Dee Zephyr

Hope Goody told the boys to aim the tackles on Mathieson at his ankles. End result should be a legitimate tackle around the waist area.

Mate says the horse is ready to go after those 3 trials but admits he’s up against some above average competition first up. A typical good e/w chance Macca. Good luck to all tomorrow in what’s shaping up as a hectic day’s viewing.

Is Bradtke a confirmed starter for Casey tomorrow? It will be good to get a first glimpse at him if he suits up.

A weekend of feeling dirty coming up providing we win. Barrack for Filth, GW$ and Cats, although unlikely any of them will get up. Cats likeliest to cause an upset against Dockers. If it doesn’t go to plan for us I’ll be cheering for Freo hard in the last round to knock Norf out of finals.

Best Bet Randwick Race 8 Number 3 All Too Soon $4.60 Win Banking On T. Clark to have a good day tomorrow. He’s also riding Santos on his return in Race 2. Keen to see how it goes. A couple of recent trials recently, winning one and a 5th behind Happy Clapper. Regardless, I’ll probably have a few bucks on him at the $8.

Hopefully the extra cost between purchasing through club and Ticketmaster is kept by our club. First time heading out there and we prefer being surrounded by fellow Spartans. A10 is the allocation we’ve been given through the club for those interested.

What do we think of Joel Smith forward in the first two practise games? Has he shown enough?

I’d like to see Petty play again this week. Looked a lot more composed than Frost down back. With May coming in I’d give Frost a rest, O Mac is cleaner by foot coming out of defence. Keilty didn’t look out of place yesterday either, I thought he competed well and was surprised by his vertical leap.

All I’m getting is entitlements exhausted. Upgrade tickets sold out already?

Spoke to a lady from the club a short time ago and the club doesn’t know which area has been allocated to us by Richmond. Basically pot luck, but we’ll know the bays as soon as we log on and start purchasing with Ticketek. With them having so many members I hope they were kind enough to allocate some decent viewing areas.

Genuinely interested to read some thoughts on why some have Hunt’s game as disappointing. From the telly I didnt think he was as bad as some are suggesting. His numbers weren’t great but he never stopped chasing especially in the second and third when Richmond were cutting us to ribbons. I certainly didn’t think he turned the ball over as much as some others. Maybe someone that attended can shed some more. Was he given a specific role on Rioli or the likes?

It’s no longer fiction. Batman does fly.

Only 6 more sleeps until the next game. Get some regulars back next week and off we go. Thought it was a decent hit out for us. Richmond might have dropped off in the last but it seemed we ran the game out fine. Some iffy disposal out of the back early on, we just need to limit the errors. Petty only took 3 or 4 marks but liked his attack and clean hands. He plays like that again next week and he might be pushing for Round 1. Hopefully they are spot on with Jeffy’s assessment of only missing a couple of weeks. Looked lively early I thought. Some head shaking moments, some positives also, it’s getting real now.

Ha, the pace of Markov..Go Hunty!

Handy double 50 to finish the game.

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@binman back with a bang, good picking mate. She was way too good. An omen bet if I’ve ever seen one today, Haames wins the first at Sydney, it was Number 7 but did jump out of barrier 4.

Best Bet Randwick Race 7 Number 12 Pohutukawa $4.80 W $2.00 P Picking it to win, place value is good also for a place multi.

Blues so close to scoring 100 points. Been a while.

Aaron Davey stiff, team needs a crumber.

1. Once trade and draft were done we welcomed Junior Demon number 4 into the household early December. First preseason baby out of the lot. Developing nicely but still off legs. 2. Disagreed daily with the lovely about the best way to soothe baby, White Noise or MFC theme song. 3. Watched the Elimination and Semi-Final highlights and perused DL an endless amount of times during sleepless nights.

Can we squeeze Shaun Smith somewhere in there? For mark of the century alone.

No personally. I have no problem with the ‘Glitz & Glamour’ of US sports as that’s what they do over there and good luck to them. Their 4 major sports have a massive world wide following regardless. My preference is the European Football model of players arriving in a team bus and club attire.

I’d have Matthew Bishop ahead of either Dunne or Howe.

Training is only listed for Thursday on MFC site, anything from yesterday, today maybe?