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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.

Depends on who's fit. They've got 9 days, so presumably enough to deal with concussions (ANB, Salem, Smith), so hopefully no forced outs, at least. Can't see many changes, as much as anything because there's no-one really to change with. Lewis in if fit presumably, would at least allow Fritsch to move further up the field.

Undone by the injuries. Swap Baker for Melksham and Petty for Hibberd and we win that. It's not just that the bottom 6 or so underperform, it's that they turn the ball over, which then becomes a springboard for the opposition.

Which applies even moreso to Tim Smith. Which is perhaps why Smith is included and Preuss isn't. (just a wild guess ...)

You mean there are other possible scenarios here apart from the one that says that Goodwin doesn't know what he's doing? Radical.

Let's just see how many disposals, marks and 1%ers Petty gets vs OMac - not to mention, how many marks & goals their opponents get.

The logical conclusion of this ridiculous assertion is that a capable, experienced coach could take Koo Wee Rup seconds to an AFL premiership. You can only work with what you have.

Maybe if you checked the Eagles' current ruck stocks it wouldn't.

Listed as hip.

In: ANB, Petty, Baker, Smith Out: Keilty, Melk, Lewis, Hibberd

For god's sake. Some of you should spend a week on a cancer ward. The best we can say about medical science and the identification and management of injuries and pathologies is that it's stretching it to even call it a science - informed guesswork would be closer to the mark, though even the "informed" bit gets lost in many cases. I have a heart condition. The doctor who told me 10 years ago that I needed an operation wasn't wrong or incompetent. He was basing his opinion on the information he had in front of him, in comparison to similar cases and outcomes. I still haven't had the op.

All speculation. You have no inside information on even what the specific injuries are, let alone how they presented at the time. Nor do you have any medical expertise yourself. You're also guilty of confirmation bias (though we all are, it's the way our brain works), in that you're citing examples that support your (supposed) case, while ignoring all those that don't. i.e., you're ignoring all the times that players come off with injuries, are then patched up and sent back out - and are fine. Which is the majority of cases.

The mind boggles.

Seriously?