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9 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Thankyou goody for taking off those players. Even though may was filthy

jake Lever nevers comes off. He wouldn't know where the bench was.

1 minute ago, Lord Travis said:

Should’ve gone with Hibberd instead of Smith 

This will be a common, and not unreasonable comment, during the game.

Very worried we don't have Hibberd

4 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Feel sick in the guts. 

Won't be posting on here until probably after the game.

I love you all, Go Dees!

Win tonight and we face Cats or Giants in Prelim. 

Now either of those would also make me sick in the guts.

17 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

Great player but I don't completely buy into the 'everyboby's out to get Toby' BS. Should be suspended. 

I don't see this thread as a'pile on' on Toby.  There's been plenty of incidentals and theyv'e been treated correctly fine-wise.

This act just goes too far.   But I guess a preipheral vision expert will get him off somehow - a la Greg Willaims in the 90's was attempting to do. 

Toby was way worse than Williams who had an umpire in his face and personal space at the time.

42 minutes ago, ding said:

Made contact with an umpire in a way that can only have been deliberate.

Bit rhetorical this question as we know "stars" rarely get cited in finals. If it was round 1 you can bet he would be done for that.

Thoughts?

If no suspension for that 'forceful' contact , then AFL just needs to cancel rule. Petulant act by Greene. He just seems to never learn on these sorts of issues.

I wish he was in the red blue all the same.

55 minutes ago, Pollyanna said:

Brisbane are two years older and more experienced, are in their prime and into their 3rd consecutive top 4 finals campaign, if we win it will be against the tide ...

Average Attributes
	Melbourne	Attribute	Brisbane
	187.4cm	Height	188.4cm
	85.8kg	Weight	88.3kg
	24yr 8mth	Age	26yr 5mth
	93.4	Games	119.3
Total Players By Games
	Melbourne	Games	Brisbane
	7	Less than 50	5
	2	50 to 99	5
	10	100 to 149	5
	3	150 or more	7

Great Post Pollyanna. Thats a substantial age difference.  The interesting stat I reckon is we have 10 players to their 5 with 100 to 150.

I suspect these are the Olivers, Tracs , Langdon, Lever, Hunt, Brayshaw etc .. Which are now young but experieneced . c..f. Lions. Could be an advantage, or at least a very bright future for the Dees in what is a 5 year journey starting tonight towards a Flag.  We will win inside this upcoming window.

I suspect it will be next year, but hope I am wrong.

Port is being oversold today, with the media ignoring the clear warning signs in the Cats list.

Cats were my big worry - but not anymore.

18 hours ago, Wadda We Sing said:

Razor has been good to us, if your reading Ray.....have a great game on Saturday Night and good luck. :)

I agree here , a good call WWS.

Despite it being " all about Ray"  as an umpiring fraternity member described him to me, we both agreed he's top class and I'm personally relieved he's on the panel tonight.

The low high five to Gus against the doggies in 2018 at the G was classic Ray . He understands the feel of the game - unlike the umpire who paid OOB against Gus last week, and who is also on the Panel.

All strength to Ray tonight I reckon.

11 hours ago, Demonland said:

Amazingly they've still won every Centre clearance. 12-0

True but we've made an art from of losing these and then just winning the ball back.

2 minutes ago, pineapple dee said:

Rohan was shocking last week and he's improved 10% so far this week to be borderline terrible. He is not helping the cats win a flag. Geelong is like the local bus ( except in Victoria) Loads of passengers.

Geelongs midfield has been clinically dismantled tonight. I cannot believe the stats at 1/2 time. Danger 9

Selwood 10

Guthrie   10

Stanley   5

3 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

This doesn't look like the Port we beat.

They have gone up a gear.

 

 

Not necessarily. 

We are witnessing the demise of Geelong as a top 4 threat tonight into the future. We would have done the same . 

Port should be doing well against a much weaker cats. 

6 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

So, if it was a real team instead of one with midfielders masquerading as wingmen and forwards, who would go out and who would come in from the 40 man squad? Assume for a moment that all the true defenders selected (ie, Lever, May, Allir, Stewart, Rich etc) and forwards (Hawkins, McKay, Greene, etc) remain in the team. Would Petracca miss? Would Salem get in? Fritsch?

Good call.  Salem get's in, so does Langdon, Fritsch maybe. Rivers possibly, 

Just rapt theat Steven May has AA Full Back now on his CV.

2 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

Feel really sorry for Hibberd who has done more than required of him for the year.

Hibberd is a proven defender and i really worry that he is not on the ground. Cameron and Smith need closing down.

I hope Goody is on top of this.

3 minutes ago, Docs Demons said:

Yes he is tough and goes hard at the ball but turns it over a lot. My Brissie mates up here who go to the Gabba reckon his kicking is woeful. Hope it continues and he wins ball and gives it back to us!!

He's barely best 22 -  if at all.

59 minutes ago, Billy said:

Very surprised about Hibberd, who will play on Cameron?

