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Phew.

Hopes vanders can get back, I remember one of the early games he played as a mid against the Bulldogs he dominated. Still has a fair bit to offer if he could get himself right.

Traveled up for the Easter break so hoping for a good win as I’m going to the match. Nice morning in Brisbane, hope it does turn to monsoons by the evening!

Buggy is there to run around annoying the crap out of Zorko and Beams so they spend their whole time trying to smack him and forget about the footy. He’s our master of psychological warfare we are way better with him doing what he does best.

“Off legs” for a 10 day “deload” period to heal his elbow

I didn't like the structure of the side overly on Sunday, we looked too short at either end of the ground, especially up forward when Jesse pushed into the midfield. Really missed big Tom, Pedo doesn't play particularly well as a key forward but I can't think of too many other options....

[censored] and moan for a week and still turn up for the next torture session against North

I thought we were pretty ordinary for most of the day and didn't deserve to win (would have been stoked if Gawny had kicked straight of course!) Sure we had a ton of forward entries but whats the point when they are blindly bombed to a pack of players just inside the 50, and the Cats are then allowed to rebound it out with ease? Geelong played a more effective attacking game and killed us on the spread. Menzel gave Jetta a bath, he could have easily kicked 6, we didnt have a match up for him at all. I hope we can play a lot better than that as the season progresses, more system, less panic ball....

a) why do we always lose as favourites? b) why are we crap at the MCG since Goodwin took over?

We blew it with our traditional “go to sleep for an entire quarter” malaise

Yep, we get lost completely on the MCG now...painful to watch

Drinking the pre season bathwater...

I agree that Geelong appear to have a weakened side in paper and apart from Ablett, Selwood, Taylor and Hawkins they don't have a lot of class in today. Still not that confident though, we need to be on from the opening bounce none of this waiting to be 5 goals down before pulling the finger out crap.

Don’t mind Maynard, big body around the ball to help offset the loss of Viney. Looked ok in preseason

Maybe when we finally make the 8, I'll be able to let it go

We will be the older and more experienced side by the looks of it which is surprising. Not that I'm overly confident, still scarred from rd 23 last year when Collingwood had Pendlebury out and a bunch of kids in and we choked....still we *should* win (shudder)

Not good, but we've got plenty of options to cover those boys, injuries are always going to happen its rare that a side has its absolute best 22 available for any length of time. We played some of our best footy last year with Max and Jesse out. Still confident that the side we'll put out on Sunday will win a lot of games in the first half of the year

This thread is stressing me out now!

With the game not until Sunday unless Clayton has a muscle tear or a structural problem with his knee, theres no way he'll miss with a "knock".

Yep, we’ve been getting ahead of ourselves after a couple of good wins since the Daniher era....needs to stop

We haven't even made the 8 for 11 years, finishing on top is a bit far fetched for mine

Tom Morris on 3AW (whoever the heck he is) just said TMac is highly unlikely to play round 1....but doesn’t know the actual nature of his “foot soreness”

The roller coaster begins before the season even starts: in the space of 2 days we've gone from having half the side out to nearly everyone bar Viney available!

I’m none the wiser if he has the start of a stress fracture or not now! Exactly how the club wants it I assume

Are we even sure Tom is definitely missing in round 1 or are we all panicking?