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nuts.

Does anyone know if Vanders trained? He had scans the other day according to reports.

Stop it my PTSD is flaring up

In before the melts when Goody selects just Omac as our key back and uses flankers in every other defensive position...

One thing Hogan does have that I think we may miss is that smart lateral movement in the forward line. When he gets the drop on his opponent, gets him going one way and goes the other to mark the football. He did it a couple of times in the second JLT for Freo and made me think, who else can do that for us now? Tmac and Weed are more straight line charge at the ball types, I think we are a bit one dimensional with those two as key targets. Perhaps a player like Petracca could provide this when he plays forward.

Not so sure about that, I seem to recall several matches where we lost to a bunch of kids and no names in the past (Essendon when half their team was out suspended over the supplements scandal being the worst)

I sometimes think Max would be the best choice for captain anyway - he's the most dominant force we have after all...

Can he play as a small forward? We really do have a glaring need in that area.

Yeah those 4 behinds and 2 out on the full Daniher would have kicked will really make all the difference!

Agree, we’re going to need to thrash them in midfield to limit the supply to their forward line as we have the B team key defenders in, could possibly leak goals as we have in the first two JLTs. Shootout anyone?

It's just our luck to spend a fortune on Lever and May to strengthen our shaky defence over the last 2 years and to have to go into round 1 of 2019 without either of them!

Must've been a deep cork to get through to the band!

Corked illiotibial band that’s a new one

Bring back Hoges

Watts with a match winning bag of 6

Urgh, Westhoff always gives us trouble too.....

May is going to drive us all insane if he gets reported every 6 weeks, I think it’s a soft suspension but he appears to be a slow learner....sure we want his aggression but already getting done for a week before even playing a proper game!?

Is it that different to the Viney one we successfully challenged a couple of years ago?

Can we challenge without risking 2? Hope we don’t have this continual worry with May his record is pretty bad...

Port have as many injury concerns as we do leading into round one

It’s true but also every year people get carried away with the results...

Watching the game live yesterday, for mine the only time we played “properly” with decent intensity was the second quarter in which we dominated. For the rest of the match the boys fiddled around and generally looked half interested, apart from Steven May who tried to kill everyone including his teammates a couple of times!

Harmes played the week after surgery on a broken hand last year, don’t think a dislocated finger (even a compound one) will keep him out with a 2 week break.

Please no more injuries result irrelevant

Possibly, can’t find it in myself to get worried about this yet though