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Interested to see how this plays out. On one hand you might have the tigers lads trying to be underworld gangsters, on the other hand you might have some bloke with a massive debt trying to drag them through the mud to delay any payment.

'King hit'? Hyperbole! And to be honest a lot of what is done on an AFL field would be classified as assault in 90% of workplaces so any comparison is misguided IMO. The more I re-watch it, the more I'm convinced Danny Green was fairly spot on. At best it was a misdirected jab at the shoulder region whilst running, at worst an intentional half force jab at the chin. Either way it was not in the same ball park as the full blown uppcut that Hall floored Staker with, which only landed him 1 week more on the side lines.

Why pick Weed this week but not last week? We would make room for Hogan sure, but no need to bring in another tall for the sake of it?

I think our list doesn't have too many holes these days (injuries aside!!) Jeffy is basically having a career best year. No need for Son-son at the dees, although he is a handy player

Didn't Barry Hall get 7 weeks for his KO on Staker? By my reasoning Buggs incident was (IMO) about 1/2 as bad as that was. Should have been given 4 - incident was no worse than Houli.

TBH Bugg has been punished not only for the act (which was cheap), but he's also been punished for the timing (doing the week after Houli). As usual the AFL react to things as a whole rather than as individual cases. This sanction is more about making the competition look like it takes a hard line on thugs than the individual incident. Eitherway, its not a massive loss on field for us I don't believe, albeit Bugg has been handy this year.

IMO we could do far worse than call him up to play in the guts this weekend. Always going to have a soft spot for Trenners!

Don't read too much into it IMO - more than likley just giving the guys every opportunity to get through Fridays session unscathed

Perhaps its just their emotional reaction to getting ahead of themselves last week. I think most dees fans weren't confident about a result last Friday. The media needed a story and decided to tout the dees all week long as contenders. Turned out to be a bit premature and now they're backtracking FAST! Another week of the AFL media treating footy issues like they are the most important things on planet earth - hate the media around the AFL

Same media that were saying we were contenders last week.

Maybe we should embrace the MRP drama. Play Spencil purely to KO a Gibbs and Kruser in the first 5 mins *obviously this is a joke. (clarifying this only because it's demonland....)

When all said and done, the role of a skipper in AFL is to gee the boys up before each quarter, flip a coin, and play a good game (lead by example). Therefore it could probably be any of the guys named, but I'd go for Lewis. His words would carry some weight around the group and given his experience might add something different than just regurgitating what the coaches are saying. Plus he owes his team a big performance after getting reported against the blues the last time out.

If Tyson gets up i'll be a hell of a lot more comfortable about the Carlton game!

Jordan Lewis to thrive as a pure mid alongside clarry, vince etc Hoping Trengove has a run too

This time last year people on here did too. Hannan has gone past him which is more to do with hannan being great overhead and having good pacr rather than any fault of kents ( i dont think he has regressed) but people throw him to the scrap heap.

Hows the holier than thou attiude in here???? Kent in this week. People have short memories. The kid will be a gun.

Storm in a tea cup. Carb loading for next weeks game!

Forced Outs: Viney, Bugg, In: Trengove and JKH Potential returns; Garlett, Watts, Hogan, Out: White, Wagner, Stretch

Injuries caught up with us today - nothing to be ashamed of. Last years grand finalists would always be a bridge too far with no Jones, Hogan, Watts, Garlett, Salem etc Maybe the guys have been enjoying drinking their own bath water too - either way, it's a mid season reality check. Perhaps Trengove will add to this AFL games tally after all?!

I don't think he did intentionally target the head. He intentionally tried to elbow Clarry, but I don't think he was targeting the head at all

Sorry, but these sorts of comments smack me as inconsistent. (not saying you are inconstant personally, but just the general vibe on Demonland) If Jack Viney had done what Scofield did we'd have said there was nothing in it and would have been up in arms about it having to go and argue the case. In fact it would be added the footage to the Jack Viney made me cry thread, and we'd gloat about how much of a hard nut Viney is and how soft the person who got a chip on the chin is.

The right decision IMO. At 22 he's still developing and has shown enough to warrant a spot on the list The entire squad is pretty strong at the moment but putting the sentimental aspects aside you'd think he's in front of the likes of Trengove and a few others in terms of long term planning

I wont give him stick because hes a young player with a bright future but theres no doubt in my mind that he went to ground easier than he might have had he not been in full view of the umpires. To say he didnt get hit at all is plain wrong but i think the only reason this has been news worthy is because he is a young bull who is hard to take down woth the ball in his hands and the way he went down on the weekend was out of character

Winnable IMO The lads will need to play very well, but it can be done! Go Dees

Excuse my ignorance, but is Nev Jetta injured or out of touch? Seems crazy that such a reliable backpocket, who has significantly improved his attacking flair is being overlooked for the time being. Even if Milkshake and Hibbo are playing roles in the back half, I would have thought Jetta was still best 22. Is it a game style change which is getting him overlooked, or just that Goody prefers others for the time being?