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If Viney does miss I think they'll go the extra big body in Vandenberg. I would have preferred Jordon, but gut feel in me thinks they'll prefer to freshen Jordon up for finals. Vanders actually played well in both 2018 games in Perth so could be another consideration. It's also meant to be a wet game so again the extra hardened body helps in these conditions. Salem is the obvious out it seems? Hibberd comes straight back in. I'm banking that the club will give McDonald every opportunity until the final minute. If he is ruled out this weekend then it's a coin toss between Melksham and Weideman. Again, it's going to be wet so maybe Melksham gets the nod.

Looks like we are in for a wet one....

Still a chance McDonald gets up. Though I reckon they'll leave it last minute. 5 hour plane trip wouldn't help but if he has a light week on the track and is able to get up then hopefully he doesn't have to miss.

Can you point out other incidents like this from the weekend? Even maybe the last 4 weeks?

It's buddy..

Watching On The Couch and Nick Riewoldt just said it's a dirty act and should be given more then 1 week. Garry Lyon said its certainly not a good look and potentially looking a some time. Earlier on Jason Dunstall also said its not a good look as well.. There's a trend.

Who do you exactly speaking for? Most of the commentary the last two years has been about Viney playing the rugby league style of trying to run through opponents, and instantly get pinged for holding the ball. If he's not doing that he's running through his teammates and having no awareness of his surroundings. Playing on edge is him giving away stupid free kicks by being dumb about it. This is becoming a constant theme for him the past 2 years. There's playing on edge, and there's being silly by not channelling that properly on the field.

Yeah nah I didn't think so. Even after watching the doggies replay, nothing had changed my opinion on that I thought he was still fairly average.

Well I just did.

Hopefully he does get weeks. Gives us a reason not to play him. Purely on form the past few weeks he's been ****house. Get Jordon back in, or if they want to go for the bigger experience body then Vandenberg.

Just stupid really. In a game where it was pretty much a training drill, I for the life of me cannot undertake why he he would do this act. Have a scuffle, yep go for it, stick up for mates etc. I have no issues with it. When you're deliberately putting pressure on someone's neck, it's simply not tough, it's stupis. Jack really does lack the common on field IQ at times. Cop what we need to and move on.

On yesterday's form, it won't for him to miss a couple of weeks.

Kayo

He was always on the flight. Goody Confirmed this yesterday.

Agree wholeheartedly. He was a dead set clear liability alongside Viney. He has this fascination of just immediately tucking the ball under his arm and straight away put the don't argue. I was a fan of getting Harmes back into our team during the year, but I've had enough him. The bloke is more fixated in wanting to become the next Dusty then doing the team things, when realistically he's a plodder. I'd much rather guys like Jordon or Vandenberg.

I think he worded that tweet wrong. Had he mentioned that it was from the state government funding, plus the extra funding from the pokies sales then yes it would make sense.

Is it no coincidence that as soon as Bartlett leaves we've made signsignificant inroads regarding this? I believe Roffey had a strong relationship with the state government around this whereas Bartlett didn't? Roffey and Pert may just be bigger recruits then what Roos and Jackson were. Significant milestone in our club history ??

Some significant development. Can someone give summary, it's paywall.

No he won't.

If it's in Geelong I say bring it. Not like we play the MCG all that well as of late..

They won't drop Viney. Goody and the coaches love him too much. The only changes that'll happen are the forced ones like McDonald or Salem if they don't pull up well.

Yes that tackle was bloody brilliant huh.. I think he has to enter All Australian talk. He won't get it, but surely he's numbers stack up with some of the best small forwards in the game?

A good win and one to take some really good positives out of it. It was a bit of a training drill and honestly dont mind that we dropped off a little. Still had 7 shots at goal, so not like we just didn't put scoreboard pressure. I'll start with the negatives: Harmes and Viney were simply horrible ( am I allowed to say that @Baghdad Bob? ) the amount of times these two got the ball, tucked it under their arm, put a don't argue and then get pinged. It was absolutely infuriating! I thought maybe after a serious bake at half time that maybe they'll cut the crap out. But they didn't, they kept doing it. It's selfish, and makes them both look like absolute muppets. Does Harmes honestly think he's Dusty Martin? The coaches need to hit these two between the eye because it's simply going to cost us finals and the up and coming big games that are coming up. I would love the club to send a statement and drop one of them if not both, but we know it won't happen. The other negative is that at times we played a bit too much Hollywood. Cute little flick no look handballs over the top etc. Sparrow and Harmes were the main suspects. It's a minor thing that can be cleaned up. Another game where we kicked more points then goals. Guys like Viney, Harmes, McDonald, Petracca all missed simple goals that were in front. How on earth can this be rectified? They do enough goal kicking at training, but it's getting beyond the joke now. Positives Forward pressure and tackling inside 50 was immense. It was evident, and probably the best I've seen it all year. If we could please bring that every week then there's no doubt we can go all the way. I hope this is the confidence boosting game that Brown needed. His workmate was fantastic and there was glimpse of the Ben Broen we've come to applaud from his days at North when he was at his absolute elite. He was on a good defender in Sam Collins who I rate highly. As much as I was hard on Jackson throughout the week, it was a great game to return to form and give him some much needed confidence. It still doesn't change my opinion that heading into finals I'm not entirely sure if he's in our best team. I'm taking into consideration of the low quality of opposition out there, but I suppose you can only play who you are matched up against. Thought Jayden Hunt played another good game. Really loving the dash he is providing and since the GWS game he's really simplified his game. Harrison Petty doesn't get much acknowledgement, but his defending today was elite. Just well times spoils and his closing speed is something that's not really mentioned much. Just a great general defender who now looks comfortable at this level. Oliver was crazy good. The fact that we were still showing enormous pressure in the dying minutes of the game shows we were still not satisfied with our work. Huge few weeks coming up.

Has officially kicked 30 goals this year. For a 20 year old 2nd year player this is seriously underrated, and a phenomenal achievement for a small forward. Has really found his mojo again since the Port game.