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10 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

Where did you see this? AFL site only has tonights game line ups and umps.
I want to know if he is doing the cats game cos a mate of mine reckons he hates the cats the most.

Williamson has Filth game tomorrow.

You can see who is doing which game on this page each week 🙂

AFLUA

41 minutes ago, binman said:

Everything moves so fast these days. Forget the 24-hour news cycle, it's now measured in minutes.

Perhasp that's why Sharpie has gone thru the four stages of Nibbla so quickly:

1. Cautious optimism player x will be decent addition to the list

2. Loss of confidence player x will be decent addition to the list

3. Grudging acceptance player x has been a decent addition to the list

4. Player x is critical element of the team

You forgot the incessant "I've never rated him... he's a spud... he will never amount to anything... he is a VFL player at best..." calls.

Still conspicuously silent.

No Williamson this week, so that's a win.

We do have Nicholls though 🫤

I'd have Chandler in the same basket.

The gut running of guys like him and Sharp in particular are creating outnumbers all around the ground, simply because their opponents cannot go with them.

Are there still any Chander haters in the house, or are they finally starting to see why he'd be one of the first picked every week?

46 minutes ago, Dr Don Duffy said:

Winning a game in Gather Round (“Gimme” Round as it’s become known to Essendon), would be a nice pattern to break.

As further incentive, after their likely loss to the Dogs next round they'll equal their worst-ever streak of 17 straight defeats.

Wouldn't it be sweet if we could then hand them a new embarrassing record of their own a week later 😈

4 hours ago, demoncat said:

Rivers got dropped because he hasn’t been very good to start the year - it really is that simple

And while a few others have also started poorly (Sparrow and Lever come to mind) I think it’s Rivers’ lack of defensive intent that has seen him dropped first

Can’t be missing tackles and not contributing to scoring chains

Yup

Just re "falling back into old habits" is this even really a thing now given the list turnover in recent years and in particular the departure/unavailability of most of the chief proponents of said old habits?

@Ghostwriter while we're talking banners... why don't the cheer squads lift the banner to show the crowd, drop it, rotate, lift again to show different area of crowd... etc anymore?
Do they just not make them like they used too? Or did the Filth's 2018 GF banner scare everyone into not raising any earlier than needed?

Edit - I sit on the opposite side of the ground to where the players run out, so can never see what front of banner says

One for the "what are they saying down at Moorabbin" files...

"Looking at their side, their forward line definitely has some weapons. Mihocek, Van Rooyen, Fritsch, Melksham - there's some goal-kicking power there and with Kosi and Latrelle Pickett, there are players that could really cause us issues inside 50.

Huge responsibility on the midfield to step up here. They have a young midfield, we need to stamp our authority on that part of the game. If we let them get on top they could cause us a lot of headaches with that forward line"

It's been a minute since I've seen anyone have our forward line as an area for concern 😱

20 hours ago, Lord Travis said:

For those without Foxtel

Music to the ears of those who haven't already written off Tholstrup...

"He's going to play in numerous positions Gaz. His athletic profile is off the charts. He can run around at high speed for a long time, so it's just harnessing where we do that and for a young man trying to establish himself, how much is too much and in what position, but the way I want the game played, for our players they are going to have to play multiple positions, so he's a inside, wing, half-forward, he's even got the competitiveness to play at half back but I know that someone with his athletic profile, he's going to have a crack at playing league footy, he's going to be up for it, so fits the way we want to play"

After a long offseason, I think the media [censored] in general are just looking to set their agendas and create some content for the following days news cycle to talk about.

I tuned into Footy Classified last night and that wasn't much better, though they were more focused on nothing changing at Carlton (talking like we are half way through the season rather than one round in), potential unrest at St Kilda over their high paid players (and also not much changing despite), Daicos to Tasmania... etc

Some talk re Petracca/Oliver, but they were more in the Matthews and Lewis camp, rather than Reiwoldt

3 hours ago, dees189227 said:

So do we blame Darcy Moore for this? If trac didn't cop that injury would he still be with us? I mean we wouldn't have gone through all this scrutiny & trac wouldn't have gone through all that trauma.

But then maybe we still wouldn't have focused on improving his kicking.

If we still had Petracca, we wouldn't have Taylor, L.Pickett and whatever GC's 1st next year turns out to be, all of whom will be running around 10 years after Petracca has hung up the boots.

Hoping someone goes with 'Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again'

I guess this is the thread for it...

2026 MFC list build

So many cool little Easter Eggs in there, a few of which probably only we as supporters would get.

Whelan/Hird
Little Eddie/Culley
Hibberd running with Cup above his head one handed
Langdon on his bike
Steele at Luna Park

Kings face getting on the lift at the end was gold too

Social media team!! 👏

2 hours ago, picket fence said:

Um they only played 2 before this and jeffo starred in the first intraclub and Luther starred vs norf!

Got lots of possessions I assume?

24 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Chandler .... dont know why people on this site rave about him kicked a goal and did little else

Get off the couch, go along to the ground and watch him live for a full game — his pressure, off-ball work, repeat efforts and defensive running are why he is so highly regarded.
All the stuff that wins us the ball and creates goals but doesn’t put his name in bold on the stat sheet.

If you’re only judging him by one goal and a handful of touches, you’re missing half the job description.

Sat next to Goodwin and a couple of his Sydney colleagues at the game tonight, I guess scouting for their game vs Carlton in OR.

Poor guy almost wore a burger and two beers from a guy infront who tripped as he was climbing over the chairs hands free.

I was at the game tonight and was knee on knee or knee into opponent at almost every centre ball up.

Unofficial practise match stats:
https://dreamteamtalk.com/2026/02/21/match-simulation-fantasy-scores/

Chandler managed to get a hit out 🤣

One thing that stood out for me at the ground was Mooses enormous vertical leap.

If we go with two rucks I can see him being a regular attendee at centre balls ups, given the new rule doesn't really suit OG Max.

11 hours ago, old dee said:

I am hoping we don’t get belted like last season. If we can be close to the Roos it will be a good start.

Last time we played them we beat them by 6 goals.
And corresponding practise game last year we beat them by 40+

All I am hoping for besides another solid hit out is no injuries.

Sure AMW doesnt have fond memories of Norf in practise games 😫

Young Taylor looks like he has some wheels on him.

Didnt seem to have any trouble keeping up with Windsor after he burst away.

Apologies if this has been covered already - I haven't been following all the training threads.

I noticed Matthews in the match sim highlights. Is he back into full training now, or still rehabbing and just got a few minutes?