Bring-Back-Powell

With Lever likely to play now, which option do you think we'll go with: A) The simple like for like with Tomlinson replacing May. B) Going in small and starting Hore as a "tall defender" with T Mac as the other tall defender and Lever as the interceptor. No Tommo. You're essentially putting a lot of faith in Hore taking a Marshall or Finlayson. C) Petty plays in defence. Tomo left out.

How many Gather Round games are you going to?

1) I didn’t include our game as it’s a non MFC thread. We can win if we’re at our near best 2) Just think Brisbane win this game based on Collingwood’s last 2 visits there and Brisbane’s awesome record up there. I’m treating their loss to Carlton as a GABBA anomaly.

Another pretty straight forward round in tipping aside from possibly the Dons/Saints game.

100% agree with the thread. And I reckon the media need to hold fire on Sydney. Warner, Gulden and Heaney and even James Jordon couldn't possibly keep their insane form up all year and we all know what happens to Sydney in grand finals.

Great reports all. Hopefully Chandler does make the cut. Been impressed with his goal kicking the last 2 weeks, both from the snaps and the set shots.

Would really set up our season if we go 2-0 in Adelaide and potentially 6-1 or 5-2 after Anzac eve. Port's going to be really tough though. One of the hardest interstate trips in footy.

Yeah, the early round 6 bye could be a blessing in that could allow BBB and Petty to play the next 3 games and then they have a much needed 13 day break. Will also mean that May misses one less match with the bye.

I think there were warning signs last week when we lost to the 0-18 Coburg of last year.

Port looking ordinary against a depleted Richmond. Hopefully they have an ordinary win rather than a shock loss as we don’t want them on the rebound and having a statement game against us.

Absolutely incorrect. I’ve listened to Gerard Healey on radio every night (3AW and SEN) since 2012 and he’s been nothing but supportive of our club. He’s been great mates with Nathan Jones for years and will always go into bat for us if he hears a contrary opinion.

He was doing some run throughs on the boundary mid way through the 3rd and was on the bike. I don’t like our chances next week if we’re without May and Lever.

Another JT special. Apparently half the leagues recruiters didn’t have him as a top 5 pick back in 2019.

I reckon Windsor if the sub has to be from the “Thursday night selected“ bench. Otherwise Sparrow.

Adelaide - no Geelong - yes.

JHF to miss Sunday with a confirmed hammy strain. Could be in doubt for our clash next week.

David King tipped St Kilda to finish in the top 4 on Fox Footy's first crack preview show prior to round 0. Matthew Lloyd is the one that jumps on and off a team at the drop of a hat, particularly when it comes to the MFC. Round 0 loss to Sydney - "Melbourne are finished" Round 1 win over Dogs - "Melbourne are a genuine flag contender, don't worry about that"

Extremely wise move by the club to not head back home between the Port and Adelaide game. Last year they looked really flat on the second leg of the Perth-Adelaide double and arguably should have flown from Perth to Adelaide and spend the week there prior to Gather round. Interesting that they're heading to Adelaide 3-4 days prior to the Port game which would mean about 9 nights in Adelaide in total?? Hopefully some good bonding takes place. Really hope we can win at least one of the two SA games.

We had the opposite problem as Freo, GWS, Carlton x2 and Collingwood beat us with superb accuracy last year despite the fact we had more scoring shots in all those games. In the finals alone, the opposition kicked 20.13 to our 16.28

Agreed. They’re definitely underrated and are well in the top 8 mix this year.

How far St Kilda this year? Prelim final?

If that’s the case then Sparrow is a shot for sub. Still think it will be Windsor, as given he was subbed off last week after a good game, shows they’re carefully managing his minutes.

Provided we have no injuries, I reckon Petty gets subbed out rather than subbed in. Windsor to start as sub to ease him into league footy. I was hoping we would’ve given Petty a full game at Casey this weekend given the recent Spargo debacle. Perhaps he was under instruction not to go full rat power last week??

Did I hear correctly that Ross Lyon blamed a 13 day break as a factor into their loss to Geelong in the post game presser?