Rankine plays more midfield and Saad wont play there. Keays dines out on us, pencil him in for 4 goals now irrespective of who plays on him. Thilthorpe is there best and biggest fwd hence Weiters. They were saying on Fox Gov seems to do better agains the taller quicker more mobile fwds, dont know whether you'd call Fogarty to Walker quick and mobile. I 100% trust Haynes (now) to do a defensive job on either. Young is too flaky to play on Thilthorpe IMO.
Thilthorpe has a hand injury which might negate his marking and help a player like Young who has the height to match him.
First marking contest, the spoiler should be aiming directly for that finger.....
Been getting some very unsavoury material in my letterbox & and it isn't from any party. Looks like some branch of some right wing fascists....and they clearly don't like Albanese. Lot of disinformation and BS flying around - more so than usual.
There's a mob called Advance Australia, a rich boys' lobby group, who specialise in spreading disinformation in support of a very conservative agenda.
There was an article about them in the Good Weekend Age last week. Worth reading.
We are getting more like the States, where people learn most of their political information from 20 second ads on TV and social media memes. Both sides are doing it.
Unfortunately for Matt (and I was really sorry to see him go), he wanted to play midfield, but he was a slightly-less-good clone of Cerra, Hewett and Cripps, and had no x-factor like Elijah. If you have a midfield that collectively moves as fast as treacle, you may win the contest, but you get chopped up when the ball is on the move.
Jagga Smith was going to change that mix (ffs!), we'll have to wait until 2026 to see how it works. Meantime, they have thrown Motlop in for the odd centre bounce, and the initial results appear promising.
Do not underestimate the power of belief, which brings confidence, which brings improved performance.
I remember all too well sitting at the 'G in Round 14, 2023, We were 13th on the ladder with 4 wins, and playing the Suns. At quarter time, we were 10 points behind and looking as sick as ever.
Then, someone somewhere flicked a switch. We kicked 9 in the second quarter and had a nice 'flat-track' win.
Then we pumped the Hawks, which was also a flat-track win in 2023, having kicked the first 8 goals of the game..
We all know what happened from there, with an ounce of luck we could have pinched the flag.
The last two weeks were against lowly opposition, but the manner of the wins was the more important feature. Foot on the throat, and kept it there.
It is a big game next week, but I have always felt we match up pretty well with the Cats.
I don't understand why Collingwood dropped Cox. He isn't a great player, but he is a much better 2nd ruck than any alternative. Nichevo. Let them make a mistake for a change.
Quote of Napoleon: 'Never interrupt an enemy when he'd making a mistake'.
I believe he was seen doing fitness tests earlier in the week, so maybe he is carrying an injury.
Rain predicted tonight. Cox is about as useful as a light pole in the wet, and they have plenty of size in the front half with McStay, Membrey and Mihochek. McStay will 2nd ruck.
