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My bad mood continues after Fridays loss, and more so that it was Gawn getting done over by Port again, that I have been bleating about since 2019. Anyway Salem was an amazingly good return, am thinking he can really help after a successful return. I am keen to see where we go with this. Tmac has the same problem as Melks, lack of forward defensive pressure, don’t want him in the side, even if he brings ball to ground we’re still getting opened up. No BBB either thanks.

Gawn and JVR as sole big forwards, till Petty is back, Gawn instructed to kick for goal if 40/50 out he’s been doubting himself, I remember in 2022 when he had 3 weeks in a row of outside 50m goals. I was a bit dark with how many shots he has been laying off.

Pickett will come good, not worried about him, likewise ANB, a bad week, has been having an excellent season. Brayshaw to the middle or wing. Hibbered and Salem in the side no need for Brayshaw back. Am feeling like Hunter will get off. I also think with Oliver out there is space for Brayshaw and he is smarter than Sparrow.

Not sure about Bowey, I am worried needs to put some speed(flatten) on his kicks, folks are too much under pressure when they receive from him

I want Rivers floating as a high half forward. I think he’s better having a ping at goal than Brayshaw.

Question - How did Tomlinson play, does he have his lateral mobility back yet?

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Tomlinson again was very good last week in VFL. With Petty out, clubs are now making Lever accountable for 2nd tall forward which reduces his intercept ability. I’d be tempted to play Tomlinson in the next  3 weeks to free up Lever.  Especially v Blues with Curnow and Mckay (Tomlinson on McKay). 

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Feel this is an opportunity for some youth and enthusiasm to come into the team.  Senior players seemed to celebrate with genuine joy Judd’s explores earlier in the year.  
Would love to see any or all of Howes, Woey or even Disco or Laurie back in the lineup.

 

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Need more pace on the ball. Freo beat Geelong by playing Collingwood style attack. If we play slow attack and a slow zone defence, we will get done. 

I also noticed at the game on Friday night we don't seem to defend at all at centre bounces. If we don't win it the other team walks out the opposite way 10 steps and easy kick to a leading forward. It seemed to happen every time they won clearance, whereas when we won clearance it was a pressured kick forwards or sideways. 

Mids need to defend half of the time.

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21 hours ago, Roost it far said:

OUT: Oliver

IN: Sparrow

Harmes as sub

That's my guess

Harmes or JJ

Harmes tried to do a Viney and break tackles when playing for Casey on the weekend. It worked for him a few weeks back but was not great on Saturday against North

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Harmes in to tag Serong

Kozzie stay inside 50 with the instruction to be a BBB feet all game

Brayshaw is back to the wing

Sparrow all game on the ball

Smith to tag Schutlz (always gets away from us)

Petracca stay perm HF.

Get a defensive first-minded player starting in the middle. Have to do with the form of Darcy and Jackson.

Coaching panel to try something different ONCE!

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3 minutes ago, inanunda said:

Harmes in to tag Serong

Kozzie stay inside 50 with the instruction to be a BBB feet all game

Brayshaw is back to the wing

Sparrow all game on the ball

Smith to tag Schutlz (always gets away from us)

Petracca stay perm HF.

Get a defensive first-minded player starting in the middle. Have to do with the form of Darcy and Jackson.

Coaching panel to try something different ONCE!

So for yours

IN: Harmes, Brown, Sparrow, Smith

Presuming at least two of Clayton, Fritta and/or Hunter are out. Who else you got coming out? Whose sub?

I can't imagine you will ever see Trac permanently at HF unless he's carrying an injury maybe. He almost single handidly got us back into the game and almost won it for us last week playing on ball. He's our second leading clearance winner and most lethal/creative at stoppages. Understand he's spending more time forward which is great but in the heat of game we need him in the middle. Friday night was a perfect example.

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5 minutes ago, Young Blood said:

So for yours

IN: Harmes, Brown, Sparrow, Smith

Presuming at least two of Clayton, Fritta and/or Hunter are out. Who else you got coming out? Whose sub?

I can't imagine you will ever see Trac permanently at HF unless he's carrying an injury maybe. He almost single handidly got us back into the game and almost won it for us last week playing on ball. He's our second leading clearance winner and most lethal/creative at stoppages. Understand he's spending more time forward which is great but in the heat of game we need him in the middle. Friday night was a perfect example.

