Also, both Bower and JR need to take this opportunity to re-establish themselves. Paul is in the team through need, but IMO Jordan is very lucky to be there.

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#GUILTY

One last crack by that piece of irrelavancy in KB - hoping he can get some people ringing in to his show, Tiger Ferals today saying how they are going to pump us and our lot ringing him tomorrow telling him how stupid he was for tipping Richmond.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

I feel very confident after seeing the sides. The Tigers goal to goal line wd have about 50 games between them. Very inexperienced and Rance is crazy brave, but a battler and I like Waite's chances of cutting up Jayden Post. Our rucks are much stronger as is our midfield, tho the Tiges mids are good. They look like us three / four years ago, but without Judd. Blues by 45.

I am a little more confident, but 4-5 goals is a realistic margin...

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Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Waitey looked cherry ripe against North and will give Post a bath.
No one will be able to hold Eddie tonight and I'm putting him down for 4 or 5.
It's funny how over a short pre season people forget how pathetic Richmond were last year.
They lost to Port and Gold Coast. We smashed them by 100 points.
Yes they will improve this year, but not that much.

We will win this comfortably

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One thing to look at is experience. Nearly half their team are under 50 games. 3 are under 10 (2 are yet to ever play).

Kids don't win you important games.

Carlton should have enough experience to put this one to bed.

Games Played -
0-
Them: 2
Us: 0
1-25 -
Them: 4
Us: 4
25-50 -
Them:4
Us: 4
50-100 -
Them: 6
Us: 4
100+ -
Them: 6
Us: 10

Any more news on this? Mates and I were planning on going in General Admission.

GA top of Ponsford and Southern

http://www.mcg.org.au/Events/Upcoming%2 ... 5d32e6ec87

Plenty of seats in AFL Members. I just bought a ticket for a friend and he scored level N

Of course he did the little turd stirrer

I'm looking forward to belting them.

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dane's trolling again

Hopefully we can press hard enough to penetrate their spread.

He also said Vickery will go well past Kreuzer this year

As I said earlier I find it very bizzare what people in the media are saying about this match. Thing is if we flog them by 10 goals, they will claim it was to be expected. Though there will be a lot of anger at Tigerland.

I don't understand why they think they will be so much better this year. They were barely competitive at times last year, with basically no injuries (Riewoldt wasn't 100% but they didn't have many top liners missing games). Barely half their 22 would get a game for us.

The hype is so crazy you would think they were playing our 2002 side, and there is little point in any of us showing up. Riewoldt will kick 15, and the greatest midfield duo of all time in Martin and Cotchin will carve us up.

Any sane person looking at the lineups player for player would be expecting us to win. Its only the numpties like the David King's of the world who can't look back beyond a month of football who believe we will lose.

Fact is for them to win something out of the ordinary will have to happen, like us off our game significantly, we kick really inaccurately, or some Richmond players have like career best games.

I expect at least a 5-7 goal win.

Out of the ordinary?

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I shouldn't have to tell you that Carlton are known to be masters of being off the game and kicking inaccurately.

I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if Grimes went to Waite. He looked very good in the NAB.

I don't think anyone (even in the media) is suggesting Richmond is a better team than Carlton. Just that exposed form dictates they're a lot closer to their best than we ahve shown to date. Throw in some key injuries and it's not an unreasonable position for them to take.

Correct.

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I am as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!!!

Nab cup form! FFS when will people stop taking that joke of a pre-season as current form!

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...but of course...

We WILL beat them tonight.

It's bloody Richmond, after all.

As soon as the Blues can prove that the way they played pre-season has not carried over into the proper season.

I guess we'll know in 9 hours or so.