Bring-Back-Powell

Are we able to use this as a valid excuse if we miss finals?

Never thought anyone on this forum would be saying this after his first half of last year.

I thought he was on crutches today judging by the above picture, so that's at least something. A fit and firing Viney is obviously key to our chances of making finals. Our record after Viney played that inspiring game vs West Coast (and before injury ruined his season) was 4-5, and 2 of those were very poor wins over Carlton and Brisbane, costing us critical percentage.

Edited for accuracy.

I really do wonder what the implications of missing the finals will be?

Surely this one would've appeased the masses.

I was in the 2.7% minority that voted for the white jumper. I quite liked wearing a white jumper as a change up, and I happen to think the royal blue is a shocking colour. I don't recall too many supporters were complaining about the white jumper when we smashed the lead leaders at Adelaide Oval, or when Tommy Mac broke a 15 year Subiaco drought with a goal with 5 seconds left , or Jake Melksham kicking a scintillating goal in the dying minutes to pull a game out of the fire against Carlton. The whinging on Demonland was also kept to a minimum when we kicked 13 goals to 6 in the second half against Essendon to score a solid win...in you guessed it....the white jumper. Whilst last year's white clash jumper was not one of our better ones, what was wrong with this one in 2016?

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-01-30/cats-blow-scott-selwood-out-for-two-months I suspect he would've been the number one candidate to take Oliver, so a handy out if he misses.

Beating North is number one on my revenge list. Having a 20 game losing streak against a minnow VIC club such as them is an absolute disgrace. We haven't played finals since beating North in 2006, so it's kind of like our last hurdle/achievement/monkey off bank in our (some what of a) resurgence as a club. If we can't beat North in round 3, at out home ground, with hopefully a full, fit and healthy squad to choose from, then we don't deserve to play finals and probably won't play finals. Also, we've beaten Geelong and Hawthorn a whopping one time each in 12 years. A little bit of retribution is required with those 2 sides I would've thought.

You're right, I forget Frost got the better of Tex in that great win last year. He was in a rich vein of form mid season, before he fell off the cliff.

Lever's a good intercept marking 3rd defender that doesn't play on the number 1 gun forward if I recall at Adelaide. He'll hopefully be a great acquisition for our defence. Now who take Hawkins in round 1? He slaughterd both McDonalds in our last meeting and I can't recall Frost ever winning a duel against a premium A Grade forward?

Couldn't agree more. Or at least have the current store at the MCG open on the weekend.

Beating North Melbourne in JLT 1 would be an unprecedented experiment.

I hope it clashes with Carlton in round 9 and the jumper ends up getting canned. As I mentioned in the other thread, our clash jumper should be essentially the red jumper we used from 2004-2007. Just my 2 cents worth though. I'm glad the majority are happy.

I would've preferred we reverted back to our original clash jumper of 2004-2005 as per below. We would still keep our traditional colours and not divert to white (which everyone seems to hate).

I'm disappointed. I must be the only one who likes a white clash jumper every now and then. The royal blue one sounds crap.

Gold Coast didn't have a sponsor's logo on their away jumper this year and they looked like complete amateur hour. I really hope we don't kick off the season in a round 1 blockbuster V's Geelong minus a sponsor on the front of our jumper. Would be such a crap look.

The lid will be well and truly off around here if we manage to get the 4 points...

There's been more than one media pundit on Maynard's bandwagon.

Brayshaw and/or Salem are due for a break out year considering their reputation as supremely talented footballers. Brayshaw's been too injured and Salem's been a disappointment so far in his career.

A fair fall from grace for the OX. From calling the 2008 grand final on channel 7 to being sacked from an afternoon radio program.

i hope they go easy on the boys for this year's camp.

He''ll predictably jump out of the blocks for Port with 17.2 by round 5. Then the Port supporters will be calling for his head by about round 11.

It's understood Jack Watts was a frequent recipient of the above award last pre season.

We've done some stinking bad drafting and trading over the last 10-15 years, but getting Hibberd for a second round draft pick would have to go down as one of the best trades in recent of years, of any club. I wonder how many other traded players got an AA in their first year at his new club. The question now is whether he can maintain his form over the next 3 years or if 2017 was his peak.