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No Dusty, No Richmond looks truer by the week!

I'm intensely jealous!! Well, not the hangover part... Happy Birthday 🥂, CHF! If you plan on having a hangover I hope it isn't top shelf champagne! Reckon you will get your birthday wish of a Dees win!

And it continues into the NT: Alice Springs, Nyirripi, Yuendemu The story: the-dees-cup-lands-in-the-red-centre The video: nyirripi which looks like serious Demon territory The pictures: dees-cup-in-the-red-centre-gallery Favourite pic: Love Kozzie! Great to see Kate Roffey travel to all the communities and that the club had AM-W front and centre and were accompanied by our AFLW players Alyssa Bannan and Megan Fitzsimon.

Did Ginnivan drop his knee into the Crows player's neck/upper chest (late in the 3rd/early in the 4th) when they were wrestling on the ground?

Good to see the umps not fall for it. Ginnivan would fair better with frees if his technique was more like Selwood's. Selwood leans his head into the opps upperarm and drops his knees just a fraction but usually keeps his feet. Ginnivan leans his head into the opps shoulder but stretches his own arm up high which is a giveaway to the umps that he is staging. He goes to ground waiting for the free, doesn't try to dispose of the ball and is correctly called HTB. I certainly don't condone Selwood's technique. Prefer they were all penalised.

DJ, I agree but I said Lobb and Logue for WBD's first. Lobb is interesting. The Giants gave up Lobb and picks No.14, 43 and 47 to Fremantle while they received picks No.11 and 19. It is said he is on about $700K having an excellent season. WBD would have to pay him in that vicinity so a first round pick would need to be in the discussion. Can't offer that money then propose a 2nd round pick.

I posted something similar earlier in this thread. Logue has also been linked to WBD. I suggested Lobb and Logue to them for their 2022 first, currently #9. Freo add their 2022 or 2023 first round pick and a player. I didn't suggest a player but Meek seems to be gaining favour. Did you get the impression from the HS that they were hypothesising a trade of that such a trade is in the pipeline?

Port have Dixon and Aliir in this time but without Lycett. We are missing Oliver and Petty. Compared to the round 4 game they are stronger. Drew was quite successful in tagging Petracca last time so they might try that again. Big implication for our clearances without Oliver there. Personnel aside there is one tactic that has been successful against us. Adelaide started it last year. While it doesn't always work it has in our four losses this year and probably a significant reason why we lost those games. The tactic? To rush our defence and attack through the corridor. Our mids and high forwards don't have time to get back and help the defence. I'm sure Hinkley will have trained for it tomorrow. Our coaches have seen it often enough. If we don't have a strategy to beat this tactic by now we do not deserve to win.

Update: Reality is though we've proven time and time again this year we aren't any good. Since when do we beat top 4 sides? What are we like 1 win against the top 8 all year? I reckon youse are dreaming. Melbourne by an easy 4 goals Anyone think this will be a grind like that St Kilda game earlier in the year? Or are we set for a belting? we are (on form) at best a lower top 8 side and melbourne are top 2. can't see us winning. Melbourne supporters whingeing about Ben Brown and wanting to cut him. Watch this space for an Alice Springs performance update. You apparently can't tell the difference between optimism and acceptance of mediocrity. Optimism without basis is delusion. It appears apathy has well and truly set in!! I used to be apathetic but now I just don’t care!! If drew isn’t tagging Petracca from the first bounce, Hinkley should be sacked at quarter time If port can actually develop and execute a game plan they could win this, but I don't think we have the smarts in the box

Throw in the 2 long haul flights in 14 days to NT and WA and the challenge grows. I take comfort from the fact we had much worse in the last month or so of 2021 HnA season and had extensive quarantine requirements thrown im, as we travelled to and from: WA.SA and Qld. So we have the formula 🤞

Damn shame the bulldogs won. Lose and there was no chance of making the 8 and they could pack up shop. Now there is some hope of finals for them, they will come out all guns firing next week against us. Like Geelong they will have revenge on their mind and throw everything at us.

Again!!

The flip side is that Stafford is doing a great job with a depleted fwd group that for 12 games of 16, kicked winning scores to help get us a % of 130+ which may be the difference between top 2 and 3rd or top 4 and 5th.

They do if we play hardball and match their offer as Adelaide threatened with Danger and more recently as GWS did with Cameron. Freo can't offer the equivalent of developmental/depth players who might come good and some rubbishy draft point picks for Jackson and also expect to get Brayshaw for nothing via FA. Edit: should have read the whole thread as others have made similar comments...

In Victoria, close contacts do not need to isolate. Nor did they the last time he had covid.

Thanks for clarification. With that cred Hasleby's paraphrased comment is worth repeating: Freo has a commitment from Jackson and his management that he will go there if they have the draft capital to get a deal done. That suggests that Jackson is doing the right thing by the club in a trade and should allay the DL fears that Jackson "won't look after us"/Freo will dud us in a trade. And it suggests that if Freo can't do the deal Jackson will either go to WCE or stays.

I have a feeling that is stretching an article by the somewhat unreliable WA scribe Paul Halesby. I popped over to the Freo bf forum to see what they were saying PH article says something like: Freo has a commitment from Jackson and his management that he will go there if they have the draft capital to get a deal done. The article is behind a paywall so I can't quote from it directly. As I said, I don't think PH is reliable. He strikes me as WA's John Ralph and plays lots of guessing and speculation games.

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Iirc Cerra wanted to come back to Victoria and waited until his manager found the club who could do the deal and we couldn't.

Thanks for the info. By all accounts Freo wouldn't trade Cerra to us last year because we didn't meet their trade requirements so he chose Carlton. Any reason why we can't do the same with Freo, not from a vindictive view but a pragmatic one and Jackson go to Eagles.

Yes, I figured it is related to first names. Waiting till 5.00pm..torture!

Maybe a Hint about what it is related to rather than what it is not related to...

Because it would never have been put on the club twitter/website if it was an offensive gesture.

LOL! Goodwin said 'Oliver has been high maintenance in the first few days', wanting to play this week. That's Clarrie! Raring to go. Not this week.

Saw it. Howes' cryptic 'Thursday vibes' and the victory emoji says Jackson is staying!!?? + Jackson's beaming smile (when everyone else is focusing on the next ball up) and his two outstretched fingers. = A two year contract coming up!!??