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I wonder if anyone pulling a 4 week hamstring will hit their head on the way down and be out with concussion?

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There's an emergency every week that's held over for the match in case there's illness overnight or an injury in warm up. This is a non issue.

Seriously, do you think Max called Peter Ryan and said "I'm angry and I'm not going to take it anymore"? Most likely Ryan called the club looking for a pre-season story and we provided the captain for comment. What do you want him to say? "Feeling pretty good, looking forward to cashing the next 4 year's paychecks" Same on the Lumumba comments. Does anyone actually think Max raised this? More likely Ryan said "You played with Heretier, what did you make of him in the news?"

I think there's a good argument for being allowed to use the sub during the 20 mins concussion assessment so this doesn't disadvantage the team. Then if the player is OK the sub is withdrawn and play on as usual, but if not OK then the sub stays in and the 12 days concussion leave comes in.

It would be pretty good to hear "Number 28 - Majak Daw" on GF day.

No draftees from 2016 but you neglect to say first pick was #46 You also neglected to say that we've still got 10 players from 2017 and 2018 drafts on the list and the first pick there was #27. Small players? Have you seen the 3 Richmond Premiership teams in action?

The culture McClure and co set at Carlton hasn't served them too well since then. The 1995 flag side was the last gasp of that era and since then they've been at least as bad as us. You could replace Melbourne with Carlton in his comments.

I think we can reasonably expect to add Oliver, Brayshaw, Melksham, Salem and Pickett to the team that played the Dogs - they are some handy ins. I'm not sure where the Hibberd "test" is coming from - he's listed as "TBA" on the AFL website and seems to have been in rehab for an extended period so I'm not expecting him to play early.

So Jackson, Pickett, Rivers and Bowey can all play. Have you made your mind up about Laurie and Rosman yet? But we should get rid of Jason Taylor? OK ...

Pickett rubbish you say? OK we'll see how you go with that one ...

Look to be fair I think @Elegt once said that Oliver can play ...

B: Rivers May Lever HB: Salem Tomlinson Hunt C: Langdon Petracca Melksham HF: Jones TMac ANB F: Jackson Fritsch Pickett R: Gawn Oliver Harmes I: Brayshaw, Jordon/Sparrow, Jetta/Bowey, Spargo/Chandler I'd like to bite the bullet and bring Petty in as soon as possible and that would also free Tomlinson up to pinch hit but we'll probably stick with the current backline set-up particularly against Freo who are short of tall forward options. We need to see Brayshaw, Pickett, Melksham and maybe Salem get a successful solid hit-out with Casey v Box Hill this weekend. Viney is confirmed out, Hibberd hasn't got near fitness, I just can't have Baker or AVB in the side.

I'm hoping they play Melksham there - he put in a big pre-season of running with Jones at TBO and has the attributes to play well in the role. Has been training with the midfield group. His kicking would be a nice contrast to Langdon's.

Yeah the FD and list management you love to malign replaced Dunn, Frost and OMac with May, Lever and Petty. While all of the first 3 do have some AFL attributes, I think that's pretty good going. Maybe you have no AFL understanding attributes?

Matey-mate! I know there's no reasons - only excuses - with you three, so what's your excuse for calling this one incorrectly?

Smashed in the clearances 48-24, by 51 in contested possessions and that resulted in 64-41 i50s - it's a long time since that's happened to us and it's hard to win when it does. Adem Yze moved from the speed ball and the bag to the ring against an opponent two weight divisons above and found out the hard way. James Jordon head-to-head with the Bont, OK - a pre-season game is a good place for a man to find his limitations I guess. Macrae, Bont, Dunkley, Liberatore, Hunter racking up the numbers. Apparently Adem is replacing Simon Goodwin when we're 1-4 - but it's very hard work when you're missing Oliver, Viney and Brayshaw up against that midfield. Baker is not up to finals-level football and I'm hoping we play Melksham on that wing when he comes in. I saw him and Jones put in a heavy running pre-season at TBO and I think he'll be ready to go. The backline held up very well - May and Lever really enhanced their reputations, Salem and Hibberd will make good additions and Bowey warmed to the task and showed he has the tools with some good decisions and execution by hand and foot. The forward line has been maligned in most of the commentary, but they made equal conversion rate of the less effective entries they received. We took just as many marks inside 50 as the Dogs and Fritsch was clearly the most dangerous marking forward in the match. I actually thought TMac and Jackson were OK - generally providing a contest. Yes it would be a cause for concern in the long run if we didn't have B.Brown, Weid and Pickett to return. Someone does need to play a defensive role on Caleb Daniel. I can't recall anyone hitting targets like he does. That one-two on the kick-out and handball receive is going to be hard to stop with the new rule. Stefan Martin is a very handy addition to the Dogs arsenal. ANB really enhanced his reputation and was very good, Jones was pretty effective too with good disposals and stuck his tackles and will make 300 if he keeps that form up. On the other side of the ledger AVB was terrible. Before I turned the commentary off, because I couldn't stand another second of the insufferable Gaddy, I did hear them say that their inside man at the Dogs said they had set themselves for an all out assault on this game and it looked like it.

I think it's safe to swap TMac and Baker. Not sure why they bother naming it like that. Then it looks fine to me. Sure it will be better with B.Brown and Pickett in but it's OK.

So what's your plan? Shut up shop and concede those matches?

What's your plan if Max gets injured while Ben Brown and Weid are out and TMac and Jackson are covering for them in the forward line? Are we going with Austin Bradtke in the first ruck?

To be honest - this surprised me.

Tim Lamb: "“Instead he showed he is fully committed to Melbourne and understands what we are trying to achieve in retaining our talent – this deal reflects that. " Maybe it's Tim Lamb's 4yrs @$750k vs your 2yrs @$1M

In 2019 the last full season - the small forwards for the Premiers Richmond: Castagna 27 goals / 24 games Rioli 17 goals / 22 games Bolton 15 goals / 19 games Higgins 9 goals / 13 games

Rowell is at $1.30! on Sportsbet There are 14 players between him and Jackson and IMO none of them will have a better year than Jackson. Injury to Rowell again and it's money for jam :)

Will the pre-season match vs the Dogs be available on Kayo?