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won't they also both the biggest winning margins of each weekend of their finals? obviously we were involved in the biggest margin in the third weekend too, sigh i don't disagree with mick, although i think it's less about drinking own bathwater and more that we seem to go into 'coasting' mode when we're on top, which allows good teams to come back at us, and then when we do get beaten we have a tendency (hawthorn, richmond, pies on qb etc.) to turn up our toes and just look like we aren't interested i also would hazard a guess that the only games mick watched us in last year was queen's birthday walloping and then three finals

i think it's interesting that our players have said that they actually aren't huge on 666, primarily as it's a different way of playing for us, where we've been used to having one or two come off the back of the square i guess it'll take some adjusting, but really it should help us centre clearances are going to be vital

I do not want to play any dirty bird franchise related teams in finals, or virtual finals, for the foreseeable future...

collingwood should be the stand-out team this year they lost the grand final and they're starting the year with moore back from injury, in defence where he looks better suited, elliot the same but up front, beams in the midfield, and callum brown was particularly impressive during the preseason dunn and scharenberg will both come back at some stage for them too i completely agree that the love from the media for them is warranted

he looks so young still - i think it's easy to forget that god i hope his comeback is a massive part of our glorious rise to six premierships in a row

we need to win by 26+ to get a spot in the finals it's extremely unlikely the conference system is a farce

60k is realistic in 2020 if we make finals again 70k might be a shot in 2020 if we win the premiership this year

Tbh I thought he was lucky to get one given his recidivist history

i can't help but wonder...if another club offers jones a three year contract, would he take it?

he'll wear a batman mask like grimes, presumably?

he's also our best crumber given garlett's injury in 2019 / form in 2018 melksham was sometimes the deepest lying forward last season.

if we don't risk two, absolutely should challenge

not surprising late, high, low force, unnecessary - given his recidivist nature, lucky to not be more than a week

to be expected - do they risk two if they challenge?

is that for real?!?? quite the stuff up if so!

No news on his scans?

Andrew looks like a very good user of the ball, would defo have him at the Dees - but having shifted Hogan, we simply don’t have the WA-bred assets to move to Freo to get him

yes, he just can't get a clean run at it he's looked okay when he's played this preseason - clearing out space for him has helped, no doubt

See, I sit in the opposite camp - O Mac can read the ball in flight and dispose of it cleanly which makes up for his lack of sheer size Frost is hopeless when the ball comes in high and his disposal makes Brayshaw look clean with his possession

thanks @Tough Kent, that's really interesting as someone else on here posited, 666 - which should favour us as a side with a dominant ruck and big bodied mids kicking to leading forwards - is definitely going to take some adjustment given we're relatively used to playing two off the back of the square

anyone who leaves lewis out of round 1 needs their head read

i don't think he's really done anything special, but i get the feeling that hore will definitely be a part of the side at this stage, may will play as he has not been suspended...same as with goodwin saying that harmes will play, you have to presume he'll play i'll go with the following changes from the 2018 prelim: IN: may, hore, fritsch OUT: frost, hannan, tyson B: Jetta - May - Hore HB: Lewis - O Mac - Hibberd ? Salem - Brayshaw - Fritsch HF: Petracca - T Mac - vandenBerg F: Melksham - Weideman - Spargo Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Harmes I/c: Jones - Viney - Neal-Bullen - J Smith Emerg: Stretch - Frost - Hunt - Kielty obviously if may is suspended then frost comes in i worry about how underdone we look, both from a fitness as well as a cohesiveness point of view

AVB could be as simple as sore arms from laying 16 tackles

No Harmes, AVB, JKH or Joel Smith in attendance Big bandage on Viney’s thigh

Taking a gaggle of kids to it as part of ‘filling in time on Sunday’