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No sympathy for this powerhouse club that prior to the soft cap was spending $300k a week more than Melbourne - $15m a year They tanked after their drug-tainted 2006 flag to get the wooden spoon in 2010, were runner up in 2015 won a flag in 2017 and now back on the bottom of the ladder. People have short memories. Long may it continue

Hmm it does say Captain..... Either would work for me,

The Rising Star is a BS award Virtually no one nominated after rd 10 has won the award. It was originally the 1st yr player most likely to become a star and somewhere it morphed into a best first year player award. Two different things. Why have an award where over half of the nominations cant win it? Or where a potentially great player is not even nominated because on each particular week some rookie had an outstanding game. And furthermore the suspension to Reid is a joke that he is ineligible. He is head and shoulders above the others.

I think some underestimate how lucky we are to see a player of his calibre, The much lauded Cyril Rioli kicked 40 goals twice in eleven years of AFL. Kozzie has done it twice before he was 21. Last few years 40 goals, 41, 37 and 25 so far this year in 14 games. He is an outstanding talent that will go down as a melbourne great.

Just went back and checked the stats. He had zero hitouts in the GF.

This is it. A contest works for us. It will give us a different look for sure. Although the Dons did double team us last year so we need a couple of options. Personally I like Fullarton and Tommo tag teaming.

Here's the thing though. They have more info than us. Maybe they were worried about Kozzie going home and needed a plan b? We did go through a long period without any effective small fwds and then in quick time got Bedford, Kozzie, Chandler, Spargo. You never know who will work out and who won't Plus the fact that KPP recruiting is fraught with uncertainty. They are few and far between and take time. Its definitely a moving target and you only have certain tools to work with - ie draft picks, trade currency, salary cap etc.

Like Jack Darling where the rumours about his nocturnal activities were in overdrive pre-draft

Well, he has elite fitness so can definitely cover the ground

Grundy at the time was unfit and could not run from contest to contest

If Melksham goes to the Tribunal we might as well fold the competition. Eyes on the ball the whole time. Simple jostling for position to mark the ball.

Good points

Anyone see the bump between McGovern and Chandler? McG taken to hospital with a suspected rib and lung injury. He tried to strong arm Chandler coming the other way and Chandler took his bump and kept running through him . Magnificent 11:25 to go in the last qtr if you're interested

Gawn was out as well from memory... Concerning.

Didnt we get smashed last year because of their two talls? I recall it was gather round and they pumped us when we were Ok and they were bad. Oh and they have added Goldstein since then.

Well, you get moments like when McVee left a ball that he thought Lever was going to mark. Lever didn't get near it and the WCE player to essentially an uncontested mark 15m out from goal.

Our pressure in the 1st qtr was over 200. Eagles were 190+ Yet our ball movement was outstanding and set up a good win. That was a highlight for me. Loved our young guys leading the way. Kolt, Riv, JVR, Kozzie, Windsor, AMW were terrific Salem looked like the Salem of old Fritsch even laid a couple of tackles that stuck! Melk adds a huge amount of football nous and sharpness to our fwd set up. Some of his laser passes were incredible. And his leaping showed that his knees are all good. I have a watching brief on May. Can't seem to bend down and his decision making at times is well off his best. I hope its temporary. The fact we had no one on the goal line when Ryan I think it was kicked a long range banana that barely made it through was particularly infuriating. And Jack Viney, as much as I love him, has a bad habit of bombing the ball long into our fwd line (and ignoring short hit up kicks in the process) that were mostly intercepted However it was one of the more stress free days at the foot for me in the end.More of that please.

He is ready to go.. Goodwin's press conference today: "“He’s been doing match loads for six or seven weeks"

I see what you did there

He's done a power of work fitness wise in the past month so whats the problem? Ashcroft stepped seamlessly back into senior football.

Hey lets start this game by tagging Reid and (if he plays) Tim Kelly and shutting down Waterman. All three killed us last time Stop them and you stop the Eagles. But I bet we don't try to stop them , We'll just try to play our way.

I have looked at it a few times. He wasn't tripped IMO

ANB regularly gets the ball and if a player is near him or tackles him will go to ground to force a stoppage Every single week he does that We have been coached for years to create a stoppage rather than turn the ball over. Particularly late in games. That's what he did He tried to make this one look like he was tripped

We result failed to stop their chip possession game in the end. From the back half they kept chipping, forcing us to man up and wear ourselves out defending. They were then able to keep moving the ball quickly into their fwd line all night. We knew they'd play that way but we couldn't stop it. Great effort from the boys Disgraceful importing yet again. AFl got what they wanted

Any chance with 4m let we will sub our fresh leg's?