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I note that his cousin was H.C.A. Harrison. Rememeber the good old days when the players had to front up at Harrison House for the tribunal. It was hilarious then too. What are the odds of a venue for the Tribuanal/MRP being named "Christian House." Pretty long I would have thought.

Bowey looks like (watching his interview) that he belongs at home with his Mum he's so young. But he seems , so far, to look 10 years older on the field in terms of thinking ability, execution, eacts under pressure. Reminds me of James Jordan, who looked from Game 1 against Freo that he can handle the big time and belonged. I hope he gets back in too.

Hibberd not as good in the air as Smith - one of Roham's strengths. Maybe even in the team to allow bench time for May or Petty.

I think Smith did well last week and has been recognised by the match cttee that maybe we get some more game time into him, deservedly, as back up material for the finals.

Despite all the debate about the team selection this week, if Dogs win then nothing is on the line. Do a reasonable hit out but it will be dereliction of duty to play NQR key players and have them sore for the first final. I know that covers about 3/4 of the team but we have never had this opportunity to game the system as others have and we should use it. If Dogs lose then the reverse is true. Go for broke and hope the gods are smiling on May, Lever, Oliver,Petracca,Salem, Gawn,................................................................................................................................... My order of importance to winnning a flag above.

Agreed. We all need to be Dogs supporters big time on Friday. Then in the words of the inimitable Mitch Robinson, we play bruise-free footy on Saturday. Interestingly, Goodys demeanour is that we want to win any game , which I agree with in my head. But gee, just give Maxy 75% game time, and rest Salem .

Personally I reckon Rivers is right up there with him, and after a few more seasons withMAY and Lever will be THE defender in the AFL.

He has football brain and thats not nothing. Helps out in defence many times over the season and still one of our best in one-on-ones overhead.. A keeper IMO

This is why I think Bowey has made such an impression. He has lots of qualities that Sparrow has, who I think is a great tackler, but Bowey is a excellent disposer of the ball and that quality stands out against many others in the team.

Kayo also reported in this this afternoon at 1/2 time via John Ralph.

Agree on Melksham. He's shown enough since back and a proven goalkicker.

Johnny Ralph agreed with your comments, except he said the tackle was late and ball was not in vicinity. Subbed out with concussion then means weeks.

Great forwrad planning by coaching staff w.r.t game time for key palyers. Max played least ground time for the year I suspect with only 78%. Similar lower numbers fro Oliver and Petracca. The only high TOG were ther ususal suspects of Lever (only player with 100% on the ground), Langdon and Petty.

Just said Hawkins will be suspened and cats will take to tribunal. He thinks it was late and will get a werk. And he shows Round 23 cats vs dees now at mcg. May be a typo ..........

Its why petracca has passed him. Trac was a sho ker too and did something about it Clarry a brilliant engine room player though. Just dont kick inside 50.

Melksham sure has more upside than Bailey

The Age this morning put the incident up in lights. Will be looked at for sure.

Oppo midfiled threesome have had 30 possessions in 21 Minutes.!!!

Absolutely. No May. No flag. Or even prelim.

Why is may out please?

I would welcome the chance to play a team that hasn't beaten a top side all year in Port (rather than Geelong) for first week of finals.

Agreed on this CB. Win today and were' playing for top next week and will be above the Dogs. Also, looking at the losses this year, I believed at the game that GWS are worthy finalists after their win against us, the Hawks showed they a a good team yesterday and the draw could be called noteworthy (?), and the Pies had the Buckley emotion. Adelaide were the only outlier in the Dees performance this year. Lets put that to bed today and we have beaten just about all comers so far this year. Self-doubt inside the club would be non-existent going into finals.

Agreed. But the Adelaide Oval is do-able crowd wise and the least-worst option for travel. But with a Chief Health Officer who has no understanding of AFL, or ball games in general, I suspect we'll be locked out anyway.

We need to finish 4th to meet cats in QF which is highly unlikely. 2nd or 3rd only. With cats on top.

I am hoping for 2nd with cats on top. Then dees and cats straight into prelim after week 1. Only meet cats then once in gf. The trick in top 4 is to win week 2.