DubDee

these 6 day breaks are killing us... ? Gus is back! great news! only May and Gawn on our best 22 injury list!

I agree with him about Brisbane, I predict they will have a tough year. No hodge, a young team will struggle with expectations. I always think the Cats will struggle but they finished top last year so who knows. Sydney have zero chance of top 8, not sure where he is coming from on this one.

we do our best work in the off season!

Onya Maxy - the first grade A star we have had in a long long time. Great to see the players vote and also also put their support behind Viney as vice. From some of the gossip I was beginning to worry the players did not rate Jack's leadership

One at the very least. I don’t get how the media are questioning it. Clear contact with the head. Clarry is as tough as nails

9 and 8 shots at goal at one end versus 2 and 3 at the other. wind must be decent

Petracca has 20 touches clarry 13

The first posts complaining about umpiring for the year are always something special. Especially in a practice match ?

so if the recoveries for Gus, May and Gawn come to fruition, we could have zero best 22 players injured by round 1. and the majority of the squad having done a good preseason. oh my. No excuse Demons

Plays on half back, provides a great barrier no one can get past

More compromised than when gws had 7 of the first 12 picks or whatever 7 years ago? doubt it

how about shorter games? these 135-140 minute games are too long. go back to the old days of 120 minute matches I reckon. itll be higher quality and less injuries

there are ~12 players on out injury list and none got injured during a match. injuries happen

you don't want us to play practice matches before round 1?? they are important to get some match fitness and getting rid of some rust

Wish I had your confidence. May has been out for 5 weeks already when it was thought to be very minor originally (new setback last week). I hope you are right!

The fact that the delisted bomber Brown is even being mentioned is not a good sign We really need May and T Mac as our bookends. they cant take a trick

HF Fristch Jackson Petracca FF Kossy T Mac Melksham is a bloody good fwd line. everyone good below the knees aside from T Mac. most are quick and can pressure. very tough to match up on those 6 If the Weed plays well in practice matches he may get Jackson's spot but we shall see. some competition up fwd is something we have not had

I don't get the concept of a pass mark for Footy. So it not successful but it's not failure? you dont play or watch sport to just 'pass' or to not fail. you play to succeed. Getting this generation of players back on track and winning is required. 14 wins or more would be a good year and get us back on track for a tilt over the next 3-4 years

The poor bugger

Just saw Maxy at lunch. Can confirm: he ate fritters and poached eggs (will this impact his run for captain??) he cannot fit through door frames he was limping but also smiling

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm No Tennis has led the way with womens sport and never added a M to the men's tour. Calm your farm! it's like the media want to polarise people and incite sexism

Being hopeful and from reading reports - Gus, Max and May should be right for round one and have had solid preseason. aside from that only really one from best 22 injured AVB - arguably.. I hold little hope, for Bennell, KK in the first half of the year and not much more for Hannan given his cursed luck

Max is back running and in amazing nick. will get a practice game or two in and dominate. Pruess is not best 22 so unless Max gets injured again I see no major issue here. just lost a back-up ruck for the first few rounds

Anyone have the inclination to create an injury list with estimated time out? seems to be about 8 injured at the moment but hopefully only a couple not available for round 1?

He was ripped this time last year. So what’s the transformation? i reckon he’ll be better this year but incrementally as he has done over the last 5 years. team performance hid how good Trac was last year. If we perform well, he should dominate and be in our top 5 players easily