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Taj named as a follower for the WA vs SA under 19s tomorrow. Obviously should be taken with a pinch of salt because coaches love flipping the starting magnets around, but pretty sure he’s been consistently named in a wing position/interchange prior to this game. Is this the last game to look at him before the draft?

How many years did we sign him for? Does it say anywhere?

Got it right the second time around didn’t we!

Geez this has been a trash performance by Casey after quarter time. Smacked in every area of the game

Anyone remember how bad the commentary was for our round 3 clash with GWS? That game stands out so clearly for me. I’ll never forget when Kelli Underwood said “and that’s why they call him slick fritch.” Stuck in my head so long that I’ve realised she’s actually a genius ?

We need a top 5 for worst commentators. Honestly that could easily be stretched to top 10

Did anyone catch the fox footy pre game where David king said alir alir would know Ben brown really well (mistaking him for Majak), and then doubled down and said it again after the ad break? Cringe

Can’t remember the second half, but he definitely started the first two quarters in the middle like he normally does. He only ever does it on the very first bounce of each quarter though

Where did you find out that’s what happened to Mitch Brown? I’ve found it frustrating to get info on it! He came off at quarter time last week and didn’t play this week, but they didn’t mention him at all in our injury list. Surely they could of mentioned he was a “test”.

BBB had a shot stopped right at the line. #BROWNWATCH (only listening, im not actually there)

We are 2 games clear of non top 4, and you admit we are likely to win another 4. Leaving out doggies, it means each of Cats, port and lions winning at least 6/8 games and jump us on %, or 7/8 games with us losing all 4 of the games you mentioned. While I understand those teams are great and have a relatively soft draw left over, statistically it is likely that they will drop at least one of those games each, or that we will win one of the four games you believe we will lose. Obviously it could be very Melbourne to drop one of the games you believe we will win, but the odds of all of that happening are very low, as demonstrated by our odds of staying top 4 are $1.08 on Sportsbet. the stats aren’t with you, it’s your longstanding disbelief in the dees that makes your mind up for you.

I hope at some point you truly do put some faith in the Dees mate.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2021/06/30/west-coast-great-predicts-how-the-top-eight-will-finish-come-seasons-end/ Going with the OP, Peter Sumich doesn’t even think Melbourne will finish top 4! I can definitely understand why people think doggies will finish on top, but surely not rating us a likely top 4 spot is pushing it. (Touch wood)

Kane Cornes is very clever in his role at sparking up debate and conversation through each week. I doubt he truly believes most of the things he comes up with. Hard to hate him when you look closely at what his actual role in the media is, and how well he knows his audience and what will rile them up.

Surely if he went down first quarter and didn’t come back you’d think something is wrong with M. Brown’s heel. Weird they wouldn’t at least just mention it and say he’s ok, but hopefully it just means he’s fine for this weekend!

Has Mitch Brown gone down injured? Haven’t seen him at all since his missed set shot in the first quarter

Agreed. Just bounce the ball!

IN Viney, B.Brown. OUT Weid, Sparrow. Besides Tomlinson who I think is now clearly the better option over Petty when fit, we should be able to field our best possible side against Essendon

Very frustrating that there isn’t a live stream provided. We all saw in the Richmond vs Casey game how effective one camera following the play with no commentary can be, and it surely isn’t that difficult to set up and execute it. The firsts aren’t playing today so, all the focus easily should be on Casey (besides teams being announced for tomorrow). Sometimes I feel Ben Gibson and the melb media team are truly clueless as to what the supporters really want from them. So much vested interested in watching Casey play, that should be a priority whenever possible at home games.

Got me. Ah well ?

The clear changes: If available (as Goody and now Burgo have really hinted toward) May and Fritsch IN M.Brown and Petty OUT Obviously we need one of our tall forwards in, and I feel there’s two main options. Who ever actually comes out is INCREDIBLY stiff, and I don’t envy the selectors. Option 1: We take Jordon out with Gus taking his role, while also possibly sharing the wing with McDonald. I feel like Goody is really preferring players sticking to their roles they have worked on this pre season, so I find it hard to lean toward Goody changing Gus’ role when he’s doing so well on the wing. Tmac will probably player higher up the field anyway no matter which tall comes in. He’s clearly not getting dropped, playing great footy atm. Goody has been adamant that he isn’t going to play back, it’s frustrating that so many people don’t watch his interviews and jump on the forums. Option 2: Taking either a half forward off to fit them in (Jones off the table this week, so only option is Milkshake), or take off a small (ANB, Spargs, Kossie). The stats (and our own eyes) are clearly showing us that we are doing so well this season because of our forward pressure, so highly doubt any of these guys come out. Particularly against a team like Richmond, and especially when we are bringing a tall in who will not bring the same pressure. I think for the best balance it will be: B.Brown IN Milkshake OUT (and made sub) Weid and Melksham stiff, but BBB has a bigger presence up forward and already has more feathers in his cap. He was also more consistent than Weid in the half they played in the VFL praccie match the week before. Weid has always struggled with consistency, so would love to see him really bang the door down with more strings of dominant VFL performances. Truly no idea how they would have all 3 + Gawn/Jacko, but I don’t think that will be a problem to consider this week.

Special shout out to @Axis of Bob who is the only semi-regular poster to not say something completely whack that I can think of over the years. @binman probably fits into this category as well ? ? The rest are entertaining though ?

I’ve never even seen in all of demonland a pregame comment that balanced tbh

It’s a reference to a hashtag Gawny and Gus are trying to get trending every time there is a picture of Langdon (Lingers). They talk about him a lot in their podcast.