Chook

Jack Watts reached his career peak on QB last year. All downhill from there.

Neither of these teams is very good. I'd back us to beat Port and Richmond (at AO at least, not that we'll play them there) handily.

I was at that game, and I still can't even believe a smother caused that kind of injury. It was crazy.

I only really remember the tail end of Wrecker's career, but Jetta has him covered handily based on my memory at least. Whelan did it for far longer, and actually played finals too (something I think we all hope Jetta will be able to rectify before long).

Normally I'd agree with you, but KB's the one leading the charge on reverting to a forced-low interchange. That's the one rule I'd love to see. I've never agreed with KB on anything incidentally.

I had a lot of doubts on Goodwin after he shut down Bugg and Watts for their Instagram/Twitter antics. In the short term I think that was a bad move, and possibly cost us finals last year. Both those boys will never play another game at the club though and we're going better than ever, so I'll concede it was a good move. My lesson: Goodwin has a plan; and for the first time in 12 years at the MFC, it's a good one.

Looks like Pedersen's in finally. It only took a concussion (for him) to get into the side. He should have thought of that weeks ago! No Frost is telling. Looks like it will be Joel Smith to replace Lever, with Hunt an outside chance if we decide to pull a tactical shifty on Collingwood who have a bunch of small forwards. DeGoey's the one to stop though, and Jetta's got that covered.

At Melbourne I feel like we have enough of those types of players. On form, we have the best in the competition.

Jake Lever couldn't have put it better himself.

I just reckon he needs another couple of preseasons. He has a lot of nonna's cooking to work off yet.

He was BOG in this game last year. We were gone against the Pies in QB2017 before Trac showed up and went beast-mode on them.

He said he got off social media, but he never said anything about getting off anti-social media. Demonland's a lock for that.

Runs a VERY good time trial though.

Pretty sure it was against Adelaide the first time.

We'd need an Italian surely. Orazio Fantasia. Marcus Bontempelli. Petracca?

I don't see how anyone could be against this and still be in search of equalisation.

If I were Lever after doing my knee, I'd be curled up in the foetal position crying my eyes out at how the world is so unfair. 22, and just going about his business as usual. This bloke is so mature. He's a real culture-changer I reckon.

I turned my monitor off. Does that count?

The eternal cry of the IT support dude.

I found this on YouTube and I thought I'd share it. This clip gives a good insight into what diet looks like in the AFL, but for me it highlights how well Jones speaks and how hard he has worked on his mindset to get the best out of himself (from a self-confessed "chunk" to the svelte muscle-bound veteran we see today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsrgLuvKwD8

I seem to recall us meeting a bit more recently than Round 11 last year…

TBH they'll probably both kick multiple goals. WHE and JH are both flying right now.

SPARGO DOESN'T NEED A REST FFS!

I'd rather play West Coast without Darling and us without Lever. Not sure how long Darling will be out for though.

Blues are at 1am. 9am is a good list that needs to mature. The start of the working day. For scale, midday is the premiership.