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Enjoy! Should we end up playing at the Gabba those barcodes will be available. However, will confirm when results are known.

Would have loved to have seen Smith or McDonald lay a few heavy (legal) tackles on Maynard...can't believe no one tested him for the whole game. For that matter a few heavy tackles on Cox wouldn't have gone astray. We let Coll get the mental ascendancy early and never tried very much to get it back.

Now that I am over my anguish at losing and at the lack of physicality in such a critical game... ...I'm cutting our fwd line a bit of slack: McDonald, Jvr, Smith and Fritsch have never played together, probably never even trained together. Was sitting about 12 rows back almost behind the city end goals and that was quite obvious. Their cohesion was virtually non-existant with almost no teamwork. The congestion inside 20m from goal was very frustrating to watch. I put it down to lack of understanding of each others role and maybe a tad of wanting to be the hero. It wasn't helped by Moore holding JvR down by the hips stopping him from jumping/marking. JvR isn't yet strong enough to break that hold and the holding down is not visible to umpires so he received no frees. It was very visible to us and would have been to behind the goal cameras if ch7 bothered to show it. But of course they didn't. Where I cut less slack is the players (Gawn, Smith, Fritsch) who had shots for goal from outside the 50m arc. It was not the night to take such low % shots and all should know better. I don't recall a shot for goal from around the 50m mark by the Pies and they reaped the reward of centering the ball around the 20-35m arc. To state the obvious, our fwd roles and positioning needs a bit of work this week. I'm still optimistic that this is our 🏆 year!

No Curnow, no Carlton!! When they last played he kicked 1.3 and McKay kicked 0.3. Longmire will have a plan to stop them again. Their rnd 24 game vs GWS was appalling to be taken at all seriously as a finals team. Sydney didn't beat us because we are a great team and played to win even tho it was a dead rubber for us. Carlton played a dead rubber and celebrated making finals. Even if we lose to the Pies I still see us playing in the GF. Lions won't stop us even at the Gabba.

To get the player we want we need to get ahead of Hawthorn who nominally hold ND3. We have a better chance of doing that if North get ND 3 as FA comp for McKay and Hawthorn slides to ND4. If North get ND3, I have a hunch they will trade it. Either because the AFL will make that condition as it did last year. Or they will want two more first round picks (in addition to ND2 they have). But Hawthorn will also try and trade up for the player they want. Makes for an interesting cat and mouse game for the top draft picks!!

Re who will have more supporters at the game. It will likely be Coll. Even tho the allocation general allocation is 50/50 they will dominate the AFL stand and will have almost as many as us in the MCC. We will just make more noise!! I just hope all the talk of rain doesn't keep dee fans away.

Damned if I know...!

It seems the only game we differ on is Carlton vs Sydney winning. Either way love the way it plays out!!

Making these changes to the Semi-finals: Semi -Finals. Week 2: Port Adelaide vs GWS: GWS capable of upset. A 50/50 game Tipping Port, just! Collingwood vs Sydney: Another 50/50 game. And wouldn’t it be sweet if Syndey won!!! But alas Pies will probably get it done. Thanks to @JTR for highlighting I had these finals a-about. My subsequent predictions don't change

Thanks for that. I will redo it but the comments and results probably won't change.

I reckon the 'we lose in wet weather' is being overplayed on here. I can't recall all the wet weather games we have lost this year but the ones that stand out are vs Ess- we stuffed up our preparation and travel. vs GWS - kicking for goal was atrocious. A rare mistake by Lever allowed Kelly to kick a freak 60m goal just before the siren. vs Port - we nearly won on one good quarter of football with Oliver playing it out injured. They aren't excuse. We lost. We wear it. But I'd be careful of extrapolating that to the stress levels on here about it raining on Thursday night. Anyway, what is a few mm of rain at the G which has excellent drainage and with a mild wind blowing during the day/evening. If it is damp it will favour us. Pies rely on fast, slick ball movement. We do not. Whatever the conditions we have this.

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The round 24 games of Dees vs Swans and Blues vs Giants says so much. Dees played a dead rubber vs a team giving their all to get a Home final. We played it to the death giving it our all and our endurance won the day. Carlton played a dead rubber vs a team fighting to get into the 8. They rolled over. If they won they would be playing WBD in this final - a much better chance of a win imv. The so called 'experts' in the media are empty headed fools hooked on 'click bait'.

