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no hodge, gibson, burgoyne, Burchill from that team is a big difference

yeah and bookies never get it wrong huh? (retorical) firstly 50-50 is my prediction (opinion) on a game yet to occur so it cannot be incorrect. Secondly, Odds are full of BS. one eyed supporters betting on their team influences odds and media certainly would influence them. How else would the Dees be favourite the beat Geelong in round 1? 2nd vs 9th from the previous year

interesting comments, seems most are confident. I see it as 50-50. i think the odds are more based on hype in the media. but in reality we have beaten 2 weak teams. imo if we play like we have been, missing easy shots at goal, not being switched on for 4 quarters - we will lose by a goal or two. With hawks forwards they dont need many inside 50s to win if we improve which I think we will, we should win. no passengers, kick more goals than points and crack in for 4 quarters

Who else is loving the bombers copping it in media?? what a [censored] cheating rabble. Only run one way. Cant wait to beat those biting pricks in 3 weeks

Start with Trac, Clarry, Hogan and Gawn in the centre bounce. little man mitchell wont get near it as hes a foot shorter than everyone else

was going to add to the changes thread but doesn't really fit I'm so intruiged by the Hawks game coming up on sunday. The pessimist (MFC supporter part) in me says we wont win. the Hawks have certainly improved. Beat Geelong and lost to Tigers by a goal. But then sometimes I think about Trac and Clarry and Jesse and I think we should easily beat them if we have the belief. One of the MANY defining games of our season and I can't wait. So what are your thoughts, predictions? I think we will hammer them by 1 point ;-) Hogan will elevate himself to elite status and destroy chip and Lever will finally look like belongs and intercept all day

ill be happy if Viney makes it back the week after the bye at the moment it would be Melky for T Mac and maybe ANB/Harmes for Jack

like I said my concern is Gawn getting burnt out not winning hit outs. He'll have McEvoy jumping into him all game on sunday

Like others I'm worried about Gawn rucking too long during games and getting burnt out or injured. Harmes (!!) was the only other player to win a hit out on the weekend. We need Peedo or Weed in to ruck some decent minutes. Also has the advantage of Gawn spending some time forward. My preference is Pedo as he took 15 marks and played well and I want Weed to play 3-4 good games before we bring him in.

Poor decisions on both sides. Didn’t think they favoured north or us

Nic Nat. 0 marks 4 kicks BOG. He’s a good player but the constant pumping up is ridiculous

Not sure about frost down back. Did some good things in the 2nd quarter but poor positional sense - why he left Waite on his own in the first quarter for that goal no one knows. Also a few clangers. Do we need three talls plus Wagner and hibbo against the hawks? They play pretty small. Like I said it would be harsh as he took a couple of nice marks and gave us some rebound for a while. If hunt somehow gets his mojo back today I’d bring him for frost

Gawn salem 8 clearances, great intensity great to see finally hogan jones kent trac

Tarrant for Daw confirmed via Afl twitter

This is not a test of skill or game plan or coaching, it’s a mental test. We should easily win On paper. Now believe in yourselves, go in hard and beat these [censored]! winning will go a long way to us playing finals imo. People who say these hoodoos don’t affect the players are wrong

Frost will play down back

What has happened to hunt? Haven’t seen any dash out of him.

you are a brave, brave man

if we had beaten North twice last year we finish on 14 wins and 6th place and North finish on 4 wins in last place T Mac and Viney out is a big hit to our on field leadership. importantly our younger leadership that the other young guys follow. it will be a close game but I hope and pray we can win

people who owned slaves?

What are the odds of this biting us on the backside?

This should free us up to buy a couple of clubs on king st

Thanks for the update!! especially considering you had a 2yo with you, im surprised the update wasn't punctuated with STOP IT!, PUT THAT DOWN! and various swear words

39,021 With only our second home game this Sat, we could make 40K almost a month ahead of last year. think its membership day today too

If I was north I would play another tall fwd against us and bomb it in long as that is all their midfield can do so either way frost will be an emergency and a brought in with a late change depending on norths line up