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Is this the first time in history that the Eagles have had less frees than the opposition over in Perth?

Tipping the Dockers beat the Dogs tomorrow to finish ahead of GWS on the final ladder.

Umpires always kill us.

Looking for a scenario whereby we play a final against Collingwood which means they finish 6th and we finish 7th. That entails GWS beating St Kilda, us beating Essendon and Freo beating the Bulldogs AND us making up the percentage differential with the Saints. Unlikely, but ...

Paul Puopolo and Ben Stratton will retire after Round 18.

You can tell your friend that there was a game

His name’s Neale, not Neal-Bullen. They won’t look at it or they will find a way to rariinalise their way out of it.

The thing is that this is 2020 and most teams have been up and down like a yo yo. You can’t bank on the Dockers or anyone else to save your skin.

6. Steven May 5. Ed Langdon 4. Max Gawn 3. Christian Petracca 2. Clayton Oliver 1. Trent Rivers

Show me a team that had anything near that sort of a challenge.

There’s very little strength shown at the very top of the club as shown by allowing the situation whereby we were the club to play Sydney and Freo within 4 days up in Cairns just 5 days after playing in Alice Springs and being one of only two clubs not to have a bye during several weeks of football frenzy. Eddie would have gone down kicking and screaming rather than allow his club to hit the wall and miss a finals series that way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.