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What an amazing turn out!!! 

2 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

GC really is where talented players go to lose confidence, ability and effort. Rowell, Anderson and Rankine are going backwards.

Bad kicking is bad footy, if they could kick straight it’s a contest, but they do work too hard for each goal. Bizarre that after everything gifted to them they’re still years away from contending. 

Have we worked out when the pregame starts? 6.30 I saw in an email from the club.

12 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

ESSENDON 🤮

This times 1000!

21 minutes ago, Josh said:

Looks good Smoker.

24 minutes ago, DeeDJ said:

Ambition - day was planned, pub lunch with a couple of other Dees, arvo ferry from Portarlington staying in town overnight, dining room dinner on 2nd level AFL Members area, celebrate the night after watching the Dees, back on ferry in morning with probable hangover

Reality - came down with Covid 2 days ago, will spend the day coughing and sneezing while watching the game instead !!

Go Dees

 

Hope you’re on the mend!

3 minutes ago, Deemania since 56 said:

Isn't it reprehensible that our game - through the snot goblins - has been reduced to this?

You want to see a beautiful game destroyed by officialdom, rules and the lingering threat of liability, go watch a Super Rugby game. 
 

4 of us went last night absolutely pumped for the 2 games in a row we’d see. We had a Pom and Kiwi who know and love the game, we left at half time of the second match just totally deflated. It has become a slow, boring, over officiated snooze fest with constant stoppages for video refs and reviews.

The scrums take so long to set… every stoppage just sucks the air out of the game. 

37 minutes ago, loges said:

I'll keep my powder dry in the Weid/TMac debate until after the game

Maybe we give it a few games rather than just the one. 

2 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Higgins is awful.

At speaking? Footy… he goes ok I guess.

2 minutes ago, bluey said:

Poor decision regarding Tommy, disrespectful.

Will be medical sub.

Because that shows him more respect, the potential to sit his bum down on the bench all night besides doing endless run through’s to warm up.

1 hour ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Like many on here, I thought Weid would go before Tmac.

His moment has now  arrived ........ hope he hangs onto those marks.

If Dunstan plays at his best he will be an adequate replacement for Viney.

May will be backline general again - so no problems down there.

That’s the thing, if he can get on the lead he generally does hold onto the marks. It’s the one on one, body on body contests where he struggles… hhhmmm I wonder if we can bring in another big bloke that might complement that… oh look over yonder it’s a Big Benny Brown!

1 minute ago, Lucifers Hero said:

If clubs want to rest a player I doubt they would play the covid card, it is just too serious an issue and what if they really got in a few weeks?  If they wanted to keep an injury a secret they could say hamstring tightness or something equally nebulous.  

Check the selections across teams this weekend, Hogan “managed”.

Paywalls for chit papers are annoying. 

So are we sure the listed 18 are locked in no matter what (unless a late injury change)?

Or has that changed as well?

Brilliant!!!!

1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Interesting to see when we play Freo if they come home with a wet sail. Haven't been watching them, but maybe they've upped their fitness to run out games.

They've beaten Crows by 1pt, Lost to Saints by 10, smashed Eagles by 55, easily the Giants by 34 and the Bombers by 48. Very easy draw so far, Blues and Cats the next 2 will show where they're at.

Being fit and being able to make those efforts is different from the buy in and having the courage to actually do it.

Those preseason training reports of the boys just doing running work because we were not AFL standard. Hoping in the early rounds to see this preseason effort translate to actual games and being shattered and out of the race by round 3… to where we are now… amazing.

11 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

Has some very similar elements to the AFLW one, so I wonder if Krstel Petrevski designed this one as well?

There's some great information about the meaning behind it all here:

AFLW: Every club's 2022 Indigenous Round guernsey

 

Thanks. 
 

The Saints one was brilliant! 

27 minutes ago, old dee said:

Cards just an example of the BS that injury reports are. I take them all with a large grain of salt. When I see a player selected to play I know that it is 95% correct.

Read @Webbercomments re injury reports/management (we’re lucky to have his input)… every person/injury/outcome is different, just roll with it bro. 

7 minutes ago, Chelly said:

Injury List: Round 6

Michael Hibberd - Calf | 1 week
Daniel Turner - Foot | 3-4 weeks
Christian Salem - Knee | 4-5 weeks
Blake Howes - Foot | TBC

hahha Salem has a new moniker "425".

When do we blame Selwyn for the injury curse this year?! *

*jokes of course

I just brought one of these (looks like the last one on this site, other sites have them).

https://ddwsportsco.com.au/new-era-melbourne-demons-corduroy-heritage-the-golfer-snapback-hat/

Have I missed the MFC letting us know the story of this one? Can't wait to read about it, looks interesting.

1 hour ago, Nasher said:

I love that he’s added goal kicking to his repertoire. I wonder if that’s been something he specifically set out to add to his game, or if it’s just panned out that way?

Yze noted it on the Dland podcast that all Mids have to move forward, not just to the bench, to rest. All the best mids are able to go fwd and hit the scoreboard so you need to as well.

So you could assume they're working on improving goal kicking as a skill like we have seen with Maxi.

How was the push by the Cats player in the ruck contest prior to that.. As to the free it surely wasn't a push in the back but it was a free. Hawkins was denied a run at the marking contest.