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Be remiss not to have a crack. May just push the price up? we can’t know what else the club has planned - they just don’t leak!

Generally the worst footy related entertainment of the year. Will only be good if a dee wins.

From many wanting Smith out - now teeth gnashing when it is forced upon us! If it comes down to Smith / Hibbard for the win, we are in trouble. Our system down back is more important than our fourth backman selection.

Not fretting, Elwood, just looking at it through a different lens. With those ‘weaknesses’ does he even fit into what we would want, regardless of how high up he goes?

Outwit, outplay, outlast. (survivor tv show motto)

Thanks WJ. I find the ‘weaknesses’ list interesting. Given we will want whomever we get to have footy smarts, a strong defensive work rate and quality delivery, it rules many out. Mac Andrew will not get the luxury of jumping by himself in AFL too often so his weakness of not coping when man on man is a concern. Much longer term prospect perhaps. I think we may not trouble the top end of the draft pool this year. at the moment I can’t really focus beyond the game(s) ahead, good thing TL and JT are on the case.

That is almost every week….

His problem was how obvious he made it. Stood there and stuck his knee out waiting for the clean take away. Should have kept his eyes on the ball and moved toward it more. Had less problem with this call than about 1/2 a dozen others…

They might start out nice guys, but playing under Scott would do that to even mother Theresa.

We are out of the race for this guy as we have no valid picks and need the cap room for others. Unless: someone wants out to Freo (we won’t be pushing any top 25 players out of the team, we are in the window now and culture is critical) he nominates us and comes on low dollars. Think we need cap space to manage our current list more than to throw at others. even then, doubt we can make this happen. Future first would be projected at 18, so that is not enough. The best thing is our list looks good enough for now, so we can build the future in behind what we have rather than needing a type of player to fill a hole. We can now avoid paying overs and chasing targets, instead they might just start wanting to come to us.

Going early! Can we finish this year first?

Circlework? The link leads back here….

When your ruckman and captain leads the tackle count for the night you know it is all in. Love it. Go Dees

The media are bleeding all over this. Want it to be the big story, and all adding their useless opinions to help get Toby off. He is like a pervert in the nursing home, cant help but touchie touchie, old Toby. Repeat offender. He had no cause to even be that close to Stevic. Bad look for the game.

Our recruiting has been pretty sound the last few years. Really targeted needs, except perhaps for sideshow who fell out of change at the Roos and we were able to make that stick. Cerra Certainly would be a great addition, but we haven’t got the free capital (picks) to make it happen. Can’t see anyone in the current 18 being traded unless they wanted to. Culture is king, so no one is getting marched. If he asked to come to us, then we could find a deal, but I don’t think we should try to manufacture one that rips our guts out

That ‘never tear us apart’ thingo is dull as dishwater

Incidentally, these stats are meaningless. They are correlative not causative. The percentage victories of the team has little to do with the umpire designated to that game. It would be more value to review the number of free kicks, or differential, per team compared to average of all umpires officiating that team. This would begin to expose any *unconscious* bias.

Hopefully the git has been spoken to.

If Jones gets a game it means we have at least 3 injuries in the midfield. On this basis I pray we don’t need him.

“Wowee….it just went BANG… whadda ya think, Dais?” “Well, I think you should have kept up your gas plumbing ticket if you were going to fxxx around with the hot water service, BT. Down to Soders on the boundary” ” coming off it looks like. Straight down the race. Looks like Bruce might have to come on as Medical sub” ”will Hawkins have anything to answer for?” ”nah, all clear. On the replay it looks like BT did it to himself”….

Still got one month… need cases to be dropping, vax rates rising in Vic expect only vaxxed supporters allowed in, entry times, etc. cmon Dees, cmon the big V, counting on you both….

10 minutes into the last quarter and paddy was cramping up. No wonder he was then off the ground for 9 minutes. Doesn’t bode well for their finals campaign when the old guard can’t keep up for the full match. also, Selwood executed a massive, blatant throw in the second leading to the Hawkins goal. Really, umpires? And on this topic, the ‘lack of intent’ calls were appalling all night. Why do the umps love the cars when all they do is whine and scream at the maggots what they should do? (Dangerfield by the point post was an obvious example).

Voted on by subjective panel of ‘experts’. If it was your team and you had to win a gf, who would you select? Who has real form (based on this year)? If it is based on favourites, the usual knobs will get in.

I understand how you feel, Jaded. At least the team has given us something to distract us from ‘real life’ for a while, mostly in a good way. Good luck with what lies ahead for you and your husband.

7 clubs apparently took ruck prospects in their mid-year draft. Hopefully that means that there are 7 clubs ‘off the boards’ looking for developing rucks with their first picks. Gives us a chance to have a look at this kid.