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I think Smith is ace. After Rance’s special (how many players does he fly the knees into? He should be held to account, dirty prich), he has worked himself back into the team. It is brilliant, because it adds another dimension to the forward line, and provides a great challenge for Weids to earn his spot against. No gifting games. He adds strength and skill to the forward line. Go Bull!

Wow. Great lineup. A few there who will be fighting like crazy to get back into the firsts....

Ben Brown: 9 goals this year from frees. Old arm flinger gets value for his acting

Even at 80% we would give the dogs a run on their current servings of tripe. If (and it is a big IF) they can get it together, I can't see them scoring enough, or limiting us enough, to get the chocolates. I could imagine they might try an old fashioned flood and attempt to block the back half so the scoring is limited, then rope a dope Essendon style using Johannison etc. We are much better defending against the goals over the back now (which was the old achillies heel) and they really have no forward to speak of. Max will eat them alive (we could even play Flipper and he would halve the contest). Perhaps they will go hard man on man - that suits our HULK-SMASH contested ball game. So on reflection, I find it hard to see where we will lose it, unless we go back to bad habits and jog to contests, get sucked into disputed balls and our press gets sucked too far up the ground. It smells like a big win. Conservatively, even if they run hard at us for a few quarters, can see us breaking their backs and running away with it. Conservative guess with no personnel problems (I cant bring myself to use the 'i' word..)and a non-Kool-aid drinking performance: Dees by 50.

This is like porn. Keep it going!

Kane Cornes sucks dogs balls. Only 2 players chosen from a team that beat 4th placed crows by 91 points? Should have just cut and pasted the team sheet. After watching some of the other matches, he honestly has no idea.

I think the potential has been there for a while, it is the maturity and the 'team first' actions I am seeing at every contest that I am really appreciating. We are riding the high at the moment - the wrist slashers are not far away - one loss will do it and they will be back. However, I think that if we keep up this attitude and approach we can ride out bad periods in games when we are beaten, and even bad games if we have them. This for me is about building the long term framework that success will be built on, and the belief to grab back success if it starts to be taken away by opposition clubs. The way they are sharing, not over celebrating, not getting distracted and just getting on with stuff is superb! We keep this up, and momentum will swing in behind us. Momentum is a powerful force in football. The maggots ride it, the crowd rides it and it can give us advantage before we even run out (as long as we don't drink our own Kool aid). I think this is where Goody and the coaching team will now earn their stripes - keeping the lid on inside the club whilst everyone outside leaps on the bandwagon.

How about Bruce’s “Eddie is in fine form, he is just not getting enough of it”. Trying to blow smoke up a frozen Ahrse-hole with that one.

The only change is the narrative. Time to take us seriously. Cats, Hawks and Tiggers damned happy they played us before the Tsunami started.

It is a difficult week. What can you say? It has been a long time since I have seen such a complete performane - from any club, let alone one in the Red and Blue. I dont know how I feel. But I love it, and want more of it. I love Goody’s straight bat presser. Not getting ahead of himself. My god. Tent pole in the Y fronts territory!

So I have a kiddie matinee show thingo I have to attend, and if I get caught on the phone by Mrs Naked I’m dead meat. So I will be blind to probably the first half at least, unless I can a few dunny runs. Adelaide play a tough contested brand of ball. We have to serve it straight back. Max will dominate Jacobs, their midfield will ruck to him. Need to win the midfield, and shut down their HB run. And keep Eddie quiet. 1 goal per quarter better, plus a late surge sees us home by 35 points. I will watch the replay later.

Fair point, but I also think this is about some sort of appropriate justice - that is fairness in how the rules are applied. No one came out and wanted us to get anything after 186, we were just pilloried as a terrible club with lots of problems. Carlton lose by 109 to us, and all of a sudden everyone wants to give them a leg up. But I get it, they are the ‘mighty blues’. If it is not paper Visy bags, then it needs to be something else. They have recruited terribly, fed off the dregs of GWS (Grand Sale, Grand Sale!) and been shyte for ages. I would only be happier if the bombers had the length of suffering that these buggers have. Honestly, a few additional draft picks are probably not going to make a difference. I think they need to boot SIlvagni and change some of their admin. I think Bolton could be a good coach, and there is enough talent in just Cripps and the Curnow boys to build a team around. They just need to get their heads out of their arses. I think assistance is appropraite where necessary, but think they have the ability to carry a couple more seasons before they need to be rescued by the AFL. I would think Gold Coast needs a lot more than these buggers in terms of assistance right now.

Masochist!

Cox is such a spud

Plow is irrelevant what a toss bag of yesterday's jizz. Big deal that Lever changed clubs. Boo Hoo Adelaide. Not like every player on your list was born and bred there (Bryce Gibbs to name one...). Seriously, if they need to target Jake they will be looking the wrong way. The ball will be up the other end of the ground. Suck your own balls, plow.

His dad is about 11 hundred feet tall and played at 120 kgs. Imagine that physical presence, either forward or in the middle? Sheesh! That is not Brendan Fevola 120 kgs (stuffing hamburgers into his cheeks like a starving Hamster in a nut factory), but athletic size and genuine build. Keen to see how he develops in our system

BT has to say "Marvel..lous!" at least 10x per game. Aren't they going to shut this shwithole down, anyway?

No Ah Chee plays for the suns...

Do we know what the scan is of? Not his foot again, is it? So Pedo for TMAC?

Elite sports people in tennis and basketball, including NBA. Many who move into business, admin and coaching. These networks can deliver incredible value, open doors, even deliver sponsorships etc. most football royalty has its boundaries around Melbourne. This one goes much bigger. It appears they are all Dees supporters, too!

So pleased we landed him! Absolute sporting royalty pedigree, and his fathers connections are worth a fortune to the club, too.

Evidence for the prosecution: Adelaide had a really tough contested slog in the wet last week, as evidenced by the extraordinary number of contests. We had a bit of a waltz around a few witches hats. adelaide give it, but wilt when put under sustained pressure. they have some serious names out injured they are arrogant overconfident tossers their focus is on Lever. i think they will ruck to Max. Jacobs has already conceded. so, they are no pushovers, but we are at least one goal better per quarter. Dees by 24, with and upside blowout over 40 on the cards.

Injury update said Weids did a calf at training. Will be out this week (more precautionary) and ready the week after. Interesting to see if he has to come back via Casey, or straight in

I watched the Casey goals. It is difficult to draw any line through that as the footage looked like we were playing a team of non AFL standard. Pedo took some strong marks, but the pressure applied in those contests looked 2nd rate at best. i simply don’t know how to rate the performances. Maybe relative to each other? Maybe work rate and two way efforts?

And team mates wives....