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Actually it’s a bit less conceivable than I thought. West Coast are two games ahead of us, I thought they were only one. Obviously my scenario had us beating them (and therefore passing them) but they’d need to drop one of their other games as well to not still finish 2nd. Given their other games are Freo, Port and Brisbane that seems a long shot.

We could conceivably be playing GWS for a top 2 spot in round 23.

How good has this round of footy been? Damn.

Only early days in the Showdown but so far it’s 4/4 awesome games this week. The AFL are full of it with this horse crap about the “spectacle”.

By far the most interesting game this week is Sydney vs Collingwood. The 8 gets totally reshape if Sydney win, including Geelong dropping back out, and Collingwood would drop to 6th if GWS, Port and Melbourne win as they should and 7th if Hawthorn win too. If Collingwood win you would have to think Sydney are close to done.

As far as I know 160kph hasn’t changed since the early 00s.

They’re more likely to be distracted and wet the bed I reckon. Not exactly a group with a steely resolve. They’re also a young side battered and bereft of confidence after a long season, on the road yet again. We really should grind them to dust.

You are as qualified as WYL is when he says he has a foot injury, therefore knows about all foot injuries.

Don’t think I’m the only one having a very hard time seeing where you are coming from.

It’d be tempting to bring in Hunt for sure, but it’s a big roll of the dice. He was in awful form before the injury and he hasn’t been back long. Kent for Spargo is also tempting. I’d be conservative and stick with the forced change only. Stoked to have vanders back!

This just seems unnecessarily spiteful. He was playing a bit part anyway and the passion is gone. Likelihood of him being important to a finals campaign in that frame of mind is bugger all. Now someone currently running around in bush footy gets a spot in a VFL flag tilt, in front of an AFL club, that he otherwise wouldn’t have had. I felt palpable relief for him when I read the article. The feeling of escaping something that is holding you down is immensely liberating. I hope he finds whatever it is that makes him tick.

Agree! It was obviously a tongue in cheek line from Goodwin but both statements are probably actually true. The Gawn-Oliver team is greater than the sum of its parts so to speak.

Just amputate the whole foot then. For the team.

Kent, vanders and Hannan all AFL quality options. The timing sucks being this close to the pointy end. especially since he’s been in form, but his position is probably the one where we have replacements available. And it’s also a game again pus opposition - hopefully he’s back on deck when we’re playing good sides again. If Clarry or Gawn get injured though, consider my wrists slashed.

old dee, cast your mind back to the Melksham trade. He got rubbed out for the season a few short weeks after the trade was done. The outrage and frustration at trading a valuable second rounder for a player who couldn’t play was palpable. Now nobody gives a toss, because he’s playing good footy again. When you recruit a player with a huge amount of footy ahead, the value plays out over their entire career, not just year 1. Lever will more than repay the cost. He had already started before the injury. If short term success was the measure of success for a trade, Mitch Clark was the greatest trade in history.

The 1%er stat includes spoils.

Why is it a problem? Also it’s super disrespectful to call him Jane, and not just to him.

Walker is a good player who is out of form. Don’t understand the need for hyperbole - softest in the game is just nonsense. He might be a massive knob and had a horrible GF, but he can play. Jenkins is frustratingly unphysical for such a big man, he’d cause fans to tear their hair out. He’s a 40 goal a year forward though so he must do something right.

The Sydney that lost to Gold Coast and Essendon in consecutive weeks is going to beat Collingwood, Melbourne and Hawthorn? K.

Absolutely stoked that he’s made it. Was a crucial cog in the Roos era in fast tracking our path back to competitiveness, and has always played like the jumper matters. Will go down as a true Demon now. Well done Bernie!

I wonder what happened after that - full pissup in 2001? Seems strange you wouldn’t try and repeat it the next year if it worked. Unless they thought it didn’t, of course.

Wow. When did I put a bee in your bonnet?

Agree with this. Sizeable difference between a team approaching a flag window needing to squeeze out the last 1% of performance, and a team with a crushed morale that needs to do what it needs to do to stay together.

Alright. It’s @Wiseblood (only sees the good), @Clint Bizkit (ultra pessimist), @A F (sees good and bad but can’t see past his own bias once it creeps in), and @Petraccattack (goes flying off the handle in either direction over whatever happened in the last moment). Between these four autobots, I think I have the whole spectrum of footy supporters covered.

Hey, if only the 7000 tiny things that didn’t go our way so far this year actually did, we’d probably be 18-0 with a percentage of 300.