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should never have put ourselves in that position in the first place football is a game of momentum these days, and north got all theirs going in the last quarter and, to be honest, the second quarter - they should never have let the margin balloon out as it did and could well have been in front at half time as they were as dominant in 2 and 4 as we were in 1 and 3 our defensive structure held them up in the last few minutes and petty's clunking mark after pup's big tackle was a huge part of us holding on imo

melksham was amongst the fittest players on our list - every chance to play on in 2025 if he and the club can come to an agreement yr a long time retired after all... anyway, unfortunately i agree with @middleagedemon - i think we're on a hiding to nothing this week; the line of 29.5 looks pretty generous...to them mind you, i tipped north last week, so what would i know...other than that my mfcss is STRONG

it will be interesting to see how we handle his return

i agree with a lot of this except for the last paragraph he is fit and hot to go as evidenced by his best games, albeit not to his normal lofty standard, a standard which i would say he hasn't approached since his hamstring tendon injury against the pear last year he's had one shocking game against a super hard tag he's experienced that before; he'll experience that again the truth is he's still more valuable to the side being out there and copping a hard tag and 'losing' the battle' than not being out there at all

like most good teams, bears don't bring their best players back thru the vfl

concussion would be more of an issue acl is, relatively speaking, something than be recovered from with time and training but a 'medical retirement' forced upon a player due to abnormal brainwaves cannot be reversed

he's also been 'beaten' by a tagger it won't be the first nor the last time it happens

lou gehrig's disease

50m up in the air, 40m downfield

welcome to the internet, yr gonna love it

you would have dropped oliver after the filth game? when he was our ONLY midfielder - other than first year wing caleb windsor and the skipper - to get more than 20 possessions? when he was 3rd for clearances behind gawn and anb? when he was 7th for metres gained? when he was equal 2nd for goal assists? really??

it starts somewhere...

the minute you get a 'vibe' that something bad is going to happen, yr already in

that'd be the mfcss - welcome to the club! as a long time sufferer, i recognise yr affliction and just want you to know that there's no known cure it has only gone away for a month, in october 2021, and quickly came back when all the news about dogga signing a long term extension was dismissed in november 2021

if yr saying a player is going to retire as a result of an injury that's the epitome of mfcss - "when things are glum there's worse to come"

wants to be an inside midfielder wouldn't be in the dogs' best 5 starting inside mid types behind bontempelli, liberatore, richards, macrae, and treloar

this is all very mfcss with the 'he's going to retire' i mean, it's 50/50 really, isn't it? either he will or he won't i'm presuming come rd 1, 2025, he'll be prowling around the square

i thought puddy tatts were red hot favourites to land him from a long way back? be interesting to see what footscray wants for him

projecting

only wrist-slitters

i'm all about the 'ellen' train too he's injured currently but there's also doubts as to whether or not he's in the peptides' best 22 as he's a midfielder only - no impact on play as a half-back / half-forward knocks on him would be lack of speed and usefulness of disposal so...tricky in terms of effective role for us

outstanding @Tolstoys Nudge

he's got a cafe that he loves down there?

well, it's what i'mma always think of him as now

he was our best midfielder against the filth by some margin he's not playing as badly as some of the hyperbole would have you believe