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Bailey Finals selections can be horribly tough. You have had a fabulous debut season and it is only match ups that have denied you the preliminary final. IF we win GF match ups may well see you back, otherwise I am looking forward to an even better 2019 and beyond. You are already my second favourite #31 of all times and it is no disgrace to come second to the great RDB GO DEES

Was the said commentator sober? Weed could well take Jesse out for a goal kicking session .... classic smooth action.

I very cool and calm, and fierce for a little first year player. Smart kid. And Jeffy could well look at the intense pressure he applies, even when not directly in play. IMVHO he has already displaced Jeffy.

No. Surely he would find it far more exciting to play the Ross Lyon game style at Freo. ??? It is fantastic to have four mobile talls who are really good even when the ball hits the ground. Gives us so many options. Any of Weed, TomMcD and Jesse could play deep forward, KPP forward (or back) or flank or wing. Such versatility.

Hopefully McCartney can work on these issues. All very well to run fast: not sure he thinks as fast as he runs. Good coaching may round him off.

Well that is good news: heard that Hogan is a nice guy who doesn’t eye gouge or chicken wing.

Some say that it was drool or spit ..... surely it is tears ???

Selwood ... and those at The Pu55ycats who have learned from him, are just blatant bloody cheats. ... not that it helped them last night.

As a sixty year Demon fan I never ever thought back in my youth that I could even be happy for a Weed to play well anytime, especially in September.

Yok. Maybe for a change WE could be the trendsetters....and Weed, Tom and Hogan are very good below their knees, very athletic for their sizes. All very mobile, all can relieve ruck ...... and whence Bull Smith?

BUMP

My heart, beating true for the red and the blue nonetheless, couldn't ' stand the tension. Still, the only thing better than thrashing Collingwood is beating them by a point, after the siren, and more so if it is from a controversial (or better still a blatantly incorrect) free to us.

Spelling Nazi reporting in - silverware

It would be a long commute twice a week to train at Randwick though ? To paraphrase the current encumber in Spring Street “not worth the paper it is written on. Can cancel without any cost to the taxpayer”!

Maluski The bottom six listed there all have made significant contributions to our ascent into the top 5 position we now hold. Have they all fired together? I thought that they actually did their bit last week v GW$$, and if they can do so again this week it would go a long way towards beating the pu551es.

Very succinctly stated.

PS I meant in my previous reply to raise ..... hasn’t Bernie already announced his retirement?

All of which shows that stats don't always mean much The last couple of games in particular, they played as a well oiled unit in a manner that I cannot really remember (well, since 1964 anyway). It was very hard to pick the better players (after Max, anyway) and the 'bottom six' excluding the two injured early would make about as interesting a discussion as the top six. And both of these debates are refreshingly new ... rather like Bulldogs 2016 and Richmond 2017 .... and ???2018???

A propos Bradtke and his future development - can anyone tell me how long was Mason Cox on Collingwood's list before he clicked?

Maybe he wants to be a part of success, not mediocrity in the case of WB and StK, and additionally doesn’t like camping in the latter case. Maybe Biff spoke with someone who knows someone to get his oh pair, or was that au pare, a job, unpaid of course

Interesting issue: would any half decent ruckman want to play second fiddle most of the time. Also interesting is that Max apparently thought that Flip was the next big thing too.

Gradually working my way through the replay, I am more and more impressed by some of the little things (are these the so called one percenters?) with knock ons, bullocking, shepherding and also his ruck work. Seeing grandpa (the ‘great enemy’ of the late 1950s) and dad in the crowd supporting him made me, hopefully not getting too far ahead of myself, dream of Sam playing the game of his life, his true “breakout game”, being pivotal in an upset win against Collingwood. Go Dees. Go Sam.

Water under bridge. ? over spilled ?. We now have the likes of Oliver who we may well have not got had we won a game or two more at that time .... just enjoy what we have now.

IF and only IF Jesse wanted to go to WA, then maybe yes. He was only playing against PRancer that night if I recall. Gave him an absolute bath. Now wouldn't that be an irony, Gaff AND Andrew Brayshaw playing together at the Dees Maybe the original signed edition of "Exciting Footy Tactics" by Ross Lyon?

What forward would want to play under Lyon’s horrible negative game plan?