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Would pick, or would *not* pick? The two sentences seem contradictory?

Misson's fault.

16 possessions, 5 marks and 2 goals from a kid playing his second game is phenomenal, whether you rate it or not.

Which is pretty well what we are. Sure, only half the team, but when half the players are VFL standard, then it drags the whole team down: you can't keep possession, systems fall apart and structures break down, there's no real synchronicity between the players and finally, there's no real consistency across team selection/player position etc. We're not even going to start to be competitive until we get at least a few players back (imagine even just Salem, Hibberd and Melksham into that team), but more importantly, we start to get some consistency over a long period in the team we put on the park.

Demonland outdoing itself today.

Yes, realised. That kind of day.

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a) we're hardly getting it in there, high bombs or not and b) as you pointed out, they're useless. I get that we need "reasons", but thinking that we're getting slaughtered because one player wasn't selected is over-the-rainbow. We're getting slaughtered because half our team is out, and has been out since the beginning of the pre-season, and everything that flows from that.

Yes, because we have so many players running round at Casey just crying out for selection.

This is just looking for a scapegoat. Sure, it's frustrating, but the problem is that half the team has hardly touched it, and when they have they've butchered it, not something something Goodwin or something something selection.

Nope.

Cough skill cough.

At least one player has to be held over as emergency as Casey also play on Sunday. So maybe Lewis, in which case his Casey career may have to wait. On the other hand, given the AFL match starts earlier, still time for a mad race across the bridge to Williamstown for a 2 p.m. start?

Hindsight bias in action. Also confirmation bias, because you're ignoring the games that were won at selection - which is the majority of them.

This is so [censored] Demonland. - misquote. Tick - take misquoted quote out of context. Tick - take misquoted quote out of context and apply to a different context. Tick What he actually said was: "Fourth now is nothing to us." And the line before that was: "We loved every minute of [last year]. It was great but we start again absolutely from scratch," IOW, getting to fourth (i.e., in the last 4 in the finals) in 2018 counts for naught in 2019, that nothing is a given.

Except that he's training (check out the training update video), and will play next week. So there is that.

Weideman would be the other choice. Was very good in his one VFL match before getting injured. Just saying.

Coaches' votes tell a tale: Hurn and Yeo both 9, Gawn 6, but no serious votes for anyone else from Melbourne. OK, could speak of a team-wide effort which is obviously a plus, but we need a few more of our players to have a bit more impact/be more damaging.

Actually, for the last 3 seasons, Kent has been playing fairly regularly, though a lot of that time was spent bouncing between AFL and VFL. He managed 20 AFL games in 2016, the only recent year where he didn't have his season ended prematurely through a serious shoulder injury - not to mention "a club suspension for breaching club rules on alcohol protocols". He also managed 13 and 15 AFL matches in 2013 and 2014, alongside matches in the VFL. But heh, Misson.

You don't know that. We played plenty of games with Hogan and still lost, and it's not as if he's exactly winning games off his own boot for Freo.

If someone breaks or dislocates a shoulder that's Misson's fault? FFS

I'd take ANB over Maynard every day. Maynard will be delisted at year end, too one-trick and slow. Brayshaw rotates through mids and does plenty of clearances, but will eventually return to full-time mid duties. Put it this way, it's either Brayshaw or Jones on a wing at the moment, and Brayshaw is less of a problem there than Jones. Finally, Fritsch should be further up the ground, sure but a) we have no-one else to cover for most of the backline being out injured and b) his defensive side needs work, so what better way of developing it. Presumably when Hibberd, Lever, May come back, Fritsch will find himself in a more "natural" position.

Jetta given 1 match for the tackle on Smith - for which Smith was penalised for holding the ball. Something not quite right there.

Or a dudess. (more likely actually)

You don't manage game time because of injury, you manage game time because of fitness. Given he hasn't done a full pre-season for 2 years now, understandable.