DubDee

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

He is 200cm and has a good leap. Realistically he will take some marks and kicks some goals. Having 3 talls is too tall for mine unless they bring in mason wood. If we can reduce the 1:1s and the ball coming in quick over the back then this is the best way to reduce his output

No change unless someone is not right. Eg Salem, Hunt Back the team in. The defence especially needs time to gel. Frost played in both north games last year so don’t get how he is a must inclusion.

Top 5 angriest I’ve been at the footy. Bloody North!!!

Gees its great to see the big man out there kicking goals and looking happy and fired up. could be a 70 goal season coming up. Absolute running machine, has his run up sorted out too

Judd was unbelievable. Never seen a better first three years than his. Crazy comparison. Love Oliver, can’t wait to clap him off the field in his 300th as a multiple premiership player

I thought I would be the bigger man and not enjoy an injury to Scully but turns out I’m wrong

Yeah I’ll probsbly head to the duke of Wellington. It’s ok, doesn’t have the sound up much but it does the job. If anyone knows a place with a better atmosphere around the city or Richmond it would be good to know

If spargo, Hannan, Frost, Angus, Weed, balic perform well there will be some nervous blokes tomorrow night!

you know more than a couple of pre-season matches are used to pick the team right? Maynard was picked to perform a specific role, a role the FD must have thought he is best placed to perform from those not already in the 22 Anyone has to right to question selection but you should not treat it a fact than error was made. and selection cost us a finals spot? thats a joke. the 22 on the field didn't even try in the first quarter against the pies. mental frailty was the cause

The funny thing is if Gawn had of kicked the goal and won us that game threads like this one would be replaced by 'Can we go 9-0?' type threads. insane over reaction on DL. Round 1 is historically not indicative of the season to come. frenetic football, 5 months build up, players dont have their touch yet etc.

Tyson IN Hannan OUT (or Salem is still woosy) The lions smashed the saints in clearances so we need Tyson's inside ball winning

team dont come out til tomorrow jumbo

thanks christ for that! Thanks for Stevo and Channel 7 for the heart attack!

I’m starting to rethink going camping over Easter weekend should I blindfold the kids or knock them out with a brick? parenting is hard

I was at the game. The second half we had 16 scoring shots to 7. I think we can work with the 22 we picked after 6 months of training and thinking about the game plan. Not having a go btw. I usually agree with your posts

we got our structures right in the 2nd half (finally) and dominated geelong and you want to change a 1/4 of the team? 1-2 changes max if any

Tyson in for Hannan. I think we played too many small/mid sized forwards. Perhaps Brayshaw for Maynard

No Henderson and then no Taylor, we needed to exploit this with marking inside 50 and the lead/ Hogan and Peedo were poor on sunday regarding marking. hopefully it improves

where are all the saints players?? oh that's right.

I don’t see selection as an big issue atm. Supporters are very passionate about this and many weeks last year on a Thursday night would be posting that we’ve lost this selection only for us to have a good win. Our main issue imo is a lack of self belief and mental toughness. Last year we were still a developing team so I think it is fair enough to give games to young players to see what they can do. Regarding frost, Hawkins was well held so it was a good call to not include him. on Wagner, he made a couple of errors like many players did but overall his positives outweighed the negatives. He also saved goals with tackles. So again I would not say this is a selection error. Thats my two cents anyway!

The umps will never get respect if they have a cry about a player questioning a call. It happens in every sport. Unless they insult the umpire or get personal then they should grow some balls and get the game go.

I focused on him too as I think he can play and have been surprised by the majority on here thinking he is so bad. I thought he played well and would be shocked if he was dropped this week. Tackled hard, crunched Selwood, won 3 free kicks, two at least from tackles and had the highest disposal efficiency of our defenders - for what that is worth. He wasn’t amazing or anything and had a couple of clangers like most did. Replacing him with frost or brayshaw would have not increased our chances of winning yesterday imo