Jaded No More

Wait what? Source?

It's going to be a fascinating team selection this week. I am wondering if Tommo stays in as well as May, so we can play Lever in a purely third man up intercept role in the absence of Gawn. That leaves Grundy and TMac to share the ruck duties, with JVR potentially taking a few forward half ruck contests.

He also wouldn't want to put in 2 stinkers in a row. I expect a big response from him.

Going to be very special seeing the #2 run out on the G again. Hopefully Jonesy can hand him his jumper.

We might have finally found our Hibbo/Jetta replacement

Thought his comment re: not having another true bye again were interesting. The AFL has screwed us 2 years running with not giving us a proper bye, and it's absolutely ridiculous.

At least we aren't paying him $87,000 per mark 🤪

When one door closes (Gawny), another one opens. Congrats to JVR on his debut. Go well!

The playing group clearly don't agree, as they vote on the leadership each year. This is not a Goodwin and co decision.

Said so casually like his kid plays Aus Kick on Sunday at 8am.

The derby this weekend is gonna be interesting Will WCE fans boo Jackson? They boo just about everything else…

The MFC this last week

And nobody has taken that moment away from him. He’s always going to be a premiership player. But let’s not pretend like we won a flag because of him. He won a flag because he played for us.

It’s like he’s a real footballer guys

Freo are so embarrassing

My hope is that the Gawn injury is a blessing in disguise as it’ll sort of force our hand to play JVR who might just be the star we need to change our attack. It also gives the rest of our leaders a good opportunity to standup. I was very disappointed with how the group reacted when Gawn went down. Other than Lever, the rest of the leaders did not deliver. Viney especially needs to have a good game this week after a poor showing last week. I want to believe last week was a one off. If we beat the Swans we are 2-1 and head into a stretch of “softer” games in a great position even without Max. Lose and you’d want to make sure you win all of the next 6 games.

Welcome to the hell hole that is WA. Name the last player that went back there on massive coin and delivered.

One must also ask about Gawny’s knee and how he expects his rehab to go

This thread stinks of JINX

We’ve just lost our number one ruckman, and Tmac is barely going. We have to make changes. Schache would have come in this week but he’s concussed. IT IS JVR TIME!

It’s fine JVR will debut this week and kick 10 and go on to win the rising star, the Coleman and a flag.

According to Doctor Laura it is the same knee.

Maybe if Freo didn’t go and dump 5 experienced players for Jackson, they wouldn’t have such an inexperienced team.

Tell me you can't catch a break without telling me you can't catch a break. Poor Salo.

Salem out for a half a season. It will be a miracle if he is back to his best this season. That's 2 seasons down the drain for him. Such a shame. Looks like Petty has avoided serious injury to his knee, which I think sort of got lost in all the Gawn injury drama. That is very good news. May will surely be right to go, that's a full 3 weeks since calf strain. Should be cherry ripe. I was sure JVR was going to debut in round 4 vs West Coast at his home state anyway, and that one of BB or TMac (or even Gawn) was going to be rested and excused from that long flight. So one week earlier isn't that much of a concern. When one door closes and all that... bring him in and lets see how he goes. Also WTF is a pelvis injury? Sounds very painful. P.S.- I knew last week's injury list was a bad omen.