Ted Lasso

It's shocking that he has just finished up in court trying to save his reputation and now he's gone and just admitted to being totally guilty of everything and more.

Didn't sound like they had much, besides Dank's word and that's worth less than nothing, though Barrett claimed to have seen some forms or something

Dank failed in his defamation cases so now he's just showing the world that he really is a [censored].

He said he can't be certain he'll be at Essendrug next year, when a good player says that you might as well be declaring open season and Windy Hill firing up the air raid sirens because they could legitimately lose Heppell, Hurley and Hooker and go into the draft with picks 1,2,3 and 4 the last report i saw stated that Hooker had been offered 900k by Freo, 750k by Hawks and the Roos were in the process of putting a good offer together as well.

You have to imagine the person with no teeth and being interviews from the centrelink line to get the full effect.

We have a great opportunity to get on a roll and win 3-4 games in a row now. really should be 3-0 already

These injuries happen all the time, not many players get through a career without at least one medium to long term injury, it really isn't the end of the world, though it is a shame when the best players aren't out there playing. Teams these days are so good at covering the loss of players, as good as Bob is, it doesn't stop the Bulldogs being a top 4-6 side imo

I thought exactly the same thing, it does explain a lot though.

Will be very interesting to see how this game plays out. I expect Pendles to play mostly off half back again, simply because we have so many tough inside mids who would be pretty keen to test out those ribs, so i'd play someone like Watts or Kent on him, someone who he has to respect and can make him play as a defender. Last year sidebottom had 21 touches in the first half, then Daniel Cross was moved onto him and he only had 4 more for the game, i'd start the game off with Bugg on him, seems he doesn't handle a tag very well. Treloar is in great form but so is Viney so i'd let them go head to head. Crisp i think with go to Chunk, though it would be tempting to put him on Oliver i reckon, the young fella has been a driving force for us from the midfield with fantastic clearance and contested numbers. Fingers crossed Cloke continues his horrible run of form. Jetta should get the job and i think is more then capable of beating Fasolo, he looks to me like the most likely to kick 5-6 goals and be a match winner. I think the really big advantage we're going to have will be the midfield, i think we have a much deeper midfield because of the Pies injuries and we also have an inform Max Gawn who i expect to really dominate Brodie Grundy, we saw against North for the first time that i can remember Max being extremely damaging with his hit outs to advantage, i think it resulted in us scoring 6 goals or something last week, so a repeat dose of that and we should have a good win. Jeffy back will be pretty handy and i quite like the form that Kent, Watts and Hogan seem to be building, i really love the way Watts and Hogan seem to be working together, Jesse himself has said when he see's the ball in Jacks hands his eyes light up. I really liked H's game last week, i know not everyone did but he really added some run and spark to the side which makes a difference, just needs to work on his decisions but i think that comment probably applies for every player in the team. Really big week for Dom Tyson, i feels he's been going okay, but he is capable of soooooo much more, he's good enough to be getting 30 plus and a goal a game, and using it really well, i think he's averaging around 22 touches at the moment ( someone i'm sure knows this ) so a little below what i'd expect and making some bad decisions and being a little lazy with disposal, if he gets anywhere near his best form it will go a long way towards us winning the next few games.

Roosy had suggested a few times they might look at playing guys like Brayshaw off half back, and rotate them through the midfield, I am a bit unsure how well it would work, i see Brayshaw as an inside mid who is classy on the outside where as i see Vince as a quality outside mid who has a decent inside game.

Reported on the news Hogan has been carrying a calf injury but is expected to play, Garlett will have a fitness test friday morning that will decide if he'll play and Brayshaw is expected to come in for Vince. Said Petracca is still a couple of weeks off

End of the day CP5 would be playing if not for his back yard slam dunk contest so i'm sure the club will be hoping he realises just how silly that was.

The word i've been hearing on this is his manager feels his value in the Market based on age, current form and scope for improvement is quite a lot higher then what Adelaide are willing to/ able to offer. I think he's gettable if a club is willing to offer around the same as what Dawes is on, possibly a little more and give up a first round pick. Personally i think he'd be a fantastic pick for us, he's good enough to make an impact and take pressure off Jesse right now, and will continue to develop into the future and as Weiderman develops he could become an extremely dangerous third forward/ ruck. and if Jesse does happen to leave a combination of Jenkins/ Watts/ Weiderman i think would prove more than handy.

He's pretty sore apparently, i don't think Bucks will be keen to let him anywhere near Jack Viney so i'm pretty certain he will play half back. in which case i hope Hogan and Frost are instructed to put him to ground ( fairly ) every chance they get. I'd send Bugg to Treloar and try and limit his influence, outside him they don't have many match winners.

That tap to Dom Tyson.... all class. not a bad finish either from Dom

Must admit watching the video i didn't think it was in play, it was just a dick move. bit of an old fashioned clean up job.

I've always wondered what happens there, can the club put in a complaint or something? the game was clearly decided by poor umpiring decisions.

I've seen two shockers in the first quarter.. Viney gets absolutely smashed, clear free kick and Kent comes in to get into Firrito about it, pushes him in the chest, he falls over, and the free is reversed.. even Firrito looked like he couldn't believe it.

Re-watching the game, still feel the same way about the umpiring. absolutely rubbish, bordering on cheating.

I'd play him, he is clearly a class above the VFL already and his fitness by all reports seems to be pretty close to the mark, even if he just plays as a forward he'll be very dangerous

Mcdonald was also the form defender of the AFL at the time and had absolutely smashed every forward he'd played on before this point, so i really think it was a no brainer, TMAC just had an off day and Cloke is a confidence player, once he got on a role noone was going to stop him.

Not sure why this section is included on a lot of posts, we seem far more into guarding space then players these days and matchups normally rotate quite a lot through the games, i'm sure all of those names listed will spend time on basically all of Collingwoods forwards.

I'm not a huge fan of David King, but i kind of agree with him, some of the things i hate most about listening to Roosy speak are the willingness to shift the blame, the players are mentally scarred, the fans are mentally scarred, victim mentality, losing mentality is ingrained, having said that he would have looked like a tool if we'd managed to snag one more goal and got over the line.

has an ACL been confirmed?

I don't think he made contact, and if he did it's just a clip and you can't suspend a bloke for nearly doing something wrong. BUT i think he should be fined either way and his team mates should let him know about it.