Centre bounce attendance

We may be leading this stat for the last two weeks!

I agree with this, except being inventive with the midfield.
Let's put the midfielders in the middle, otherwise we will be robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Durdin and Motlop are required in the F50 if we are to have any chance of scoring and locking the ball in.
Bring in Hayes/Fog to run midfield with Setters, Dow, Cerra, Fish and Walsh.
And Pitto and Plowman need to come back in also.
The only other thing we could try is Cotters tagging Petracca or Oliver, they would smoke JSOS, he's too slow.

Like that 17 p . We can actually lose remaining two games and still make finals . But it will come down to percentage and that is why we must not get blown away and have our percentage wrecked . Two honourable losses with narrow margins could see us retain our spot in the eight .

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How about the saints? I'm worried about the Lions match this week. I think Sydney will beat them in round 23 but the Lions have been pretty poor up
until last weekend so I hope they bring their A game to Marvel on Friday night.

So, after yesterday's injury update:

Stocker
Fogarty
Carroll
Kemp
Plowman
Pittonet
Hayes
Akuei
Mirkov

Honey out, but Martin is probably fit... So it's, at minimum, Cripps out.

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All right.............so who is the SEN person on here.

I hope you're right.

With percentage difference between Dogs and Blues is exactly 2% or a score differential of 16 points.

They would have to win each of their games by 4 points, and we would have to lose our two games by 4 points and we would be even.

I dont think GWS (without Toby) and Hawks (in Tassie) can beat Dogs outfit desperate to make Finals, with practically a full list avaiable.

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Someone who knows a bit about the Blues ... Nick Negropontis

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Not mathematically going to happen.
We need to win a game or they need to lose a game, as do the Saints.

I think you are wrong here. I don't think making finals is vital for the psychology of the club. The team has improved from last year and I think that is more important for the team and certainly finishing outside the 8 is not humiliating for me as a fan, frustrating but certainly not humiliating. I think everyone in the industry sees where we are going, it's just that everyone got overexcited by our start to the year - so I do not see media feasting on negativity around the club. I'm sure some media will try though.

BBC?

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I don't post often and having been "stuck" in China for the last 3 years so I only get to watch the games on TV.

My thoughts are pretty simple, the last 3 games are like a final series for us. A good chance to see how we would go in the real finals.

By the looks after the game against Brisbane we still have a fair way to go to match the top teams.

I don't want to "fall" into the finals and given the current situation that seems very unlikely, if we did we are only going to get smashed in the 1st week.

The next two weeks are a chance to actually win our way into the finals and then we rightly belong there.

For me this year has been one of good improvement but we still need to improve but there is still a lot of runway for us. This is the first year in a long time I feel the club has finally got a good direction on and off the field.

I know expectations are high given our start to the year but I think most of us would have taken a 12-10 year prior to the season starting, I hope we can get one more win and earn our place in the finals.

I have enjoyed the year so far and looking forward to how we preform in our next two "mini" finals.

I am just a supporter who supports.

Go Blues

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The time is right, the time is NOW !!

We're all good, apparently Paolo has found a Cripps replacement.


https://twitter.com/paulseb05/status/1556968891045527552

Sorry, I meant his TC name.

I agree GreatEx

The club needs to get urgent. The Demons are not without their weaknesses...hope we can throw the magnets around & come up with a strategy to exploit them.

Gonna be extremely tough though

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Yep. Can pretty much forget getting in on % alone. Need to win one. For the record, I think we will beat the pies in round 23.

Expectations are fluid.

After the Freo win, we were a different group. They lost a bunch of teeth with that INSIPID turn up against St Kilda. The ones that sprang back up off the canvas have only been swinging haymakers since.

Losing to Adelaide in the same way that we lost to St Kilda, Richmond & Geelong took any ‘honourable’ early finish to the season off the table. We’re not only losing the contests, we’re not even in them.

“Same page” has been mentioned in every presser this week. That’s more than just rhetoric, it’s our only hope.

Vossy needs to coach from the bench this week. Similarly, Cripps needs to watch from the coaches box.

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

If we miss, the way we respond next year will be telling.
Didn't Melbourne fall in a heap a few years and miss after losing their final game against the filth.
They may have even started emailing members on how to purchase finals tickets.
They responded by making the prelim the following year. Then turned to shit again before winning the flag a couple of years later.

I still don't think we'll miss but if we do, lets see the response.