I'm hypothesising based on Ghosty's reports last week. But could be way off the mark.

A few posters have queried likely attendance. I'm tipping a max of 75k based on 2024 - 72,840 (their home game) and 71,635 last year.

In 2024 we were on 5 wins, Tigers on one win. Last year it was two wins each of two.

As reported, they've been decimated by injuries.

My expected: 12 goal win to the juggernaut.

Harry Sharp to kick 5 me thinks

16 minutes ago, adonski said:

Harry Sharp to kick 5 me thinks

Tell him he’s dreamin’.

Isn’t CJ available for this game ?

7 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

Tell him he’s dreamin’.

2 minutes ago, adonski said:

Anyone else constantly refreshing the AFL app to see the MRO results?

11 minutes ago, Marco said:

Isn’t CJ available for this game ?

Last week's injury report was showing him as 1-2 weeks so maybe available