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4 minutes ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

Far out, dropping the skipper.   Desperate or ruthless?

Could we retaliate by dropping ANB?

The West Coast v St Kilda game was part of Round 17.

Would Eddie McGuire ever, in these circumstances, agreed for Collingwood to be the club that has to play two games within four days in the heat and humidity of Cairns with less time to acclimatize than their opposition?

Hell no!

Where were our people?

Not all St Kilda fans are wankers. Here’s a thoughtful piece from Footy Almanac 

Round 14 – Melbourne vs St Kilda: Confessing getting emotional at the last minute

If he’s with East Fremantle then he might be comfortable with other recruits from the Sharks, namely Luke Jackson and Trent Rivers. ?

Could this bloke be a man to join former teammate Adam Tomlinson next year?

OUT-OF-FAVOUR GIANT ON THE OUTER AS TALKS ON NEW CONTRACT STALL

I hope Kozzy’s watching the way Eddie Betts is playing today.

1 hour ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Somewhat surprised that the Weid is so far down the list.  Is one of the form forwards of the comp and his contribution to team structure has been very important to us.  Perhaps another case of awards voting not being a true reflection of player value.

He’s averaging around two goals a game but every week he’s more or less at that average and he’s also having a lot of games where he’s out of the action for periods which isn’t conducive to getting the big voting scores.

If he’s in the best 22 and he’s fit, he gets selected.

6 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

First Semi Final  Day 1964

Geelong dominated the second half of the first semi final in front of a crowd of 92,231 at the MCG winning with a score of 12.12.84 to 10.5.65.

Otherwise, Saturday 29 August, 1964 was a quiet day for Demon fans. 

 

I reckon we might have shot ourselves in the foot by losing badly last week to the Dogs. We need to atone on Saturday as we could be gone if the Dogs beat the Cats and we lose.

17 hours ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

have we ever played there at night?

I seem to recall a preseason night game over there against the Cats in Hogan’s first season back after he injured his knee as an 18 year old. He might have injured himself that night as well.

12 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Jebus. I was hoping for a 4th option.

It will be a much weakened team regardless. Preuss's last couple of games for us were very poor. His work around the ground almost non-existent

I would not be surprised at all if they get creative with the ruck situation rather than playing Preuss

If you insist on a fourth option, try Austin Bradtke and then go back to the first option.

The wash up from the trade period is that six players - Harriet Cordner, Bianca Jakobsson, Elise O'Dea, Maddy Guerin, Aliesha Newman, and Katherine Smith - have departed Melbourne and the club now has six picks in the top 30:-

3, 9, 11, 23, 27, and 30.

The club must be fairly confident that there is plenty of young talent available from the draft.

12 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Interesting that we've been linked to no one so for this year. I think this time last year we had Langdon and Tomlinson that was already on our radar.

With no 1st round pick, I do wonder whether whether we will be quiet in the trade period and focus more in going to the draft.

One player I wouldn’t mind being linked to is GWS’s Zac Williams for a bit of pace off half-back but he will come at a cost.

I have attended only one game of AFL football this season and it happens to have been the scratch match against North Melbourne back in February. We creamed them back then and even though it was virtually a seconds game with a few VFL players thrown in, I’m confident that we can beat them again this time.

6 minutes ago, Kent said:

8 zip including smashing Essendon

To steam onto the finals

It is not a difficult run

But includes  boggie teams bulldog and saints

North’s pretty “boggie” too!

Every week there are close games but we are going to absolutely rue the games lost to Geelong and Brisbane.

Breaking News: Melbourne has gone up a spot on the ladder before the start of tonight’s game after the fall in North Melbourne’s percentage after their loss to Geelong.

Brisbane 3.16.34. If only they kicked that poorly 2 weeks ago. 

2 minutes ago, old dee said:

So if was us playing the dogs would we have won?

Who knows but the Dogs were playing off an extra day’s break which is a significant factor. 

36 minutes ago, binman said:

Did you stop reading half way through my post OD. That's exactly what i meant by:

'Make no mistake the doggies should have won.

Which is where the no comes in. Port were mentally tough enough to hang in the match in the first half and last quarter. And were able to raise an effort in in the third. More mentally than physically. It won them the game I couldn't help but be impressed. I thought they were a bit flakey.' 

Port weren’t playing the top team on the ladder but rather a middle of the road team. That’s a big difference.

Two weeks in a row, our next opponent has 12.1 kicked against them. North v Adelaide still in progress.

On 7/22/2020 at 8:10 PM, Demonland said:

	PLAYER	INJURY	LENGTH
	Tom McDonald	Eye	Test
	Aaron vandenBerg	Cheek	2 Weeks
	Marty Hore	Toe/Quad	Indefinite
	Harry Petty	Groin	Indefinite
	Kade Kolodjashnij	Head	Indefinite
	Aaron Nietschke	Knee	Season

Get that Nietschke is gorn for the duration but a bit sad that Hore, Petty & Kolo can’t get beyond the indefinite tag.