Yep, especially in that 3rd quarter his two centre clearances were so good. 

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31 minutes ago, inanunda said:

Harmes in to tag Serong

Kozzie stay inside 50 with the instruction to be a BBB feet all game

Brayshaw is back to the wing

Sparrow all game on the ball

Smith to tag Schutlz (always gets away from us)

Petracca stay perm HF.

Get a defensive first-minded player starting in the middle. Have to do with the form of Darcy and Jackson.

Coaching panel to try something different ONCE!

I doubt much of any of this will occur

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39 minutes ago, inanunda said:

Harmes in to tag Serong

Kozzie stay inside 50 with the instruction to be a BBB feet all game

Brayshaw is back to the wing

Sparrow all game on the ball

Smith to tag Schutlz (always gets away from us)

Petracca stay perm HF.

Get a defensive first-minded player starting in the middle. Have to do with the form of Darcy and Jackson.

Coaching panel to try something different ONCE!

Not a huge David King fan but I do like his saying "... don't get beaten by what you know..."   as we did to the shame of Yze and coaches by Powres Butters and Rozee last week.

Touch of arrogance - our mids up against your mids.  very unsophisticated IMO.

Hoping for better this week from Goody and crew.

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2 minutes ago, bing181 said:

The players themselves bear no responsibility?

Bear....or take ? 

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5 hours ago, Die Hard Demon said:

If we lose to Freo, i’m calling it season over.

I bet there's a Cat fan over on their forum that said the same thing last week. Which would be crazy. They're 2 wins and percentage behind us, and they're still equal with us in flag betting markets and interestingly on the same points as Freo. 

So I don't see how an upset victory by a Fremantle gaining form, completely rules us out for the year - We want the club to rarely drop games, but the reality is we will. If we bounce back and beat the Blues, and one of the Pies or Geelong, we'd still be in the top 4 and we'll still be right in the mix. 4 points Is 4 points, wherever you get it. Guarantee we will get a few 'upset' wins in the next few months too.

Its a moot point because we'll beat them this week anyway.

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3 hours ago, John Demonic said:

If we bounce back and beat the Blues, and one of the Pies or Geelong, we'd still be in the top 4 and we'll still be right in the mix. 4 points Is 4 points, wherever you get it. Guarantee we will get a few 'upset' wins in the next few months too.

Just saw the updated fixture and we get to play Richmond, North, the Hawks and Sydney just before finals too and even on current form you’d imagine none of those should trouble us too much.

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I don't think we will see Harmes back in this week, Sparrow will certainly be in and Jordon might be the wing option if we don't appeal the Hunter decision. Take your pick for sub.

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41 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

I don't think we will see Harmes back in this week, Sparrow will certainly be in and Jordon might be the wing option if we don't appeal the Hunter decision. Take your pick for sub.

Give it to Harmsey I say. 

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Would love to see someone come in for Oliver and make the club think twice about a straight swap back in a few weeks. Don't get me wrong Oliver is straight back in but it's time someone did a Bowey "2021". Nice to see Kade Chandler has started talks on a new contract with the dees. And if we don't appeal Hunter's ban would love to see Langdon back on the other wing for a week. 

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17 hours ago, Demon17 said:

Not a huge David King fan but I do like his saying "... don't get beaten by what you know..."   as we did to the shame of Yze and coaches by Powres Butters and Rozee last week.

Touch of arrogance - our mids up against your mids.  very unsophisticated IMO.

Hoping for better this week from Goody and crew.

That's not really what David King means though. We backed our players to get the job done. 

As I've said elsewhere, Butters had 8 possessions in the last quarter, 4 of them were ineffective. We led at the 3/4 time break by effectively 2 goals, after playing 1 quarter. 

It's this sort of over simplistic analysis that is the very reason many find King to be a nuff nuff.

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1 hour ago, Dee Zephyr said:

I don't think we will see Harmes back in this week, Sparrow will certainly be in and Jordon might be the wing option if we don't appeal the Hunter decision. Take your pick for sub.

Agree his performance at Casey did not rise above the ruck and say 'pick me'. Mitch White was much more influential around the packs. Perhaps there is a debut in the wings, Taj Woewodin or Blake Howes spring to mind. Bailey Lawrie hasn't gone backwards either, gets amongst it and has some very neat skills.

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