Bring-Back-Powell

It might have been me who wrote that. I said I’d take a loss to Adelaide if it meant we’d beat the Dogs. I certainly didn’t expect to lose to Adelaide though.

Giants stadium please. We were good there last year. Technically lockdown ends on Thursday so why can’t we play it at the MCG (if NT won’t let us in) so we can all go and make up for not going last Friday.

Just watching the pre game show on Fox Footy. Dermott couldn’t be less impressed with us if he tried. Said we only won it because the Dogs continually turned it over in the first quarter and then went on to praise the Dogs as they broke even with us after qtr time. He then went on to say that we had a bunch of players in rare form and implied that it’s not going to be sustainable come September.

Makes winning tonight so important and such a bonus - given we’ll be missing such an important player against Brisbane. The best sides in the business can still win without 3 of their best 22 out. I think it will be Baker that comes in as he’s the closest thing to a winger. We don’t want to be throwing around the magnets too much. Hope this game doesn’t end up being in QLD.

Thought Weideman was a touch quiet that half with the one handball to his name.

Tim English is a big problem for us. Was hoping he’d miss one more week.

Harmes has had a great start. Clean with the footy.

Fantastic start by Jordon. A smother inside 50 that created a goal and then snapped a nice snag himself.

Fritsch is a better player than Hannan no doubt. But forgive me if I’m a bit dirty on Fritta after playing 2 career worst games in the space of 3 weeks. The entire forward line needs to atone from last week.

I think we can confidently assume ANB is not on $950,000 a year. Having a career best year and is nailing some great goals this year, albeit could've sealed the game with 5 mins left last week.

I actually think we'll wear our traditional jumper. If not, then this one from 2019, but I don't think we use them anymore: We no longer have a white strip (which I wish we did) and the royal blue clash jumper ends up clashing even more with the Dogs.

This is a very shallow analysis but we've played our best footy of the year with T Mac and Fritta as our number 1 and 2 key forwards respectively with Gawn playing deep for 30% of matches. The Richmond and Geelong wins were out best for the year while we looked extremely dangerous against GWS and logged 31 scoring shots against St Kilda. We played the T Mac/Fritta/resting ruck structure in all those games. I think Fritta plays better with more responsibility of being the number 2 forward. I've been disappointed with Weideman. He's going at 0.5 goals a game and just 4 marks. It's not good enough. If Weid fails tonight, I'd give BBB another shot for 3 weeks. If he's no good, then we go with what worked well for us in the early rounds, for the final 8 or so weeks.

I honestly don't think he would've received many boos. Certainly not Tom Scully level boos. He was a fringe player that was offered a better contract elsewhere. Good luck to him. A very similar player to Fritsch who plays bits and pieces of games. Can only carry one of those into the side.

Probably not BBB. Sparrow as he's next cab off the rank in terms of best available. I was thinking Sparrow and Chandler need to log some minutes at Casey but there's no VFL games this weekend.

I understand we have a great record of playing in front of no fans at Marvel.

Be interesting to see what difference the roof off makes to the conditions tonight. It's going to be a cold and still night which might make the surface dewy and slippery which won't overly excite the Dogs. But I don't see the roof off as being much of a factor if any.

Due to integrity of selection they won't do this but I'd bring in BBB and drop the Weid to Casey for the rest of the year and thus rendering him a depth player. Last week we were crying out for a key forward to take the game by the scruff of the neck against a team with a perceived lack of key defenders. Instead we got a 3 mark/1 goal game and he was largely invisible in that critical last quarter. A pity BBB won't be playing at his suited venue - one would assume.

And imagine if we won without him. He's been a bit off since the North game.

Not sure what I disliked more about the 2020 season. Watching games under lockdown or the 16 minute quarters where clubs where struggling to bang on 45 points a game. Please don't bring this garbage back into the AFL.

Good news. Given that 2020/2021 is the gift that keeps on giving I was expecting the player to be Petracca, Oliver or Salem.

A Friday double header? Richmond V Adelaide into our game. Edit - we probably won;t be playing tomorrow night at this rate...

For just the player or the whole organisation?

Oh please no. Hoping our game gets moved elsewhere at the last minutes seeing as though we can't attend. Probably a better chance of beating the Dogs in Sydney or Canberra than at Marvel.

Eddie reckons a 5 day lockdown will be announced tomorrow. Mentioned this on Footy Classifides just then.

7:50pm really isn’t that late considering the Friday night games started at 8:10pm in the mid 1990’s.