Ted Lasso

Sydney are flag favourites for mine. they would have beaten Geelong tonight.

I've seen several posters deny loading takes place, and almost none who seem to grasp what loading actually is. my inbox is open if you'd like to discuss this further, i'd rather not derail the thread

Back them in. Unless Harmes is suspended which i don't think he will be. just show a video of Patty cripps

Anyone who doesn't acknowledge the reality of loading in professional sport simply doesn't know what they're talking about. anyway back to the topic.

Beaten by a better team, no need to panic We were a little bit off outside of a couple of patches, very confident we will bounce back against the Lions next week lots of teams who win multiple flags have lost qualifying finals

Seriously can we just acknowledge Sydney are a really good team, in red hot form who match up really well on us. they would have beaten anyone tonight, we were off a little bit but the Swans were fantastic

I'd say we will be pretty keen to replace Majak with ready made ruck depth.

I've not heard anything to suggest he's changed his mind, but god i hope it's right. imagine the boost the boys would get heading into a big final

Cats won't make it far enough to play us #straightsets #homeandawayspecialists

Fagan is under incredible pressure to keep his role i'd say. if the Lions bomb week 1 i wouldn't be surprised if they make a change.

Dwights tips for this weekend RD 1 Tigers by 22 - Better side in better form, Brisbane will be shaken by what happened vs the Dees Dees by 34 - we're a different team than they played last time, will rise for Finals and jump them and carry the lead Pies by 14 - Cats are going to get jumped, mental scars will show and the Pies will win a close one Dogs by 2 - Love the dockers contested style, but i am much more confident in the Dogs ability to kick a winning score than the dockers, even in Perth

Geez that's rough for James Jordan :/ rotten luck.

Nope, just that Dogga has no ill feelings towards the club, nor the club towards him, so i'd imagine he'd be keen to see a fair trade take place

Agree completely, Grundy is a bandaid, and a pretty handy one if he gets fully fit, but TKD is a Luke Jackson replacement

We will lift bigtime in finals. this entire season in my opinion hinges on if another team can go with us. the Swans are a very good team, but when we played them we were in a form slump, no Steven May, Harry petty playing through multiple injuries and they just fell over the line in a game that could have gone either way. I reckon we will come out of the blocks really strongly and it could be over quite early if the Swans aren't ready for it.

Nothing that hasn't been posted on here already but i've been hearing that LJ has made the call to go, and that Melbourne and Fremantle have held some informal discussions around what the trade will look like, with MFC giving a very clear indication that it'll take a really significant return to get this done.

Well done to all involved for providing us with the great privilege of this website! thank you for another great season! hopefully the boys will reward you with another flag!

I'm not a fan of restricted free agency to be honest, offers are so rarely matched it's pointless, and why would you want to keep a player who doesn't want to be there.

Hopefully he nominates WCE so we can take pick 2 and Jack Darling off their hands and be done with it

So they should, he's an incredible operator capable of getting that club back on track off field very quickly.

Pick 10 (back from dogs) plus pick 14 (Freo) plus Josh Treacy or Lloyd Meek I think this is a fair and reasonable outcome for both parties. If we have to accept later first round picks, i'd want them in this years draft.

Honestly i think it reflects really badly on Brisbane that they're seemingly not only accepting this behavior, but they're keeping this guy on as captain. I honestly believe that if Max did something like this, seriously consideration would go into removing the captaincy from him

Sam Reid got hold of us with no steven May and Petty injured, that won't happen again. very confident we will get this done fairly comfortably

Feel for Ooze, he deserves a crack at a senior gig, Kingsley is a great appointment, and i reckon he'll do a really strong job for GWS, but feel for yze, though stoked to hang onto him for now Essendon are off their absolute heads if he's not one of their first calls. there is absolutely no rational, fact based basis for thinking James Hird is a better senior coaching prospect than Adem Yze, or about 50 other blokes to be honest.

As a few Demonlanders know i work in high performance outside of my career on here, and the reputation Selwyn Griffith has is amazing, he's especially highly regarded in injury prevention and management which is a huge part of why Burgo was so keen on him. I think we've had a few more hurdles this year than last year in terms of managing injuries and so on, but the fact we can hit QF week with a fully healthy and fit list and in good form is a credit to the entire program. I know the media are obsessed with the cats, but i 100% guarantee we have their measure and will beat them if we play them. The only thing that can stop us going back to back is ourselves, we're perfectly placed.