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Petty is best 22. If he’s fit, he plays. Tough on Tomlinson but it’s great to have him as cover and know he can do a job for us and be relied upon if needed. We know what Tomlinson can do for us. Smith is 2 games into a stint as a forward. The experiment needs more time to see if a viable longer-term solution for us. I’m in favor of keeping him in for this reason. I’m a huge fan of Spargo but his form is well down this year. Hopefully a spell at Casey will help him rebuild his form and confidence. An in form Spargo would be great to have in the latter part of the season and finals. A lot of questioning of the selection committee in this thread. I can’t think of too many calls they’ve got wrong this season. There was a lot of calls for Salem to come back through the VFL but he has hardly missed a beat since returning. Like Salem I think Petty much more likely to find form quicker in the firsts than at Casey. I thoroughly dislike the cats and really resent getting sent to their sh*tpile of a stadium and ground every year. I hope we smash ‘em.

If the Suns had any supporters they'd be very disappointed right now.

Suns have reverted to their flaky unreliable selves.

Suns forward play is plain dumb.

I'm going to ignore the permutations and barrack for a Carlton loss. Because it's Carlton and it's the right thing to do.

I didn't predict a 5-10 finish.

You’ve figured out how to use spell checker which is great cos now your posts are legible. Now you just need to read others posts properly. Read what I wrote and have another go at responding.

We do like to wallow. it might help people overcome the close/unlucky losses if they also acknowledged the close/lucky wins. The suns should have beaten us so for me the freo game balanced the ledger. Port and pies have been more consistent so far this season. They deserve to be top 2. We’re leading the chasing pack which, on balance is exactly where we deserve to be. In terms of picks there isn’t that much difference between 5-10 which is the range we’ll end up with. JT will do his thing and find a quality player for us.

Suns have improved a lot this season. I expect them to beat Carlton today and have a good crack at getting into the 8. Would be great to see them make finals (I've lambasted them for a long time, but they are finally showing some ticker). Would be magnificent if they made finals at the expense of Essendon.

Freo caught us on a bad day. everything went right for them, and we were rubbish. Days like that can happen during the season. They are trending downwards and we're pushing top 2 so I suggest we all move on from that defeat.

All Giants this quarter. Freo very poor

Toby Greene is a gun

huge 50 on the stroke of quarter time. Great start Giants. death ride going full throttle.

Fox just brough up Toby Bedford's stats for the year so far. Not shabby at all

He saved 2 people from drowning in Torquay a couple of summers ago. I can’t rag on him since then (he does love himself though)

Lions have taken control. Swans need to stem the bleeding quickly otherwise this game is over.

Nice gift to the Swans. They needed that.

umps have inserted themselves into proceedings. harsh insufficient intent call leads to the goal

very soft 50 there

Pies look tired. They could easily drop some games and give us the chance to overtake them. Crows, suns and doggies in their next 3. Not an easy run at all.

We just posted simultaneously Wells I agree. They are a better team than 21. Time will tell if they can push through to the granny but they are very well placed now. I can't see anyone out of us, pies, Port and Lions winning it. And the Lions are showing some familiar frailties again. as i said in my previous post, i think we have the game plan to win at AO if required.

We have the defensive game to win at AO if required. I reckon we're the team others will fear most given how we strangled the pies offensive game. No one will want to play us. And i'm delighted the cast were beaten. they were not a factor at all after quarter time.

They choked badly against the doggies in the 21 PF so they have psychological scars to overcome. No guarantee they’ll make it but I think they will.

The cliff is looming for the cats. Finally

Cats look sharp early.