Diamond_Jim

Looking a lot better this morning. Last night the right hand highlights section was taking up almost half my screen. Now it looks back to normal size. Thanks

A very brutal screen with far too much dominance of the various updates on the right of the screen which IIRC were at the bottom of the page. Good luck but sorry don't like it.

Not much use screaming about this now Mc Guire etc would have been on the front foot weeks in advance with a well orchestrated media run. Hell if we had known, crowd funding would have paid for the flight. Amateur club = !!!!

Eagles loss last round combined with Tigers win means no top 4 for them. The plus is that 5 or 6 gets them their first final in Perth. Fourth would see them play all finals outside Perth. I think they are content with going home to Perth for almost three weeks and then return to Brisbane or even better Adelaide for the second round of the finals as compared to five more weeks post end of the home and away in the Qld hub. Their last game for the home and away season is on Thursday night which means they will comfortably make the two week WA quarantine. Of course their competitor is another matter

To me it has been a push and switch style followed by the usual bomb to the pocket. Other than it rarely working I've never thought of it as defensive but who knows. To beat GWS you usually need a high tackling close checking team

Didn't watch the GWS game last night but I have watched them several times. In general the teams that are successful against them force the game to be played around the boundary line and deny room to the outside runners by blocking the corridor. It makes for an ugly game but so be it. Will Goodwin back his usual gameplan or go defensive.

WOW

why are they doing this to us. I was well into my annual grief management process !!!

Hawthorn are probably looking to move on from Clarkson but are naturally concerned by his payout. There's a deal to be done here if we play our cards right. Mind you MFC are not known for their negotiating ability

He's a third tall forward and our master coach has variously played him as a backman and a lone forward. Like most on our list has actually gone backwards each year

It will be a farewell match for so many

2020 At least we beat Collingwood I'm off now

Bad as we have been by a miracle we are still in it,

In case anyone is wondering last scoreless first quarter for us was against Geelong in 2008

because we have a surplus of gun forwards

light winds (15-20kms) and 23

I see we're rated a 7/4 chance to make the 8. Lousy odds considering our win probabilities

Probability of making finals is around 0.28 in my guess based on 70% win probability tonight 50% against GWS and 80% against the Bombers Would be interested to know what odds the bookies are giving for us to make the 8.

Almost a 50% probability. When you remember it included GWS and GCS in their formative years it really is a rubbish record.

add in the Geelong loss perhaps

depends if you now follow the new group think that he was never for 2020 anyway. I have already identified the theme of this year's excuse for our general under performance ..(screwed by travel and scheduling) PS..made a relatively innocuous comment BTL in the Guardian on Dan's plan. Boy the responses I got back from the Defenders of Dan made the posters on here look so friendly. Back into my bubble I go !!

Freo flew up with us the other day. We were forced to wait for them...thus us flying on game day

our percentage is higher and they are one round ahead. The equation hasn't changed...need to win ten games which means we need to win the next three PS a loss by the Eagles makes it almost certain that we would play them in Perth if we made the eight

At $500k plus and contracted for another two years..... ?

Sounds nice ? Perhaps throw in day spa and a surf....not to mention a kebab or two