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i live in absolute fear of losing this game.

i'd say the only certain change is o mac out injured for dunn. o mac wasn't even that bad yesterday. we desperately need some outside pace - when garlett moved up on to scully on the wing we finally had someone who could run and carry with the pill, which is why you'd think garlett would be a chance. i personally can't see pedo or frost being omitted; the forward structure with those two plus hogan and watts is working okay, and the pace of frost is an added dimension. harmes might be in trouble for brayshaw's re-inclusion in the side, but if garlett goes for his hit (which might happen but would be pretty ridiculous as there was nothing in it), then he stays. as such, i'm thinking changes are minimal: out: oscar mcdonald (injured), harmes in: dunn, brayshaw

Swan gone for ten weeks apparently. Good chance to miss both our games? Tom Lynch from the Suns will miss a few. Nasty roundhouse to Baguley's scone.

He wasn't at his best today but to call for him to be dropped is ridiculous. He also wasn't alone in turning the ball over repeatedly. Some of the mistakes Vince made were just as bad.

gerard whateley has called that if clayton oliver doesn't get the rising star nomination this week it would be a surprise...you could hear sellars maclure snort in derision in the back of the box. weitering's debut was good, but oliver's was better.

my favourite player.

6 - viney: he's a ripper 5 - watts: continued on his fine pre-season form 4 - t mcdonald: i panicked big time when he went off carrying his soulder 3 - n jones: a bit rough in patches, but he's still our best player 2 - kennedy: fantastic replacement for the toump 1 - oliver: we have got an absolute beauty on our hands here

jeepers creepers that was a tough game to watch.

we'll know at 12:10 whether or not avb is in - final teams need to be submitted an hour and a half before the bounce.

bontempelli (4), cripps (13), kade kolodjashnij (5), zach merrett (26), then salem (9) for mine.

so nervous. most of my non-dees mates reckon gws will pump us. hells bells, that better not happen. ps: series 3 of hannibal is incredible. amazing show. such a shame it wasn't allowed to go for the intended 5-season arc to tell the full story. mads is amazeballs.

Callum Mills should take out the rising star I reckon. Petracca and Oliver will hopefully split people on which Melbourne young gun to vote for...

Port Adelaide renaissance is heartening to see. Adelaide Oval and the general sentiment played a big part in that too. Of the q of which four teams, other than ours, that I see up and about in three seasons time: - GWS: list depth is so strong already, and each year they trade out varying degrees of quality and bring in youth with potential - Footscray: whilst they have a lot of elder statesmen who are important (Boyd, Murphy, etc) their quality of youth with the likes of Liberatore, Wallis, Macrae Bontempelli and Stringer is all class - Port Adelaide: the likes of Boak, Gray x2, Hartlett etc are still relatively young, and they keep bringing in complementary players 'for the now' like Polec, Ryder, and Dixon...potentially the Toump too if he can return to his underage level at AFL level - Cats / filth: can't separate these two sides, both are building sides for this exact time period to complement their established players

Lang Lang's list is better than Robbo's

i wonder if matt jones might miss, regardless, due to the concussion he received in the third preseason game. i'm expecting lumumba to play; i'd prefer it if he didn't, but particularly considering vanders has to be a doubt for now i presume he will be an 'in' of nowhere near enough preseason base imo. he'll be so underdone. there's basically two schools of thought for me tho - we either go with four tall forwards with one permanently on the bench or we chance our arm and go with three, in which case one of frost or pedersen miss out. with all four: B: Jetta - Dunn - Garland HB: Salem - T. McDonald - Vince C: Brayshaw - N. Jones - Bugg HF: Watts - Pedersen - Kennedy F: Kent - Hogan - Garlett Foll: Gawn - Tyson - Viney I/C: Lumumba - Oliver - Frost - Harmes Emerg: Stretch - Grimes - M. Jones with three: B: Jetta - Dunn - Garland HB: Salem - T. McDonald - Vince C: Brayshaw - N. Jones - Bugg HF: Harmes - Watts - Kennedy F: Kent - Hogan - Garlett Foll: Gawn - Tyson - Viney I/C: Lumumba - Oliver - Pedersen - M. Jones Emerg: Stretch - Frost - Grimes during preseason we definitely went the 'all four' route, but because we've not played on a ground quite like the g until round 1 i have no idea which way it will go.

thriller at the fields!

back to a point the diff according to casey twitter feed.

yeah, looks like the twitterati might've massively overreacted too.

Seems like there's a lot of great discussion happening around richmond on another thread, but i reckon we should create a new thread specifically to discuss other clubs. maybe something the mods can pin? Let me start with this little tidbit about the filth - adam treloar has either done a hamstring or copped a knee knack this morning at a pies' intra-club. No idea of how serious or not it is at this stage.

this was first considered nearly three years ago. it won't happen.

if we get to 13 wins i'll dance a jig of glee. 10 wins is optimistic in my view. i just want to see no more blowout losses, and winning the close ones. do that and we might get to 10-13 wins.

would love hurley at the dees. he's the player i most wanted when we picked watts. he's no guarantee to stick to the bombers.

There is some awesome, awesome footage of Eade in the Footscray coaches box absolutely doing his nana about Minson. Cameron has to ask him three times to stop screaming as he's trying to relay a message down to the bench. Some of the most hilarious footage I've ever seen. It'll never be released as its decidedly un-PC. Would take any three of these boys if available at the right price and they can show they're over their injuries.

you forgot 'holding the premiership cup aloft'.

i can't wait to see what this kid can do.