Bring-Back-Powell

They have a brutal run over the next month. Us, Pies, Geelong and Port away. If they can win 2/4 then they’ll be in finals discussion.

Concussed and will likely miss our game next week.

I could be jumping gun here but they absolutely reek of Melbourne 2019.

Bulldogs are in the thick of the action and are likely to be a good side, while Freo are talented and could still play finals. I’m not sure I agree that St Kilda haven’t beat a reasonable side.

St Kilda have looked more impressive than Carlton and yet Carlton are 3rd favourites to win the flag. Aside from Sam Walsh, Carlton aren’t getting any better while the Saints have got some big guns to come back. If St Kilda beat Collingwood next week, I’m declaring them a premiership chance. It’s not as if they’ve fallen over the line in their 4 games, they’ve completely blown their opponents away by the final siren.

Mitch Hannan with a crucial sausage roll to put the Doggies up by 1!

Not sure if this says more about Adelaide potentially being a much improved top 8 side or Freo potentially regressing to a potentially mediocre 12-15th side this year??

Izak wouldn’t have been born the year that song was kicking around. Good start Crows - 50-21

Jackson drops a mark in the goal square at the 50 second mark.

I reckon today will tell us where they’re going this year. 50/50 game on the road against a side that’s hot off the showdown. Start 1-3 and they’re going to have to go on a couple of 3-4 game winning streaks if they hope to make finals.

Here’s to a Freo loss and a stock standard 0-1 mark game from LJ.

Goodwin says a lot of strange things in pressers. The two recent ones that come to mind are: 1) adamant rather than confident that May would play in round 2. 2) continually and supremely confident Jackson would stay - “loves his footy club” I wouldn’t be surprised if JJ does suit up Sunday whether it be sub or a late replacement for Hibberd. I don’t recall an MFC player to ever be dropped after the level of output that JJ gave to the club last week.

Jordon stiff to be getting dropped off a 21 possession 8 mark game.

Top of the ladder at the end of the round for our boys doesn’t seem all that fanciful at the moment. (Saints will have a stinker sooner or later)

It's absolutely Corey Wagner from Freo, listed as $151. Can't believe they've got a 26 year old in the rising star market. Either the TAB have complete incompetence working for them or they're trying to rip the public off with bogus betting options.

Very impressed with his first and third games of his career, and was spoken about as a rough chance of getting a Rising star nomination for round 3. Speaking of the AFL rising star award winner, you can't even put a bet on him on the TAB but yet you can get $151 for Corey Wagner (ex Dee) to win the rising star award despite being 5 years too old to be eligible.

The round 9 game V's West Coast puzzled me the most. They had 11 of their best 25 players out, and yet we took a full strength side over to Perth rather than rest 3-5 players in what was a 98% guaranteed win. Hopefully some great lessons were learnt last year, and we've got sufficient depth to rest players on a regular basis during the season.

Agree with all that. He was the one that kicked the steadying goal at the 15 minute mark of the third quarter after Sydney got within 6 points and looked like they were about to overrun us. It was a tough set shot to make as well.

Hibberd didn’t finish the game and appeared injured, so that probably makes things easier re:Kozzie coming back in.

And it’s so pleasing that we’ve played two outstanding MCG games after a very patchy run of games there last year. If we going to lose the odd game such as last week you’d rather it be away from the G.

Rankine or Thilthorpe could’ve easily won the medal over Dawson.

It’s the 3:20pm free to air time slot which is usually the number 3 ranked game of the weekend. Take it as a complement.

St Kilda are playing finals this year. They have a laugher of a game next week Vs Gc at Marvel to start 4-0, and they’re only going to get better with Steele, Billings, King, Membery and Coffield to come back. Now I’m not saying they’re a flag contender, but then again was anyone saying we were a flag contender after our round 3 2021 win over GWS?

Hogan a sneaky 8 goals from 2 games and a quarter.

McRae reckons an MCL, but they’ll be without a recognised ruck for the Brisbane game next week.