And Zac Bailey - he is the threat IMO.  Harmes maybe????

4 hours ago, The Reverend said:

This is mine...

QF1: *MELBOURNE* v Brisbane Lions
QF2: *PORT ADELAIDE* v Geelong
EF1: *WESTERN BULLDOGS* v Essendon
EF2: *SYDNEY* v GWS

SF1: *BRISBANE LIONS* v Western Bulldogs
SF2: Geelong v *SYDNEY*

PF1: *MELBOURNE* v Sydney
PF2: Port Adelaide v *BRISBANE LIONS*

 GF: *MELBOURNE* v Brisbane Lions

Good effort.

I think your'e on the money here Rev.

Port are not in Lions class.

Cats are gone

Sydney well coached enough  and Longmire will get them to a prelim. But May has Buddys measiure so its over them for them.

May has Danihers measure, so over for them to in GF.

20 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

She’s due a few weeks after the grand final.

My son was born 3 weeks early. It happens.

Alarm bells ringing here

22 hours ago, Billy said:

I’m with you Wizard of Koz

Don’t want anyone else, we’ve been the first club to be ridiculed over the years about how week our supporter base is

I firmly believe we have the most resilient supporters when you think of what we’ve had to go through.

l didn’t want the Bulldogs to win because it’s given us the longest streak without a flag.

Stuff em

You and WOKoz clearly don't work in the marketing and sales dept of the club.

Have you no idea how rapt those guys are on our success.

They pay the bills by the way.

Lighten up and enjoy the ride for gawn's sake!

On 8/22/2021 at 6:21 PM, 3183 Dee said:

Yep - the more, the merrier, I say. Get the Goodwin-Crows connection going strong this week, to get as many SA neutrals behind us on Sat night.

A great post. I'd forgotten that Goody is demed by many as the 'greatest' Crows skipper so far.

And I bet they still love Jake Lever. Just don't admit it within earshot of Tex. 

Todd Viney - former SA junior and 45 games with Sturt - thus a tenuos link for young Jack, Steven Stretch, Graeme Molloy, John Tillbrook............................

Huge SA links. 

8 hours ago, Win4theAges said:

I could not and will not understand if Maysie is not selected in the All-Australian best 22.

Lever and him have been like Batman and Robin all season forming the most formidable backline in the history of the game.

Absolute outrage if he's not selected.

We won 17 games this year really they all should be in.

 

They both stand between the cup and any other team getting it. Will be in as a duo for sure. 

I think Salem is the other key to us as shown we he was out or off his game. He's in also I reckon.

Unlike Daniel Rich who can be exposed, Salem can't be.

58 minutes ago, Hopeful Demon said:

I think Gawn deserves to be selected as the starting ruckman more than Naitanui does. Even if it's true that Naitanui is the best tap ruckman, Gawn does a lot more damage on the ground and he impacts the scoreboard far more regularly.

game time comparisons:

Dees vs Eagle:   gawn 96%               NicNat           61%

Dees vs Cats (must win game)       Gawn              87%

Eagles vs Swans (must win game)  NicNat           73%

More game time allows Max to run down oponents and work up and down the ground, liske this week. Nic's great on the tap but I would rather the skipper out there longer than 3/4/or less of a game.

23 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

 

Bont will probably be made C

Only if its to do with who's the better player.

If its to do with leadership (which is what a skipper role is about) - its Gawn by a mile.

On 8/22/2021 at 1:14 PM, Little Goffy said:

The range of important stats which both May and Lever feature in prominently is all the more impressive because of how well they shared the burden of responsibility.

On a less dramatic note, Lever was the player who spent the most time actually on the field in the 2021 home and away season with 22 games 99.14% time on ground.

Confusing Archimedes no end, Lever has been an immovable object.

 

And he's only still 25. Huge number of seasons to look forward to for him  - and us.

On 8/22/2021 at 1:10 PM, Deesprate said:

Has been an amazing acquisition. I really like how he thinks his way through. That set play to Gawn showed real nous. Could easily have blazed away. He has been a massive factor in our rise.

Max said on Triple M that they both made eye contact and understood the plan.

Brilliant piece of football, out-thinking 6 Geelong defenders.

1 hour ago, leave it to deever said:

I reckon that win would have gutted cats fans.

It was theirs to lose and they are so used to winning at kardinia.

Oh well😁

Hamish said the Cats have NEVER been beaten when 32 points or more ahead at 3/4 time. 

Until last night.

And as Jordan lewis said on Kayo , in the finals if the Dees are down by a few goals at 1/2 time they will still think they can win (as with the Lions game this season)

The cats now on the other hand  when being ahead  will think......

4 hours ago, deanox said:

The umpiring was pretty average all night. I would have thought that the two top 4 battle games would have been auditions for the 6 umpires they thought were most likely for the prelim/GF?

Good point.  If thats likely gee we have a problem with decision making then. Although it also happended to the Dees in Adelaide ealy in the first loss of the season.