Just watched their game against Freo and am confident the 4 year hoodoo will be lifted this year with a strong win over the blue and whites. The body language of their players tells the story. They appear to have lost their cohesion and confidence as a team, with Harvey's public comments questioning the endeavour of younger players having a visible impact. Unless Scott can inspire a remarkable turnaround, they are ripe for the picking.

West Coast might be another matter. Looked very solid for 3 quarters against the supposed premiership contenders.

Just watched their game against Freo and am confident the 4 year hoodoo will be lifted this year with a strong win over the blue and whites. The body language of their players tells the story. They appear to have lost their cohesion and confidence as a team, with Harvey's public comments questioning the endeavour of younger players having a visible impact. Unless Scott can inspire a remarkable turnaround, they are ripe for the picking.

West Coast might be another matter. Looked very solid for 3 quarters against the supposed premiership contenders.

Very happy to play Wet Coke after easter as it puts us in as the under dog, which just might get our team to really hunt the ball, for each other.

Wet Coke have improved, but we must believe we can beat them.

It's about time that we do. But it's not just the North hoodoo that we need to get over, it's playing at Docklands. We're all at sea at the ground and have been for too long. I'd love to absolutely [censored] them after that s@$t of a match last year when Ricky buggered his shoulder. Need to shut Boomer and Swallow down.

West Coast seem to be the early improver. Playing them after the break is going to be interesting. As far as North go we have no choice but to beat them if we want to be a finals side. They seem to have taken a step backwards so far, and they are not a top 8 side. If we are playing finals, a win against north is required.

Yeah it would be a real shame to lose to north after the start they have had, lets not get carried away we wont beat many teams with the brand we have produced during the last month....

Fortunately they seem to be producing even more tripe than we are!

Will still be intersting

Don't speak too soon. North will be eyeing off our game. We haven't been exactly lighting the world on fire. And it's at Etihad.

We all said the same thing last year when we were coming off a three game winning streak. Remember how that turned out?

Let's just worry about West Coast before we think of anything else. That will be a very tough match in itself...

I think we are a better shot against the Eagles at Pattersons that North at Etihad/Telstra Dome/Docklands or whatever than ground is called...North will bring their A-grade out just for us I'll bet

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I think we are a better shot against the Eagles at Pattersons that North at Etihad/Telstra Dome/Docklands or whatever than ground is called...North will bring their A-grade out just for us I'll bet

Scott will bring out his A-grade whining material at least. God that [censored] annoys me.

Scott will bring out his A-grade whining material at least. God that [censored] annoys me.

I wouldn't listen to anyone who believes we are hiding our players.... are we ?

The body language of their players tells the story. They appear to have lost their cohesion and confidence as a team...

Sounds familiar...

Sounds familiar...

You're scatter-gunning negativity of late...

Er, North have gone to Perth twice and played Collingwood.

I couldn't tell you how they are going.

You're scatter-gunning negativity of late...

Er, North have gone to Perth twice and played Collingwood.

I couldn't tell you how they are going.

Granted they've had a tough run to start, but they have Richmond this week. No excuses.

You're scatter-gunning negativity of late...

May seem that way I guess, but I'm very happy with the players we've got and hold out A LOT of hope for the future, but I'm just a bit concerned about there seeming to be a lack of unity, or on-field commradery (for want of a better word) so far this year and I'm not sure what it should be attributed to. Hopefully something will click at some stage.

May seem that way I guess, but I'm very happy with the players we've got and hold out A LOT of hope for the future, but I'm just a bit concerned about there seeming to be a lack of unity, or on-field commradery (for want of a better word) so far this year and I'm not sure what it should be attributed to. Hopefully something will click at some stage.

I am also very happy with our (young) players and hold out a lot of hope for the future.

But now is not the future and we are not a good footy team - we're an also-ran at the minute.

I expect better form this year, but I also expected patchy form and poor form, which some said they would expect but can't seem to handle when that form comes around.

It's like last year when all and sundry were saying "I expect 7/8 wins", but don't handle the 15/14 losses that that hopeful sentence entails.

Yep..Never handle the losses....or the 90 point thumping wins.

Er, North have gone to Perth twice and played Collingwood.

I couldn't tell you how they are going.

Imagine if we'd had Norths draw in the first 4 weeks, with the type of

footy we've been playing we'd for certain be 0-3. So until we've played everyone

once, its hard to get a gauge on some of these type of teams..

I reckon we'll beat North this year too.

I'm looking forward to seeing this guy (Majak Daw) play in the seniors though, what a stunning goal... !

We all said the same thing last year when we were coming off a three game winning streak. Remember how that turned out?

Exactly. Also, I'd say if we didn't have the Lions and Suns we would likely be 0.5 from 4. Our footy has been pretty poor.

North have played three games so far (had the bye in round 3). They almost beat West coast in perth, got smashed by the reigning premier and then went down again in perth to freo....it was always a tough ask for them to get any points from those three matches. I wouldn't be so cocky in facing them. They have the wood on us and nothing I've seen from our own games this years makes me believe we have the mettle to beat them at Etihad.

I reckon we'll beat North this year too.

I'm looking forward to seeing this guy (Majak Daw) play in the seniors though, what a stunning goal... !

Thanks for that video... beautiful to watch.

I wouldn't listen to anyone who believes we are hiding our players.... are we ?

What did he say?

If it was next Round-I'd agree however it is not till round 8 and anything can happen between now & then.And it is at Grave Stadium.(ETIHAD)

Am I allowed to reconsider this in light of our current outs?

Nah I'll stand by it.