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velvet sledgehammer loves to tell the story about when big al came to him at the start of the 2000 grand final he said 'fantastic, been waiting for this match-up' or words to that effect four goals in a 10 goal premiership...that's almost under par for lloyd ultimately

that forward line looks better than what our prospective rd 1, 2021 one is looking like

if majak is match-ready, i'm actually not opposed to playing both - t mac spent the whole summer, or at least the first two-thirds of it, training to play the wing... round 1, maybe? B: Rivers - May - Lever HB: Hunt - Tomlinson - Salem C: Langdon - Petracca - McDonald HF: Fritsch - Jackson - Neal-Bullen F: Chandler - Daw - Pickett Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Harmes I/c: Spargo - Brayshaw - Hibberd - vandenBerg Emerg: Bowey - Laurie - Baker - Petty if they play brayshaw they play hibberd and i expect avb to be picked too; you'd presume as long as they got thru a game and a half of competitive football, even at vfl level, they will be picked as they're important to the way we want to play i'm pretty worried about taking all three of them, plus an underdone pickett and a hamstrung salem, into the game - but i'd prefer them to any of the players i've got in the emergency line - we tend to debut a player in rd 1 and bowey seems the likely candidate if one of salem or hibberd don't get up i expect they'll back in tomlinson to keep 'playing his role' - he's the obvious candidate for demonland 'whipping boy' in 2021 - but i'm hoping petty can take the role the likes of astbury plays for the tigers for us longer term

i wonder whether the game was moved forward to friday night given the weather forecast for tomorrow

footyology is a fun listen but my god those two let their bias show

you'd think so i imagine that the numbers for the pre-season competition were a bit of a surprise given that they expected them to be chockers; most that went was about 10,000, i think, of a max of 25,000 it's going to be interesting to see what happens on tuesday; i still can't believe that the afl is doing all reserve tix for afl / club at essentially the same time; ticketek / ticketmaster will definitely melt down

heard some talk today that mcg crowd expectation is, at this stage, as low as 25k - i.e. half the max capacity interestingly, the tiggas v carlton game expectation is expected to be under 40k - i would be amazed if it wasn't much, much closer to 50k

Broken chest bone, out for 10-22 weeks* *was my MFCSS assessment upon hearing it was a chest injury

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I actually read this the other way around; the glass half full look is that Majak is there is everything goes horrifically badly and our prime key forward / back / ruck options are injured or horrifically out of form Oh...wait...

errr, no - category a rookie at the tiggas they were always likely to sign him up

based on what we've seen thus far, i think they'll rush brayshaw and pickett back - prematurely imo - in order to have another big inside mid and a small forward who has genuine pace, but i can't see the likes of viney, hibberd, or melksham being good to go...and if may isn't okay for round 1 we might be in a spot of bother... B: Rivers - May - Lever HB: Hunt - Tomlinson - Salem C: Langdon - Petracca - Neal-Bullen HF: Fritsch - McDonald - Jones F: Chandler - Jackson - Pickett Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Harmes I/c: Spargo - Brayshaw - Bowey - Baker Emerg: Jordon - Sparrow - Petty - Jetta

yeah, but it's relative - 2018 is looking pretty light on talent-wise some two years on outside the majority of the top 10 - which we traded out of to land may, kk, and sparrow - and a handful of players beyond that, it's hardly a super impressive crop

being sarcastic? one was pick 27, the other was 33 - hardly high end picks not many from outside the top 10 of the 2018 draft have really cemented their roles at clubs as yet

6: may 5: lever 4: fritsch 3: neal-bullen 2: gawn 1: jones our mids were completely pantsed and it's just as well we have the likes of oliver to come back in

Rayner from the bears sadly looks to have done his acl

Viney a confirmed out for round 1 I believe, and I can’t see Hibberd playing personally

Aaaaaandd moved

i saw that too harmes really comes across as a terribly arrogant footballer for someone who is fairly ordinary in the grand scheme of things

our tackling technique is woeful

3 goals 3 ain't 'straight'

tomlinson knocked may into round 2

honestly, the free kick differential is neither here nor there for mine - they have simply wanted it more, got to the front position, and worked far harder defensively

tbh most teams are the same

i can't see how tomlinson can be best 22 and us be a halfway decent side