Gawndy the Great

2015 draft. Makes you wonder Also a benchmark to compare.

I agree, it’s stuff you’d bait a 10 year old with. Plus he said it was some banter so seems like a bit of an overreaction unless they were both blind drunk.

I think something like this will happen regardless of the result next week. Reality is we all thought the team were in 1st gear / 2nd gear for the start of the season and expected them to step it up when the challengers came. But, they've engaged the clutch and stalled the call.

WAtch him pull a hammy in Q1 against the Lions

I highly doubt he’ll be around next season . Unfortunately Still has a slim chance to turn things around in the VFL to earn some currency.

I’d like to see a free kick goal ladder. We seem to hardly get one going our way and at times multiple against. I find it absolutely bewildering the media doesn’t focus on these but yet chooses to focus on Givemeone and the Calls against the Pies in a non event. I was adamant that this time we’d finally get some acknowledgment Watch the Pies get a bucketload of frees this week for complaining to the umps.

I wouldn’t personally but it’s entertainment and people want to see a good game.

I was just going to write this and thought I’d get sniped. You brave ! But it’s true. Slow and predictable might be the proven way to go but it’s also frustrating and boring. It’s still more COVID and flu given the older demographic of our supporter base it actually does make sense.

Petty stays - he is the next May and stalwart of our defence for the decade to come. Gawn has to play 60% forward and let LJ play against the Pies 2nd fiddle.

Assumption or you have it on good authority. Not trying to be facetious because your confidence on the matter suggests the later and would give me a little calmness that i am in dire need of.

Every team we have played this season bar a handful are putting on incredible performances. Teams want to play well against the reigning premiers. Sydney's game was very impressive and probably one of their best performances for a number of years. I hate the old cliche that premierships aren't won in June, because last i checked, you still need to win games to make the finals. The talk of Melbourne easily running the table and all that jazz hopefully didnt get to the boys heads and that the whole 'philosophy of 'respect every team' is actually believed. It is expected that being premiers will warrant this level of opposition intensity and attention and that is why going back-to-back is never easy and is only done by truly great teams. The Melbourne of last year would have bounced back from the Freo loss (which tbh was probably more a matter of luck given Trac's illness and losing May). The boy's do look flat, which suggests mental/physical tiredness, illness throughout the club, or the 2022 MFC fashionable term 'loading'. We have also had a bigger struggle with injury this year, loosing Salem, Lever, Smith, TMac, Petty, Hibbo and then the COVID impact so continuity and connection isnt as good as it could be. Big game against the Pies - lose this with the Lions next could start to seed a bit of doubt throughout the team.

In : May, Hibbo, Bedford Out : Hunt, Sparrow, BBB Petty May Lever Bowey Tommo Salem Brayshaw Viney Langdon Trac Oliver Dogga Fritta, Gawn (FF) , Kozzy Bedford, M Brown, Spargs Bench: JJ, ANB, Hibbo, Harmes I think Tommo would match up well on Cox so stays in the side IMO. May can take on Miochek and Petty can take The 3rd tall if he’s fit to play . This will free up Lever to play the loose / interceptor. If Petty goes out, Hunt stays in. Bowey on Ginoven and Salem can play a higher HB with Hibbo coming in. Hunt comes out and Brayshaw moves to the wing . Forward line is anyones guess but Weid and BBB not up for it atm.

One of Bowey, Salem or Brayshaw would be well served in the HF I think. But they were all kicking terrible last night.

Newcombe has to be the favourite for the rising star. He is going to be a great player.

A statless act is competing and bringing the ball to ground. BBB at least does that whereas Weid is pushed under for an oppo mark or spoiled over the line. Moore will brutalise him if he even plays on him. My guess (if he plays) is Weid will take the 2nd tall and still be outplayed. I don’t hate the guy but I’m no longer blinded through my Demon goggles. I had high hopes for this kid but im a realist and cannot see where and how he is going to change in 1 month if he hasn’t changed in 4 years. Not sure where you are getting your faith from Nev but I am no longer drinking that Weid coolaid.

I agree - people have such short memories. If Weid comes in for BBB, Moore will just play off him and rebound most of our F50 entries

It’s not cheap to get scans done so they probably went on the assumption that it was a small tweak and when it continued to get worse after training they did the scans.

It could also be career ending. Hard road back for TMac. This injury is no joke.

That is not good. Full recovery can take up to a year based on WebMD. He may struggle to get back before next pre-season. But given he was named - probably means he trained to some extent so hopefully on the minor end🤞

And we all know that hit outs mean f all. I think we have to try and expose the lack of talls in pies D50 and Maxy at FF will take Moore. It does come at a cost though - Howe will take MOTY on him.

I think we give Mitch another 2 games and let him build up form. We move Gawn or Dogga to the F50 permanently as a replacement for Ben Brown who needs to find form in Magoos and maybe use that to build some synergy with Weid. We can then either use Tommo or Daw to give Max the chop out. If Sam can play a good month of footy in the 2s, then and only then you give him another consideration.

Normally I would agree, but we have seen time and time again, his VFL form doesn’t mean much in terms of AFL. We just can’t keep doing the same thing in terms of dropping Ben for Sam and vice versa. It hasn’t worked for 2 years. There are numerous other options to try if we drop BBB.

If Sam had given us something, a glimmer in the last month, then I’d have him in for sure. But I can’t remember the last good game he has played in the seniors. Even the players don’t kick to him anymore. We just have to move on from him unless he has a drastic turnaround in the 2s (20-25 goals in the next month type of form), which honestly will be nothing short of a miracle.

He’d straighten us up big time but [censored] he is a [censored]

Weid has been give so many opportunities but he just doesn’t have it in him. BBB was poor again, yes, but he is still a more reliable forward than Sam. We either bring in Daw and have Gawn play forward permanently or leave in BBB. Howe and Moore will have a field day next week.