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Spot on Joeboy however I would have put in for Tomlinson - "Did his job". Was at ground and his defensive positioning was good blocking paths where the Pies wanted to go. Plenty of defensive punches in the packs.

Agree. Kozzie had one of those "could have" games. Was buzzing around and came close to doing some great things but just didn't work for him. Only change for me is as above unless Max gets up.

He came off in front of us and it appeared to me as a cramp. Laid on ground and got his legs worked on. No surprise seeing he has hardly had any sort of game of past months. Hope it was only a cramp. Seeing live again what impressed so much was our gut running up and down ground including Oliver, Viney and Brayshaw but the best one was Langdon. He just ran and ran up and down the same wing all night. Very impressive. We seem to be as fit as any team. Going along very nicely at present.

Huge game and sun is beating down. We can do this as long as the big fella in Pruess competes

Will do and have 13 family members going with me all to yell for Dees. Cost me a fortune. Maybe kids will offer to pay but doubt it.

Going to game however whilst maybe a few showers during day expected to clear around 4 pm. Gabba surface will be fine by first bounce.

Got 6 in section 63 basically on wing but on top tier at UU. Still a good position. Got Daughter's family down from Nth Qld and needed 13 all up and 2 sons managed to get 2 each ( no more 4/6 left) so getting there. Funny that the email from club had link straight to Tickemaster with no need to have a reference/membership number so up against all the General Admission people. With Lions game we had first go then Lions members then GA. Things change daily. Been a long time since seeing us play Pies. Last time took my eldest son who is now in 40's to Vic Park when he was about 10 !! Reckon we will have a good chance of winning this one.

Not yet as the next round starts this Saturday, late afternoon, finishes next Wednesday then round 12 starts next Thursday. Suspect teams will be out the day before for next 2 rounds at least.

Got to agree here. He needs more game time to get up to speed of the game remembering he has missed allot of footy. That aside he needs to impact more with his defensive side. No more one handed tackles please.

You forgot Bennell!!!

We JUST have to win this. Surely the Mids can finally get it right and win plenty of the pill and actually deliver it tonight. They basically have M. Crouch and Smith as the only decent mids. If our guys stuff up in the midfield tonight LOOK OUT

At least Brayshaw gets in there and has a go where Hannan prefers to play 10 rows back in the stands.

Tomlinson has to come in. Surely someone that made it into GWS GF side can make it into our mob.

Spirit, tad hard on the Weid . My son was at the game last night and mentioned this morning Weid was making good positions leading well and we NEVER looked for him.

Lets play the kids even if they can't play that well. Need to look to next year and get games into these youngsters. The kids from Port killed us plus Boak. No use playing the same blokes that keep on doing the same pathetic things. I'd rather us lose with at least kids having a go.

Other than May, Max, Hibberd, Jack and Trac and a special mention to Lockhart you can take your pick on who you want dropped but Fritter, Hannan, Picket, Jackson and TMac can all go . Basically that's our forward line and Weeds also. They all as far as I'm concerned should be playing netball and still would't even get the round ball. Most of this team are soft co..s. Jones is also finished. Sick and tired of these blokes jogging around by themselves with no attempt to assist. Make a statement MFC or your doomed to remain as could have beens.

