Bring-Back-Powell

Me too. After an exhilarating 1994 finals series, ending in a prelim loss to WCE (sound familiar!) we ended up losing our first 6 games. Then we rallied to win 9 of our next 11, only to bomb out in the final 5 weeks. Wouldn't be surprised if our 2019 season kind of follows that path.

If, and it's big if we can get 20 games a year out of Lever for the rest of his career, then this trade might look ok. Lever's a high quality player.

When's he due back? Sydney, St Kilda or Richmond?

Is it true that the McDonald brothers combined for a grand total of 1 mark between them in perfectly dry conditions?

T Mac’s averaging 3 marks and 0.3 goals a game this season. Absolutely pathetic stats from our so called premier forward.

The difference between now and then is that in round 3 2006 we went up to Gold Coast to play the eventual minor premiers in Adelaide and put in a very meritorious 5 point loss (Davey hit the post on the death). It turned out to be a season turning performance. This year’s first 3 rounds have been a pure disgrace. Trying to point to positives in a loss to a 20 goal Essendon is akin to putting lipstick on a bush pig.

Last year we lead by 75 points against GC in the second qtr. hate to think what the result would be today if we played them. GC have inproved out of sight since May had left them.

No he’s not. Was a key component of the Dogs 2016 flag.

Off to an awesome start under our new CEO.

Probably the wrong time to ask as everyone’s emotionally charged and upset, but how many game do you all think we’ll win after our disastrous start? I’ll get the ball rolling with 7 wins after a horrid 1-10 or 2-9 first half. The club does not resemble anything of last year and is missing some handy personnel. Lever and May will hopefully fix our defence in July and August but it will be too late.

6) Brayshaw 5) Harmes (3 goals from the midfield but Shiel probably got BOG) 4) Oliver 3) Hunt 2) Gawn 1) Petracca (typical 1 quarter cameo, but it was good) Hibberd, Jetta and T Mac can cop most of the blame for our disastrous start to the season, as their supposedly A graders.

Hunt should probably get a vote. 3 goals as a small/medium forward and took a gutsy mark in the 3rd qtr.

I knew what we were getting when he as an MFC paid employee wore a Richmond scarf to the entire 2017 finals series and carried on like their number 1 fan boy.

Her own mob tanked against St Kilda in round 22 2007, pure and simple. Their coach (Wallace) basically admitted it. A caller needs to call her out on this if she hops on her moral high horse.

Can sure kick a sausage. Let's see how these Geelong kids are going when the whips are cracking in August and September.

5 win season if tonight goes South?

Well this Friday game day thread's a bit flatter than the previous couple we had last September.

I’m looking forward to the 80 page special about West Coast going from finishing 3rd (2007) to second last (2008) and being rewarded a priority pick which just happened to be a bloke called Luke Shuey. Or an investigation into Collingwood’s round 19 performance against North at the formerly known Telstra Dome. 40 points up in the third quarter, 5 wins on the board, another win and they lose their priority pick. They end up getting rolled, lose their remaining 3 games and score Dale Thomas and Scott Pendlebury. Happy days for them and not a peep from the media.

That’s a lot of Wagners.

Hibberd was an A grader in 2017. As far as I'm concerned if you're an All Australian you automatically assume the title of an A grader for that particular season. He became a B grader last year, and is looking D+ ish this year.

Goodwin's not under a cent of pressure. He's re-signed until end of 2022.

Essendon changes: In - Zac Clarke, Kobe Mutch Out - Mitch Brown, Kyle Langford. Good news is no Hooker. Bad news is Clarke is coming in to partner Bellchambers to run Gawn off his feet, per Port game. What's our answer to this?

He, Hibberd, Jones and Jetta have been the 4 big disappointments of the season so far. Senior A graders (on their day) that are all horribly out of form at the same time.

Those 2 have inexplicably chosen a fantastic time to suddenly become out of form. Are they missing Lewis who has been a fixture in our defence? Mind you Hibberd's gone backwards since his 2017 AA.

The problem is we've taken a ton of risks at selection by playing under done players (Jones, Viney, Melksham, May) and most of them have failed spectacularly. I hope Garlett plays this week, but I also don't want him being a non-entity because he's played 1 quarter of football since March 1.