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Adelaide being rubbish is good for us. Either it makes Petty rethink his choices, or it leaves them with better draft picks to give us

All I can do is tell you exactly what the actual player said when I asked him if he was playing against Richmond. He then again stated it to the assembled group at a function.

Players have got to have their lives too. I doubt a cooking demo does anything but make him happy.

This is great. It's only a small thing, but it shows how far Clarry has come. Last year he was arguing with the fitness staff, now he is helping pick up the equipment after training. Doing all the team things. Well done to him!

What a great report, from the writing to the content. Thanks as ever Kev

I needed to bathe in someone else's misfortune so I had a look at Saint's Bigfooty. Had to share this gem. "My [censored] has put up a better fight against a colonoscopy prep than this s**t club did tonight."

They are out for a run just as it starts raining. It didn't last long, ended up a reasonable session weather wise. Light duties, BBB, rehab Farris-White, Melky, Salem and Spargo, all with private trainers. They are all playing soccer, huge amount of noise. 36-40 (difficult to get a count) in the main squad, biggest I've seen it in ages. Choco is barking out the orders. Goody has intense body language as he observes. Bowey in a lime green cap, and in the sims. Oliver is ball handling, required some re-taping after the first drill. McVee, McAdam, and AMW step away from the main squad, and are now with the trainers (light duries, goal kicking and easy laps). Melky joins the main squad. They are now into full field drills. Precise kicking, hard calls, drive the ball through the centre, and run. They rotate through the whole area, goal to goal, and both wings. Structured sims now. 9 against 18. Woey in the backline. Sims finish, and McVee, McAdam, AMW, join the group again. Salem, Spargo do easy, repetitive 200 metres runs. McQualter has them in the middle, chatting away, Chaplin then does some demonstrations. May and Goody chip in. They appear to be getting into the nitty gritty. They break, some continue talking, some off to kick goals (16 of them), others leave the field, the low ball getters as well (Laurie, Vines, River, Howes, Sestan, Woey, Hore). Goody one on one talk with Langdon. Choco with the goal kickers, mainly Fullaton. Then Tracc goes over for some tips but Choco stays with Tom. Oliver on the boundary by himself, sprinting. Now hard running laps. Choco now with Sparrow for some 45 metre goal kicking. Last out there is Petty and over walks Choco to help with his goal style kicking. Takes them from all the angles. Hits most of them. Just noticed Viney, still working with a trainer, as well as Melky and Salem. Oliver still lapping.

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Surely we can request permission to open a list spot and put Joel Smith on the inactive spot? I noticed you mentioned Joe Pike from the Falcons. Certainly a developing ruckman who's got genuine upside and has been dominating in the Coates League. Big imposing lad who's gets around the ground well and wins the footy. Not only that, he gets in and gets his hands dirty by laying tackles and doing the one percenters. Certainly a Jason Taylor type pick.

You watched them singing the song? Why??? Anything short of having a gun held to your head is unacceptable.

Touché Thanks binman - great analysis as expected.

Picket fence is on match committee and said he won't play 🤣

I thought something was nqr with those. I think he'll be alright as a fwd. He's certainly showing signs of not having a good pre season. Hell come good. Pretty sure you don't fluke bags of six . He's got the talent to play fwd and back.

I spoke to Clarry last night. Said he is a stone cold certainty to play.

Brand new attitude. He's not the first or last to have to make some self evaluations. It's still a road back but he's putting in some decent yards.

Salem being able to run just over a week after doing a hamstring is a good sign.

Fairy Nuff.

Can we get Hibberd in for the back half of the season? One last crack at another premiership with his best mate Melk, and not to mention reaching that 200 game mark which he fell just short.

He's speaking from a very low baseline

Terrible umpiring re Draper but maybe karma for three minutes of trying to milk frees. Nicks should be filthy his players didn’t focus on winning rather than umpires. On every metric Bombers should have won in a canter.

You’re not helping the situation, DZ! 😅

Let’s not get silly, we can hate both equally 😁

Another result influenced by umpires inability to make an obvious call Really is amateur hour (or year) at AFL HQ

I did my hammy when I was 14. Still waiting to get back to full pace.

I hate footy so much. [censored] Essendon. [censored] them forever. They make me physically ill.

I reckon if Carlton were trying to get the win instead of Adelaide, there would have been about 5 frees paid in that last minute or so.

When was she employed? Because it's clear they started filming it last year.

The Clare Pettyfor appointment already stamping its influence.

sensible given op and then another 10 days until we play geelong

Thanks Kev agree with Salems Lot felt like I was there great reporting on fairly miserable morning.!!

Oliver after laps, he did some sprints, and more laps. Ended up on his haunches, gathering wind, a trainer comes over and they do a slap handshake. He finishes by picking up the equipment with the crew. It is nearly all packed up, except Salem still running laps. Had a chat to to one of the crew, reckons McVee is fine, just light duties, and they have a main session Sunday out at Casey. Salem and Oliver walk off together.

Wonder if Lukosious becomes a realistic option should we have an agreement with Petty to move him on if we find a suitable replacement. Again, we don't have to trade him at the end of this year as he is contracted for next season so things would have to be in our favour to do it.

I went to a Catholic college for nine years - so maths isn't my strong suit. I checked my abacus and it reports that 3 into 13 is 4.3 recurring. Is there a prodo that can confirm this please?

Is it just me or do the peptides tend to over celebrate H&A wins a little too much? It looked like they'd just won a final singing the song

AFL gets more amateur every week That was holding the ball. But The Croms blew that anyway, so many chances Rachele on National TV [censored] himself

i actually like bombers winning a few early. remember last year all the top 4 talk? makes them missing finals all the sweeter

Get stuffed adelaide. You can't beat Carlton then lose to essendon on your home ground. Ugh. Thanks for ruining my friday

Rachele single handedly cost his team the 4 points with his dropped sitters and poor decision making when the game was on the line.

Ugh. Brad Scott makes his brother seem likeable.

Who do i want to win? Like choosing between getting cholera and typhoid.

The Edge watching Essendon.

Look at it from BT's perspective Mel.

Love the front, hate the back. You’d think Hertz might get into the spirit and have a logo that worked for this special jumper.

I'm heading along to the Pies Power game tommorrow, (I know, wish me luck) Not usually one to attend non MFC games but with a weekend bye, I'm gonna do it.. Torn against who I want to win however, one the one hand Collingwood hatred says, anytime Collingwood lose is a positive, on the other hand a Power win puts a gap between us and them... help me please

Agree. The whole attack on Bevo was way over the top. On statistics alone, Bevo has been the the most successful Dogs coach in 140 years of football. That team needs to be given a kick up the proverbial and Bevo has done that with Daniel, McCrae, Dale and others. He is an innovator but also a players coach. Cornes, Wilson and Barrett all did hatchet jobs this week. Shameful. He's a good Melbourne man and best mates with Jason Taylor so he's alright with me!

Takes me back to my first honeymoon.

I will again come to the defence of Luke Molan. He never had an opportunity to show his wares due to a succession of unrelated serious impact injuries. How many consecutive games did he get at Sandringham who as I recall was our VFL affiliate at the time? Nobody knows, seriously, if he could have been an even half decent player.

A VFL review. What on earth! How, why, amazing! Personally I think it's best for the coach to just go through the best 5 performances because trying to say nice things about guys who had stinkers isn't worth the effort, young guys don't need that publicly. But I'll take the full thing over nothing at all. Love including a couple of the VFL guys. Paddy Cross was excellent. Worth watching if he can keep up that kind of form.