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This is a brave call from Goody. I reckon the easy option is to bring in Brown or Weed, but do you sacrifice you fwd pressure? this seems like a very measured selection. Respectful to those who have got the job done and keeping the system stable Fristch and May are Massive in. I am proud of T Mac to give the selectors no option but to keep him at CHF.

Anyone tempted by $13 for north to win next week in Tassie??

Why do people still rate the Cats? Struggled at home against north! WC choked against the Saints but it won’t happen again. Can’t believe Cats are clear favs. I’ll be loading up on the weagles

Give it time ?

The next 5 years should be something. Trac/Viney/Oliver/Salem/Langdon/Lever all in their prime. It's our best chance to win a flag in a looooooong time

Great news! a key pillar in our Premiership attack. These long term deals for our guns should set us up nicely to be able to manage our cap. Assuming he is only on good money (not crazy money), we should know exactly what money we have to offer Trac. 5 year deals only screw your cap when the money is massive. having stability and showing faith and loyality back to our players is a great show of faith and should come back to reward us

Round 11 would have to be our Friday night game. Us and the Dogs both play Saturday in round 10 so no 5 day breaks. All but certain

it is fun messing with the pedants and the posters with ODC. just can't a letter out of palce

This is THE ANZAC game this weekend. what a great job the club did securing this game. Saturday night will be a test of our maturity. Those who asked what happened in Perth in the Prelim. I'll tell ya: Trac, Gawn, Viney, Oliver etc were 3 years younger and immature imo. have we grown up? I reckon we have. May and Lever is the best defensive combination in the league. Not sure we will win, but we will give it a red hot shake.

Where are the 19 out of 20 experts that said we would not make finals? now this [censored] comes out? [censored] off

Can you believe Geelong put Danger back on the field?? Who knows if this would have impacted his ankle further Danger 32 at the start if next season.

I reckon we need to look at more mids in the draft. Outside mids firstly, then wingers and balanced mids. If we have 3-4 injuries to our midfield, who from casey on the weekend comes in? I personally don't see Bowey or Laurie ending up in the midfield but I could be wrong. I'd expect Bowey HB and Laurie fwd. Sparrow and Jordon are good depth for inside mid Also, unless we want Jackson playing 1st ruck if Gawn goes down, I reckon we draft a developing 1st ruck to learn the ropes from Gawny. you usually need to go through a couple of these guys to be successful

I know this used to be the case but in the past 5 years at least we have been strong and held our ground on decisions imo. have you examples recently where we haven't stood up for ourselves?

May and Weed in for Brown and Petty makes us such a better team!

Oh my god. 21,000 would be sooo embarrassing

6072 - Days since Essendon last won a final Not relevant to this thread but it just makes me happy

The beauty of having Weed some in to play with T Mac, LJ and Fristch is that Gawn can drift back on HB and repel so many attacks. His marking on the weekend was astounding. 8 contested. Handball it off to Hunt/Rivers/Hibbo and we are away If May comes back in and with Gawn floating back, I think we have a genuine chance of winning

win 3 out of 4 flags you've earnt the right to be a little cocky there is nothing to suggest we will do more than compete with them for 3 quarters.

Laurie's behind Bedford and Chandler you'd reckon so although it's a pity he is injured, I don't think he would have played a senior game unless multiple injuries

didn't we make a Prelim?

I hope Tommo mauls the crap out of Lynch all night. go for the spoil and accidentally wipe that smile off his face

Surely you can't be shocked by this? I'm surprised he will get to 100 Hopefully the BS channel 7 narrative around the game isnt comparing how many wins/losses Martin and Jones have comparatively. turn a positive into a negative. I can almost here Darcy spew this [censored] out already

The First bounce will be Gawn, Clarry, Trac and Kozzi. They can worry about us. Martin dominates regardless, not worth losing a player with a hard tag, especially as we don't have a natural tagger in the team

Hibbered Defintion - To be 'Hibbered' - to get schooled by Hibberd in a action that decides a contest. eg, Hawks early Q4, Round 4 2021

The biggest question yet to be answered is - Is May fit to play or not?? Any news from the club on this or is it just rumour? It will be very difficult to win with Petty in instead of May Aside from that Fritsch and Weed come in for Brown and Melksham