None. Be lucky to be next week

It would be nice to see a clear injury report come out of the club from Sundays game...

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

We've been "surprised" a few times this season but surely the only one with a sort of question mark injury wise was Kemp?

for whatever it’s worth (not heaps!) Lloyd & Barrett on AAA show saying Melbourne and now the flag favorites. i’m not sold they’ve sorted their forward issues enough to win a flag. Blues didn’t rate a mention in their short list, Pies, Lions did.

weirdly, they both tipped Blues to win this round (presumably getting knocked out in first or second round of finals by one of brisbane or pies?).


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that’s how i see it too.

not sure how the tough-as-nails and uncompromising running game is factoring on player fitness/fatigue levels or manageable niggles but after about eight weeks of this style of play we seem to be holding up, other than so many injuries making players unavailable for selection.


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at full strength we can beat any team in this comp. as it is, we've done the pies and port and now saints ... i think the Dees are a bridge too far this weekend.


looks like we won't hear about kemp's hammy until teams are named thursday night. but given 3 weeks in a row we've lost players to hammies, kemp could go. so my big concern for finals is how many more players are we gonna lose.

we know harry is back. if we can get cerra and walsh, maybe sos so we don't have to see pittonet plodding around, we're a threat to the flag imho.


in other observations:

there's enough tape on pittonet's knee to circumnavigate tasmania. a slow cumbersome ruck hobbled on one leg isn't ideal. would young be better than pittonet in a pure ruck role?

but. on young.

against the pies when young crashed the forward pack and winded himself and cracked charlie in the ribs, did anyone see charlie's reaction? he was really pissed. and not one player went to young's aid. that tells me young is really on the outer here, and maybe his attitude and dispute with weitering, runs much deeper??

Whilst Currently we are sitting 5th and comfortably into finals calculations, the truth is, we could end up in 9th position and outside of finals if we lose this Week.

This is how close all teams are. Whilst we have been on a winning streak, all the other teams fighting for a finals spot, have also been winning.


We have no choice but to go away to QLD and face the suns and beat them at their own turf. We also need make a stand and beat the team of the month, GWS.


Melbourne have always had our measure and i rate this game as 50:50, but the dees have been out of form and not playing their top footy. We are back to last year. We need 1 win out of 3 to make the finals. Can we do it this time? or will we choke again?

I would like us to win all 3 cause finishing 5th means a Home final against a possible interstate team ( Adelaide, SYD or GWS ). You do not want to travel to play these teams in the first week of finals.

The more wins we string together, the closer we are to a loss.

I'll take an honourable loss to Melb (can't see us winning), then get the cavalry back for GWS and GCS.

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O say does that star spangled banner yet wave.

I did the ladder predictor with us winning 2 out of next 3 and it still has us finishing 5th and playing the Crows at the MCG first week of finals

17: Melbourne 2021
16: Geelong 2022
14: Carlton 2023
13: Richmond 2019/20, Hawthorn 2013

Works for me.

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dane's trolling again

Looks like Oliver and McDonald will both be back in, but neither have played for 3 months so that could be a good or bad thing

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When did we last beat this lot? I can't even remember and I reckon I haven't seen a win live against them since early to mid 2010s.

R22 - 2016

Melbourne have won 7 straight since then.

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

I have had second thoughts about keeping Marchbank in....

The Dees have to rely on their small forwards to generate a Score. We need to Stop Pickett & Melksham who look the most likely. So Boyd would be more suitable to take either of them than Marchbank.


Kemp might not come up from his injury in which case both should play! If Oliver comes back, then Pettraca will play forward....not sure who can play on him and Stop him!

Not sure about Young for Pittonet, but Pittonet had more hits to advantage than Marshall in the 2nd half last week. Not that I rate how they measure HO to advantage. Just sayin. He could hit Gawn hard and trouble him if he's got a bit of that Nankervis mongrel in him (and Nankervis is a heavy plodding ruckman too).

Lets not make the Wetering- Young rumour a fact till it is. Just because someone thought Weitering's body language proves the point, it doesn't. The whole team seems buoyant AFL & VFL. Sure Charlie may have been pissed off, but anyone would be regardless of who it is, doesnt mean theres animosity thereafter. Please.

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With all respect Dodo, I believe we should consider the other 4 defenders and other 4 forwards from both teams before we decide there are mismatches.

Petracca does take marks in the forwardline. Who could cause problems for Petracca in that situation. Then what about ground ball. Will a team defence compliment some players' weaknesses? That is the question.

I bet Brown or Gawn will be selected to replace Petty and they will still have Petracca featuring in the forwardline at times.

TBH, I couldnt give a shit who Melbourne pick because the same team which beat Saints would beat Dees. I just wish we had Harry playing with Charlie against May and Lever. But, we will be fine with TDK forward.

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agree Bondi......pittonet loves to bash and crash (plus Vossy backs him). that's good for me.
...... and the stories about Young not being liked are more worthy of a segment on Current Affair or Nine news where drama sells. We are way more savvy here......lets discuss and debate around the facts as we know them.

Hey Farmer - I did the same and got the same result . IMO if that happens, we can beat the Crows and then who knows?

FWIW - Whately was asked how far Carlton can go and he very confidently said we can get to a Preliminary Final

One week at a time and all that, but its nice some media people have some "confidence" in our beloved blues

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Jeez that's AO level shitness.

Looks like no changes.

Newman Weitering Kemp
Cincotta Marchbank Saad
Acres Cripps Hollands
Cuningham De Koning Fogarty
Martin CCurnow Owies
Pittonet Hewett Docherty
Fisher Dow Motlop Cottrell
Sub: Edward

Can we beat Melbourne (who I think will be premiers out of the current top4) with this side?
Key players missing: Walsh, Cerra, Kennedy, McKay, Silvagni, McGovern, Williams. One 3rd of our side. Will be a great test of our setup/strucutre and depth.
Go Baggers.