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We play 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th plus the Dogs and Port in the run home.

Carlton and Sydney losses are good for our top 4 aspirations. Two games plus a lot of percentage clear of Carlton. If we can go 4-3 from here we won't miss. Carlton won't go 7-0. Our best is the best. The only question is: can we bring it 3 times in a row in September?

Is Bevo the right guy? https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/won-t-stop-believing-beveridge-backing-bulldogs-on-hard-road-ahead-20220701-p5ay7z.html "The smell of wine and cheap perfume"

He has been playing well, last night very quiet.

Yes, look I'm worried about the strain on his neck from all the Brownlows and Premiership medals.

It's a pity Essendon, WC, the Dogs and Hawthorn couldn't all lose last night. What a horrible collection of teams.

Are you serious? McCluggage 185cm vs Bowey 176cm, and McC is a very good player.

Thanks Danny. I think 2 years for Jackson and Brayshaw make sense. Hopefully we have more flags in that time and Dogga's value will have increased and Gus's won't decrease. We'll have a clearer picture of succession, if necessary, by then. And they'll have more flags.

I think you're talking about the 3 starting midfielder roles and the 2 wingers - that's 5 roles that need to be covered by 500% game time. The 5 incumbents in these roles play this much average game time: https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/tr-melbourne-demons?year=2022&rt=TA&st=TG Langdon 93% (it's actually close to 100% but his average is reduced because of the match he was injured in) Petracca 88% Oliver 86% Viney 79% Jordon 79% That's a total of 425% game time covered by these 5 players leaving only 75% game time in these roles to be covered by other players - Harmes 70% game time and Sparrow 68% game time can easily make up the deficit. With these 7 players we've got 563% game time coverage for 5 roles. It's not clear why we need a "depth of 10 to 11 players" for coverage.

I can't see your logic here. We've added a small for a tall. We'll be better off for midfield rotations.

I'm not in favour of moving Gus from the backline. He has been the best thing about it this year. He saved an avalanche yesterday in the 3rd quarter. Langdon and Jordon are fine on the wings.

At least this way we can watch both matches and the sub can play for Casey if he doesn't get a run with MFC.

Jake's 17-0 is great. I note that TMac and Jack are both still about 20 losses in the red. Max is close to evening the ledger. That must fuel hunger.

Well predicted old dee and Luci!

Just starting to sober up after last year 🙃

Brown plays his 150th vs his old club this week. Melksham plays his 200th in a home game at the MCG next week. Neat.

JVR one-handed marking, wearing 21 in a recent video

From the training pictures: 22: Howes 27: Dunstan? 41: Moniz-Wakefield That leaves 2, 21, 39, 40, 43 free for JVR, Woewodin and McVee. I wouldn't mind seeing Woey in #2

Agree. It seems pretty weird that Jake Lever scored 498 or 49.8% for that season. Yes even Clarrie went at only 67%.

Great result. If my maths is correct there's 1000 votes on offer if you play all 25 games. When I look at the numbers there must be some pretty hard markers among those coaches.

purchase completed, thanks!

FOREVER!

Good chance to really own some teams: the Dogs R1, Geelong, Port, Brisbane, West Coast away. We can win all of them and really get in their heads.

There's a pretty high correlation between the two measures in the top 9 which is not surprising and all but St.Kilda and Richmond played finals in 2021 - worrying for St.Kilda, the Tigers can safely reminisce about their flags. Correlation goes a bit haywire in the bottom 9. I think intuitively it's better to be placed higher on games accrued than age because it could indicate that you've got more experience into a younger list. If that's correct then things look surprisingly positive for Hawthorn and Collingwood. Less so for GWS, Carlton and Essendon, but then two of them did play finals last year so let's say: less so for Carlton. Therefore it looks least promising for St.Kilda and Carlton to me - no real news there ...

That's definitely going for it!