Bring-Back-Powell

Not a hope in hell gets off. Your opponent gets concussed you’re gone in 2024. If a Collingwood player did it to one of our players we’d be screaming blue murder and booing him for the remainder of the game. Kozzie needs to stop putting himself in these vulnerable positions, and they’ll be livid he’ll be unavailable until round 4.

Four MRO suspensions between round 1 2023 and round 24 2024. I’m sorry but it’s not good enough from a highly paid professional.

DeGoey, Mihocek and McStay (last years final) are precisely the players that have caused us troubles in recent meetings. Yeah we had more out, but they weren’t exactly at full strength, and played a number of inexperienced players.

Yeah you’d have to wonder if they would’ve been so conservative if they had a game next week, as Moore would’ve copped the 12 day rule.

A crucial year for Goodwin next year and he’s already behind the 8 ball before he’s had a chance to even review the season - with Kozzie missing the first 3-4 weeks.

it was remiss of us yesterday not to acknowledge and celebrate the one year anniversary of this uplifting and joyous news that all us members and supporters received. https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1413693/goodwin-signs-on#:~:text=MELBOURNE AFL Senior Coach Simon,contract extension with the club.

Thanks mate. We were essentially -27 points in pressure for the first 3 quarters and it showed. Collingwood waltzed the ball out of our defensive 50 with absolute ease and at the other end we simply couldn’t or wouldn’t lay a glove on them. An all too familiar theme this year. Our pressure has generally stunk this year and it was a hallmark and brand of Goodwin coached sides as recently as last year. Without that, what is Goodwin’s point of difference as a coach?

Strange things happen in round 24. Wouldn’t shock me if Richmond beat GC today to put a bow on our lousiest season in years. Suns had checked out of the hotel at half time last week.

One things for certain is that we can’t match Collingwood’s high octane, helter skelter offence. Time and time again they’re just to slick for us. And what was the deal with their desperation in a dead rubber of a game versus our mid February AAMI community series like defensive pressure on display last night? I’m flabbergasted we actually won a game against them last year. Hopefully it’s just once we meet next year.

I can handle losing last night as we had a ton out (as they did too). What I can’t handle is the knowledge all summer that our most talented player with the biggest point of difference will be making his season debut as late as Gather round under the concussion climate that we now live under. We can’t possibly go unscathed against that mob and this particular player struggles with education when it comes to high contact and footballing acts that are obsolete, or at least putting himself in these vulnerable MRO positions. I’m sure this will go as far as the appeals, so fingers crossed we get on the right side.

You could probably say the same about Woewodin.

I actually don’t mind him.

Imagine if GC and St Kilda both lose. We lose dismally tonight. They’ll suspend Kozzie for 4. We don’t go up in the draft order. We get a 7-12 fixture as opposed to 13-18. Happy days.

3 weeks knowing our luck. A fitting end to a garbage season.

Is Darcy Moore injured from the Kozzie incident?

I wouldn’t be shocked if Geelong go out in straight sets. A potential tough interstate assignment in week 1 followed by a Dogs/Hawks/Lions semi. A potential over achiever of the 2024 H&A.

Yeah, I'm not buying into the "hope we lose" to get a better draft pick. If there was an additional first round priority draft pick at stake, per the Richmond Jordan McMahon game in 2009, then you'd have to heavily consider the benefits of a loss. But we're talking about sliding a couple of spots down the order of a deep first round. (the main benefit of losing is actually getting into the 13-18 fixture group should GC win tomoz)

When was the last time we had 3 Saturday afternoon games on at the one time? Has to about 1998 or so?

Well said. Crowd expectations for Friday night? 60K? They got 51K to this game in round 23 2017, but it was Collingwood's home game and they were coming off 4 years of mediocrity.

That's cool that you're related to Luke Parker. I was thoroughly impressed by him last week, and he looks like he's got a few miles left in the tank. Would be worth a look for 2025, but clearly he'll stay at Sydney if the Swans still want him. I still maintain that Hunter was a good player for us in 2023 and served a need for us on the wing. When he was suspended for the Freo loss, we genuinely missed him. He also did some unnoticed 1% ers in the Carlton semi that stacked up in the finals heat. The 2024 Hunter has been a complete bust, and he's clearly not in the same stratosphere as Parker when comparing the two right now..

And potentially Pendles to also miss.

McStay's out for the Pies which is a win for us.

I can see the rationale in not playing ANB this week given we're one year short of the wild card round, meaning this game would be match of the round as opposed to a dead rubber under the wild card format. He's not going to be with us next year, so why accrue another 120 minutes of game time with a player that isn't part of our future. They could give Laurie the minutes that ANB would have received. Laurie should be eying off 20 senior games next year. It's exactly the same dilemma as playing BBB at the expense of Turner or Petty missing out on forward line cohesion minutes this weekend. But I expect ANB will be playing a farewell game in front of the fans.

I'd say he'll just end up staying at Port.

Imagine beating Collingwood this week with the opportunity of playing finals.