Ted Lasso

It would take our best footy to beat the pies but we are good enough. Just need to get past the eagles.

Got this awful feeling in the pit of my stomach that the filth might cause a massive upset here... I’d love to play the pies in a grand final. How good would it be watching Eddie sob as chunk and goody lift the cup

Curve ball idea. Will be shouted down but I’ll throw it out anyway. Eagles have quite a tall and not a super mobile defence. Swing McDonald back, clog up the backline and not allow the eagles room, leave weid as the only tall forward. If the ball hits the ground their backline will seriously struggle.

Jesse is not going to leave a club he’s been through an entire rebuild with that is now a genuine premiership contender for the foreseeable future, to go to a club like Fremantle that needs a rebuild and is years away from challenging or west coast who are propped up by some older stars. This dees team could legitimate have the sort of success hawthorn have had and No one is going to be asking for a trade away anytime soon.

Put it down to bias and overconfidence but I have a feeling we are going to jump them bigtime and be 7-8 goals in front by early in the second quarter and then probably only win by that much. I reckon track has been hovering around a genuinely dominant performance and me Hollywood will put on a show tomorrow night and blast the eagles out of the water. I also think Viney will be like a wrecking ball in the contest and the eagles have nothing that can even close to match him. If the eagles were smart I’d be tagging Viney not Oliver. People talk about Kennedy and darling but on current form I think tommy and weid are every bit as big a threat, and the forward we have around them are all capable of kicking bags. My feeling is the eagles think the two key forwards will make the difference and we are going over there hungry and riding a wave of support and emotion and we will be amazingly hard to stop if we can get a roll on at any stage. This is a team that could kick 10-12 goals straight because of that and the way we play go dees - dees by 41

I assume fritsch has played too many games to qualify for the VFL final..? Poor kid, it’s a ruthless business trying to win flags and he’s very stiff. But I suspect he still has a lot of improvement left in him and will be back even better

There will be tears.... but got to be more interesting than that! Maybe post a video on Facebook of me singing it’s a grand old flag in nothing but a dees scarf again.

Not sure how we could get the trade done.

I’d be reluctant to make any changes. I think the eagles will load up on talls up forward for sure but we are good enough to keep them under control. And it should allow us to rebound if they get it wrong. Id stick with Tyson. I think our big strength is midfield depth and I think that’s where we can get on top of the eagles. The backline won’t be as big a concern if we win it out of the middle

Dean Kent and a swap of picks seems like a fair deal to me

Have seen him play a couple of times and while I think he’s more of a long term prospect rather than instant impact he clearly has talent. He never gives up on chase and pressure

Based on our offer to GAFF I’d say we can make a fair offer to Whitfield without too much issue. The challenge would be how do we get him I a trade??

Good move! Another 3 years seems like a good plan! The key in my opinion to our improvement is the stability at the club! So little turnover and high quality staff has totally changed the culture of the club.

I reckon the game as gone past the hawks game style. If you try and do that against good teams you risk turn overs, so you basically need a team of elite kicks which they don’t have

He’s right. If we bomb the ball in and turn over as many as we did last night they will punish us. Something the hawks didn’t do. We have the wood over the eagles and I’m confident we will at least seriously challenge them. If not win.

I have a funny feeling the giants will beat both the pies and the tigers.

No change. We shouldn’t and I suspect won’t change the winning formula. I’d love to see Vince play but you can’t gift a game in a prelim

Thanks champion

Anyone know if this game is on free to air??

It’s easy to forget how good jacks footwork is. He can get out of some crazy situations sometimes. My favourite thing about him is when the opposition has a really good player he seems to want to hurt them. Even if it means giving the odd free kick away

Oliver will drive opposition supporters nuts for the next decade. Kid is a dead set troll but also an absolute gun. I’d say he’s close to the best mid going around at the minute behind maybe only Cripps

The early decision against Jetta was a joke

Bring on meth coast!

Harmes to Mitchell because Mitchell does not run two ways. Harmes will become a huge weapon for us with his speed. Wouldnt mind jones following smith a bit

I don’t understand what the cats are even trying to do with their list, Dahlhaus and Rohan are going to make no difference. This is heading towards Mark needs scattergun territory for them.