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6. Viney 5. Fritsch 4. May 3. Salem 2. McVee 1. Oliver

Me too! Serious groin awareness exacerbated by the running program he did when he moved over here (he had never done such a hard pre-season in his career).

Yes.

My understanding is that it’s not short term either. May be lucky to play in the first half of the season. Poor fella cannot get a clear run at it.

My understanding is that McAdam’s groins have flared up and he is very unlikely to play early in the season.

The reason the prices are so high for those events is purely to raise money for the club - Coterie is a not for profit organisation. No different to the bloke at Geelong who shells out $30,000 when asked for a new hyperbaric chamber but in return gets to have a beer with Danger and Chris Scott half an hour after each home game to discuss tactics etc.

The players get drafted well before the TV says they are. It’s so they can get the interviews and analysis in.

Won’t be picked. Locked in for a spot on the rookie list.

This is utterly disgusting. The midfield haven’t really got near it for 5 weeks. The defensive intensity is completely non existent. Some soft kills early this season camouflaged a fair few holes. Time for a list refresh and to prioritise a strong inside mid because other than Hanks they’ve all gone backwards this year.

Can’t question the effort. Execution disgraceful. Bottom 6 just aren’t good enough. Was always going to come down to one piece of skill or luck - and they got it.

Having just got back and settled down on the trip home I’ve come to the realisation that today boiled down to two key things: - Failure to take clear goalkicking chances (I can think of at least 6 that were very gettable) - if those go through (particularly the early ones) it’s a different game with more scoreboard pressure. - The absence of a transcendent inside mid who is the best inside mid we’ve had in my lifetime - we have been spoiled with him and Trac’s nearly constant presence in the team over the last 5 years so we come to expect a level of performance around the ball that simply can’t be maintained when either of them are not there. Take Brayshaw (the closest comparison) out of Freo’s team today and we probably win by 3 goals. I’m not convinced Freo’s system was massively better than ours, or that our connection or effort was off - just one of those games (like last week) that could have gone either way. I’m trying to be pragmatic about it but I figure it’s much better to be going at 60-70% now than at 100% now and run out of legs in September. If we get to the bye at 8-5 it’s not a terrible spot to be in all things considered.

Petty to play forward.

I have it on good authority that Travis Johnstone will be presenting Bailey Laurie’s debut guernsey tonight.

Out until Rd 4 at best

He won’t be seen until Round 4 at the earliest.