Anyone else prepared to put a stake in the ground for the finals series? My predictions: QF and EF Finals. Week 1. QF 1: Collingwood vs Melbourne: Dees will win due to greater endurance, better defence and are not a ‘one trick pony’ QF 2: Brisbane vs Port Adelaide: Brisbane to win. Home ground advantage and Port’s defence is sus. EF 1: Carlton vs Sydney: Sydney to win. Carlton played lazy football in round 24. Too much hubris and seemed satisfied to make finals. Allowed a potential finals threat run all over them. EF 2: St Kilda vs GWS: GWS to win. Looks like a team on a mission. Will miss Toby Bedford. Have a first class midfield and multiple avenues to goal. Would love to see Carlton eliminated and shut up the sheep like commentators!! Semi -Finals. Week 2: Port Adelaide vs Sydney: A 50/50 game. Tipping Port, just! So much talent and more experience. Collingwood vs GWS: GWS capable of upset. And wouldn’t that be sweet!!! But alas Pies will probably get it done. Preliminary Finals. Week 3: Melbourne vs Port Adelaide. A demon win. Onour turf this time!! Lions vs Collingwood: Lions (because I'm not sure we can beat Coll 3 times in a row). Grand Final: Demons vs Lions: Demons!! 🏆 + 13

Yeah, I didn't like how that was written. He played all the roles Longmuir outlined for him when with us and tbh I've not seen much different in his time at Freo, except that he replaced Darcy for an extended time. It plays down that he just wanted to go home. Anyway he is gone. We move on and with a bit of luck we will be this year's premiers and he won't be!!

It certainly reads that way. It helps explain why his efforts seemed half-hearted for the second half of the season.

There is much in this article that will rile D'landers. freak-of-nature-why-anything-is-possible-for-unique-fremantle-star-luke-jackson The part that caught my eye was: "...Jackson owns a Cavoodle named Bear..." @Jaded No More Did Jackson steal your pooch...your post from the 'Puppy' thread... Bear also has his own Instagram… and he now follows your toy poodle https://instagram.com/bears_fluffy_adventures?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

👋 Love your user name!! An apt play on the Bulldogs' 2021 anthem which we pinched after beating them in the GF much to their displeasure!! Hoping it is a good omen this year.

The latest is a 'test email' from the club re non-receipt of barcode email last Monday, by bigpond customers. I believe it was sent just to those that asked a question of the club. In a phone call from the club it seems the problem affected MFC and Carlton and was related to how the AFL classified the emails. No other info available. Club is doing everything to ensure it doesn't happen again. Thank you for your patience as we work through the issues with Bigpond email accounts. We have been advised by the AFL of a way for you to receive our finals ticketing emails. This is a test email to ensure that this method works. Please reply to this email if you receive it. We really appreciate your assistance with this process. Kind regards, Membership Services

The downside is they will both be FA's when their contracts expire. Lets hope they will still want to stay!! If they want ot go the club is unlikely to play games and force trades etc...

Updated for Jake Lever's 4 year extension giving him another 5 years at the club. Repeat of chart changes noted in an earlier post (so it doesn't get lost as the thread grows): I've also prepared the chart to track list and draft pick changes. Regarding draft picks: I have assumed Grundy and JJ are gone. Other incoming picks could be if Harmes, Tomlison etc choose to go. We need to take only 3 draftees: Promote Turner using ND89. Draft Brown with a later pick. I doubt he will go as high as ND34 so my guess is we will use a pick from a player trade or more likely the JJ AFL comp possibly a 3rd round. One (or maybe two) elite players in the top 5 or top 10 by trading up whatever draft picks we need to to get the player(s)we want. We have a draft hand which is as good as any of our golden draft years (2013 to 2015 and 2019). A huge opportunity that will set us up for the rest of this decade.

I haven't. Not up to it today...maybe in a few days I'll wade through there. If anyone would like to take that plunge please go ahead.

Thanks for picking that up. AMW isn't yet contracted for 2024...error on my part. Will fix on next version.

Where can I find the others in the series?