Jaded No More

I’m going to try and get some Valium or something from my doctor friends. I really think I’ll drop dead if it’s a close game.

It is all downhill once you get past the Hemsworth clan.

Great to see that when May and Lever were both off the ground Petty took the role of backline general on himself. I also enjoyed Gawn coaching from the bench. Important to never stop playing your role.

Probably but it’s incredibly frustrating to be stuck at home for months on end and watch the Covid numbers tick up every single day in areas with low compliance and even lower vaccination rates. We can’t get to the MCG to watch our team play in a grand final because so many people in the north and west of Melbourne continue to do the wrong thing. It’s infuriating for those of us who have done the right thing for 200 plus days and lost so much in the process. I live in an area with 3 active cases. I can’t see my sick dad or watch the game with him because half our city has decided that Covid restrictions no longer apply to them. And here we are giving away our bloody GFGs instead of going to the game! Of course my comment was tongue in cheek, but it absolutely hurts to miss out on a grand final. Dogs fans got to experience it recently enough. We’ve waited 57 years only to be stuck at home and miss out on all of it!

Totally agreed. Take your Covid infested sh!thole of a suburb and shove it up your backside…. If any Demonlanders live in the western suburbs I exclude you from that…. But also I didn’t see Daniel Andrews rolling out an MCC doctor to tell us why we need to stay home and get vaccinated. I did however note their press conference at the Whitten Oval a few weeks ago. Worked about as well as the Dogs last 3 home and away rounds.

I also agree with this. We don’t need an extra tall against the Dogs. In fact I would put Petty on Naughton (not sure May has the athleticism to go with him) and have May take Schace so he can’t try to take out Lever. Which of course will mean Lever can chop off Naughton. Unsure who takes Weightman. I would have Rivers on Hannan. Hibbo on Weightman is a serious worry. Hunt?

The option would be to chuck Gawn down back and if May is anything other than 100% going in, have a defender as the sub. Tmac will only go down back in a real emergency. He didn’t go back on Friday night until the very last quarter when they pulled Lever off. May was off halfway through the third and we adjusted. Tmac was still forward. And yes of course it helped that were never going to lose at that point. But Tmac down back would be last resort. We would take a defender as the sub in either Smith or Hunt if we are worried about May blowing up. Btw Channel 7 reporter the club hasn’t even bothered with scans for May. He must have pulled up well.

And is flying to WA to watch us play in the granny!

Ummm guys… we are in a grand final!

It’s been reported that this was agreed to before the season even started. He’s moving back to SA (going to work with Adelaide I believe) to be with his kids. From all reports he’s been training up someone else to take over his role.

He only moved there when Lever was taken off in the last to rest. Tmac down back is last resort stuff. This is the grand final. We have worked all year to have a settled team and game plan. And now people want to throw random positional moves? No chance.

Brilliant news. He’s a gun especially with later picks, which I suspect we will have a few years of 😉

Not buying it either. We had the hardest run home of all the top 5 sides. We got stuck on a plane for 8 hours. We quarantined in Perth and played a 60 minute final quarter against West Coast and played Geelong in Geelong. We won all those games and finished top of the ladder. Yet we still travelled to Adelaide for finals and then went on to quarantine in WA. We took our chances and finished 1st! Dogs only have themselves to blame for dropping the double chance and finishing 5th after being top 2 for almost the entire season. They’ve had a very hard run in finals with travel. Finish top 4 as they should have, and it’s a non issue. So cry me a bloody river Dogs. Always with the [censored] underdog story. They’ve had a dream run from the umpires all year. Don’t hear them mentioning that!

They would have had to get a clearance from the AFL to play and there is no way if the AFL thought any of them were even slightly contagious with anything that they would have let those players play. If they had fevers as reported, once the fever break you are likely to not be contagious. I highly doubt any of them were so sick that they couldn’t play. Geelong didn’t make any late changes on game day and they were drinking beer the next day at the pub. Couldn’t have been that sick.

We need to be fully prepared that this will happen again. The Dogs have had a dream run from the umpires all year.

Backline is the only area that can see a change. Do we bring in Hunt or Smith to combat their small quick forwards? How fit is May? I am still keen to bring Hunt in. Rivers hasn’t been at his best in finals. Where’s Bowey was sensational on Friday and his kicking was seriously elite. Would be a big call to drop Rivers. Does Hibbo go out for Smith? For me I would look at bringing Hunt for Hibbo. Or at least make Hunt the sub.

17 year old coke head

I still think Hunt as medi sub. Also I’m not keen on May vs Naughton with May’s hamstring hanging on by a thread. If he goes down and we don’t have a defender ready to go we are in trouble, as I back the Dogs to win their fair share of very good clearances.

Can’t play Lingers on him because that ruins our attack. Too negative. Gus can’t cover him for speed. A real danger matchup.

Understatement of the decade. If I was a Port supporter I would be calling for blood. It’s one thing to lose, it’s another to play gutless weak football from minute one of a prelim.

Hinkley is probably hosting the boring luncheon. It’s titled “how to choke”.

Port are seriously just woeful. This is the most disgraceful finals performance I’ve ever seen.

Bailey Smith is absolutely on fire. He is killing them. I have no idea who plays on him.

Hard to decide what’s softer, my lockdown [censored] or Port in finals.