I don't want to be a pain and bore you Dee supporters but as you can see from my initial post and your support on this I'm pee'd off and will not let it go as I am now convinced the AFL/Gabba are playing with us and being very disrespectful to the MFC. Not convinced at all I will get tickets for even the Magpies game. Following is a email I sent to my local Qld Govt member who also happens to be the Sports Minister in Mick De Brenni and I CC'd in the ABC, Fox, AFL & MFC Quote "I’m in your electorate at Shailer Park and need to inform you of what I believe to be a ridiculous situation with the AFL game on Thursday night between Melbourne and Port Adelaide at the Gabba. I am a Melbourne Demons Qld member and enquired to the club about purchasing tickets for my 2 sons and 2 Grandsons to attend however was told that only 250 tickets each for both Melbourne and Port Adelaide are allocated for this game and that I would not be able to attend. You are the elected member for Springwood and also Sports Minister and your government led by the Premier are very good at getting in the media and telling all what a great job you are doing in getting AFL to Qld in these difficult times even sprouting to hold the Grand Final here. In addition you want to get people in jobs and improve the economy however come Thursday night only 500 people can attend. A friend of mine who is a Gabba Trust member informed me that the Gabba members area is also closed on Thursday night. I have been reliably told that this is due to cost factors alone as the Gabba or AFL or both do not want the added cost to EMPLOY extra people to supply security, food/drink venues etc. I would have thought that allowing 2-5k people in and paying a few more workers would be a better sight for the Government and AFL than only about 500 hidden up in the rafters at the Gabba. This is not a good look for your Government, Gabba or the AFL as I believe those Melbourne and Port Adelaide members and supporters plus avid AFL supporters in Brisbane, which are many would attend this game. Finally as a Melbourne member normally each year all I can get to see up here is when we play Lions or Suns and now in 2020 due to the fact that most of the games are being played up here because of the Virus issues down south we all were excited to pay our money and watch them play other teams only to be told it will not be the case. I need to let you know of this and no doubt you will do nothing or pass the buck!! It’s a real shame that we are unable to watch LIVE this game on Thursday. As you can see I have CC’d in the ABC , my club and Fox Sports for their information. Trust you will take this on." Unquote. Sorry for continuing on this but if Pert etc. at the club do nothing at least I can try. Why can't we see our team play live up here in Brisbane when the Govt. is allowing 50% capacity NOT 500!!

Mate of mine is a Carlton supporter and also a Gabba Trust member and went Saturday using his Trust tickets and said there were a few thousand there, mainly Carlton supporters as North have limited number up here. This is what I don't get. You can have a few thousand at a Carlton/North game but 500 only for Melb/Port. In any case it is not the fault of the club ( but should not stop them lobbying the AFL) as this mate tried to get me into the Trust on Thursday and he got replied it is all closed so Gabba members are also not allowed.It has to be the AFL and/or Gabba as Govt. also have said you can have 50% capacity at games.

That's where the club needs to be proactive and lobby the AFL to allow at least 1k then just maybe the Brisbane members of both clubs may get in. In any case I think it's poor form. Back in 80's used to take my son to most games in Melb and now want to take kids and grand kids along. Pay membership to basically only see Lions/Suns games and like 2 years ago we did not play up here. This is a great chance to see us play Port, North and Magpies live and who ever after that

I'm a Qld member and went to the Lions game on Coast using my free interstate ticket. Enquired via email to the club today on whether i could buy a ticket for Thursday's game and received the following response. Quote."There is going to be only a small allocation of tickets for this week’s game, so we are prioritizing members who haven’t yet used their free ticket allocation. There is a ballot running at the moment. If there are tickets left after this we will email members on Wednesday to be able to purchase. There is a chance there won’t be enough left though.". Unquote. This is an absolute joke. Believe it is a MFC home game and can't even buy a ticket. MFC & Port members here in Brisbane would be lucky to get to 500 total. Have not even been asked or informed how to enter the ballot. This is either a Gabba or AFL directive to keep the crowd to a bare number to save costs however our club just rolls over and takes it up where you know where. They should be asking for enough seats to satisfy us members up here. Want to see games up here other than against Lions or Suns and this is what you get served with. Will be thinking hard on renewing membership next year for myself and twin Grandsons.

Also I believe pendles out or 4 weeks so beat Port Thursday and we have a great chance to win the next 3 in Adel, Nth & Maggies. For me I want Tom Mac and Tomlinson in for possibly Jetta to be rested after his knocks and Bennell. Go big in forwards with Kozie, Fritta and Hannan to say down and at bottom of packs, not in them.

Handy

Yes we still panic to much. Umpiring may have been poor but we received more frees than Lions

Have to agree. Also I was at game and he made some good positions when we had ball and our guys would not kick to him. Strange.

I was at the ground and we seemed to panic to many times and returned to all in and no one on outside. On a few occasions even Kossie was sucked into the contest even in pack marking in lieu of staying on outside and getting a loose ball. Many times the ball spilled out and only Brisbane players were there. Must correct this if we are to have a run at the finals. And whilst I think Bennell can be a good player for us his efforts out there tonight were shocking. Watched him closely a few times and never pushed hard to assist his mates. Just a lack of effort. Harmes and Brayshaw need to find some good form soon also.