old dee

Tough decision there SJ swapping a player who could not get the ball with one who cannot kick it. I would stay with Viney we know he is good enough. Stretch hmm hardly ever best 22.

There is a reason he never made it onto the Pies list. He is a vfl player.

I was hoping for a win last Saturday and got what I suspected. This week I am hoping we don't get a belting.

So we compounded the problem of taking in players with low preparations by taking in one Ruckman who spent 3 days in hospital and was under the weather from GA . Sounds we blew the game at the selection table.

Yes but we started with half the current level, at 45000 we are approaching our max IMO. After that you need people who gave up on the Dees some time ago. You think losing the first two games of the year will have them running to the phone with credit cards in their hands? If our form of the last three games continues we could easily be 0- 4. That will really get the numbers ticking over. you see it all depends on winning once you get to the current level in fact it is only at this level because we had a good year in 2018. Expectation has been high, it will have got the staggers Saturday afternoon and only a win at the chattery will change that. It would be our third win in thirty years down I am not holding my breath.

We should get that close RN!

Are you another who thinks with his heart and not his head.

I am not BB but as there is nothing available anywhere else Casey might win by default. It would be easier to get from VB!

Time to move from the G jnr? How about a nice new stadium at Casey?

Petracca is so slow I reckon big Max could run away from him. I watched him a lot at Full forward when he went there and whenever the Port backs got the ball they knew they could run off him. Even when chasing the ball the port players were running past him. he is IMO a classic great junior player because he was an early developer now as a senior player everyone is faster than him. He has one speed slow. He looks like he should be in body building contest, over weight and muscle bound.

I think your heart has got the better of you LH, after a bad loss this weekend at the cattery we will struggle to get past 45000.

Then why was he played?

Spot on cf. Have been saving that for 18 months.

You have low expectations Steve

Too bloody short with average skills.

A couple of mm is max. Will be excellent ground condition by 1.45. Heat will be the problem not rain.

After a shortened preseason for a number of our better players and poor preseason form I will be happy with a one goal win. We are lucky not be starting the year at Geelong or we would start 0 and 1.

By 2022 he will either be the chosen one who lead us out of the half century failure era or sacked like 95% of coaches. Interesting times ahead.

Well he started in Red and Blue well Maroon close enough.

Back in the dreadful MFC days of the seventies I went to as many Carlton and Collingwood games as I did the MFC. In fact it might have been more. I came from Bendigo and we were in the Carlton zone so a number of Bendigo boys played for the Blues and they had a knack of beating the Pies in finals. Add in my soon to be wife was a Pies supporter and I enjoyed going to games with her and her mother. They were usually good quality games to watch which could hardly be said for MFC games, the main reason I went to Dees games was to watch Mr. Flower . Basically if the Game was not at the MCG I did not go. Remember in those days games were still played at St. Kilda, Moorabbin, Nth. Melbourne, Windy Hill, Carlton, Vic Park, Footscray, South Melbourne, and Hawthorn, so basically every other game was away from the MCG. Great youthful days.

Hmm you still think it was him driving the change?

If that were true I would not have supported the Dees for the last half century!

I am not a united supporter DF, gave away the nbl when they closed down the Tigers. Have no interest in basketball in Australia any longer.

Have you looked at the three after this game?

Got the stutters bb?