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Trac’s a warrior, I saw that knee jar too but the way he plays he’s probably sore mid week every week….be surprised if it was enough to keep him out

Good opportunity to keep a side out of form down with our stifling defence and grind out another interstate W

Wonderful win, we soaked up their pressure for 3 quarters and then really went to work in the last

No Horne-Francis for them helps us

Never been less worried about a team getting more kicks and marks than us…Hawks just went sideways and backwards the whole match we were never in any danger

Great win considering our injuries and a very annoying opponent…we look much classier with our ball use so far this season

They still had more scoring shots than Essendon despite losing i concur go Dees

Hawks aren’t as terrible as a lot of people think and Mitchell is a smart coach who will do everything to disrupt our game…:that said you’d expect class to win out in the end and us to get home by 25-35 points

Petty for Brown was always going to happen…not sure why ppl are shocked by this, not like Brown was Jeremy Cameron last week

3 talls might work the Hawks backline is pretty bad at the moment

Tall side, hopefully works well on a dry day at the MCG…can see the reasoning Petty is too good to leave stuck in the VFL

Yeah I reckon Tmac struggles with his agility and sideways movement to be effective as a forward these days - backline better option for him now

Playing another team with a poxy backline is helpful for us at this stage of the year trying to bed in that “forward connection”…if we can’t get the best of Frost and Sicily I don’t think we are going too far this season

Petty/JVR/Fritsch/Pickett (changing with ANB in midfield)/McAdam/Chandler is probably our best forward 6 IMO

Yes I agree if he's not ready he shouldn't play, up to the coaches and conditioning staff - but Goodwin did say in last nights presser that everything has been building to get him ready for round 2

My reason is coz Petty is a better player and there isn't room for both of them - no knock on Brown who did his job but he was up against a guy who is inexperienced, 10cm shorter and 15kg lighter....the Petty and JVR combo looked dynamic in the couple of matches we saw it last year so time to keep building that synergy

Petty in for Brown for mine: time to settle our best forward line in, and while Ben was decent he was playing on a flanker. I think JVR+Petty is our best tall forward setup this season

Happy to admit I was wrong about TMac and BBB both were very solid today…most pleasing thing for me was how tough and hard we were, had Bulldogs players jumping out of the way…I thought last week the Swans out hunted us so great to see the “1 wood” back

Lot of belting it blindly into the F50, luckily the Dogs defenders seem to have NFI under the high ball…could go either way though we would want to play a bit better to put a break on them

wont be easy today, not super confident but hoping we are good enough to get over the line....Demons by under 10 points

Never heard this reported at the time…I thought he wanted a fresh start in a non football state?

Hope he gets another one tomorrow!

When is the last time TMac and BBB played a decent game? 2021-2022? We are pinning a lot of hope on the shoulders of a couple of old blokes with broken bodies, hoping for a miracle here!

cmon mate.....we wont lose by more than 7 goals surely

2 not overly inspiring looking teams on paper to be honest…could be a scrappy game