In the interests of inclusivity of all car enthusiasts, let us hope we continue holden our form tomorrow against the Tigers. Time to Restump preview podcast the post bye game against a hardwickless Richmond.  

What sort of post bye round shape will we be in? Is there any chance we might be a bit sluggish, a bit slow into stride suffering a bye hangover? We’ve been involved in 16 byes or 14-day break games. Pre-bye games we have an impeccable record winning 14 of them. Post-bye games we win just 56% of the time, winning 9 of the 16. Is there anything to read into that? Probably not.

Liam Henry has put a body of work together at Peel and earned his way back into the side and the opportunity has arisen for Sammy Sturt which he must take advantage of for the benefit and continuation of his long-term football life.

A few weeks back we had a two-time brownlow medalist wearing the sub vest ready to unleash on the opposition at the opportune time. This week we’ve got a 200 game, 330 goal club legend ready to do the same. The luxury of having subs the calibre of a Fyfe and Sonny to strategically inject into the game is invaluable! 

All eyes are on future midfield rockstar Matt Johnson this week as he no doubt takes on the extra midfield minutes and workload currently left by Jaegar O’Meara…. who understandably will probably never lay another tackle ever again!   The Tigers aren’t to be taken lightly despite their four and seven and a draw win loss 

record and their 13th placed ladder rung. The reality is five of their losses have been to top eight sides and three of them to top four sides. Add in that the 5 losses were all by just 18 points or less, two of them under a kick and the draw against Carlton and this is a tougher contest than the bookies are trying to have us believe. 

But our numbers are through the roof, we’re a much better side in rounds 8 to 11 than we were from rounds 1 to 7 and if we seriously want to play finals, we should be putting this game away. 

Bit of a rushed pod with Jojo sitting in a Rome café enjoying a breakfast vino with a brioche, distracted by dissent expressing Italians and noisy vespas…. but at times you do what you can do and somehow this 40 minutes has come together. 

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