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what’s up with Curnow?? he got out worked in a marking contest by Rioli! i thought he would explode this season

aside from the first minute there was 4 goals in 60 minutes. horrible footy

gotta love round 1. games are an absolute shambles players exhausted the game day thread Sat night should be fun

Tigers lucky they got Taranto or they’d be no chance of finals

he has a good game every 2 months. usually saves it for us

so good to have footy back!!

have you seen Lobb play? offers zero at ground level either through athleticism or lack of effort

cmon guys, but if support for Tommo. he is a big unit and just needs to spoil and bring it to ground. he gives everything. get behind him

it’s the young small fwd Jones that’s out. kicked 2 in preseason game. with him and weightman they have not much at ground level. we will smash them on the rebound

37oC on Saturday! The 200 north fans that turn up to Marvel stadium might actually melt. is there any hot weather rules that kick in for footy? extra drinks breaks, etc? not human to play footy in that temp

Carlton should win easily. The Tigers are old and the Blues forwards are the best in the comp I predict the talking points to be West Coast winning well and Port winning. I reckon Port will do well this year and beat the Lions first up. They have some new recruits and it would be typical of Ken to pull a great season out of his backside when he on the chopping block

1. Melboure 2. Brisbane 3. Sydney 4. Footscray 5. Carlton 6. Collingwood 7. Geelong 8. Port Adelaide Richmond Fremantle Gold Coast West Coast Adelaide Saints Essendon GWS North Melbourne Hawthorn Premiers: Melbourne Demons Runner up: Brisbane Brownlow: Oliver Rising star: Ashcroft Spoon: Hawks

i hope they do. they have FA small fwds so Gus, Judd, Riv and Bowey will rebound easily all game

give May as long as he needs to get him 100% right we were 10-0 last year and it did FA. Turner is a player. get him out there

Demons flag and Clarry brownlow multi is paying $72 sorry don’t want to turn this into a betting thread but didn’t want anyone to miss out on money for jam

port are the Yo Yos of the comp. reckon they’ll have a big year and finish top 6

What a fantastic video! Culture and spirit at the club is great

Saturday lunch beers are now on

Dogs have a few injuries although nothing too significant. We might be able to rebound well against them, 4 talls and very few small fwds. Young Jones kicked a couple in preseason and looked pretty good. A double blow to the Dogs' small forward stocks ahead of round one with Weightman and Jones both ruled out of the season-opener, and potentially longer, due to groin injuries. O'Brien has suffered another hamstring injury and will be sidelined for at least another month. Gardner is set to miss at least the first three or four weeks after undergoing elbow surgery following an incident in the intraclub in Ballarat. Vandermeer fractured his leg just before then and will miss the first quarter of the season.

I think our depth down back is pretty good: Turner, Tomlinson, Smith, Schache (played there for dogs). If we weren't playing the tall dogs someone like Hibbo could have come in. We can't have gun defenders sitting in casey so losing a guy like May will always be a big blow We need an in form T Mac kicking goals this year and shouldn't move him imo

4 of our best 8 players out is far from ideal.

T Mac only very rarely goes back and we need him up front with no Fritsch out We need to bring a full time defender in for May if he's out. We have depth

May with a calf? [censored] off! although if they think Joel Smith is the one to come in, it shows how little they know about footy so might be BS

solid ratings. glad they recognise Clarry as our best. better than the usual media drivel

Is it concerning that more than half of us die hard supporters aren't going to the game? absolutely zero judgment for the many and varied reasons you all can attend. I myself was going to miss but for some good work misfortune 60K plus and ill be happy. 50 point smashing, ill be even happier