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We don't have a list spot at this stage.. The candidates for the 'Inactive' list are Hibberd (or he could retire early) and Howes if his injury is likely to extend beyond 8-10 weeks. With Howes, I doubt the club would want to put him on the 'Inactive' list. They are more likely to want to get games into him and have the experience of playing VFL finals, if Casey make it. Our pick in the MSD would be quite late so it would only be worth it if there was someone we really wanted. My guess we won't be in the MSD.

Andy Moniz-Wakefield - Concussion | Test James Harmes - Hamstring | TBC Michael Hibberd - Calf | TBC Christian Salem - Knee | 1 Week Kade Chandler - Suspension | 2 Weeks Joel Smith - Ankle | 7-8 Weeks Blake Howes - Foot | 8-10 weeks Updated: May 17, 2022 Difficult to see HIbberd getting back into the seniors. Salem 1 week 🙃☺️

They mean Sydney the city rather than Sydney the club. But couldn't see Dusty choosing GWS over the Swans.

I wonder how long before the media start stories about WCE trying to entice him back to WA to replace Kennedy or Darling...

Some interesting games coming up: The top 4 teams each play 7 of the remaining 13 games against current top 8 teams. We have the most vs top 4 teams: 5 games Bulldogs and Port also have 7 games vs the current top 8. Swans have 6, Tigers and Saints have 5 and Cats have 3. Lots of 8-pt games and potential for ladder position changes, mostly in the 4th to 8th spot or an outside chance of 9th/10th (WBD, Port) sneaking into the 8.

The 'edit' button 'expires' after x hours but not sure how many hours Never fear, subsequent posts to yours would have expunged any bad vibes picked up by 'bad luck' Gods.

Sure is a winner! I rang the Shop, they have plenty in stock for OTC sales. More stock will be made for on-line purchase but they weren't too sure when. Will try and find out more when I go to the Shop tomorrow.

Sadly, it looks like the scarves are sold out as couldn't see any in the mfc 'shop' on line.

Yep. imv, asking people to vote is in poor taste and not in line with the occasion.

The AFL and Ch 7 will rue their fixturing of Ess with consecutive 3 Friday night games in June, especially the one vs WCE! Reap what they sow!

If Rich play Carlton, Geelong, Saints or Melbourne in a final the game will be at the G. They have shown they can win finals at the Gabba. With their draw they have a good chance of finishing 4th. Even finishing outside the top 4, in 2020 they had to win play 4 finals to the flag. I'm not all gung-ho for them winning finals or the GF just saying they have the ingredients to win a few, perhaps more than other teams except the Dees. After all the GF is played at the G and neither Freo or Lions have a good record their.

But someone still has to be dropped from the 22? Who goes out: JJ, Sparrow? Can't see it. Salem in, Rivers the medi-sub.

Heppell: "The hardness and the firmness and what you're talking about with being a 'nice' football team, it's not about giving away free kicks or showing full-blown aggression...It's when the ball's there to be won, that's what we want to stand for (and) playing good, quality, tough footy." Not sure he gets what uncompromising and ruthless football is about and that is what wins games. He should watch the GF carefully and see how Salem, May, Viney, Kozzie, to name a few, flattened opps legally. Not one free given away. No injury to themselves. He should watch how Brayshaw and others wear a tackle rather than dish off the ball to take the heat off themselves. He should watch how May's legal 'payback' to Zac Jones for tunnelling Langdon and push on Oliver/ These are examples of tough, uncompromising, ruthless football. Legally. As long as he, the captain, doesn't (or sounds like he doesn't) understand the difference between 'full-blown aggression' and 'ruthlessness' they will wallow at the bottom. May it long continue! He could have intended it as ra ra for the fans but he didn't come across as a ruthless leader. Essendon - the new 'bruise free' team.

Tap on the 'Edit' button at the bottom left of your post.

