Why don't we just play Sylvia on the ball where he is at his best?

That's it really last chance for young Col. We need him as a mid at this stage of our list development. We can't continue to give players easy outs who should be playing premium positions. He just needs to stand up and show some leadership, by working his butt off. The tools seem to be there. As a marking mid he could be a matchup nightmare, but alas...

Col is down to the next 2 games in my view.

If he doesn't lift his workrate its Casey for the rest of the year.

being positive, at the dome 2 years ago . watts was very servicable against the west coast giants, blease howe. best game for the year and thats the positive for this week. please look upward and lets forget the negatives, l have and feel better today than i have for a couple of weeks

I've also noticed that Col is almost universally in any photo the club posts of sick kids in hospitals etc. Think it is a bit rough to label him as someone who doesn't care about people.

Go nuts about his compete lack of care on the field, but he doesn't seem to be a bad bloke off it.

I have a friend whose son has been involved with the Reach Program. Col has acted as a mentor on a number of occasions and I only heard good things about him. I think he is a good bloke too but obviously not firing on the field at the moment.

col should be fit enough to run out the game in the midfield and have a big impact no more excuses!! He needs to be challaged

Why don't we just play Sylvia on the ball where he is at his best?

Why do we play him at all serial non performer His lack of performance and attitude ia part what is wrong with the club If he wont play then [censored] him off!

Like the idea but unfortunately we only have 2 spots on the back flank. Can't see how he would play there with the likes of Watts and Terlich in the team.

im new to this forum and i will probably get shot down by some members of the keyboard army, but fcuk it,here we go..

i want Mark Neeld to stick Colin Sylvia on the half back flank this weekend v West Coast.

Woosha will play Hurn on Col if he is in the forward line and after a quiet game by Shannon last week, he is gonna tear Colin a new asswhole.

i say put Col on the half back flank and make him accountable, but give him the freedom to run from behind the ball and use his disposal as a focal point (aka EMULATE Shannon Hurn)

in return id drop Gillies and put Rodan to use his experience on Hurn in a run with..

thats my thought..

I don't mind the Sylvia idea off a back flank, or off the wing from the defensive end with instructions to push deep into our defence, to help bring the ball up... play Tapscott forward rotating from the bench.

drop Nicho & Watts & bring in Pickles & Strauss..

I'm worried about Rodan in a run with unless he rotates off, & only plays 3/4trs... I don't think he has the tank to go the whole game.

Also I'd like to see Rohan Bail fit in somewhere, so maybe Rodan should be sub.

We need Fitness, Run, & Games Experience as a must.

played well and with heart. surprised me.

played well and with heart. surprised me.

Agree.

Third in agreeanace. Very surprising. Consistency is his problem though. MUST continue it.

That first half of Col's is what I want to see every week for 4 quarters. His marking and goal kicking was brilliant.

He needs to start that way next week.

Maybe putting him down the half back line is a good place to start, after all the ball will be down there more often. In years gone by when melbourne did have a reasonable team (probably well before most here were born) a lot of their run was generated from the half back line. in more recent years Davey used to do this for us, but we dont seem to have anyone able to really kick off a counter attack. Maybe Sylvia could.

I'm a hard marker regarding Sylvia but he was good today and not just when we were going well but when it got tough.

He never gave it up and this should be his minimum standard for the rest of the season.

I thought that Sylvia's game yesterday was one of his best for a while. If the other 21 showed as much we probably would of won!