dazzledavey36

Won't happen

[censored] hell footy is cruel. Bloke has worked his [censored] off and was so close to tasting success. Poor fella. Hope we can keep on in some capacity.

Are we 100% sure it popped out? Jude Bolton on sideline stated that it was just a stinger and came back on and played the game out.

Hibberd is past it.

We were without Petty, Oliver, Bowey and Melksham.

Maybe I'm on my own, but I don't mind this at all. He's a massive accumulator of the footy so we'd have no issues generating clearences and and getting first hands on the footy. Does this free up the likes of Oliver and Petracca to spend even more time up forward so they're not crashing and bashing their bodies? He comes free without giving up a draft pick up. He's an All Australian midfielder as well so there's certainly class and talent there.

He came back on and played out the game. It was a suspected stinger which will be fine in 11 days time.

Also factoring that he got towelled up badly by Gary [censored] Rohan in his last full game at senior level. There is simply no spot for Hibberd unless there is an injury to one of our small or medium defenders. Goody has made this pretty evidently come team selections.

Absolutely zero chance Bowey is getting dropped.. Actually watch yesterday's game and you'll see that Bowey defended really well and won some critical intercept possessions.

Glad I'm not the only one noticed the significant adjustment to our game yesterday. Good get.

Interesting by Tom Morris here..

Without wanting to get ahead this is probably what excites me. He'll be like a brand new recruit inside our forward 50 and I have already tipped that if he has an injury free year he'll kick over 50 goals next season.

No you're not the only one. His attack on the contest and ability to aggressively spoil his man was impressive. He was also willing to back himself when needed to attack. Few times he got into good positions and nearly took some good intercept grabs. At one stage he was incredibly stiff to not be paid a mark deep in their attacking 50. Him and May were alternating between McLean and Amarty and both kept them to 1 goal between the two. So yes, he did his job well.

Um yes... the knee injury itself.

Excited is an understatement for me. We are in far better shape then last year and was interesting hearing Leigh Montagna on First crack mention something along the lines that we're the only top 4 team for all defensive indicators that are premiership credentials. If someone can correct me on this because I only heard snippets. Beat Collingwood, week off, then hopefully that means we could potentially play Port Adelaide/GWS/St Kilda at the MCG.

Dave (his old man) is one of the great people you could meet. Know his brother Darcy well also who's at Wang Maggie's. Hopefully Jake comes and coach Corowa Rutherglen...

Sheesh.. Kingy just gave us a fair pump up on First Crack.

That's fine, he's still playing his role. That's all he needs to do. Goody has already admitted that Grundy experiment hasn't worked as what they thought it be, but again, that's fine. He'll only play if Gawn has to miss.

But who you are you dropping from our current defensive 6 for Hibbo? It can't be a tall because this is a set up that Goody has decided against since half way through the year which no coincidence that we got a run on with our wins since we started with the 3rd tall defender. Our defensive system is top 3 in most key defensive stats, its right up there in premiership credentials. If Goody likes a system that is working for us he'll rarely change it up or risk putting it out completely out of wack. The only reason Hibbo plays is if we lose Rivers, Salem or Bowey to injury.

Salem had a hard tag on and Bowey played well, not sure what game you were watching.

No, we dont. Rivers, Salem and Bowey can all take care of these two front runners.

This.

They'll give the job to McVee and he'll do a fine job imo.

This absolutely won't happen.