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You beauty! Brown and T Mac plus Fristch and smalls will be a hell of a fwd line

We are still missing Folau

“I reckon we win by 3 tries”

The bump is allowed, however you do need to accept all consequences associated with the bump

one things for sure, we won't be dropped T Mac if he keeps up this form. I expect him to get better over the nextr couple of weeks as his confidence grows too

yes, I see your point. I still think the trend is there. Hawks got one early in 08 and then dominated when their players were in their prime '12-'14. Bombers were an anomaly and Brisbane were not young if I recall correctly. they fell off a cliff after 2004. Very difficult to win one without having a bolus of the team in the right age and experience bracket. even tougher if the talent is not there

therefore these stats should indicate a team has a sizeable group of good players that have a better chance of winning the flag, proving the OP's point, no?

Good Post. I have kept on eye on these stats for us over the past 15 years and we are usually the youngest/most inexperienced group. No doubt you need to get to the other group if you want to win a flag. I have always said our best shot of a flag is when Viney, Trac, Oliver, Salem etc are 25yo+ and 100 games+. this is our generation. going off these stats if we won one this year it would be early, the next 5 years should be interesting. and if you think - we've said this before - we haven't. we have never had this sort of talent coming together like this in the past 15 years

It is clearly a mental issue with goal kicking. when kicking to a team-mate he rarely mis-kicks them. kicking for goal on Sat night and they are missing as soon as they are off the boot. sliced one terribly. keep going with the sports psych Bails, you'll get there he is so clever making space, reading the flight and marking for a light body.

Melksham put his hand put for selection apparently. 2 goals and a good performance around the ball Jones and Sparrow will be nervous. As much as I am disappointing with Melk over last year's efforts, he does add a new dimension to our game with strong marking/kicking and link up play fwd of centre interesting decision for the committee

Whilst there is no real exposed ressie form to consider and no-one really struggling in the 1s, you would have to say no change. Our defence should have a field day against the Giants attack and propel many attacks. Only thing to consider is the sub. Shouldnt use Baker again. We need to give Melk and Hibbo more game time so maybe VDB or Petty

fair enough, I guess we all see if differently. As evidenced by one coach giving him 3 votes and the other none!

Hangin for your round 3 preview @CHF!

No doubt in my mind this will go down as a genius trade. Pickett is exactly what this club needs for so many reasons. and Rivers will play 200 games. Making a few errors but he will settle in. He has such confidence. Where would we play Serong if we had him anyway?

Get used to it WWS. We have been underrated coming into the season. We will be favourites for probably 6 of the next 8 games all going well

How does he do those one handed pick ups?? looks like he has glue on his hands

How so many can have Pickett out of the votes astounds me. His influence over the game was immense. We desperately lack speed class and pressure up forward. If he can get 17+ touches most games we are in for a great year

I got em at $2.30 down $1.70 now!

All the best anyone going through depression or any other mental condition. There is nothing worse. People deal with it in different ways. I hope HFF you are ok and don’t take feedback on here the wrong way. You’re a good poster so hopefully you come back soon

Such typical Melbourne mentality rather to look forward to a kill against a poor opposition, to think theyll be fired up as they are playing so poor. if anything this shows how good Freo are and that round one was a good win we will beat the giants. The bottom has fallen out of the Ferrari

They were 16th last year. Would be astounding if they make the 8 let alone the 4

Get your money on the Demons next week now before the odds shift any further. We should smash them. they look disinterested, no tall forwards, defence horrible. T Mac to kick a bag next week!

Swans have been the surprise packet for sure. But I’d be surprised if they make finals. Suns, Giants, Saints, Freo are no easy beats. swans will be good in a couple of years but they have so many kids. Kennedy is 33 soon. They don’t have enough senior players imo. If not for their academy gifts they’d be in trouble

Yep, that is why we need to be 8-2 if we are serious this year. After Tigers we have an easy run

I’m loving how aggressive Petracca is this year. He looks hungry and wants to intimidate himself.