MurDoc516

6. Lever 5. Petracca 4. Rivers 3. Pickett 2. Oliver 1. Hunt

Leave going back to back and Yze goes to god status

By the end of the season we will have played 1 team outside the top 9 teams in the last 12 weeks while being banged up with injuries. This doesn't excuse our losses nor does it garuntee we will suddenly beat everyone in the finals, but keeping those metrics as high as we are with such a difficult run in vs let's say Geelong or Collingwood having much more favourable draws is a reason to have confidence.

Discussion point: our draw this year vs last year from this point of the season. I'm not concerned about missing finals, more so this years draw doesn't lend itself to scenario where some players can gain some needed confidence and fitness against the lesser sides like we did last season. Beating good sides can bring confidence, but last year after we lost to the dogs we got a soft kill against the suns and a road trip to the Eagles which should've been a soft kill but due to conditions it became a bit of slog. This year, we are playing only top 8 or top 4 candidates and with the tightness of the competition all of them are going to be brutal games, which won't help the sore bodies we have.

6 - Pickett 5 - Viney 4 - Hibberd 3 - Rivers 2 - Trac 1 - Spargo

Gawn - must be injured Pickett - best on ground Viney - stepping up big Petracca - good not great Langdon - good spread today Sparrow - won't replace Oliver Jordon - solid game today Fritsch - set shot yips Brown - played 1 quarter Jackson - not fit either Hibberd - great game today Harmes - didn't do enough May - weakest defender today Brayshaw - midfield minutes soon? Spargo - great game overall Melksham - few good efforts Neal-Bullen - tough when needed Tomlinson - justified his selection Salem - hes getting there Rivers - great return game Lever - played well injured Bedford - was invisible today

It's odd, Trac and Viney had good games but our midfield was run over to easily. Rivers and Tomlinson exceptional down back today. Salem solid although i've never seen him kick the ball into the man on the mark before. Brown showed up for 1 quarter, we didn't do anything differently to make him play better he just randomly started clunking marks. Really think we need to run another tall forward, Bedford was nowhere near the ball today. If McDonald is injured surely JVR has a tank to do the running that Brown just can't do.

IN: Oliver, Petty OUT: Melksham, Tomlinson Really wanted Laurie and JVR to get their chance this week and now theres no way they get an inclusion next week due to the bye.

Pick 2 and a future first from the eagles for Jackson and a future first? Assuming eagles finish bottom 4 next years, make Jackson worth slightly more on points than pick 1.

Felt like we lost game when Sparrow missed a basic handball which was probably the wrong option in the end anyway. Something needs to be said for some players in terrible form at the moment on top of missing some key players (or key players playing under done). A few times tonight we kept trying to be unselfish when the right option was to have a ping. Spargo, Harmes, Brayshaw and Gawn all guilty of this.

Keep seeing we were outplayed and outcoached. I'll concede on the outplayed bit but it's easy to look bad when you're down key pillars mid game. Out coached i'm not sure, we pounded Freo before we were essentially forced to play with Lever as the only tall defenders until a compromised Petty came back on the offer some extra height. Fremantle did nothing we didn't see St. Kilda do for example. Freo purposely went very tall to try disrupt our aerial game and we lost T. Mac before the game and May & Petty during the game. The only thing Goodwin should have done was put Gawn down back as a defender but waited way too long and then decided to put Weideman down back. If T. Mac's not fit i'm sure JVR would be a better option then Weid as he has been swingmen in his junior days. Logically, Tomlinson comes in for May next week and we hope Petty is fine. Melksham needs to come out and a bigger body like Harmes needs to come in.

Trent Rivers was good tonight when it mattered.

Mate, that's the AFL's wet dream. It shows Free Agency works. The reality is, we took a risk drafting a WA boy who was doing TV spots with Nic Nat prior to being drafted.

Problem is West Coast won't give up pick 1/2 and a future first because they know they'll be bottom 4 next year.

Brayshaw can think he's a better inside mid than winger but if he goes and plays inside he will just be another one of 100 players. On the Wing he is elite.

We haven't lost in 278 days if i'm doing my maths right. How dare they be factually incorrect about our greatness! My maths is incorrect* still how dare they deny our greatness!

I'll say everybody contributed tonight and we got a comprehensive win because of it. I've been critical of Harmes in the past but his start to this year has been fantastic, well done Harmesy. Weid competed well tonight and i am glad he got his goal. Rivers, Jordon, Sparrow and Hunt had some real good moments when you could excuse them taking a breather and not push that extra yard which is fantastic because we have players on the comeback trail who are as talented and hungry.

Send him to Freo and grab Hayden Young and and a first rounder Send him to Eagles, two first rounder minimum Or ideally keep him

He was perfectly fine?

How the hell is Lever going to return from a tear in 10 days? that'd be super human wouldn't it? everything i see suggest a few weeks at a minimum.

I remember at half time i was sitting there pretty down trying to prepare myself to watch the most important half of football in my life.The dogs were the only team i thought would give us a game and to that point they had. Bont goal sailed over my head and i thought that was the game. Thank god i was wrong!

If it's possible i'd have the same team in from Round 1 but i think it's reasonable to want Hunt in over Hibberd (unless of course Hibberd is in real good form) as you Hunt is younger and offers speed.

38/57 :[

Happy for all the fans that got to attend today, i was blessed to attend live here in Perth and still riding on the high of the win. I hope today on the rewatch those that missed out got to feel something close to what i did. One of the things i'll never forget about this premiership is the reaction i saw from my family, they were as excited as i was when we had won. They've all seen multiple premierships on the TV supporting the Eagles and Hawks, but never had the opportunity to attend a grand final before. They all said it was the best experience going to the footy they've ever had and they were all as emotional as me and all the Dee's fan sitting around me in the cheer squad when we blitzed the doggies.

Didn't Brock McLean donate money to help the club when it was trying to get rid of the debt? As some posters have said here, i doubt there are very few people who have left this club with anger in there hearts that hold it against the club rather the individuals in charge. McLean could rightfully be angry at our management during his years at the club but be happy we've turned ourselves around.