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I’m all about pedantry unless it’s used against me, haha Sorry Gontee.

Interested to see where demonlanders see who ranks where on our list. I’ve divided up the team 7-8-7 of our best possible starting 22. Each group is in no particular order, but the middle and bottom groups are the players I think can be replaced. Here’s mine: TOP 7 Gawn Petracca Oliver May Petty Brayshaw Fritsch MIDDLE 8 Spargo Jackson ANB Salem Bowie Viney Langdon BBB Bottom 7 Lever Sparrow Mcdonald Jordan Harmes Pickett Rivers Players that miss out: Pickett I think can be covered by Bedford hence why he’s in the bottom 7. Lever (I reckon Petty has become are more important) player so could be more easily replaced by Tomlinson. Hunt doesn’t make the list as Salem would be the replacement for me when he’s fit and goes into my middle 8. Hunt is a bottom 7 player. Weid can replace McDonald and BBB, hence why BBB isn’t in the top 7. Dunstan could replace Viney or Jordan IMO.

Someone else has said this on demonland… but it would be criminal if this team doesn’t win 2-3 flags minimum. We’re unreal!

Watching the replay - Bucks points out that we are playing elite football. When we were 41 points up in the 1st, Saints pressure rating was at 200. Every single one of our disposals was made under pressure effectively and we were still able to dominate. That is unbelievable.

I think he came across as very arrogant as a coach, but now what I can see is that he is an INTENSE person when he’s representing a team in any form. He played like a soldier and as a coach, had the mentality that the world was against him, which I think he created in a way to give him the feeling he was in a battle. The guy gets motivation from a fight I think. As a neutral commentator though, he comes across a relaxed guy that thinks about the game a lot. My perception of his arrogance was misplaced.

I enjoy listening to Bucks a lot. I reckon he’s got a lot of insights into the game and he seems to see it pretty clearly.

Watching the Goodwin footage of the Granny and seeing how calm he was when the doggies had full momentum knowing full well we would swing momentum back… I don’t get nervous when teams start kicking a few goals together. Wasn’t even worried in that 3rd term, I knew we would get momentum back and hold them off. It’s just a part of the game knowing that teams will be able to come back at us for a while, not be able to maintain their pressure and attack long enough, then we get a lead and just defend it for the rest of the game.

Yeah exactly. There’s nothing spectacular about him that draws attention to himself, but what he does for the team is damaging and creates problems if he’s allowed to do what he wants. Also…. One of my favourite things in footy is learning about which players other clubs rate as having to concentrate on… Tom Mitchell is a prime example of the opposite, gets a lot of glory for gaining possessions but doesn’t do much damage.

Only really seen him play a bit, not paid much attention to the kind of player he is, if he isn’t guaranteed a starting 22 spot, would he want to come to the club? If we got him, who would he replace in the best 22?

Man I REALLY want Bedford to be a part of the team. He offers glimpses that he could become a gun player if he’s able to continually get games at AFL level. I feel like he’s one of those guys that needs to play at AFL level to gain confidence and grow into the player he could be. Don’t really have any other reason than a ‘feeling’ about him. I don’t know if this carries across, but there’s some cricketers that are good at state level without dominating, then when they get into international teams and play at that level for a while, they turn into absolute guns and do dominate. This is Bedford I reckon. Saying that though, if I look at our Premiership lineup… I don’t know who he replaces and is able to keep out long enough form him to string games together.

Totally agree about ANB. Other club supporters don’t rate him at all (which I actually like) but he’s definitely in the ‘inner club superstars’ group like Spargo and Kozzie (although Kozzie still gets a lot of fan fare obviously) for what they do for the team. Was a very noticeable difference without ANB in the team.

Wow…. just looked him up, kicked 660 goals from a total of 265 games over 3 clubs… as a ruckman Must have been some player.

Mmmm playing like trash is extremely harsh. I’d watch West Coast right now if you really wanna see trash. We’ll hit our straps about 6/7/8 rounds out from finals and roll in with a head of steam. Great teams follow this formula and have been for as long as I’ve watched footy. No point being in form at the wrong time of year.

And even though we are playing nowhere near our best at the moment and have lots of room to improve, we are still winning… Would you like to be in form now? Or heading into final?

-You support the Premiership defenders that haven’t lost a game. -It isn’t 2011 Melbourne team. -You’re in the middle of the greatest football period of your life.

Becoming a big fan of Toby Bedford. Also, anyone else think our forward line looked more dangerous when Weid and Brown were playing up the ground? It felt like their defenders didn’t know who to go to and we made use of more options.

Game done. Not enough time for hawks.

Could be a tight finish here, they don’t look as tired I as thought they would

No, I get that he’s playing for his spot, but in a team built on anti-selfish play… it’s makes him stick out as being for himself.

Tommy wtf?? Free men everywhere inside 50

Bedford can play! Get some confidence into him and he’ll be alright

Bloody hell Maxy!!!!! Doesn’t miss from outside 50

I really like the look of Brown and Weid playing up the ground. Means oppo defenders can’t double team our forwards, everyone becomes a target.

Well done Toby!!!!!!