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100% we come to play for this. We will bring elite pressure imo. May well not be enough , as the pies are elite, but win or lose I reckon we will be proud of the dees Monday night! ** unless we kick 7.21 again ...in which case we will burn the club down**

Agreed. I wonder if this has changed not in the last 10 years but more in the last two! Feels like the blues looked really dangerous with Mckay and Curnow half a second ago. Do you think this is why JVR is so at sea in 2025?

Well...personally Im looking forward to see how we go against the best team in it. Im just not expecting a win. If we get within 5 goals of the pies there would be a lot of positives to take away.

would be the most celebrated “ I told you so” in demonland history.

If it starts sliding off the side of our boots we’ll no doubt kick a lot straighter!

Think we need to give Lever a rest and bring back Tmac. He's either not fit, injured or too out of touch .

We just have SO many terrible set shot kicks now in this team. Watching Gawn, AJ, Fritsch ( this year) Trac, Kozzie or Sharp shoot for goal is a complete frikn lottery …every time. How the hell do we turn this around? Is it even possible? I’m sure they practice but it seems whatever they’re doing is just making them all more nervous! We’re now the worst in the comp for set shot accuracy by a decent margin, but even that damning stat isn’t the worst of it. It doesn’t track how often we see opposition teams go the length of the ground afterwards for a 2 goal turnaround... from simple misses. Twice that I remember yesterday . The 2 goal turnarounds cost us the game v GWS and again yesterday. As a supporter it makes me want to tear my hair out...and as I havent got that much left I need answers soon!

Viney to miss … just announced. that’s gotta be super worrying. I would have thought Laurie would replace him but seems his on his way to Sydney?

Like when we put AJ into the side and kicked 19 goals? I think Im with @Stiff Arm

I hate to be pragmatic but I don’t think playing finals is the be all and end all in 2025. Imo It’s more important that we’ve gone close, beaten some top sides on the way and proven our style of play. Worth remembering we missed the finals in 2020 in those circumstances. Be great to make it of course but I don’t think we’re going to win it in 25 even if we do make it. 2026 might feel like a different beast.

Can you imagine if this was Melbourne, Stkilda or North Melbourne? Can you imagine Caro saying the same things?? Honestly this makes me feel sick.

yep. It’s shambolic isn’t it.

I thought he looked super dejected on the bench.

Strange question to ask as Viney is a gun, but the mix in the middle looks so good atm with rivers and kozzie and oliver firing again. How can we bring him back in and keep the synergy?

Oliver and Trac back to their best…. it’s just frikn huge for us to have those two playing like this. dees are back at the business end of town! let’s get those undecided members signed up!

Grundy jumped into him with knees and feet and absolutely thrashed him last time they met. I suspect we’ll see a wiser max today. AJ will be important in the physicality wars.

It was a massive swinging arm to Vineys head which should have earned him 4 weeks. But yes, it’s 100% a worry that concussion symptoms were delayed and now to miss so many weeks. At a certain point you have to wonder if it’s not better to not play fr the rest of the season. One thing for sure though , given our history, he will not be rushed back.

I was there as a 12 year old and yes it was a crazy game. Blues were rank outsiders and pulled a number of pre game positional moves which, at that time, was rare. Richmond couldn’t sort themselves out.

this is true. infuriating and depressing… but true. I don’t think i’ll ever get over that incident and its aftermath tbh .

" Im a Melbourne person through and through" Forget about the media noise...this guy is staying with us now. Hopefully leading us to our next flag.

We've been lucky to have him in this period..a true professional and someone who wears his heart on his sleeve. Who will ever forget THAT goal in the GF and I can still his face directly after. We love you Trac...shine on champion. Lets get a win for him in his 200th

That’s gonna give the boys a huge confidence lift… and get some haters off goodies back, off oliver’s back and off tracs back too. huge game fr trac. Tracs back!

Good to get another look at Laurie. Maybe he’ll surprise a few.

are you inhaling, drinking or snorting? whatever it is I want some.

But what if it’s not our choice re kozzie? If he’s wanting out and jackson’s wanting in it makes sense. Obviously we love kozzie…he’s my favourite player these days. But Jackson is a gun too… and a gun tall is gold.