The arm is a trial. Pretty soon all limbs will be similarly fitted so that Goody can remotely control from the coaches box (or the bunker)! Look forward to all players running out for Round 1 if it proves a success.
It was even more significant the last time the Olympics were in Melbourne (1956). We beat Collingwood by twelve goals in front of 116K people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (when it was our home ground and nobody else’s)! ?
MEL
2.4 (16)
6.11 (47)
10.16 (76)
17.19 (121)
COL
3.3 (21)
4.3 (27)
5.6 (36)
6.12 (48)
At least in “Hell” we have the home ground advantage. May we should play there more often, particularly since we sat back (as the MCC Football Club) and watched Richmond, Collingwood etc highjack the MCG as ‘their home ground’! ?
And Petty is better for us in the forward half so shouldn’t be an option. Happy to try O’Mac (assuming May is FF). I like Joel Smith but again he may be a forward (at the risk of clogging the forward half). Hore on interchange or pocket.
I am not going to argue with the core 18, merely to suggest that the interchange should be Oliver, May, Fritch and Gawn and emergencies Lever, Petracca and T.Mac.
We have three months of intense training before we have to select our round one team. I trust Goodwin and the selectors will put our best (fit) team on the park!