Jaded No More

Very happy to hear that. The more Dees fans the better!

I was so nervous and excited last week. I feel nothing this week. Footy has been less than enjoyable since last Thursday if I'm being honest. Hope we put on a good display tonight and get the win.

Faaaark why is this umpire doing finals?!

They have a plethora of key forwards who they need to find money to keep. He isn’t their priority.

JJ is a natural inside mid. If he plays on ball, which I suspect he will since he’s replacing Gus, he will do well.

I mean I want Gulden for Grundy and a million dollars in my bank account. But what I want is not what I’ll get.

From emergencies only

Smith

Spargo for Roo is…. An interesting height change 😂

Joel Smith will ruck IMO Tmac can’t get off the ground.

I also believe there is a curfew at Brisbane airport, so the team who plays up there will need enough time to catch the last flight out.

That is a good point. He might just be told to play a defensive role on Weitering. It should be noted however that Port were pathetic that night. They were worse than Geelong in their prelim against us.

Not only does he barrack for the Demons, at the rate our forwards are falling, he is odds on to line up at FF this week

I just love that you have family up there, but you'll only go see them if Melbourne is playing.

One of which is only out there with the sole purpose of hurting their opponent, rather than playing actual football

I've seen a few people on the Melbourne FB trying to offload tickets. Worth trying your luck there as well.

You have to ask yourself how much better off would we be if we hadn't lost Petty and Melksham to season ending injuries. A single injury to a key player could be the difference between winning and losing a flag when the competition is so tight, especially when that injury occurs later in the year, and is added onto a host of injuries within the same part of the ground. We did so well to cover Clarry, because the rest of our mids were fit and healthy and we were able to push Gus into the midfield because we had a plethora of half backs in good form and fit. Losing Petty would have been fine if BB and Tmac were not both battling. Losing Melksham on top of that in round 24 just threw everything off even more, and gave us no time to adjust. Now JVR is out, and we need to replace his role and the cupboard is completely bare to the point where we might need to play Schache, who has proven over many years that he is not a great option.

He is a Melbourne supporter, no wonder he's weeping

No Turner at the captain's run today. He won't play. Already confirmed by @Dannyz and some journos that Tomlinson is playing. So that means at least 3 changes, plus the sub if they don't want to go with Laurie again which I believe they won't. My guess Out: Gus, JVR, Hibbo, Laurie (sub) In: JJ, Schache, Tomlinson, Spargo I would then say Spargo is into the 22 and Chandler is the sub I have no faith in Schache and was hoping that we would test out Turner, but Schache gives us the 2nd ruck option that JVR provides, and he has more forward craft than Grundy. Jesus wept at our forwardline.

Also the nerve of the guy to get Debra Brayshaw's number and ring her. "Sorry I knocked your son out" WTF?!

There is no point playing Grundy if we are wanting to replace the role of JVR. He cannot play as a forward, and giving him the bulk of the ruck work is robbing us of our best and most influential player spending as much time as possible in the middle. If Grundy plays then it's at the expense of a small runner. Very risky, especially in warm conditions.

You have to love Gawny. He's a diplomat. I am sure he wanted to punch him in the head.

It’s a fake account Please delete

He presumes wrong. 99% of Melbourne supporters would know who he is. He played 2 weeks ago against Sydney.

So no Turner, or does Joshua Dawe not know who that is?