Bring-Back-Powell

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?

Who knows, he could be a massive bust?

Jackson a goal assist in the first minute of the game.

Weid already has two goals. With Peter Wright gone for most of the year, he’ll be the main focal point and will probably kick his 35-40 for the year.

I thought we were offered Toby Greene in addition to Dom Tyson as steak knives but we weren’t interested.

He was responsible for 2 of our 3 first quarter goals. Pretty good performance overall.

Tomlinson 19 possessions and 7 marks. Essentially Steven May stats. Massive kudos for his performance tonight and has proven to be a good insurance policy.

Gong it make a wildly controversial statement but I think McVee got the points tonight out of the 3 boys. Composure excellent for a debutant.

The average crowd since 1990 is 31,000 for a Dogs V Dees game at the MCG. I wouldn’t be expecting more than 40k tonight.

Hope you’re right but wouldn’t have thought they could give Freo a serious challenge.

I wonder if Hunter gets the MCC wing or will he and Ed change it up? Definitely looking forward to his MFC debut and what he can contribute to the side.

We’re now equal favourites with Geelong to win the flag ($5.50) according to the TAB.

Collingwood to make a grand final at the minimum. I was on their wagon last year and nothing tonight would suggest otherwise. They have absolutely mastered the art of playing at the MCG as indicative of winning 14 of their last 17 games there. I think they play 14-15 games there this year and always play well in WA and SA for some interstate wins. (To argue against myself I’d be interested to see how this rematch goes in the cold and heavy MCG track in July with Geelong more conditioned) I only hope our boys can start mastering our home ground. That will go a long way to us contending this year.

Must be predicting a crowd of sub 30,000 if they're closing the top of the Ponsford. If they opened it up for the Melb V Freo game last year where just a couple of blokes and a dog sat up there, then surely it's opened for this one.

The outs are better than the ins. We lose our premier defender and our premier forward. There are some terrific ins in Hunter, Grundy and T Mac, but I just feel the loss of May and Fritta tip the scales to last year's round 23 squad. We saw how we functioned without May in the Sydney, Collingwood (and most of Freo) losses and it wasn't great.

Any ideas how he went in the Casey praccy match against Richmond? Perhaps he played well in the match sim last weekend? As you said, maybe he just had a plain old bad day against St Kilda. They guy can play at this level. Aside from getting torn apart by Sam Reid mid last year and an ordinary game against the Dogs late last year, every other game for the MFC he has been serviceable to more than serviceable as a defender. Tomlinson won't be the reason if/why we lose tomorrow night. It will be missing S May that will be more of the reason.

Thought Lynch got the better of Waitering in the second half and obviously had a major impact on the result. With regards to Cerra, Kane Cornes went on a rant about him last week and clearly believes that he's an overrated disappointment.

Hopefully someone down at training can give a May update and whether he looks like he'll be ok for next week, or whether it's multiple weeks.

I would guess they'll extend breaks by 2 minutes at quarter time and 5 minutes at half time, and probably employ more water boys/girls. Not sure if the roof on Marvel will help or make conditions worse for that game. Sounds like Saturday afternoon is going to be horrid and windy but they reckon 26 degrees by game time for our game. 22 by game's end. Should be a lovely night for footy.