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I would definitely like a little more rotation next season. Was discussing the loss of Burgo with a pal on the weekend, it's obviously a loss as the man is talented but a little difficult to judge hard much much due to some factors including player injuries/playing cooked players. I understand the rationale was to keep sore players playing, but did we just have too many banged up players in 2022? Then again were they extra banged up cos no Burgo or just bad luck?

Obviously a lot of doom and gloom on the forum which I can understand as the season didn't hit all the 'Pass Marks'. Just trying to isolate that to those threads and have at least one thread of positives such as Another great year for Clarrie Continued improvement of Harry Petty Another AA year for May Another solid year of goals for Fritsch/Pickett Form/Development of certain players at Casey, yes a little disappointing we didn't see more debuts in 2022 but imagine a few will be putting their hands up during 2023 pre-season Off the field we had contract extensions for Oliver and Brayshaw, broke our membership record, renewed some sponsorships

Sounds like something Zorko would post....suspicious

Will happily yell at the football and sit down during a Mexican wave.

Rough luck with the Old Firm game. Already seen lots of people complaining about premier league games being cancelled but still having to go to work aha.

the $5 booking thing is a scam i tells ya! Jokes aside, would love an 80 inch C1.

GOOD! The only issue is this week Brisbane have no Big O so hopefully he isn't tempted to do it again

Re; Spargo - Do you play him if he can't adequately communicate?

Hopefully we don't cop too many of those 15 Thursday Night games. * from an attending POV, know it is good for the sponsors etc

Didn't get out of work until close to 7 last Friday, that certainly didn't help my Gee'd upness aha.

How easy is it to target the fibula though? If the club are happy letting him play soccer (lots of shin on shin impact) with no shinpads then they must not be too worried about it.

Prelim being a pass about right, especially given how equal the comp is this year/the fact we have a horrible record against the top 4 and had some forward-line issues at stages this season. That being said, anything can happen in finals footy, need everyone to stand up and we can still cause some damage. Either way 2023 will be exciting - have some time to rectify some forward line issues (fit again TMAC, young JvR debuting, maybe another forward brought in) and we should be ready go give it another shot.

Not sure if this has been posted but Gary Ayres Award (Best Finals Player) voting from the Game 10 - Steven May 8 - Luke Parker 3 - James Rowbotton 3- Jake Lloyd 3- Clayton Oliver 3- Callum Mills

a jigsaw puzzle completed by having all the right pieces (at the time). Sliding doors we'll never know but can't begrudge any move that helped us break the drought.

Oh totally, understand a player will do/say what he can to play a final, weigh up risk vs reward. I'm no medical practitioner but from what i've heard seeing its a non-weight bearing bone it should be ok for him to play (Pending recovery from other issues and assessment of pain) But i am sure there are other medical opinions that may differ, so who knows aha

At least the debate over Petracca will stop/delay the media from re-igniting Zorko-gate. If the medical staff are happy with Trac playing - then so am i. Melk played well towards the end of the season, but think he may have run out of credits in the bank. Really uncertain who they'll bring in though.

Yeh I got seats level 1 in row CC. Found it interesting for Melb v Brisbane you could buy 2 Visitor tickets but for Collingwood vs Freo you could buy 4. I know there are less Freo fans about but would have thought the number of Collingwood fans would have equalized that out a bit

Ebay/facebook market place your best bet for original stuff. I have a friend who buys retro stuff online and then flips at higher price. He told me the price of Melbourne stuff has jumped quite a bit since we started 2021 off well.

So we missed out on Phillips and he's being delisted and now the hawks are bringing in Amon who we also missed out on. Wonder if this trend will continue

The Gerrard v Lampard debate continues in another form. Both will be lucky to see out the season. Although Everton have made some reasonable signings since the start of the season (Onana, Coady, Garner, Gueye, Maupay) so we'll see what happens with Frank

Absolutely rotten luck for JJ.

On further reflection, extremely harsh given he was 1-3 in the league with losses against Arsenal, Man City, LFC. Viscous game, especially when Gerrard/Lampard are stinking out their posts too.

Scott Parker sacked, given they were one of the favorites to go down it's a little knee-jerk but need to react after a 9-0 loss I guess.

Depends what how some of the other lads are trending. If we're carrying a lot of sore players bringing in an undercooked player a bigger risk. Wouldn't bring him in this week.

Big dirtbag behavior