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Final team: MELBOURNE v ADELAIDE Melbourne B: Matthew Warnock, James Frawley, Jamie Bennell HB: James McDonald, Joel Macdonald, Lynden Dunn C: Rohan Bail, Jackson Trengove, Aaron Davey HF: Brad Green, Colin Sylvia, Cameron Bruce F: Tom Scully, Ricky Petterd, Clint Bartram Foll: Mark Jamar, Jack Grimes, Brent Moloney I/C: Matthew Bate, Jordie McKenzie, Nathan Jones, Michael Newton Emg: Jake Spencer, Colin Garland, Kyle Cheney In: Sylvia Out: James Strauss

I'm an economics student, and in economics we like to make assumptions. So... Assume we play for the remaining 20 weeks with the exact same intensity, skill and pressure that we displayed in Round 2. Assume that our pressure was the reason for Collingwood performing badly. Put those two assumptions together, and we'll win enough games to make the top 8. Heck, maybe even top 4. Problem is neither of them will come to fruition. We won't play every week like we did last week. That's how it should be, but we're at least 12 months away from that level of consistency. And it wasn't totally us that made Collingwood play badly. Which therefore means that if we play like that against teams playing at 100% we won't get as close. So top 4 is ludicrous. Top 8 is fanciful. Top 12 is possible. Top 16 is...

What are the odds: Forecast for Sunday Cloudy. Showers, more frequent over southern and eastern suburbs and the chance of thunderstorms. Winds northwesterly averaging up to 35 km/h tending west to northwesterly up to 50 km/h around dawn. CityShowers. Windy. Min15 Max19 After 4 consecutive months where the maximum temperatures have been at least 20 degrees, what are the odds that the first day to dip below 20 will be when Melbourne plays an interstate club?

Demons hold fire on Sylvia decision Apparently Sylvia's no certainty.

Done that. I don't think everyone will want to do that, though. Agree. Not that I know anything about this kind of thing, so I have no idea how time-consuming/difficult it would be to fix. But there must be some way to fix it.

Really? Have to say that surprised me. But it doesn't include shots that don't even score, like the ones that don't make the distance. There have been a few of those. Of course, some of the helicopter kicks from Petterd end up being goals, so that doesn't show up either.

True. The other three are more pertinent as people always question them.

Of course, the idiot buffoon near me was complaining about both MacDonald not kicking straight away, and the umpire calling time off.

Ooh yeh, I remember seeing that from MCC level 2. That was pretty rank.

They played it brilliantly the last time they played us, didn't they? And the last time they played there, against Collingwood, they had a fantastic second half, didn't they? Just kidding around. They'll beat us, but I'm not convinced they like the MCG much.

Adelaide: B: Michael Doughty, Ben Rutten, Jared Petrenko HB: Simon Goodwin, Nathan Bock, Richard Douglas C: Tyson Edwards, Bernie Vince, David Mackay HF: Jason Porplyzia, Taylor Walker, Patrick Dangerfield F: Andrew McLeod, Kurt Tippett, Trent Hentschel Foll: Ivan Maric, Scott Thompson, Brent Reilly I/C (from): Myke Cook, Chris Knights, Brett Burton, Scott Stevens, Shaun McKernan, Tony Armstrong, Chris Schmidt In: Knights, McKernan, Armstrong, Stevens, Schmidt Out: James Sellar (hamstring), Will Young New: Chris Schmidt (Brisbane Lions) They get Knights back.

Bench will likely be: McKenzie Jones Newton Bate/Garland Can't see Garland playing over Newton as we'd lose a ruck, and I'd rather not see Spencer take his spot. I could, however, see Garland take Bate's spot. Edit: Bartram very lucky. Rewarded for his work on Davis I guess. And Cheney must be very close to selection as we've dropped Strauss. But probably won't make it.

MELBOURNE v ADELAIDE Melbourne B: Matthew Warnock, James Frawley, Jamie Bennell HB: James McDonald, Joel Macdonald, Lynden Dunn C: Rohan Bail, Jackson Trengove, Aaron Davey HF: Brad Green, Colin Sylvia, Cameron Bruce F: Tom Scully, Ricky Petterd, Clint Bartram Foll: Mark Jamar, Jack Grimes, Brent Moloney I/C (from): Colin Garland, Jordie McKenzie, Nathan Jones, Matthew Bate, Kyle Cheney, Jake Spencer, Michael Newton In: Garland, Sylvia, Spencer, Cheney Out: James Strauss Is this team one short? There are only 6 on the bench. Sylvia comes in for Strauss (unlucky), then we add 3 to the bench, so we're one short. Edit: afl.com.au missed Newton on the bench.

Didn't know Jetta and Wonaeamirri were so close to fully fit. A couple of games at Casey and who knows? Also didn't know that Garland is as close as he is. Sounds like if not this week, then next week.

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See the Pick Me thread...

Yeah this is the 'special announcement' in the other thread. 2 people going to get to run through the banner at Round 5 vs Brisbane. Wearing their own guernseys. Nice way to drum up interest in the club.

Yes I watch Survivor. Massive fan. Love it. As for Ricky vs Stephen: Don't see it myself.

Yep, in the paper today it says that Malthouse didn't give any Pies players votes. So this would be very close to the actual.

Wow... ... Wow...

Sylvia will play if fit. But other than that I'd leave the team as is.

No it's not. Saying 35-40 means exactly that. Could be 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 or 40. There's not much difference between them anyway.

Read the whole thread. He retracted those comments.

McNamara? Maybe too old.

True. Sylvia comes in if fit. Someone makes way. Probably Bartram. That's it. Reward the improvement. Bailey keeps talking about getting the youngsters to play games together. I can't see why he'd drop 3 or 4 players after such a good performance.