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Son of Shane (Woewodin) It also took me a while to figure it out.☺️

Andy Maher just said we have about 60,000 members. If so, the 666 special membership today has been a wild success!

Perfect football weather: Wind and rain in the morning. Sunny afternoon. Light winds in the evening. MCG surface will be dry as a bone by the time the game starts. Source: Bureau of Meteorology

Not worried about our outs as they are not in the same 'line' on the field. We can cover our 2nd ruck, rotating mid and small forward without upsetting the synergy of the team. If we get more cases the risk is if they are concentrated in one part of the ground it starts to upset our synergy, ball movement and defensive patterns. Even then if everyone brings effort and attitude we will get the job done.

I just don't get the AFL love for the Bulldogs. They have already had 3 Friday nights and umpteen Wed, Thurs and Saturday nights. Now they get another two Friday nights and a stand alone Saturday night. Also, scheduling us to play Brisb on a Thurs night means we don't get a full bye with just a 9 day break after the QB game, whereas other teams, like the Bulldogs get a 16 day break for their bye. Yes, I am picking on the Bulldogs but they are neither a big club nor a successful club in 2022 and that is not likely to change in a hurry. The Friday night games in this group are: Western Bulldogs v Geelong Essendon v Carlton St Kilda v Essendon Hardly 'Games Of The Round'. AFL pandering to the Bombers again! Rant over! We will be successful regardless of the fixture but crikey they haven't done the club or the fans any favours.

All that says is Sanderson doesn't have much of an idea of our strengths. Tag May: Petty and Lever and resting ruckman will do the intercepting. Tag Petracca: last time someone did that Oliver and Sparrow had outstanding games. Even numbers at stoppages: Great, suits us fine. Let Viney and co go to town. High pressure forwards: Hunt, Bowey, Salem et al will let them know what pressure is. One mid rolls back: we will just play through the other side of the ground. Embrace 'chaos. football: We have overwhelmed that every time it has been tried. Not deep thinkers these so called 'strategists'.

McGuane sounds like 'captain obvious'. As if opps don't know those tactics. Impossible to employ all of them in the one game. All those tactics have been tried at some stage, none have succeeded for 4 quarters.

I think he did. He said they had been conservative but allowed post game contact but would (and will) pull it back if there was a need to. I think we will no longer see players hi-5 etc fans over the boundary fence. So @WalkingCivilWarwas lucky to slap hands with Max after the GWS game but this is now unlikely with her 'dreamboat', man, Steven May. 🙃

Altho the question was about additional precautions this week, I took Pert's response in the context of what precautions the club has had in place since pre-season. Pert said we have had very strict rules this year and people stay home if they have symptoms. The strict rules in place are over and above those of AFL and governments. ...too optimistic a take on my part?

Is their a link to the Pert interview, please?

huge-mcg-clashes-to-headline-next-block-of-the-afl-fixture/ "The Round 12 fight for prime time will be hotly contested between the Hawthorn-Collingwood, Melbourne-Sydney and Western Bulldogs-Geelong matches. The Richmond-Carlton and GWS-Western Bulldogs matches in Round 14 and the Melbourne-Brisbane and Geelong-Richmond meetings in Round 15 are also expected to feature prominently". I would have thought Melb-Syd was a no brainer for round 12. Ditto Melb-Brisb in round 15. Most of the other games are between mid table teams. In round 13 we play Coll on QB and have a bye in round 14.

Today is 'Membership Day' on SEN. Club has a special promotion: 6 Home games GA membership for $66.00. Has priority access ticket rights to first 3 rounds of finals ie not the GF. I just bought 2 for friends/family who might want to come along. They are GA memberships so can't sit in my level 2 Reserved Redlegs area but seats can be reserved for them at $30 each for level 2A to sit together. Pretty good deal! Detail here: membership/666-6-games Edit: I bought them on my account but they can also be bought in for a new member account if that is preferred. I found it a lot easier to just buy them and allocate them as each game comes up to whoever is free to go to the game. Just rang the club and done in a few minutes.

Lets hope the immunity from having covid lasts till end of September so we can have a clear run at finals.

Saw footage of how Darcy plays. He also took his eyes off the ball and waited till Pittonet leapt before jumping in with his knee. Pittonet out with a PCL. Like Draper's action it looked deliberate. As soon as a ruckman takes his eyes off the ball at a CB the umpire should call a free. Or do it often enough cited by MRO for rough conduct, fined and if need be suspended. We don't need the better/best ruckman to be taken out.

Updated forecast: Just right for game time!

An update but not much optimism post our covid news: Just need another 10 to go down and we are a chance I still expect us to lose because they're clearly the top team and we're clearly inconsistent and around the middle. But we've shown we can play some very good football. We'd really be wanting to test ourselves here where as the stakes aren't nearly as high for them. If we're lucky we might catch them napping. Jackson, Pickett and Petracca would be massive losses. Big Maxy and Clarry should probably pop around and give them a cuddle and make sure they're ok. May can't drop past with the beers as well The worst thing for Melbourne would be for covid to run through the squad in finals. They really should all get around to Jackson's place for a session. Get it out of the way now Hopefully another 7-8 cases for them over the next couple of days. So a 12 goal margin has gone down to 11 They seem fixated about playing us on a 5 day break, conveniently forgetting we have only a 5.75 day break from a night game meaning post match recovery etc goes into the early hours of the next day.

I was suggesting we go in with one ruckman. The only ruck Hawks have is Lynch who is a rookie. McElvoy and Ceglar both out injured. And while TMc does some ruck work he isn't a CB tap or clearance type ruckman so not sure he could play the Jackson role.

If Jackson is out would we bring in another ruckman? Hawks aren't that tall and Max should take care of their rookie uckman on his own with only a little help from friends. Maybe we bring in Melksham for Jackson and Bedford for Kozzie (if Kozzie is in iso).

Thanks, I was aware of that. He seemed very proud of it! I'm hoping someone has old footy cards with autographs on them.

Thanks. So he could be in iso today. Not sure if it has been mentioned, Christian, Spargo and Kozzie share abode and none are in today's Casey photos.😬

But training was at Casey; why would Christian be at AAMi, assuming that video was taken today.

This is part of a dees jumper with 11 of the 1964 team autographs. I would like some help deciphering those between Graeme Jacobs 20, and Hassa 29. I think the first below Jacobs is Tassie Johnson, then John Lord but am at a complete loss as to the next. Any help would be appreciated. Edit: autographs were obtained at the 2014, 50th anniversary player reunion.

In Victoria 'close contacts' no longer need to isolate so players are safe unless they get it.

Doubt it. We already have Williams there who can fill in for Goodwin and let Yze what he does best in the box.

I doubt it. He is the eyes and tactician in the box. In an interview recently he described the coaching role on the bench as giving player feedback and keeping their spirits up. We have Williams on the bench who they players are very used to having there so it should be fairly seamless.