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So, to be clear, you are not a Tyson fan?

Good points. His weakness this year has been being caught with the ball. But he seems to have made an adjustment to his technique and is better at still getting a handball of when tackled. His value comes in the second half of the game where his relative lack of pace is less an issue and his strength in the contest comes to the fore. Fritter marks beautifully and reads the play well but is still not very strong, and made a couple of bad blues against the Hawks. Very unlucky f he comes out, in large part because really he is a forward who has had to go back to cover the loss of Lever. Which may have cost him his spot in the end.

It might be too nuanced for them. How about. [censored] OFF!!!!

Great name. Did you see the sun today. Second last page. The column with random stuff including whispers. Some footy player had a baby called Oliver and they put clayton's face on a baby's body.

They were into Oliver all night. Particularly shiel, the dirty dog. Early on shiel was all over him and I yelled out: SHIEL, YOU'RE TWICE HIS NUMBER BUT HALF HIS QUALITY. I was pretty happy with myself but got no love from surrounding fans. Hard lad to phase though is our olly. Big smile on his dial through all the niggle

It's the Hogan shuffle

I wouldn't employ him. He knows nothing.

Chief you would be well across the two opposing tactical approaches of the dees and WC - Kaos and Control (apologies for using the same gag twice)

If you have an adult P2 bar code you are not using would you be willing to give to me (for reasons i dated previously on this thread)?

Hey bungalow. I'm on that flight. Happy to share a cab. Makes sense and was also going to put it out there. But I am going to go to my hotel first. Then walk to ground a bit later. My hotel is in the city so on the way to ground.

Blimey, that's good. I was just curious. I paid 1050 return on Tigerair. Out early sat morning back late sunday morning. As i was buying my tickets on Friday night the price was 520 there and 238 back. As i was about to buy the ticket i hesitated to check in with myself that going was the right thing. About 10 seconds later i decided of course i wanted to go. And before my eyes the 238 disappeared and replaced by 520. Ouch. Moral of the story. Don't hesitate. (Actually hesitating and thinking through decisions is not such a bad idea, particularly when they involve thousands of dollars. I wish i had done it more often throughout my life!).

How much are the jetstar tickets?

I appreciate the issue people have with lending bar codes to non members - and lending bar codes in general. But i want to run this up the flag pole anyway. I'm a priority 2. I have really good mate who is priority 3. He has been a life long dees fans and despite living in Sydney for the best part of 25 years has maintained his membership for almost all those years, only missing one a few years back which has scuppered his priority 2. In his lifetime (he is 50) he has not missed ONE demons final game. Including going to the last West Coast final over there. In the last few weeks he has come down for the Swans and GWS games and both finals. He and i are going across to Perth for the prelim. My mate has organised all the finals tix for me (and a group of my friends) so far, which given how much hassle it has involved is above and beyond. Should we make the GF i really want to go with him. Also as a priority 3 he is very unlikely to get a ticket and i would hate for him him to miss out (or more likely have to pay ridiculous price to a scalper or the like, which he would end up doing). That is a long winded way to say in the very unlikely event someone has priority 2 bar code they are not using and prepared to share i would be eternally grateful.

Agree on all points. The other thing he has benefited from is the synergy of the backline, which after a pretty long period of flux has been really settled in the last 7-8 weeks. No coincidence in that time teams have averaged only aprox 70 points against us. Synergy is critical for defensive units.

Remember that tablet set up in front of the bench i mentioned on the podcast. Maybe instead of key statistics and messages and tactical information it could show a feed of the sporting globe? (by the by i said on the podast that i assumed most clubs would have something similar. Perhaps they do but i have looked for it at our games, on the replays and other televised matches and have not seen any other examples).

Pretty comprehensive list. Loved them all. Also really loved: The beautifully weighted kick from Hannan to TMac to set up the first goal. They were playing an extra defender and had three set up directly in front of TMac, Not one even touched him, let alone a big spoil attempt The beautifully weighted kick from Trac to TMac to set up a goal in the last quarter. Again defenders set up in front of Tmac and trac got it over the top of the screen Good kicking is good football

.........choice of there theme song?

My thoughts exactly.

A 200 game player for the dees and a mutiple premiership winning defender.

Hello mark.

Apologies for lateness. My best is fighting harada at morpehitville. Race 2 no 1.

I think this a really good point. We didnt play our best footy against either cats or hawks. Against cats perfomances even accross the board but we didnt take chances. Against hawks (as reflected in joeboy's analysis) performance was less even. But we took our chances at goal. But our field kicking was terrible. If we put it all together we can win. A big factor will be how key players pull up. There will be some very sore players, not least maxy, viney, brayshaw and oliver. They were smashing maxy and oliver and there were some huge aeriel collisions, particularly in the second.

Im going. Wasn't going to before last night. Couldn't not after last night.

Said something similar straight after the game. His pressure was first class and the reason he is in ahead of Jeffy.

Not bad JB. Agree with most. Tyson was good in the last. Lucky for him or else he might have gone out. Melk sat on Sicily according to Goody in the presser so whilst he was quite he did his job as Sicily didn't hurt us. Fritter made a few bad errors but jeez he has good hands and reads the ball beautifully. Great move putting him down back. Omac - aka Dr Cool - played a super committed game. Got pole axed big time at one point in the second q and wobbled up to fight another contest. Ahe is a really nice kick. Fritter, Omac, Salem, Hibberd and Jetts are all good reliable kicks which is super important coming out from our back half. The back six and maxy saved us in the second quarter with their fantastic desperation.