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cows missing jacobs favours the puddy tatts for mine our game, toss of the coin, least worst wins, which i fear will be them you'd think cola should get over carltank without charlie curnow gw$ should be too good for rance / riewoldt less tiggas the filth over meth coke in the gf rematch bears-pear could be the game of the round, i favour the former on their home turf footscray should continue their strong start to the season over gc17 i like the future tasmania over the soon to be former tasmania, without shiel and burgoyne jokers should be too good at home for the aints

4-6 is likely you'd think - three to de-load, three to re-load

we're playing friday night football, desperately trying to resurrect ourselves as a club that can draw big crowds, and people don't want us to promote ourselves that would be a backwards way of going forwards i'm all for the promo that they've done this week in the lead-up to a very important game elliott got door-stopped and said 'nah' which happens ALL the time...but cos it was blown up by the media it BECAME the story, and a joking one at that guaranteed the spin on, say, melksham doing the same would've been very different - "dee refuses interview" cue garry lyon saying the players and clubs need to be more accessible, blah, blah, blah

no it's not players must speak to media and get messaging out there anyone who thinks the cone of silence is a preferred method of operation in this age of over-information is living in the distant past

harry himmelberg signs a four-year deal to stay at gw$

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cos like chip, he's got the hallmarks of an all-australian defender? i didn't mean that as a knock on may, at all but in terms of comparable players, may is arguably a better kick, but both very similar in the grand scheme of things in terms of what they bring to the side - strength and agility 1:1, as well as a tough attitude frawley gets injured / suspended less tho, and has one more all oz guernsey already

elliott is not really a 'small forward', more a forward who is small good player, but why would he leave the filth?

i think, right now, you could add to that lot... B: Jetta - Frost - Hibberd HB: Salem - O Mac - Kolodjashnij ? Jones - Brayshaw - Viney HF: Fritsch - T Mac - Hunt F: Lockhart - Weideman - Melksham Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Harmes I/c: Petracca - Stretch - C Wagner - Keilty Emerg: Spargo - Preuss - Neal-Bullen - Petty it's not JUST that we're not fit as a team, it's that our fit players are in horrendous form

biggest bummer is that mcg is now predicting a crowd of 58k that's at least ten, possibly twenty, short of what we'd ideally want to be achieving on what should be a fantastic night for football - 27 degrees during the day, cooling slightly in the evening if both teams were 2-0 and had played well to start the year then there'd be a lot more theatre goers and fans who can't be bothered coming along to it i can't wait, but i think it'll be peptides by 13 points in a scrapfest in front of a disappointing 54k or so crowd hope i'm wrong tho! i'd take a 31 point win in front of 45k that's fer sure

he was a free agent, who had had a career riddled with injury, but has been fantastic for north since landing there north were always the frontrunners, but i believe we were the second team chasing him at the time coniglio will cost a lot more, in terms of contract, but will deliver gw$ a better than second round pick, which is what footscray got for compo - with that pick they chose lukas webb (pick 27)

whoops, meant lockhart stays in... IN: stretch, c wagner, keilty OUT: may, anb, sparrow B: Jetta - Frost - Hibberd HB: Salem - O Mac - Kolodjashnij ? Jones - Brayshaw - Viney HF: Fritsch - T Mac - Hunt F: Lockhart - Weideman - Melksham Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Harmes I/c: Petracca - Stretch - C Wagner - Keilty Emerg: Spargo - Preuss - Neal-Bullen - Petty unavailable thru injury: may, lewis, lever, hannan, vandenberg, kennedy harris, garlett, j smith in answer to the query as who plays sweeper, i think it'll rotate btw jones, kk, fritsch, and hunt, which is what would seem to be happening against the cats too

gonna be difficult from the stands seeing as he's yet more weeks out injured... the real dangers in their forward line are orazio fantasia (0.4 against the aints) and jake stringer (1 goal 2) - my biggest concern is that our ideal match-ups for them - jetta and hibberd - are in atrocious form if mitch brown (frost) or shaun mckernan (o mac) get a hold of us we are in big, big trouble IN: stretch, c wagner, keilty OUT: may, anb, sparrow B: Jetta - Frost - Hibberd HB: Salem - O Mac - Kolodjashnij ? Jones - Brayshaw - Viney HF: Fritsch - T Mac - Hunt F: Keilty - Weideman - Melksham Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Harmes I/c: Petracca - Stretch - C Wagner - Keilty Emerg: Spargo - Preuss - Neal-Bullen - Petty unavailable thru injury: may, lewis, lever, hannan, vandenberg, kennedy harris, garlett, j smith

unfortunately, like eddie mcguire with his disparaging comments of anyone and everyone he deems 'below' him, may is a recidivist when it comes to a) not being fit and b) getting suspended he's too small (height-wise) for modern forwards, many of who are lightning quick 200cm+ athletic freaks may is no better / no worse than chip frawley

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also, who's panicking? i think most are just resigned to us wasting another year of our football-supporting lives

like supercoach, i'm presuming the season begins in round 3

open the draft board! https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-draft-2019-pick-1-top-10-prospects-order-afl-draft-watch-noah-anderson-finn-maginness/news-story/11281d9e0ba91ca6a1a6519e1965116c

when are you opening the draft board?

carnage at adelaide oval yesterday - charlie curnow getting scans on his knee to check how bad it is (acl / pcl / mcl), watts' season done with an ankle / leg break (syndesmosis), and amon a likely mcl as well

the problem with this is if, on a normal occasion, you told me these were our best five players then i'd say we had a pretty good game! alas... 6: oliver 5: harmes 4: brayshaw 3: gawn 2: viney 1: lockhart

could be an ugly friday night btw two 0-2 teams! peptides are quick - can't hit a target to save themselves thus far in 2019, but quick on the outside no idea what to do with team changes, but at the moment we have at least half a dozen ostensible top ten players severely out of form - jones, petracca, anb, hibberd, jetta - who are all, more or less, integral to our side as they bring a experience and mid depth, mid-sized forward target / rotation mid, small pressure forward, half back rebound, defensive stopper can't drop all of em but you'd think trac and anb would be on a knife's edge i still don't understand recruiting a bloke and then not playing him, but i would presume given the casey report that keilty is more likely to come in than preuss at this stage - his recruitment is a bit baffling at the moment peptides have a small, zippy, dynamic forward line so there's no point playing o mac and frost alongside may, presuming he's right to play (was very proppy), so one of them goes - i prefer o mac as a footballer, but we need frost's pace you can't have both frost and hunt in the back half of the ground, as they're absolute liabilities, so either hunt plays forward, replacing anb's role, or he gets dropped forward line was completely dysfunctional tonight so something needs to change sparrow needs a run at a lower level to get his hands on the pill IN: Stretch, C Wagner, Keilty OUT: O Mac, ANB, Sparrow B: Jetta - May - Hibberd HB: Salem - Frost - Fritsch ? Jones - Viney - Brayshaw HF: Petracca - T Mac - Melksham F: Keilty - Weideman - Hunt Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Harmes I/c: Stretch - Kolodjashnij - C Wagner - Lockhart Emerg: Spargo - Preuss - ANB - Sparrow unavailable thru injury: lewis, lever, avb, garlett, j smith, whatever player comes down with a mystery injury of the week

oliver is a freak brayshaw, viney and harmes are honest battlers we have no forward structure and no way of moving the ball forward other than bombing it long petracca, anb and hunt worst on

bit hard to have an impact when yr tethered to the forward 50 and the ball never gets there

may joins the dropped chest marks club