Bring-Back-Powell

Best case scenario he’s back for the Port game in round 9 if he’s fit and match ready. Only two matches against top 8 contenders (unless you’ve jumped on the Essendon wagon already) between rounds 3-8. Can certainly live with that.

Because JHF leaving North has everything to do with Collingwood, right? I’m at the game and they’re absolutely ripping into the kid. If the bookies don’t have Collingwood as flag favourites by tomorrow night then they’re having a laugh. Not sure if the stats back it up but the eye tells me they have the perfect blend of offence and defence to certainly win the flag.

Hoping Schache and JVR have big games to replace Gawn and possibly T Mac respectively.

Goodie adamant May will play Sydney. Mind you he doubled down on May playing this week.

Harmes needs to be dropped, and he was on thin ice last year when he was the sub for the late season Collingwood and Carlton games last year. He had 19 fantasy points which is only 15 points more than Gawn who played about 5 minutes For context, Oliver, who had an ordinary game by his standards had 147 points. Almost every touch Harmes had was ineffective or rushed, and only had 2 tackles, 2 score involvements and 4 frees against. A stinker of a game by any metric.

Yeah agreed. I Kind of got the impression he knew something.

Certainly worked his way into the game as the solo ruck and credit to him. Needs to build some synergy with Trac and Clarry if we’re to win the centre clearances going forward. He’s going to earn his money this year if Gawn’s out for weeks, but he’d love having the number 1 mantle to himself.

I think this was was established last year.

You’re good and quick with the stats mate. Can you tell me the last time we kicked 4 or less behinds in a game of footy.? Our goal kicking was on point tonight, if nothing else.

MFC when Jack Viney is out since round 1 2020: 11 wins - 3 losses. Obviously a coincidence, right…

BBB with his 3rd at the 61st minute mark

Geelong put in an absolute Barry Crocker V Sydney round 2 last year and they ended up having an ok season.…

I suspected that was the case given Brayshaw’s propensity to shank a kick.

Any idea if we marked the ball from Brayshaw’s kick just as the lights went out? Looked a potential rare inside 50 entry.

Knowing our luck we’ll have to stay till Tuesday to finish the game.

Hopefully it's not as bad as T Mac's in 2019. From memory he kicked 6 goals against Carlton to 3 quarter time then missed the final 6 games of the year.

I have no faith in the GC whatsoever but can easily see them rolling the Dons at Marvel. 42/43 people in my tipping comp would suggest otherwise. GC's lacklustre start to the year praccy game (GWS) and round 1 has largely gone under the radar. Dew can't afford another 6-8 win season.

While Kings B'day is the obvious one, I'm nominating Round 3 V's Sydney. Our big test for 2023 to see how far we've advanced from last year is the Sydney game next week. We've lost 8 our last 9 games against Sydney at the MCG and that one win was a close one in our premiership year. People will say that a lot of those games occurred were when we were rebuilding in the Neil Craig and Roos era, however we've still lost 5 MCG games to Sydney under Goodwin. If we fail to beat both Sydney and Collingwood at the MCG yet again, then I can't see how we can go into September with any real confidence.

So I assume May will be suiting up for Casey in that case? On Tuesday Goodwin doubled down from the post game presser saying all four players (May, Salem, Fritta, Viney) will be available for selection at either MFC or Casey. (on a serious note, if your mail is solid, then they obviously don’t want to risk May so early in the season.

Looked like he finally found his preferred position as an intercept defender to start 2019 (10 marks against the Dees) but then broke his leg the following week and was never seen again.

That WC v GWS game is a nightmare to tip. Ordinarily you’d be tipping GWS but they’re missing Whitfield, Kelly and Perryman from last weeks side and are on a long road trip to Perth after a 35 degree brutal game.

Good research there. The only thing I'd pick up from your post is that two of the three Collingwood MCG losses were recorded prior to round 9 last year where they were still finding their way under McCrae and started 4-5. Since then they've only lost 3 games and two of them were in Sydney. If Collingwood can finish top 2, I'm concerned (at the moment) that they'll waltz into a GF with a minimum of fuss. We had a very good start to our MCG slate of games on the weekend. I'd be very interested to see how we go against Sydney and Collingwood.

I'm going to ask Hasleby for this week's lotto numbers. That article was written before yesterday's game, and sure enough Jackson went onto to have a game to temper Freo fans expectations for 2023.

I really hope we appeal can get it down to one week. We have Sydney in round 3, and that's our massive litmus test for the year to see how far we've improved from last year. Them and Collingwood.

Luke Jackson - 2 marks in his last 3 games of footy. How does a supremely talented forward/ruck go through an entire game of footy without taking a mark?