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Pruess is an interesting one. If Ryder plays which seems likely, he would have to be heavily considered. if no Pruess, Weeds will have to ruck a fair bit. We need some protection for Gawn From the injury update and training report, it sounds like Pruess is fit, so it will be intersting!

Any chance that Port will walk off the field before the first bounce when they see: Gawn, Viney, Oliver and Gus walk to the middle??

Always a couple of big upsets in round 1. I can see the Cats getting the jump on the pies Hope the blues give the tigers a scare tonight!

Beginning to think Vanders and Smith might be cursed! and Vanders is the flare up of his horrible injury. hope he isn't 4-6 for the next 10 weeks ?

extremely late as usual. Barassi league is full any thing else going? otherwise ill be in a public league like a nobody ?

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Have to admit, Gill and the AFL have done very well on the rule changes overall - so far at least. Gill was on 360 last night and he spoke well. I don't care about AFLX and all that [censored], I only watch AFL and I am hopeful we will see more scoring, the best mids getting a run at the ball and some more space

Agree. Also he can ruck. hopefully he develops more in this area as it is a great advantage to have a big man who can back up Max. And we wouldn't need Pruess then.Weed, TMac and Pruess is too tall up fwd and not mobile enough imo

Just 4 days to go. Finally footy is back!!!! Can't wait to witness Oliver's first brownlow year

Howe is no leader. That laughable he is in their LG speaks to their lack of leaders down back. the worst back line of the top 8

Wow the Hype around us is full on. Almost everyone has us in the top 4. Please let it be so. With two games to go last year I thought we would miss finals and our core group are young so I can’t be as confident

heart just stopped. ... there it goes again

Dixon and Wines definitely out and Ryder and Hartlett likely. 4 massive outs possibly. Joe Atley Knee 2 weeks Charlie Dixon Leg/ankle TBC Hamish Hartlett Knee 1 week Sam Hayes Knee TBC Riley Grundy Knee 5-7 weeks Jarrod Lienert Knee 2-4 weeks Jake Patmore Knee Season Paddy Ryder Cheekbone TBC Ollie Wines Shoulder 2-4 weeks Updated: Tuesday, March 12

I could get used to this! This is what should have happened to the drug cheats - send the bombers back to the VFL

since when did 6 foot become small for a half back flanker/mid?

Now if the rest of their 22 could just get injured I'd be a happy man the 'Top 4 Bombers' media have quietened down thank [censored]

havent watched the video. is it clear when he'll be back?

we are approx 5000 up on this time last year. great effort I think 50K could be achievable this year!

I can picture a future conversation with my son: once upon a time there was this great game called Aussie Rules. Then a [censored]-end by the name of Gill took control and sold the game for some magic beans. so to answer your question, that is why the Demons are wearing capes on this jernseys

I would love to see AVB bust out of his jumper like the Hulk after scoring a goal though

doesnt even remind me of Thor. why the Frack would the dogs agree to this? a large sum of money?? talk about not caring about your jumper or tradition.

best 22 players injured for round 1: Lever and Hannan. Hannan was dropped a bit last year but I still reckon he is best 22. with guys like Smith ready to come in for Hannan he is not a massive loss The bigger issue for me is are we fit enough as a group/recovered from surgery and ready to go. I am in the camp that thinks we will be sluggish for the first 6 rounds or so and have some disappointing losses

of course he can't step out of the way. he just needed to not catch him on the chin. having said that I am glad we are appealing. I reckon we are a good chance to downgrade the impact to low

the mumford decision was a disgrace. AFL come out and say they want to outlaw the punch and then clear a blatent punch to the face.

Higgins didnt bump him high. was a clash of heads. May bumped his neck/chin