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Drop Harmes

Jetta too old and slow my [censored]!

Zero intensity when they are attacking

Spargo - best kick inside 50 in the squad

Just relax now Demons. Let them back into it

Somebody oiled up the Tinman! Great quarter

Sign Goody up on a 4 yr extension!

You mean like Rivers looking like a 100 game pro in his first season when all other clubs overlooked him in the draft? Or LJ with the potential to be anything, 200cm athletic freak. you win some you lose some in the draft. We have drafted well over the last 4-5 year’s imo

What’s the crowd like?? ?

Why can’t Sparrow be like Smith? They’re different players mate! Jesus

What’s happened to Grundy?! Looks average at best. Crippling 7 year deal. Ouch

Pendlebury is finally looking like slowing down. What a gun he has been. pies midfield looks average without him

Take a look at the Freo forward line. May and Lever should dominate in the air at the back. Even if we don’t convert well, we should win this comfortably

Thanks for that. For many if the past 15 years we have been on the wrong side of this analysis. The 20 games we have on average is significant. People wondering where our improvement might come from, it’s the maturity of our core group

Just watch the games from last year

Commentary gold from Brayshaw so far: “bontempelli - he is a really good player” “Macrae - he is left footer” someone send him a tape of Richie Benaud or Martin Tyler

Omg hilarious free given. The AFL have kept in the below the knees nonsense. wallis on the ground taps the ball fwd, a Pies player behind him falls over Wallis. Free kick wow

Man the quarters seem so long after last year! multiple changes in momentum can happen.

Hard to say. Buckley and Hardwick survived years of no finals and poor performance and tuned it around. We have been a contested team for years, hard to turn around quickly. Guys like May and Kozzi also help

No [censored]. Just mentioning that we are trying to address the issue. They are no ready to play just yet. Hopefully we’ll see one or both in a few weeks

He’s worked on that since he was 18. Can kick 50 now, just.

No, it’s a brainer. Spargo is a young developing fwd. he took steps last year and started scoring more. He is already a very good tackler and great kick inside 50. he more than deserves a start. Bowey has no runs on the board and needs to earn a game at Casey. With 4+ senior players out we need to limit debutants

The Lost at Selection crazies are out early. Barring one or two minor changes, it is pretty much as good as we can be without Viney, Weed, brown, Hibberd, Melksham etc defence looks good but I worry about Hunt back there. His defending and concentration does not give me confidence. Perhaps he will play on the wing? i expect Swallow to play a role maybe on Ryan or someone we want to negate. chandler my guess for the sub i get Harmes is not ideal but I don’t think baker has done enough to play. Harmes is an upgrade imo. Or maybe Hunt or Tomo play there.

This is why we drafted in quality ball users in Bowey and Laurie. we have May, Lever, Rivers, Bowey, Salem down back. All good kicks Trac, Fristch, Melksham are critical to our connection from def - mid - fwd and we are a bit light on in this area. guys like Jones, Spargo, and Kozzi need to get their hands on the ball and provide good inside 50’s so overall we don’t excel in this area but we are ok and building.

McKay choked on a couple of occasions tonight. Or maybe you just see Melbourne players faults. I would much prefer to have O Mac on our list over Daw or M Brown. I reckon he has some talent up forward Weideman will come good. I really think he will be a quality forward for us