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That's a great call. Assuming Quaynor goes to Koz, in addition to perhaps challenging him defensively, playing Koz out of the square also negates the offensive impact of Qualynor, who loves to intercept and bounce of half back (which is even more crucial with no Nick Daicos) and means Koz is always close to goal and a chance of scoring. I suspect Goody actually wants koz to fly for pack marks rather than stay down. He has been doing it all season and would have stopped doing so if Goody told him to. Playing out of the square means Koz can continue to fly for pack marks and crunch the oppo defenders. Might even take a speccy for the ages too at some point!

I'm 4 for 4 if it's 1964!.

Yes, but only because they were fighting for a spot in the team. When nibbler missed his only game, Bedford took his role. Bedford is 100% playing the high half forward role that nibbler and spargo (and now laurie) play In soccer vernacular, box to box gut running at speed all game. I have heard several gws players, mutiple media people (eg Daniel hoyne and gerard healy) explicity say that bedford was specifically recruited to play the high half forward role and that that is the role he has played all season - to a very high standard I might add.

Yep. The first half of last year's round 22 clash is well worth a watch too.

George, Andy be like:

Behind Nibbler and Spargo for the high half forward role (as opposed to the speed forward role played by Koz and Chin) - which is exactly the role he is playing at GWS. We were dead keen to keep him, and if he stayed he would be playing now instead of Laurie.

That leaves a lot of familial options. Sister, cousin, grandma? Grandma Laurie would make for a cool posting name!

Me too. No email. I even checked to make sure my email was right. Funnily enough I got my ticket via the link in the text I received at 9:58, not my pc browser which I had been waiting on since 9:30

Do tell chook.

I want to every dees forward in two moon boots as a precautionary prophylactic.

Three minutes into the last quarter.....

I'm M55 too. Wanted Cat 1, level two but all gone by the time i got in. Had to make do with Cat 2 seats, ground level. But fortunately 19 rows back from the fence, so pretty good elevation. And got seats 1,2,3 which i love because they are at the end of the row Go redlegs

I can't find the breakfast bar in this lounge. Cheapskates

No

I agree, smithy might get the 'diffuser' role melky has been playing and reference (ie not a pure defensive forward) the oppoos best intercepting defender (Moore or Murphy in the QF). I reckon its actually a perfect role for Smithy because, one, we now need someone to play it, two he has the attributes and discipline and three he can still create, zone off, go third man up, fly for his marks etc etc and make his defender super accountable. In some ways he'll be a better option than melk. Melk has been brilliant, but although gets up the ground is a touch slow and that can be exposed defensively. Smith gets up and down the ground to help out on all team defence better than Melk, so we may not need another high half forward player in the starting 22 (meaning Laurie or Spargs can be the sub and come in and do that high half forward gut running as required). And it mitigates the risk of bringing in tmac, should we be considering it, in terms of tmacs lack of pace.

The most bullish I can ever recall you being dazzler. Agree with your sentiments. I'd add we are clearly running out games the best of the contenders. I reckon GWS are the only team close in terms of fitness and running power late in quarters and games.

Max gawn not in the squad? And Jackson is?

Brilliant LH. Funnily enough, i was literally just about to reply to El Diablo's request for 'cold hard facts to support' my confidence we'll beat the pies with: Umm, the 2023 home and away season? I might have perhaps also pointed to some very long posts, going into great detail about why we are the best team in it, and the Pies are 'the most over rated team i can ever recall'. But no need - you've nailed it!

Yes. And if you are a priority one member (basically all the membership types with a GF guarantee), all others have to also be priority one member if you are wanting category one or two seats (the info says Priority One members will automatically be offered category one seats)

Ta. Ben notes above: Yep, everyone at 10am tomorrow, however priority one members get exclusive access to purchase category one and two seating.

Surely no one thinks they will be easy to beat. I certainly don't. But i think we will beat them. By the by, the Pies are currently 1.84 favorites and we are 2.00, with the line at 1.5 That is as good as even money, but i suspect we will in fact start close favorites. A genuine 50 50 game. That we will win.

His best game for many weeks. Super hard at it too.

Not being a smart [censored], I promise But a thought experiment. Ignore the commentators. For the sake of the exercise, assume goody elected not to put time into Gulden because he thought, on balance, not doing so would be a net positive. What might the benefits of not putting time into gulden be?

Reading the package benefits for the $30 Access membership, it seems to be that all three levels of members (Priority 1, 2 and 3) all get priority access. So perhaps Priority one doesn't get a first crack? ie when sales open, all members have priority access at the same time