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They don't make facepalms big enough for this call.

Mandatory 12 days minimum with concussion - he cannot be selected for our next game.

I don't think the plan is to definitely drop the games here - exacerbating factors have not helped (injuries to key personnel at both ends of the ground, and both covid and flu going through the group in the leadup). It appears the question is, do you want to run out of gas on the cusp of finals, or have a mid season dip so that you can be fit and flying come Sept?

Well [censored]... in May/June too. 🤔

Particularly because the first half scores for/against are almost the same between the first 10 and recent 3 rounds. Almost as though we're running out of legs, which erodes our skills and pressure. 🤔 My one concern here though is our low pressure rating this year compared to last was low prior to these recent 3 rounds. My feeling in our first 10 rounds was that we were not wrecking ourselves going hell for leather, rather we were doing what needed to be done to get the wins - that may correlate with lower pressure. If this is the case though we'd really want to see it stepping up from here towards Sept.

Problem is our next game is on Thurs 23 June which is 10 days away.

Jeez we are looking exposed. Turner out (concussion; bad luck he looked good esp. early) - May in Rivers in for Bowey perhaps (give Bowey a little freshen up in the 2s)? MBrown out ... but for who? Loathe to throw JVR to the wolves unless he's truly ready, and Weid/MBrown probably offering similarly little currently - F it, bring JVR in. He looks hungry at Casey.

Brayshaw Oliver Petty Jordon Hibbo Viney

That wasn't turning off, that was running out of gas, being worked out tactically, and having no answers.

Don't look within cooee of finding the required 2 goals.

Let's not let Cox have his once-every-two-year blinder.

Of course no in the back to oliver after brown's goal

Good god 16 possessions to Oliver by qtr time. He is something special.

Cracking game early.

Well... first he said that he couldn't perform at his best because there weren't big crowds, then seemed to belatedly clue in to his gaffe of denigrating his own supporter base, at which point he did indeed say it was cold and we were old as a means of extracting his foot from his mouth. Not his finest hour in the media!

Horne-Francis absolutely goneski for a late forearm across the face of a GWS player after a kick. Has to be weeks surely.

Weid marks and kicks truly from 35 out directly in front

Casey up 38 to 2 at qtr time

Casey's 4th goal. JVR doing some nice things up the ground.

True. I just don't think we're quite at break-glass-in-case-of-emergency levels yet re BBB given other personnel issues up fwd (TMac injury, Weid appearing to not meeting what the coaches are wanting from him). We're not privy to what is going on on the training track, and the coaches may also have views on what is going on further up the field as mitigating factors re BBB's recent performances. Personally I am averse to going with a small fwd line, which we've done disastrously occasionally in recent years prior to last year. I'm also not keen on seeing us do things like move a Petty or similar fwd or parachute in our ruck depth in Daw (not sure if he's even available at the moment) as a fwd. This may well change if BBB's numbers don't improve soon - I just don't think a week from the bye that such a change needs to happen.

He's our tallest KPF with performances in the bank. His retention also reflects where things appear to be at re Weideman.

Love how Dons-Blues kayo coverage starts more than half an hour before the game, whereas we're usually lucky for them to cross from another game in time for our opening bounce.

You'd think they could find an MC that understands there's an "n" in the middle of Essendon.

Very well done by Lever to bring some Big Freeze exposure back to the airwaves with that MND - MMD angle. Loved it.

Great work by Goody there. Loved his read between the lines comment. We can, and as far as I am concerned, if the leaker of that story was sharing our GF win celebrations in the rooms last year, they are an absolutely two-faced pathetic nacissistic egomaniacal grub.