Bring-Back-Powell

Shocking. Player is understood to prefer to play for Freo than West Coast should he leave.

Given our recent record at Marvel and our record against 11th - 15th sides this year, I think we all know where this one's heading. The only factors I'm clinging to hope are: 1) we usually respond after an especially poor performance 2) The two players that were responsible for 7 of their 14 goals in the Alice won't be there on Sunday.

I'm not joking about hiring Adrian Anderson. The Midweek tackle on Fox Footy mentioned it. I am joking about the 'somewhat of a win' comment.

In somewhat of a win, we’ve hired Adrian Anderson.

Shocked Gary Lyon didn’t put Ashton Moir in his AFL 360 MVP 3-2-1 votes for the round, given the over compensating his done against his own side for the entire year.

I think Goodwin's main issue this year is getting his side mentally up for the games against the mediocre sides residing in that 11th - 15th range. Every time we had a big win or a very meritorious loss to a good side, we've absolutely come out flat as a pancake and totally S T bed against mediocrity. 1) Excellent performance against GWS in round 1 - worst loss in years to North in round 2 2) Followed up our best 2 weeks in a very long time (Brisbane and Sydney wins) only to concede 6 quick first quarter goals to St Kilda and play catch up all day. 3) Put in our fourth best performance of the year on Kings Birthday to then lose a very winnable game to the mediocre Port Adelaide in round 14. 4) After beating North, the fixture provided us with a very kind 3 weeks of winning football, only to back it up with a pathetic 3 goal first half against a VFL team in Carlton. We also got schooled by an extremely average Essendon football club in Gather Round after showing some positive signs against Geelong in round 4. Goodwin hasn't arrested this trend and it's been mighty disappointing. It sounds like he's safe for next year, but if the decision was hanging in the balance, the Carlton loss should've been one too many. How we lost to a team missing 10 players (and it showed in the VFL game as we thrashed Carlton's seconds who barely had a listed player) is completely unacceptable from the coach and the playing group.

I can't see Joe moving down from Byron Bay, considering he commuted from there to Brisbane everyday in his Lions days. Why on earth would he retire from a premiership side, in contract, to then move back into the public spotlight at the MFC train wreck? The 0.2% chance that we would get him over the line is if he wanted to do Neale proud by playing for the club that means the world to his uncle. That's it. I do wish that we were able to convince Tom Hawkins to come to us for a couple of years, in order to assist JVR and Jeffo in their development.

On the Agenda Setters tonight Caro first said that H Reid’s parents didn’t want him to go to St Kilda or Melbourne, and then a little later in the segment she said his parents didn’t want him to go to St Kilda or North Melbourne. So I’m not sure if she meant us or North?

Mitch Cleary reckons we’re trying to get him out of retirement, per channel 7 news tonight. Melksham and Goodwin are links and his uncle had a thing or two to do with the club.

May is out regardless with concussion. Would prefer to keep JVR and Jeffo in the side but are they helping us beat these mediocre sides such as St Kilda, North (rd 2), Essendon and Carlton that is leaving our fan base disillusioned and angry after losses that we were expected to be wins?

I definitely saw a a hybrid of Wayne Carey, Johnathan Brown and Gary Ablett Senior when we saw the brilliance of Isaac Keeler in the Alice. Sometimes you just have to tip your cap to proven star forwards that get you on the day, as Keeler did to us.

Is Dan Butler available to kick another 4 or 5 against us? Or will it be a Higgins, Owens or Wood to kick a handful?

McVee would've started on their premier small forward in Curtis. Who knows if he spent time on Harvey throughout?

I heard that May is leading the reverse Coleman in goals conceded to key forwards. McVee must be leading the reverse Coleman in goals conceded to small forwards. Moir another small who just gone to town on us (apologies to McVee if someone else had the job on him but I'm not enduring that game again to verify)

Not even going to waste second of energy and emotion in this one. Sick of getting my hopes with anything to do with this club (the only nice surprise associated with this club in the last 2 years was Kozzie re-signing) Watching the game live in the pocket where it happened I knew he was cooked. Apparently the AFL are asking for 3 weeks, so that's what I'm expecting.

I expect this game to be similar to our 2019 encounter at Marvel. The lead ebbs and flows for three quarters, we kick the first couple of the last quarter to hold a 2 goal lead but then lay down and surrender as St Kilda kick the last 5 of the game. I actually want to persist with Jeffo but do want Kolt dropped. The latter just plays a nothing role as a low possession, low impact half forward. The former has potential to influence a game. I reckon we missed Sparrow’s contested marking in his high half forward role that creates an outlet coming out of defence.

From what I’ve seen of St Kilda today, they’ll absolutely [censored] us.

Yes I am fair dinkum. When an opposition is chronically depleted such as Carlton today and has the equal amount of wins as you, you simply win that game of football assuming you’re mentally switched on. If you lose, you blame your playing group first, and then you blame the ancillary factors such as the umpires and weather secondary.

The apologists will blame the umpires but we just lost to a side missing 10 players that could easily play in their best 22.

We are by a country mile.

I know you can’t trust the forecast but the wind is supposed to dip down to 13 k/ph at 7:15, which is surely more calm than last week’s game. Hopefully you’ll get the all clear.

Carlton have 10 players out, and a lot of them are best 22. McKay and Walsh are game changers on their day. Silvagni, McGovern, Cottrell and Kemp are solid role players and Fantasia had recently regained form. Admittedly people like Newman and Jagga Smith haven't played all year. We really should be winning this game, and it would be a step back if we don't. I expect the St Kilda game to be a tougher proposition than this one, but who knows with us??

GWS left a ton of percentage on the table tonight considering they played a VFL team tonight. Might come back to bite them?

Interesting that Petty's confirmed VFL this week because he hasn't played for 4 weeks. They've brought back senior players straight back into the side off way longer lay offs. A soft drop?

Oh for goodness sake...surely they're not even remotely considering dropping our best defender from last week.