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win and we'll finish 3rd or 4th (depending on the filth beating crows), lose and we'll finish 6th

viney is a key part of our midfield; the denigration of him on this site baffles me

bears cost themselves the win with their shocking first quarter maggots just made certain of the result...truly diabolical this evening, but maggots are always gonna maggot

Scott of the whinging whining Cat variety

Incredibly bad luck to lose Goldrick on the eve of finals

Selwood 2, Rohan 3 Cats are a dirty side

Undoubtedly

Barrett is adopting him as a love child

best thing carltank can do is let cripps walk to one of the two wa clubs for a compensatory first round pick

Gonna turn on ABC now to hear how salty Maclure is

i actually think it's their mids that is the biggest issue - they don't defend

blues cats swans pear them gc17 tiggers footscray dockers a lot more 'even' a round than you would have thought last week would be despite a heap of upsets - at this stage i would say i only have confidence in pear and tiggers

the umps are calling 'play on' really late

sounds like crowds are going to be down on expectations - carlton v the filth tomorrow night only looking at around 55k capacity of the max 75k

his brother runs both way and switches offensive / defensive mindset at a far quicker pace than gus

yes, yes, and yes but then...no tom phillips was only up for grabs if you were prepared to pay him his full salary which is up to $600k a year for the next two - the filth weren't prepared to take on any of that as they were already set to pay $300k a year to treloar for the next three years we couldn't afford to bring phillips even from a salary cap perspective unless we could offload the likes of tom mcdonald...which now looks to be a far better option mcdonald looks as fit as he has for years and will play that wing role once brown and weideman return

he's an effective inside midfielder but he doesn't defend and he's so slow in transition from offensive to defensive mindset our best player at that is viney

they've set the precedent with anb and one other player - concussion = severe

that's a bummer re harmes - might explain why he seemed to be stationed more forward than through the midfield in the latter stages of the game - it makes the likely change easier to potentially forecast, particularly if melksham and hibberd still need more match time in their legs... IN: viney OUT: harmes

what's the injury to harmes?

well that was easy

less stoppages, less congestion, less tackles...less ruck contests too, you'd think, so clearances would be down too?

no, but it's comparable as two local sides with relatively commensurate membership bases playing at home against an interstate side for the first time in front of crowds since 2019 port clearly have more melbourne-based fans than freo

fwiw, north melbourne v port adelaide drew just over 13,000 under the roof on sunday; north have just on 36,000 members at the moment, and tbh it sounded like there was more than 5,000 pear supporters there

wasn't anb given 3 weeks and because they protested it got bumped up to 4? i can definitely see danger getting this downgraded to 1