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Dogs aren't exactly flush for key forwards. May takes Naughton, Smith takes Schache and Lever takes Hannan. Martin isn't a factor up forward, so if English plays deep, Max will push back. Tomlinson is only 8 months from his ACL. This will be a white hot game. I can understand why he hasn't been selected.

Whilst we're on Jack, he was the guest on the recent Gus and Gawny podcast. He revealed that he approached Goody and Richo before the GF, and asked if it was okay to line up a Dogs player at the opening bounce, and accept whatever suspension. Goody and Richo said no. He still cleaned up Macrae, and didn't cop a suspension.

Now that was a brilliant doco despite it's brevity. That gave you the sort of insights that was missing from the Fox doco.

Aside from Jack Viney having a crack at his teammates when he was 18, there was nothing really ground breaking in the doco. It wasn't enjoyable reliving our tragic history post 1964. I think Garry Lyon used a bit of poetic license when describing Jimmy Stynes running through the mark in the 1987 prelim. Dipper was the Hawthorn player who was unmanned in the forward pocket. I was behind the goals and screaming for someone to pick up Dipper, when Jimmy ran to man him up. And the siren hadn't gone at that stage, as Garry described. The players who all missed gettable shots at goal, which would have sealed the game, were more at fault than Jimmy. Yeats, Jackson, Eishold and Campbell were the real culprits. I would have loved to have seen a doco that just related to our entire 2021 season, with behind the scenes footage that included Darren Burgess' training methods. As a sports lover, I find the ESPN 30 for 30 docos fantastic. Unless you are a Dees supporter, this was a pretty average doco to be honest.

Sorry, I meant "thread" not "post". I actually agree with SWYL. There is a post referring to Neeld's next step being Centrelink. I find this in poor taste regardless of what you think of his coaching ability. Our problems started before Neeld arrived, and didn't end till Goody started. I'm not interested in revisiting anything that happened in between.

I'm referring to a comment on this thread.

Spot on. And I also find it disappointing that people are still sticking the knives into Neeld. Sure, he wasn't a good coach, and was duly sacked, but the club was embroiled in a 6 month "tanking investigation/witch hunt" during his tenure. Wouldn't have been easy for a first time coach. I won't be watching.

Woke up this morning and saw an IG post by Titus O'Reily that said "Heaven's scorecard. C: Marsh B: Warne." I was confused. Googled Shane Warne's name and WOW. In total shock. When he bowled it was must watch cricket.

All this based on a preseason game. How on earth could we afford to pay out Melksham under the salary cap? We shopped him around, no takers, so he remains. How many times have you seen Laurie play? He's a 2nd year player who got injured in a Covid affected season. How anyone can make an assessment of him is beyond me. You clearly have your biases against certain players, and nit pick whenever they don't have a good game.

Good to see there's a fair spattering of hyphenated surnames.

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True.

I take this as your only statement of fact.

That's your opinion, but it's not one that's shared by our club captain. But carry on with your snide posts with no substance.

In essence, our offer isn't that much different from Freo's. Freo - $7m over 6 years + $200k x 1 year equates to $1.03m per year over 7 years = $7.2m Dees - $4.1m over 5 years. If his salary in years 6 and 7 increases to $1.3m = $6.7m But my question is, how do we fit an extra $500k into this years cap? Or will it be extrapolated over years 2-5.

The term "depth" is often overstated, but with our current list, we have legitimate depth in the backline. Tomlinson, Hunt and J. Smith have proven themselves at AFL level. To keep our current back 7 structure in place, I'd assume that Turner and Baker will play significant minutes. Looking forward to seeing how they go.

If Brayshaw leaves, his motivation will be money, not winning a Brownlow. In 2019, he played 22 games as an inside mid and got 0 Brownlow votes. In fact, aside from 2018 when he got 21 votes, he has polled a total of 1 vote. So let's stop this nonsense of Gus leaving to seek individual glory at another club.

So after 45 years of yelling out "Just kick it", the team has finally taken heed. But I agree with you. In times gone past it was considered taboo to kick it long to a contest. The gurus would tell us that you had to keep possession at all costs. Thankfully that seems to be a thing of the past.

To be fair, North were missing their 3 best mids in Cunnington, Simpkin and LDU. At full strength, North aren't that bad.

Very average. His defensive pressure acts are miles behind Spargo, Kozzie and ANB. And when there's a contested possession, he struggles to get off a clean disposal. I'd like to see Bedford and Laurie given a game in the next praccy.

Do what I'm doing. I've just subscribed to Kayo, but will cancel after the 14 day free membership period.

From reading the training reports, Dunstan was doing additional running. His omission could be due to a minor injury, although that would have been reported. Or they could be preparing him for a particular role, and he hasn't reached those standards yet in match sim. Ben Brown was given a specific training regiment before his recall. Dunstan maybe in the same situation.

Harmes is irrelevant to this discussion because he's probably on a relatively modest contract. Brayshaw has had his big payday, so if he wants to test the open market, you are prioritising Brayshaw against players coming out of contract who will definitely seek bigger deals.

Daisy is fantastic, but with BT calling, it still makes the Ch 7 Friday night games unbearable to watch unless you mute.

I think that getting Cerra was dependant on finding a home for Melksham, and probably not re-signing Hibberd.