Bring-Back-Powell

For all his short comings he'd actually provide more to our forward mix than Hannan who plays about 7 minutes of footy a game.

"AFL football won't be played in Victoria in 2021 if the state of emergency is extended by 12 months" Tom Elliott, 3AW, 25/08/2020

Hopefully the opposite occurs next week. Saints have never played in Alice Springs while we’ve been playing there since 2014, and performed well there on the last 3 occasions .

His problem is he always takes his marks on the flanks and pockets. Great that he gets a number of shots but hard to convert angles.

Not to excuse yesterday as it was a poor performance and the club let themselves down. However, there have been 11 occasions this year where teams have come into a game on a 3 game winning streak. Only 4 of those occasions have resulted in the side winning their 4th game in a row. Statistically, we were most likely going to lose that game due to the up and down nature of this unprecedented season. Next week will prove once and for all if we’re any chop this year. We have bounced back well after our poor losses this year.

I appreciate the efforts of posters giving votes after a poor performance but Hibberd can’t possibly go near any votes. His opponent was the match winner and he was also poor by foot today. I’m sure he’d admit that it was one of the worst performances of his career.

No thanks. He’s been a circus for a couple of years now. Aside from Spargo and Pickett’s COVID’s indiscretions, it sounds like we’ve got a squad that has their head switched on, free from off field distraction and want this club to be successful.

MCG. Give it to the very last minute. Cases will by sub 30 by mid October.

Crozier is also a pretty good in for them. That’s fine, good to test ourselves against a full strength side. To borrow a modern footy term - football audit.

Did he not kick 5 against the Dogs mid way through 2018?

^^ Nothing to do with the COVID 2020 fixture, but what a cracking movie that was eh Rusty.

If he's playing it generally means we've hit an injury crisis. With that being said the club is going to have to be careful with the Freo game in Cairns off a 4 day break, so perhaps he might get a gig in that game if multiple defenders like Hibberd, Lockhart and Rivers need a rest.

Jon Ralph indicated he would've been dropped regardless of being ill.

And the fact that Geelong flogged St Kilda on a Monday and backed it up with another flogging over Port on the Friday. Geelong has ruined that excuse for everyone now.

12 months later at the same ground didn't end so well. The late S Clark had a set shot for goal after the siren with half the Essendon membership base on the ground to put him off. Alas he didn't make the distance and we lost by 6 points.

Really hoping shortened quarters are a once off.

Surely given that cases are heading in the right direction and us learning from our fatal mistakes between the first and the second wave, we''ll have games with 25-50% capacity next year in Victoria, starting from March or April. Not June as Wilson is fear mongering. We can't just spend the rest of our lives locked up.

Please no to Preuss and Gawn. It clearly didn't work last year and i can't see it working this week against a slick and fast Bulldogs unit. T Mac should be played as the key forward/second ruck because he has the forward craft that nether of the 2 big blokes posses. Choose out of Preuss or Gawn (if fit), and if they prefer Preuss, then Gawn plays in a scratch match.

English or no English, they're pretty healthy at the moment. Just missing a few mid rangers in Dureya, Cordy, Suckling and possibly Crozier. They have all their guns in so it will be a genuinely satisfying win if we can knock them off.

Dodge a bit of a bullet weather wise. 19 and sunny in Surfers on Saturday. We're going to be having a bunch of warm games coming up in Alice and Cairns so it's good to avoid yet another heat affected game this weekend.

As much as I hope we beat both Dogs and St Kilda, I think we can absolute afford to lose one of those games, as long as we take care of Sydney, Freo and Essendon who all should be done and dusted by the time we play them. We can then afford to lose to GWS and finish the season 10-7 with a good percentage and highly likely to play finals. Beat both the Dogs and Saints and we'd have to fall over ourselves to miss the finals. Lost to both the Dogs and Saints and I'd say it's curtains for us.

Yep 2005 round 21 vs Bulldogs. Leoncelli in 2001 Vs Adelaide was probably a second left on the clock.

I wouldn’t have thought the Weid shot would have made the above list (had he kicked the goal) as there was still a couple of seconds after his shot.

Bombers getting flogged early. 8th place looking good at the conclusion of the round.

Still a bit to go....