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Good call. Game over now. Last week bombers weren't good enough. Gws are class and we're a 5 to 8th team. Selection forward strategy non existent.

3 highest possession winners for the quarter were defendets. Oliver ineffective. Poorest forward connection for a top team ever. Gws system and connection far superior.

I love Thursday night footy, mainly because it means the Front Bar is on a day earlier. But the ratings have slid for Friday nights with some dud games and the later 7.50 start too late a timeslot. Thursday night at 7.25 start will please our sponsors. Everyone's home and watching hopefully.

And is Rutten as good as they say? i.e. Tom Stewart - 13 uncontested marks. No planning or just no-one to counter him? I think he will be good culture-wise for them however.

Not unreasonable . So far theres only been 1 wwek without the extra tall, if you assume Weids was contributing when he played? Last week w/out BBB I reckon.

Kudos for this post. The original post was 22 hours ago. Normally the other team's insigths correspond to a meltdown of hilarity and comment on here. No such luck and says just how different it must be to follow a new team as opposed to the traditonal ones with rusted on emotion. Sad really for them. Suns commentary must be worse.

On the contraty it tells us the teams thst genarally did well in last half of last season carried that good form across summer and into first half of this year. Whilsy last years also rans are still in that position.

At our peril.

Well said here. It reminds me of the selction mistake (IMO) prior to the 1987 prelim, when the great John Northey, dropped a forward David Williams, for a defender, Rod Grinter. Williams was a proven goalkicker and was in tears in the race at the end of that disatsorous game. He was back in the the 1988 GF team but little consolation at the time.. Willaims had a poor game in the lead up semi against the Swans, but in the prelim our best goalkicker was Ricky Jackson with 3. Wilson 2. The other forwards didn't fire a shot and we lost by only 2 points. Brown will free up Fristsch to do what he does best - dominate in the air in one on ones.

I'm with you DRD on this issue. It's an intersting discussion between a supporters optimism (which I don't have) and reality (which I do have). My only additon to your prognostication is that I have a lot more faith in coaching and leadership on the ground nowadays (note Dogs and Lions wins for example.) On that score I think a Port win and a Geelong win is possible - but not bankable in the slightest. The others are realistically in the loss column.

Matthew Lloyd is a rank ameteur on providing analytical discussion along with the child-like graphics he/the show producers use to explain an issue.

Good point. I am new to On the Couch and Kayo and have found that show and Kayo game day special comments head and shoulder above any show on Free to air - with 2 exceptions: Any Ch 7 game with Daisy Pearce as special comments and The Front Bar.

His father was awarded life membership of the Dees at the AGM several years ago (maybe 2019) for service as a long term trainer I think. Huge Dees family the Stanaways. Clint was there with him.

Sorry my Mistake and good Luck. With zero cases today again I expect the stated 85% rule to apply by Dan Andrews. The club told me their email is on hold till that is clarified , assuming its tomorrow morning .

The media aren't generally deep thinkers with long attention spans and tend to predict the last impressive team they saw. So this week its the dogs after their eagles demolition with Brisbane after the last game. When Dees beat up both those teams we were flavour of the month until the next big performace by another team. Dropping the pies game didn't have a lot of impact on predictiosn after beating the next big thing -the Bombers. ON the Couch's Gerad Healy tipped Dees last night for flag if he was forced to predict someone - " haven't done a lot wrong,just need to fix forward connection..." , but also noted the tiges won in 2017 with only 1 tall, and by inference why can't the Dees. Others said 4 are in the race - us, lions, cats and dogs.

Tomorrow 30/6 at 3.00 pm. Same as last week. As stated on the Ticketek website booking page

Wed 3.00 pm (tomorrow) From Tickettek website Same as last week

May was head and shoulders above Merritt on impact on the result. He was good getting the ball so much but votes are about right in terms of who influeneced the outcome, incl Lever, gawn, Oliver

And even better than the brillliant stat above from herelast week, the year the Bombers last won a final NOT coached by Kevin Sheedy? The 1968 prelim. (then lost the following week's GF)

MCC just said they are waiting on Govt. confirmation of the capacity number.

Good post here. The heat map of langdon that has been shown on TV shows Langdon is orange/yellow in both the back and forward pockets of his wing and not much in between. He spends time helping defence and attack then scampers to the opposite end he might be on - few if any teams have an Ed Langdon-type. He's our 8th defender IMO as a side job.

I don't blame the commentary today. AT the game we said all night without the May/Lever (apologies to Hunt,Salem Rivers and Hibberd) team, we would have lost for sure . Henece the hand-wringing here about selection. Premiership defence now. Just fix other issues forward.

Kozzie continually chases hard and applies pressure and every team needs an X factor that can be unpredictable. Kozzie fills that role and has exhibited a creativity when on . Spargo is a lock also IMO.

Sorry you're right -Stringer wasn't quiet, I meant ineffective. he had a couple of opportunites but butchered the ball when in good positions and displayed an unacceptable selfishness when ignoring team mates in better positions.

Us and the Lions (as they showed on Friday) have the defence to deal with Cats attack. Not an issue. Dogs defence too short, Power too flaky, rest not good enough. On overall across the ground talebt its a Lions / Dees GF to lose