Nascent

My main concern about this game is Brisbanes dangerous small forwards in Cameron, McCarthy and Bailey. Rivers, Bowey and Smith are a lot of youth and inexperience that could be exposed here. Do we bring in Hibberd to play a hard lockdown role?

Haven't kept tabs on Collingwood or pendles this year but I'm of the view that we're short at least one more reliable A-grade midfielder. Someone with experience and leadership would be fantastic for this group, not sure if that's pendles but I'd be looking at him as a possibility as well as Cunnington and Parker. The lure of a premiership before retirement may persuade free agents to come across at a lesser premium. Beyond Oliver and Petracca we have Viney, Harmes, Sparrow and Jordon as our rotating mids and all with various shortcomings . Brayshaw seemingly not trusted in this position anymore.

Freo losing today locks in the final 8 now. Qualifying final 1. Demons vs Lions Qualifying final 2. Port vs Cats Elimination final 1. Bulldogs vs Bombers Elimination final 2. Swans vs Giants Time, date and venues to be released later.

Legend, some interesting stats there and presume injury played a part in a game or two

Still a bit to play out here. If we go down in straight sets our first rounder this year will be 14. Win the premiership and it's 18. So could be any pick between those two numbers really. Say we win the premiership though, it will be Out: 18 and 25 In: 18, 19 and 32-35. Of course our picks 18 and 19 became 21 and 22 after NGA and other academy selections. Not sure what happened to their pick 25 due to the myriad of trades and bids on draft night. This year though our pick "18" will blow out to at least 20 due to f/s in Daicos and Darcy. So rough equation is Out: Pick 20 (2021) and 25 (2020) In: Pick 21, 22 (2020) and 32-35 (2021)

Wonder how Jack Carroll went in the Carlton ressies this year. Few on here were quite keen on him and he was linked to us by cal and also discussed by Taylor and Co on the draft vid before settling on Rosman.

Buy a new TV and leave this one on forever. Or AFL will have the full game replay up today on its website. Your call.

This tops the freo come back game where wonna kicked 4 and we overturned a 50 odd point half time deficit. Amazing atmosphere for 19k crowd.

So as it stands week 1 will be this. QF 1. Melbourne vs Brisbane QF 2. Port Adel vs Geelong EL 1. Bulldogs vs Essendon/Freo EL 2. Sydney vs GWS If we win we'll go into Preliminary final 1 and will meet one of Sydney, GWS, Port or Geelong Lose and we will be in Semi Final 1 and will meet the winner of Bulldogs vs Essendon/Freo

Sparrow has a good mark on him and a bit of pace. Reckon we'll see some serious gains next year and cement a spot in the 22.

Not one of the 'sterile corridors' allegedly. Would have to be played in either SA, WA, tassie or Queensland

6. Oliver 5. Lever (Huuuuuuge game) 4. Gawn 3. Petracca 2. Langdon 1. Pickett

I trust them to continually toy with my emotions

Is that our first ever win by a kick after the siren?

Lever, Gawn, Oliver take a bow

What he said

What to do about Tom McDonald. Not seeing him get up the ground to get involved much makes me suspicious that he is still injured. Shame we didn't give a game to Weideman while he was out for two weeks. I can't see him coming in to replace McDonald but can we carry McDonald in this sort of form? Guess melksham is the other option.

May has zero confidence

May having an unusual shocker

Oliver, I would hate to think where we would be without him

They're walking through us and getting more numbers to the contest. They want it more.

This is why we need more quality midfielders. After Oliver and Petracca it's slim pickings with Harmes Sparrow and Viney all having significant flaws. Can't expect Oliver and Petrecca to dominate all games all season long, and when their output drops its noticeable. We've covered for this by having an amazing defence, which works against lesser teams, but it's going to be found out in the finals and now.

Ruined my weekend very quickly

8 goals in a row in a single quarter. That is 2012 woeful.

Fun