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Never in doubt; great clubman and teammate.

As Melbourne supporters, we spent most of our time during his peak years trying to highlight his faults so we could win the Gawn v Grundy debates. Always knew he was a great player - just never wanted to admit it until this year.

Probably the most promising statement I’ve heard regarding a permanent home for the club. To hear a third party speak about our interest and their needing a partner is very, very refreshing.

If he's chasing a premiership and he's willing play for very little money to get to a contender. Sure!

Hawthorn has been willing to leave their ‘traditional’ heartland. Twice. I have no love for the Hawks, but they repeatedly make the right decisions for the long term. We stubbornly want to magically create land in an area that won’t sacrifice an inch of public parklands or remove a single tree.

Been watching closely since '94 and have seen some amazing forwardlines, but only recently have we had great backlines and midfields. In that time we've had an amazing run of All Australian rucks with Stynes, White, Jamar and Gawn, but could only field two. Apologies to Robertson, Jakovich, Ingerson, White, Whealan, Johnstone, Pickett, B.Lovett, Langdon and J.Viney. LEVER. MAY. JETTA. SALEM. FRAWLEY. S.FEBEY. TINGAY. T.VINEY. GREEN. LYON. SCHWARZ. YZE. FRITSCH. NEITZ. FARMER. GAWN. PETRACCA. OLIVER. Int. STYNES. BRUCE. WOEWODIN. JONES. Sub: DAVEY.

I have no problem with an extra player on the bench, makes no difference to me and further incentivises teams to take concussions seriously. Don't like the sub, in any of its forms.

6. Viney 5. Grundy 4. McDonald 3. Oliver 2. Petracca 1. Rivers

I think we'd be able to at least send them a top 5 pick this year and a very early second...

Melksham to the VFL to play a whole match. Sparrow to the sub this week. Picket to the starting 22.

Gameday Thread is nuts! Passionate, but nuts. It’s like a stream of consciousness digging into our collective insecurities. Usually reads like we’re getting smashed by 10 goals, even when we’re winning. I don’t really check it much anymore but no one should apologise for what they’ve written there.

Both played in Round 1. Would be shocked in Chandler’s dropped. Worst case scenario would be made the sub.

So, 6 goals..?

We’ve consistently struggled against the Swans since about 1993.

The problem with discussions on tanking is that there is no standard definition in the AFL community for what exactly ‘tanking’ is. Each expert, commentator and fan seems to have their own definition meaning people can be right and wrong at the same time.

Both eligible for ‘24 draft?

FWIW… AFL media has Freo’s draw ranked the equal most difficult and FoxFooty has it ranked the 4th most difficult. Its starts out easy and gets tough in the second half. They were expected to easily bank the first two games.

I think Jackson has the potential to be one of the better players in the league but, as we know, environment and culture are huge factors in developing talent. Fremantle has a poor record of developing imported talent. It may be the club, the city, the perth media or the fact that they repeatedly pay a huge price in salary and picks for ‘savours’. The pressure and expectation is immense and the likelihood of disrupting the harmony of a playing list is high. They trade away role players to make room for big names. Their recent drafting has been strong and they’ve brought in solid lesser name trades, but the big fish seem to come back to bite them. Hogan, Bennell, McCarthy, Lobb… Jackson?

I’m gonna remain confident that he’s avoided a worst case scenario. There’s not enough media noise for me to think otherwise - the media always seems to get a leak or a tip on a serious injury to a star. Max’s injury has been overshadowed by the power outage, but there’s still not enough noise for me to think it’s worse that a medial (which is still pretty bad). Bring on Schache for 6 - 8!

This and NES International Cricket are all the stimulation a developing brain needs.

This must be how the impoverished feel when they see the wealthy complain about taxation…

In the absence of May, Lever was immense. Best on IMHO.

That’s an insane number of pages devoted to just two teams. Why would you do it to yourself?!

The Freo boards are turning on LJ in a big way. Young players with huge prices on their heads open themselves to unbelievable pressure and scrutiny. (But their managers would never tell them that) Nowhere to hide in WA.

6. Lever 5. Gawn 4. Pickett 3. Petracca 2. Brown 1. Tomlinson