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Is Goldrick back training yet? Must have been a bad hamstring tear to keep her out this long. Do you mind keeping us up to date on her progress? Niamh Hetherington looks a player. Her power and physicality would translate well to the AFLW

Reality is OD we have no idea of the long term effects of any of these vaccines. People have to weight up the risk for themselves but everyone needs to understand that we can't keep our borders closed indefinitely. When we open our borders covid will return for sure Do people want to be unvaccinated and risk a bad illness, long covid symptoms and other complications or risk the vaccine. I've made my mind up in favor of the vaccine. Yes there are risks but its better than long covid an overseas family member of mine is struggling through. He caught Covid from his wife about 6 months ago, a health worker. Very fatigued he has been unable to work since He has 3 young kids as well. 40 years of age so not old at all.

Covid is now endemic in the global population. Our only hope is to vaccinate, achieve herd immunity open our borders and get on with our lives. I've been upset with the Vic govt over hotel quarantine and the Feds for the vaccine non roll-out but the reality is, thus far, we've done very well by international standards. It's been a weird year and unprecedented circumstances so i'm going to cut them some slack. Best thing we can all do is encourage people to do the right thing and get vaccinated.

Credit to Geelong, they are well coached and know how to win. They're a threat but i believe our defence and system trumps they're firepower Put a line through Port as a contender. Defense no where near good enough

Surely Port will have the legs to run over Geelong and particularly as the cats had to fly in today

We're better than Port and better than Geelong. Our defense will strangle both no dramas

Dad's Army in trouble here

Conor Rozee is a serious player

BB missed most of last year through injury, a chunk of this pre-season and now isn't getting games in VFL due to Covid. I'm not too optimistic about his chance of making an impact for us this year unfortunately.

I'm looking forward to a Thursday night game. My preference is for Port to throttle Geelong

The 4 options are fair but I think it's the other 50 or so (last count) genders that people wonder about. It seems people what to define themselves in very specific terms, to stand out from the crowd. Smacks of narcissium if you ask me. And btw. I wholeheartly believe people should be allowed to live their lives as they see fit as long they aren't harming anyone else. I have no problem people defining themselves as whatever gender they like. I do have a problem with people trying to challenge well defined and understood biological sexes to fit an ideology. I draw the line there.

Newer variants are becoming more transmissable in children which is what you would expect evolution to do. It'll figure out how to the transmit outside soon enough too.

I'd like to see a Hawthron crisis as well. Perhaps one of carlton or Collingwood poach Mitchell? The Hawks fanatics would lose their minds. that would be hilarious to watch.

i was at the game and through the very same. I remember he soccered a goal from about 35 meters out that was as good a goal as you'd ever see. They have gone in completely different directions from a development perspective since. There's still hope for De Goey. In the right environment (and drop a few kgs, get properly fit) he can still be a very good player.

Maybe Buckley is doing us a favor. Could result in more pies fans turning up in sydney thereby improving our take?

The extra burden which comes with honoring someone typically leads to poorer not better performance. See St Kilda v Melb rd 2, Spuds game. It's a good development in terms of ensuring our boys aren't complacent about the game. Still reckon we win. Remember there's a good reason why Buckley has been forced out.

I’m not sure we are going to see the best of the Weid or BB this year. They both missed a chunk of preseason and with the VFL in stop start mode it’s going to be very difficult for either to hit their straps. I hope the Weid starts clunking more marks but more likely he’ll continue contesting and bringing the ball to ground and kicking his 1 goal a game. BB has played 6 games (I think) across VFL and AFL. He missed preseason after an injury hit 2020. It’s no basis to develop a foundation to contribute to a flag chasing team. Maybe I’m being pessimistic but I don’t think either will hit the heights in 2021

The game that still makes me angry was round 23 2017. Collingwood had nothing to play for except ruin our chance to play finals and they did exactly that. Our worst H&A defeat in my 15 years following the team given the context and manner of our performance. I'm surprised the pies fans don't mention it more often. If roles were reversed and we denied them finals in the same way we would never let them forget about it. We've come a long way since then thankfully. It wouldn't happen today and won't happen on QB. I expect a regulation 5 goal win.

Here we go. another freedom of speech thread.

Defensive efforts from the players is disgraceful. They need to take a look at themselves. Ross Lyon will sort them out and if Carlton are able to bring him on board then they should. No disrespect to Teague but Lyon is a far better coach

Best he leads to left of the screen if that's the case

Her 2020 form was very good. She's also young so no reason to believe her knee won't fully recover. We have a strong list. If we can integrate Tayla we'll be a match for anyone. Injuries and luck permitting we should go very close in 2022

Ed Langdon should be included. Best player by far in his position this year

Attracting Tayla Harris, the biggest name in the game, and young Purcell, a b&f winner from Geelong, demonstrates we are a destination club. The team is in great shape and as long as we keep Daisy around to ensure the culture is preserved we can create sustainable success well into the future. I'm delighted with where our club is at, both the mens and womens teams.

You are a good poster Kev. I read all your content. People are free to tell you to sit down and you are free to tell them to get stuffed, which you have done. I have a simple rule. Don’t take things personally. End of the day we’re all just a bunch of randoms talking chit about our team and inflicting half baked opinions on the world. Let's get back to talking nonsense about the footy.