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Blues looking pretty ordinary up at the Gabba :-)))))

His name is Rance - as in rancid.

GWS 1.1 for the second and third quarters!! WTF???? Pretenders.

Well, prepare for disappointment. It was in fact far more aggressive than Bernie's so should go for more, and intentional and not in play (I think it had stopped).

Of course Rance's jab to the guts that instigated the encounter will go down as (yet again) low impact, low contact, totally accidental - small fine. Protected sniper. And the MRP questions re Greene will go along the lines of: - who does he play for - GWS - who are they playing week 2 - Demons - one less week.

How does one (oldie) do that?

Will Vince necessarily walk straight back in? If we manage a huge win over Norf with no injuries? If Gus plays a blitzkrieg next week at Casey? Adelaide did appear to fade in Q4, as did we....but both won. Maybe we should enlist Adelaide's support when we (again?) insist that a Darwin game precedes a bye, for equity and for the benefit of both competing sides Don't forget Gus if he can regain his best over the next few weeks

Thanks for the reports. How good was Gus?? A couple weeks of weeks off??

who?

Cant remember seeing a worse one sided umpiring display (in a neutral game) than tonight. Geelong getting half there frees and Adelaide not getting many obvious ones.

The bloody maggots are keeping the Cats within striking distance.

Selwood cheating sniper -- again a free to him against the retaliaor

as is his captain Selwood

Crows looking pretty devastating. Great that we beat them at their home ground....but could we do it again?

Dangerfield has learned the diving technique from his captain.

What a pathetic free to ducker Selwood. Then another deliberate OOB!! Must have been instructed at half time to get the Cats back into it.

DJL - Gus and Weid were looking at very different roles, so there is no comparison. Goodwin makes it very clear that he requires players to fulfil a role, and I doubt if he looks at the raw stats that us peasants are fed. But I am happy given the thread title to have a go at our best 22 JETTA OMCD HIBBERD SALEM FROST HUNT BRAYSHAW OLIVER TYSON HANNAN HOGAN WATTS GARLETT TMCD PETRACCA GAWN VINEY JONES LEWIS ANB TRENGOVE HARMES JKH VINCE STRETCH

I don't like Pedo being out either, but realise that though he has done a tremendous job (and far more than many sceptics though he would) when he was needed he is not best 22. Surely Tom Mc will do (most of) the second ruck work, with JW4 or Jesse going deeper (or maybe Tracc) when Tom goes on ball.

We have had some beauties though I cannot remember any from the glorious Smith era. Sadly I also remember three who were brilliant at their best, but sadly couldn't run out the full race. Sean Charles - the club put a lot of hard work into him, and he was fantastic at times but as I recall he went off the rails whilst out of the game and never really played again after his scaphoid injury. Wona - cut short again I think by injury (?hamstring or quad) and never really got back in the groove. I guess he was never the fittest man on the list but oh some exciting times The game I most remember was a stunning comeback Freo. Jurrah - awesome talent and jumped huge hurdles to even come to the city. Didn't we snatch him from Collingwood's rookie list in some way? Again some sort of wrist injury meant he went back home for an extended period....and the rest, sadly, is history. Without those injuries, who knows what they could have achieved.

Hopefully they will keep well out of each others way most of the day........and I hope that Jesse plays high / mid and Tom deep. Which reminds me, I think we owe Pedersen a great debt of gratitude for what he has done through that very difficult period mid season. He stood up and certainlyhelped us to a few wins. However it looks difficult to find a place for him in our top 22 - but a very handy 23-28th man.

I had similar thoughts, Pates When we were starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel, no room for Trenners Good luck to him by the way, and absolutely thrilled for him, but very strange timing.

Just wondering what will happen when an AFL listed player (usually a younger player or a rookie listed one) playing VFL either loses form or is coming back very slowly from injury - currently they play in the development league. What will they do now? And what about the fringe VFL players? Where do they go? Where do VFL get their back up numbers form?

...with leather stops hammered in with sharp nails? No fashion sense?

But remember Jeremy is playing in a successful team (14 v 7) ? Joking aside, what an inspired selection has Hannan been. Quick, hard, leap, goal sneak. A real surprise packet.

Is that the same Garry Lyon who helped impose Neeld (?and Bailey) on us as part of the coaching selection panel? No thanks Garry. Loved you as a player but now irrelevant.