Roost it far

As most of you have already soiled yourselves over next week I thought I’d let you know why we’ll win. 1. Our back 6 will own their forward 6 2. With Viney back our midfield can comfortably match theirs 3. With TMac finding form and if Jackson can continue his Q4 form with Spargo and Kozzie running around our forward line can kick a winning score. 4. Gawn and the mids will work better together 5. Petracca 6. Oliver 7. May and Lever enjoy your week

Viney

A great way to keep playing badly is to keep making multiple changes for guys with little or no preseason

2 changes after a win is plenty

They made a lot less mistakes than the players and had no bearing on the outcome, thus it was fine

The umpiring was fine

There’s reasons 9,000 odd folk stayed away 1. Covid, older crew won’t risk public exposure. Most of them likely have friends in aged care and we know what a [censored] that’s been 2. Booking tickets. People have got used to no impediments in their way. The extra call no doubt made people think twice. 3. Game against the Dogs made people not bother for fear of watching us lose 4. A no win game. If we lose it’s a disaster if we win, well so we should have. 5. Weather, lots of people chose other activities on this gorgeous day. Its no disaster or a surprise that it was a poor crowd, I’d guess crowds will be down for quite awhile.

Or am I?

I’m not Dee Zee

We beat them easily, never really threatened, what more do you guys want in round 1

Out: Jones, Sparrow In: Viney, Melksham

You’ve been blocked

You take Dusty out and they would (they’d) of lost to Geelong last year

Daw’s a pipe dream. He was bog average at North and he’s now 30. It’ll take a raft of injuries for him to play. If he’s playing I’ll bet we’ll lose. That’s not meant as disrespect I just don’t rate him

Neither side impressed but it’s the first round.

That’s one way to lose a game we need to win. That’s fantasy. Daw will be lucky to get one game , Chandler is a maybe, the others our teenagers who need game time at Casey

Sure but they wouldn’t of one 3 Premierships

Pace in a game is mainly about skill. All teams have quick and slow players it’s skills that make the difference here. The dogs play 14 midfielders, dominated tonight but still had Collingwood been a little more level headed on 3 or 4 occasions they could of easily got up. I’m not convinced by the dogs as yet and they’re the latest team seen as “fast” We have a very skilled back half and our mids are far from shabby. It’s run and spread we’ve struggled with and forward connections. I’m hoping we can split the ledger in the first 10 rounds and then get Brown, Weideman, Hibberd and a pre 2020 Melksham. That’s when I think we’ll be able to take it up to the best. Yes I want to beat Freo but it’s not season defining by any means. If the players have learnt a bit over summer from and if Yze and Choco are helping we’ll be right in this year. Go Demons unleash hell

We’re still too slow for mine. The mids are going to have to dominate. It’s safe and likely the best available. I’ve reduced my winning margin to 36

You take Dusty out and they’d of lost to Geelong last year

There’s enough quality with enough training for it to be no excuse. Brown and Weideman are really the only 2 injuries

Fritsch 3 Petracca 2 Pickett 2 McDonald 2 Jackson 1 Neal Bulleen 1 Harmes 1 Oliver 1 Brayshaw 1 Gawn 1 The question you should be asking is who’s going to kick theirs?

Agree on Petty, he has that rare ability to one clunk his overhead marks

Should of handed it over then made our game v the bombers a home game for the next 3 years

Lucky if 25,000 turn up having to book just confuses 70 year old MCC members