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Shocking decision keeping Weeds out of the team. Kicks 7 in the twos while Tmac remains turnover merchant 

Melksham has 3 quarters to save his career

Melksham unsighted.

Edit: Sighted walking un manned in background hands on hips

Weiderman off the field for half of that quarter 

Jones would want to have a good game with Bedford banging on the door

5 minutes ago, adonski said:

Where's Laurie?

Concern as we have given up our 2021 first rounder for the kid and he isn’t even getting a run in the 2nds season opener

Anyone know what’s the go with Laurie? Not listed as playing. Injured? Too far off the mark? 

Oliver and Salem have been huge. Salem given Butler a bath

1 hour ago, Ollie fan said:

I don’t understand the theory about keeping them guessing.

if the opposition finds out at the last minute that a player is out and being replaced by a lesser player, how does that help us? It would surely lift their morale. And if the injured player is being replaced by a better player: wouldn’t that happen anyway, regardless of the injury.

I see your a fan of the oli

Good point of difference 

3 minutes ago, drysdale demon said:

Just because he is named there doesn't mean he is going to play there, you would think that people would wake up to the fact that a lot of positional spots named pregame alter on game day.

Ok then, if he doesn’t play there then who does? Whose our 2nd winger based on this team?

Jones? Tmac?

Just can’t see where our improvement on 2020 is going to come from looking at this. 

Harmes on the wing. Good grief.

Goody telling Daw that we are going to take our time with him just shows how out of touch Goody is.

The bloke is 29 FFS, the whole point of bringing him in is to help cover Brown and Weiderman.  It’s not like we are going to develop him in the VFL for the next 3-5 years before considering him for a run. Expectation is if we bring blokes on at 29 that they are damn ready to go and fill a need.

That said happy for Daw, hope he goes well.

1 hour ago, titan_uranus said:

Johannisen, Richards and Cordy were all dropped. Fit, but didn't make the 26.

That's two best 22 and a fringe player missing.

Not comparable at all.

And as to their "depth", they have midfield depth like no other side in the league but they didn't look amazing when we went inside 50, so they didn't really have good cover for Wood.

The fact they were dropped says it all about depth.
 

They were able to drop quality players while we are forced to play VFL plodders. I would love Richards on our wing over Jones, JJ over Hunt, Cordy over Jetta any day of the week.

Even there VFL players would put our starters to shame.

Throw in Cody Weightman  over Bedford/Spargo/Chandler to please

10 minutes ago, big_red_fire_engine said:

Did you note I did not mention Brayshaw, Salem, Hibberd, Picket, Brown, Weid..... Our one wood was more like a nine iron in the middle of the ground which was my point. It’s where the game starts and usually won and lost. Plenty of disappointments but let’s be real with the disparity in the middle. 

So the difference was Oliver then? We are in for a weekly hammering if he goes down.

Lets be honest, Viney would have made minimal difference yesterday with his defensive running abilities

6 minutes ago, big_red_fire_engine said:

I wonder if our centre bounces yesterday were Gawn, Trac, Oliver, Viney against  English, Westerns second best mid in McRae, 7th gamer Rhylee West and first gamer McNeil how much different the whole game would look? Very disappointed that none of the kids really showed high hopes. Very disappointed that none of the B Graders other than ANB stepped into the breach left by those missing. Very disappointed that we could not lay a tackle and refused to lock onto Caleb Daniel. But really how could anyone get a read on that game with the imbalance in the middle of the ground.

Like Treloar,JJ, Easton Wood, Richards, Cordy, Hannan

Lets be honest, there depth bats deeper then ours and we are stuffed if we get 3-4 injuries and need to rely on Baker, Jordan and Sparrow

Was an indictment when our best player was face down in pain and not one MFC player went to check on him. Gotta love the culture

2 minutes ago, Vineytime said:

Jordan did ok, bit to work with here. 
Harmes improved 

Lever much improved 

May brilliant 

Jones still best 22. 
AnB was good

AvB good in first half then quiet. 
Rivers played well, will be a very good player. 
 

Baker, Sparrow, TMac poor

AVB with 5 disposals was NOT good

Classic Dees.

Newspaper articles all saying the intention is to go deep into finals.

Come out later in the day and get pantsed.

Some things never change, absolutely no game plan again.

Demonlanders won’t have any issues finding new whipping boys off the back of this performance to replace Omac. Goodwin will be high on that list 

5 touches to Vandenberg. Another one whose cooked. Even Bowey picking up more disposals

Time to take Trac Lever and Gawn off the field 

Wonder what Goodwin will say in post match presser

Absolute [censored] poor game plan 

Why are we not running guys like Petty and Laurie and giving game time to Tmac and Jones.