Bring-Back-Powell

Meanwhile the Doga have been outstanding in their forward conversion and connection since 3 quarter time of last week.

The one week you want/need Collingwood to do you a favour 😬 Pies need to ditch Ash Johnson before he single-handedly loses them a final. Not the smartest of players.

I'd entertain the option if you've got the liquidity now. You'll absolutely get reimbursed (in theory) if Collingwood make it. Not that I encourage scalping as it's illegal, but grand final tickets are going to be the most in demand in the history of the AFL/VFL due to Collingwood's phenomenal crowd pulling factor. Collingwood supporters who don't have GF guarantee will have only dreamt of paying $1,500 in July, as people will be willing to fork out astronomical amounts during grand final week.

Entertaining football sells memberships. The casual arm chair supporter isn't going to take out a membership and subsequently attend our remaining home games if we're going to continue to kick 6 to 8 goals a game.

I'd have a very poor attitude if I was dropped after being a key member and contributor towards our big statement win of the season in replacement for a player that wasn't ready for AFL footy. Tomlinson needs to leave the club for his own sake.

Can someone with far more knowledge about footy and tactics than I explain to me why Tomlinson isn’t in the side to assist May and Lever down back in order to send Petty forward to partner up with BBB…. rather than relying on Gawn or Grundy who don’t have an ounce of forward craft between them.

Clearly we hope Richmond V Melbourne ain’t a wet day in round 20.

Higgins, Battle and Hill are handy outs. Higgins is the sort of player that will either kick 5.0 or 0.5.

We need to go 3-5 to play finals and hope Essendon and Fremantle fall off the cliff.

One of the key reasons we've fallen behind these two clubs.

I wouldn't say no. The bloke is a circus, but when you only consider his footballing ability, he's a terrific goal kicker and has a very neat 54.27 to his name.

I thought we were ordinary at Docklands last year. Just went against North and blew a 5 goal lead against the Dogs.

Brisbane by 78.

Can't recall who said this to be honest. However I'd contend that he's usually been pretty honest with his selection and player positional expectations for the week ahead. That's why I always looked forward to his pressers. Not so much anymore.

It's a little frustrating that we're leaving out a player that can kick the clutch goal on the big stage (Anzac eve, KBDAY). Clearly the coaches are of the opinion that a lovely set shot here and there isn't enough at the moment to justify his spot in the side. I can't envisage Joel Smith kicking a clutch set shot from 45 with minutes left to win the game on Saturday night. I predict this will be Smith's last AFL game of the year and JVR will come in to replace him for Brisbane if his plays another cracker in the VFL.

Woey senior was on the radio on SEN this morning. Was askes the same question. His answer: in 2022 he was predominantly a winger, this year he's had more exposure inside and at half forward.

Really enjoyed his cameo against Richmond in the AFL practice match at Casey. Just looked like one of those players that looked comfortable at this level and like McVee should be able to hit the ground running. Hopefully the boys will be energised and excited by a debutant as they're grinding through the months of June and July which are the hardest for motivation, so they say.

Posters refer to Goodwin as being one of the more honest and transparent coaches in the AFL via press conferences. I think he's been anything but this year. Your Petty example is a prime one and he was adamant May would play in rounds 1 and 2. Not to mention his weekly updates on Clarry.

I have them beating Carlton, Sydney, Brisbane, West Coast (all at home) and Hawthorn at the MCG I have them losing to Collingwood (away), Geelong (away) and Port at home. 12-11 with a 10th place finish. They could easily lose to Brisbane but I still have them finishing 10th on my ladder predictor regardless of that result. At the start of the year we would've happily taken a 10th place finish for Freo.

Freo need to go 6-2 to make finals.

Do you mean we're covering Oliver from a statistical point of view? Or we're covering Oliver from a win/loss point of view? If the former I'd agree. If the latter I'd disagree as we're 2-3 without him and dropped extremely winnable games to mediocre sides in GWS and Freo.

Jackovich's arrival probably wasn't the best for Bennett's AFL career. Done by early 1993. Onto bigger and better things in the NFL.

Our accuracy at the start of the season was unsustainable. And there was a game we were lucky to win this year against Richmond where we shot the lights out while Richmond fell apart in the last quarter. I'd like to think this 5 week patch is also a compete outlier and our woes will turn around shortly. There's going to be a game soon where we'll be a tidy 11.2.68 at half time. GWS have been lucky. In 3 of their wins this year they have been outscored by the opposition which suggests to me that their record of 7-8 is a little flattering.

Well we somehow kicked 17 goals without him in round 1 with BBB, Pickett, Spargo and Gawn combining for 12 goals. These fellas are all going to have to step up in his absence and Trac will need to be a 50/50 mid-forward when Clarry returns and kick his 1 to 2 a week without fail.

Hopefully Fritta is back for the finals assuming we make it. The pre finals bye will aid his recovery time if it's a 6-8 weeker.