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Glad we're not taking the risk. Season is a marathon, not a race.

Schache? Could get thrown down back if their tall forwards start to get hold off us.

His knee was heavily strapped and was proppy when he ran out into the ground before the bounce of the ball. He was absolutely not 100% fit and simply should not have played.

We made the stupid mistake of rushing Salem for round 1 last year when he looked completely underdone and it cost him his year. Hopefully history won't repeat himself and we give Jack all the time his knee needs to heal.

Saturday night barby and a couple of beers/glass of red.

Yes you were.. and with a sharp footy brain just to pump your tyres up a tad. Reckon I started out around the same time as you many moons back.

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The guy is a [censored]. And that's an opinion well before all that went down last year. Not sure if he wants a thread also..

We smashed North in last year's practice game and won 10 in a row. What's your point?

Yeah fair point Bin. It's definitely not lost in my observation of both games. Certainly yesterday I noticed it more. I think a part of my frustration is that we simple direct and straight footy this gives guys like Brown and Gawn who both have that long arm reach. This plays to their strengths, so let's hopefully sustain it throughout the year with some tweaks in between.

I see Brisbane have provided a full match summary from their VFL game last night. https://www.lions.com.au/news/1278338/lions-vfl-look-the-goods-in-southport-win Meanwhile there's been just crickets from ours regarding yesterday's game..

No, he wasn't.

Really hope Osker Baker lines up on a wing. Watching Langdon and Hunter completely blow him up in the first quarter will be sweet to watch as endurance was never a strength of his.

Watched the replay again this morning just to make sure my observation was still on par with how how I felt watching it yesterday 1. Steven May is on his way to a 3rd All Australian off the back of the last 2 games. He's a giant down back. Looks incredibly fit. 2. Jake Bowey is now a seriously good player and opposition clubs will start putting time into him. He reads the play so well off half back and isn't afraid to drift across and take an intercept mark. He'd best 22, and an important one now. 3. I thought ANB work rate was first class. Liked him playing in the midfield and didn't seem so rushed and hesitant as he has been in the past. His ability to put work his opponents through his sheer running power will come in handy as teams start to run out of gas towards the end of the year. 4. Petty looks fit and significantly bigger in size. Got outmarked towards the end by a no name. But i put that down to Samson probably not being on their list of players to watch whilst reviewing for this week's game. I think he just caught Petty off guard. 5. McVee was surprisingly not overawed by manning one of the greatest players we've seen this decade in Dusty. Kept his composure and thought he halved a few contests well. Coaches would have been wrapped with his performance. 6. The Gawn Grundy combo certainly overawed their rucks and defence. I know I've had my concerns with how this combination would work but fair to say it was a success yesterday. Grundy is still on managed minutes due to his huge lay off from injury while Gawn looked imposing and strong up forward. Grundy has a history of smashing Tim English so will be interesting to see how this goes against the dogs. 7. I thought Laurie was disappointing. Saw nothing that says he's close to being AFL ready. Concerning for me. 8. Ben Brown still worries defenders and that was justified when he was getting all those free kicks. He'll still get the 1st or 2nd best defender which then means this could release Gawn/Grundy to have significant impact up forward. 9. Woewodin came on an made an impact straight away. Did not once look overawed and I have no doubt this puts him right in thr frame for an early senior debut. Showed more in 1 quarter then what Laurie did for the 3. Its potentially exciting that we could have a Woewodin running around on the G again. 10. We looked 2 levels above Richmond and this was without Salem, Fritsch Viney which is genuinely exciting and scary. So pumped for the season ahead if we can stay fit.

Dogs looked good today. Their defence has dramatically improved with the inclusion of Jones.

Mind you Sampson had played 3 quarters in the earlier game.

Richmond website has a full VFL report up already whilst ours provides zero updates throughout the day or a report. Stock standard.

Is JVR, Woey and Laurie confirming to play or did they play the earlier game??

If it happened it would be picked up by cameras and blokes would be getting rubbed out. Simple really.... It doesn't happen because no one is going out there deliberately stomping on other players foot. To think that the club won't release information regarding Bayleys foot because it might instigate opposition players deliberately stepping on his foot is plain laughable. My last comment on this. It's game day mode for me now.

And Howes

Please.. This isn't the 80's. Lots of AFL players play with sore ankles and not once have I seen an incident where a player has deliberately stomped on their foot simply to exploit them.

Yeah nah, that's a cop out. Going off this reckoning that means we just simply dont update an injury list all season? Also, explain how they're able to exploit him from a stomped foot? It's not hard to update fans. Bayley Fritsch - Ankle 2-3 weeks. Easy done. Not sure if you have realised but this is a game of footy? Like there is an element of physicality about this sport? You honestly think the likes of Steven May and Jack Viney at times don't go out there to deliberately hurt blokes? C'mon.. lol

Who knows. MFC website barely ever updates fans on the injury front.

I'm really bullish on Woey. Watched his game closely last week and he was strong playing as an inside midfielder. Got it on the outside a couple of times and used the footy well.

Can someone get over the paywall?