Bring-Back-Powell

For what it’s worth Tom Stewart’s a sneaky chance to miss our round 4 game.

Clearly the roof is closed for every game at Marvel. If they closed it on a 30 degree night last week, creating a sauna for everyone involved, they’ll be closing it tomorrow. I agree that they should show a bit of discretion in regards to opening it every now and then.

I would be absolutely flabbergasted if St Kilda lose to Richmond next week on their turf. St Kilda are a different team at Marvel.

If the club is persisting with this nonsense high half forward role for Fritta, then he should take a look at the way Ben Keays plays that role. Becoming borderline elite.

I know it won’t last but if we get 21 and 1 goal from Sparrow every week, we’ll be doing ok.

I wouldn’t be smiling if I’m 30 years old, un-contracted at the end of year and can’t get a game despite a quarter of the list being unavailable

Very fair assessment.

It will be one of Sharp or Langford that gets dropped. Sharp was one of our worst players last week from a statistical perspective while Langford looked off the pace. Leaning towards Sharp starting as sub, being injected after 3 qtr time and kicking a sneaky couple while Langford plays a full game in Casey's season opener.

Happy with this. We need a bit of experience in our forward line.

Looks like Carlton and the Dees are going to be top 4 on the expected score ladder this year....yay! Impressed with Hawthorn's ability to withstand a number of best 22 players being out. Signs of a quality team.

Be interesting to see how he goes in perfect conditions on Sunday. HIs 2 senior games this year have been on days when the weather hasn't been ideal. Really liking that he's an accurate shot at goal and seems to have footy smarts.

Agreed. He started his run and carry on the defensive side of the centre square. The 3 contenders must have bene pretty amazing if Caleb didn't get nominated. Guessing everyone's love child Wizard Watson was one of the nominated.

They're so costly GW given we play a brand of footy that doesn't allow us to win too many blow outs, but conversely not allow too many blow outs the other way. A little more composure in the dying minutes and we're 13-10 last year and 1-0 to start this season.

If you think the crowd was bad on Sunday, imagine what the crowd (or lack thereof) V West Coat at Marvel in early August is going to be. Particularly if it’s a Sunday 4:40 and/or we’re out of business due to continually losing close games.

Reminds me a bit of James Harmes when he used to wear #43 back in the day. His VFL highlights show that he's a capable goal kicker, so if he can get into some goal kicking opportunities he could be an asset.

If he’s playing in a new position, why is he playing in a new position? Why not best utilise the player in the position he played where he kicked 59 (2021, 55 (2022) and 55 (2023 if he played all 25 games)? He’ll be lucky to kick 20 goals if you look at how he ended 2024, the Freo praccy game and round 1. Seeing him chase kicks on the wing isn’t helping anyone. Bring back that elite STAY AT HOME FORWARD that kicked 5 against Sicily last year. And quite frankly JVR needs a little bit of a nudge to get going. His end to 2024 was also poor. If you get both of these guys hitting the scoreboard, we’ll be a much more dangerous team.

Larkey, Zurhaar and Curtis pose a big threat to us, and if we can shut 2 of these guys down, then that will go a long way towards winning. Larkey's an obvious danger with May out, but it's the small -medium forwards that are continuing to cause us (and the wider AFL) damage as per Greene and Coniglio last week. In - Turner Out - AJ (although has it been confirmed that we accepted the week) Langford to get a full game. Sharp to start as sub. Also need to be mindful that Windsor might not be available.

With North Melbourne home games at Marvel they open the top level for GA but they generally close about half of the bays.

Did we end up accepting the generous offer of 1 week?

Archer’s 3 weeks upheld. I’d suspect Fritsch will sleep well this week.

He’ll probably miss knowing our luck but Selwyn didn’t rule Windsor out for this weekend.

If we take it to tribunal we have to prove that there was no potential to cause injury. You would've thought the impact would have been considered low impact given Brown didn't appear to be hurt too much by the incident and played out the game more than fine. However it was graded medium because of the potential to cause injury. We would have to argue that view that there was no potential to cause injury I'd imagine. We'll probably accept. Our record in getting our players off at the tribunal isn't great.

Any goodwill from the supporters and even the media from the GWS game will be completely eroded if things go south on Sunday. And "Simon's sign off" with his glass of red won't be as overly positive as it was on Sunday night.

I’d say Turner comes in and JVR returns to the back up ruck option. I’d love to have Tom Campbell taking back up ruck duties but it feels like a wasted selection as I’m not sure what you do with him for the remaining 70% of the game. Not sure if AJ is a viable second ruck option going forward. He was defeated by Brown, and there’s going to be more capable back up options than Brown that he’ll encounter.

A rare case where the action rather than the outcome counted.