Demonstone

Pikey actually played for four clubs - us, Fitzroy (swapped for Martin Seecamp), North and Brisbane. Just on Nathan Bassett - very good player, but didn't play a senior game with us due to injuries.

Jack Dyer is also purported to have have told his players at training to pair up in groups of three.

The sub-editors will have a field day if we draft him.

Of interest (to me, anyway): - Ben Brown named so fit to play, but not selected in the Melbourne team - Kyah Farris-White selected to play against men after running around in the under 18 comp. - Woey back but no sign of Turner (K.) or Smith (J.) - Jimmy Munro still injured

A timely opinion piece about the practice of booing players at the football. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/footy-crowds-need-to-cut-down-on-the-boos-20230421-p5d2b7.html

Ben Hart was only 17 when he debuted with Adelaide, so I don't reckon he could have been on our list before that.

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Plenty of players have moved home for the same reasons. Unfortunately, that hasn't stopped some posters unfairly deriding him as a "mummy's boy".

Are you sure about that, @Rod Grinter Riot Squad? Not getting him mixed up with Nathan Bassett?

Neither of these played for another VFL team after leaving Melbourne, which I understood to be the qualifier for @Monbon's team.

As much as I've always liked seeing a team named in position, they may as well just post the selected squad in alphabetical or jumper number order these days.

It's April 2023 and some people still think that the team will line up as announced on Thursday night.

What does that mean?

I assume that by attempting to handball, Ladhams was deemed to have played on. Correct decision IMO.

Let's keep both. That bathwater is for the drinking, not the throwing out.

Good game to win from here.

I'm guessing the rationale is replacing a forward with another forward rather than a mid.

Essendon haven't beaten us in Adelaide for over 150 years. We've got this.

If Brown is out, I would have thought that Jordon would be the logical inclusion.

I'm led to believe that in the genteel streets of Toorak, the expression is "precipitating Persians and poodles".

It would be beyond our control if it's still raining cats and hounds and poor Ben Brown suffers a mild hammy strain during the warm-up and would need to be replaced in the starting 22.

Wasn't it Judd McVee who was recently described on here as unflappable? I think I know what it means, now. edit: snap @adonski!

I think the R's dropped out of the word you meant there, Mr. Rackham.

Spot on, but that doesn't apply to just today. If only that individual who feels the need to flood every single thread with multiple posts would think twice before hitting 'send' on whatever random thought pops into their head.

After five rounds? Yeah, nah.

No. No, it isn't. This is just a sideshow.