Hit the nail on the head. In an interview last week Staffford was talking about the Saints game and said there were things we wanted to work on in our game and coming up against a good side like St Kilda tested those and he referred to 'contest' and 'territory'. I suspect that experimenting happens quite regularly but is invisible to the observer. Wouldn't be good if commentators could identify changes in tactics rather than describe what we can see and waffle on about trivia and irrelevancies. Of course, it won't happen.

Goodwin may have been the one to give Jack 5 and Simpson gave him zip. Like you I fail to see how either coach gave him zip. And you make a good point about team roles as I didn't see Petracca's game as BOG or 2nd BOG but the coaches did so who knows what they see. Sometimes, I wonder whether a fan's view is affected by the camera following the ball so we don't get to see the off ball work so well.

9 Christian Petracca (MELB) 6 Kysaiah Pickett (MELB) 5 Jack Viney (MELB) 4 Clayton Oliver (MELB) 2 Angus Brayshaw (MELB) 2 Max Gawn (MELB) 1 Tom McDonald (MELB) 1 Tim Kelly (WCE) Split: 5/4 Petracca 3/3 Picket 5/0 Viney 4/0 Oliver 2/0 Brayshaw 2/0 Gawn 1/0 McDonald 1/0 Kelly Going on the DL votes many would be surprised to see both coaches rated Petracca so highly. Other than Petracca and Picket the coaches were all over the shop... Goodwin rated only one of Viney/Oliver, Brayshaw/Gawn. Reckon it was Viney and Gawn. Good to see Kozzie among the votes by both coaches. Great recognition. Leaderboard Oliver catching up to Cripps ☺️ 53 Patrick Cripps CARL 51 Clayton Oliver MELB 49 Lachie Neale BL 47 Andrew Brayshaw FRE 44 Christian Petracca MELB 41 Callum Mills SYD 38 Touk Miller GCFC 32 Bailey Smith WB 31 Jack Crisp COLL 31 Hugh McCluggage BL 31 Darcy Parish ESS 30 Max Gawn MELB 30 James Sicily HAW 29 Shai Bolton RICH 28 Charlie Curnow CARL 27 Jeremy Cameron GEEL 27 Jack Higgins STK 26 Tom J Lynch RICH 26 Jack Steele STK

That is a reason why it was a favourite!

I reckon he will do fine. The trick to playing Cameron (as with most fwds) is to stay goal side. Jayden has the speed to run Cameron down when he tries to lead for the ball. And our other small defs back up really well. Cameron is too good a player to keep quiet all day but he will need to outsmart Jayden to kick big scores.. The problem for us will be that even if we hold Cameron; Bailey, Lyons etc can get free. Lions have multiple ways to score.

Thank you. If I 'convert' your table to actual games my thoughts are: We will smash Geelong at Kardinia Park. They are our bunnies! 🙃 Agree with the lower probability for Freo and Lions as their Home games. Reckon we have the Bulldogs spooked even at Marvel. Reckon Sydney and maybe Port are risky games. Therein are the 3-4 losses.

You also have us with 18.4 wins. Out of interest which games do we lose?

Good to see squiggle has us nearly 2 games +% clear of 2nd. Home Finals here we come!!

Ben might just be inclined to score more than the whole North team put together.

I liked that some posters were decent enough to defend Ben and enjoy his success. The rest I put into 'the haters will hate' category. If any of their fans turn up this week it will be interesting to see if they boo (last year's North game was in Hobart so their die hards weren't there).

I first noticed it vs Port when he kept Motlop quiet. Noticed again a few weeks later when he kept Bolton quiet and commented about it in one or more DL threads at the time. Then Breust vs Hawks etc. He has continued doing it and it is now being highlighted by the coaches and DL are giving him more respect. He has made the 'Jetta' role his own which is why I do not think he will be dropped when Salem returns. Others can perform the role but he has been handed it and excelled at it. My equal #1 favourite player!!