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I personally think the pies are not that good. Their renowned midfield depth is gone. Swan, Pendles and sidebottom remain and could be the difference but they fall away after that. Pendles is carrying an injury. their defence isnt great, ruck is OK, and forward line OK again with elliot the X factor. They have 8 players injured (/suspended) that are either first 18 or on the fringes I am not saying we are better but I think we are fairly evenly matched. We just have to bring the attitude and hunger and play as a team. The pies play much better team/pressure football

So I reckon the consensus from the past 6 pages is we will win 10 of our last 13 and make finals?

Spencer is stiff Played his heart out the last three weeks and done well. Gawn done nothing to come in esp in a big game. I would personally prefer a competitor against Grundy then the maxiumus

he was our best player in the second half against Port. The chips were down. he beat his opponent many times and gave is good rebound. pity others didnt follow him

He is ok to coach on Monday according to sen

I have the Pies about par with the Tiges / Dogs. they will be favourites for sure but have a chance

we weren't favourites against GC, Tiges or Dogs either. Luckily we dont pay any mind to that

how do you think our form line will go and how many games do you think we will win?

Frost has good potential - is quick, big but not sure he's that important to us yet played 3 games, avg 8 touches, 2 tackles. wouldnt have surprised me if he was dropped before he got injured

okay ...trying to stay positive despite reading the last 2 pages: i reckon at our stage in development, starting from waaaaay back, we are not near good enough for the top 4-5 teams (no [censored] sherlock). however we are beating middle tier teams and we will hopefully beat teams 'below' us. The pies on monday and St Kilda next sunday will give us a big indicator of where we are at and if I am crazy in thinking we could win 6 more games Not playing the elite teams will give us the opportunity to gain some consistency, can we take the opportunity!?

its based on how we've played in the 9 games 3 wins from 9. we can expect ~5 from the next 13 on that form = 8 wins and its a much easier draw so I expect more than 8 wins to say who cares if its all top 4 teams doesnt make sense to me. I understand some periods of play have been unacceptable but there have been positives and wait until round 17 to judge %. we'll have hammered carlton by 120 pts by then

so we are 3 and 6 after a tough start. I venture to say people would have taken that at the start of the season (having played the top 4 from last season)? How do we think we will go for the rest of the season? The good news is we only have 1 game we are 100% no chance in (away to Freo). Call me crazy but I no longer put the cats in that category especially after the weekend Other good news: we play St kilda twice, brisbane at home, carlton, and dogs again I personally think we can win 6 of the next 13 at least. Given we have beaten GC, Tiges and Dogs (all fairly convinvingly) I think we roughly know our level. Given that, I reckon we are a shout in the 2 games against the pies and we will win one of them. When Tyson, Viney, Salem are back firing I think we could go on a roll and maybe...... dare I say it..... win two games in a row!!! Go Dees!! I'll be there on Monday screaming my guts out

MFC have handled him very well so far. avoided publicity as much as possible with signing him up early. managed his injuries conservatively Jesse would be thinking in 2-3 years of Viney, Salem, Tyson, Petracca, Brayshaw, Stretch serving goals up to him on a platter. Sign him up for 12 years! I'll put in a few bob if it helps!

I disagree. its not just about the 4 guys in the centre. When there are several links in the chain of the 18 on the ground that are poor and not even getting a touch that makes the whole team look terrible. We should not be reliant on 3 first year players, we have enouigh talent in the team to be competative

I'm offended as a football fan that the media are driving this racist angle. No one else in the comp gets booed based on the colour of their skin, why is goodes different? He gets booed like heaps of players do that are arrogant, get paid too many soft free kicks and just seems like a bit of a di-ck.

Brayshaw Garland Hogan Pederson Spenser Grimes

I'm hurting too but are people really that surprised? Port are the third best team in the league and we are... Still bottom four material.

Our kicking skills are so much better than last year!

I know. But the trouble is they're a significantly better team than us Go dees

Can't see port losing today. At 3-5 it's desperate times for them. And I think they'll just beat us. Would be amazing if we won though!!

No change keep Viney/Jetta/Tyson fresh for QB. smash em on the track in the meantime

Really want to wait on Tyson. He hasn't looked the player he was last year so I'd give him as long as he needs to be 100% not 95%

Sounds like excuses to me. We really only have three or four important players out that are in our top 12 players. There are several clubs worse off that are missing key players. North, WC, GC etc what if T Mac, Jones etc were injured? Jt dropped last year, Tracca could be anything but hasnt played a game so you cannot say he is best 22 The Team need to suck it up

Far out that is pathetic from Watts if true. Asking to be dropped, has anyone ever done that before? No competitive footballer with any self respect would do that. Just give it away jack.

what other guns have we got in the 2nds that you guys would bring in? Jamar does not deserve to come back in Watts has been rubbish and soft and also desreves it