58 minutes ago, defuture15 said:

It looked to me that Petty moved more freely than in earlier times. I watched him play those games against Richmond and North when he looked and lead like an actual forward.

I don't think he has been fit for the past 2 years

Richmond, North and WCE. He looks a million bucks against these weaker teams but needs to carry that confidence into games against better opposition.

1 hour ago, defuture15 said:

It looked to me that Petty moved more freely than in earlier times. I watched him play those games against Richmond and North when he looked and lead like an actual forward.

I don't think he has been fit for the past 2 years

No, it has to do with the three teams you’ve mentioned.

Richmond, North and West Coast.

11 minutes ago, Little Richard said:

Richmond, North and WCE. He looks a million bucks against these weaker teams but needs to carry that confidence into games against better opposition.

Didn’t see this before I replied above, but you’ve nailed it.

1 hour ago, Little Richard said:

Richmond, North and WCE. He looks a million bucks against these weaker teams but needs to carry that confidence into games against better opposition.

He's not alone. Doggies will be interesting.

7 hours ago, BDA said:

you have to re-instate the face palm emoji @Demonland

The vomit one will do for this ... 😃

Despite heading towards historical inaccuracy that has cost us about 5 games this year, we’re officially now 17th on the accuracy ladder, not 18th!! Go us!!

Since the bye we’ve kicked a far more respectable 85.70 (56%). Prior to the bye we were around 46%.

Edited August 3, 2025Aug 3 by Bring-Back-Powell

9 hours ago, Neil Crompton said:

I’ll admit I haven’t been Clarry’s greatest fan for the best part of 2 seasons. Yet a couple of weeks ago I noted on here that I thought I saw small signs of the old Clarry starting to reappear - only to be disappointed in him last week. But this week he started to look like the Clarry of old, his confidence, which has been sorely missing, just seemed to grow as the game progressed. I know the competition was poor, but if those signs continue over the last 3 rounds, he may well get back to his best next season. Fingers crossed.

I don’t think I’d be trading him.

Agree. He hit the contest harder than he has all season and had some of his explosiveness back I noticed.

9 hours ago, MrFreeze said:

Grundy has had a great 2nd half of the year, and a great game v Essedon. But really, getting 40 touches against a semi retired Todd Goldstein is not what gets you an AA jacket.

Saying that, I would be happy to see Gawn and Grundy make the 22.

Grundy is a diabolical $1.3M a year footballer. He might touch it 40 times, but very few of those touches hurt the oppo. Thanks for everything Eddie.

I would have expected Kozzie to kick a minimum of 5 goals based on his huge pay packet. Petty should have kicked a lot i.e 10 against weak oppo. Obviously is unskilled in forward craft or is an unskilled forward. Should have been trained by a quality F.F coach i.e B.Brown.

What would Geelong or Dogs winning margin been over W.C depleted side? Perhaps 200 pts plus, just saying.

We're miles off

Keep talkin' them up

24 minutes ago, Coolx2 said:

I would have expected Kozzie to kick a minimum of 5 goals based on his huge pay packet. Petty should have kicked a lot i.e 10 against weak oppo. Obviously is unskilled in forward craft or is an unskilled forward. Should have been trained by a quality F.F coach i.e B.Brown.

What would Geelong or Dogs winning margin been over W.C depleted side? Perhaps 200 pts plus, just saying.

Have a sneaky that Kozzie was <100%

13 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Despite heading towards historical inaccuracy that has cost us about 5 games this year, we’re officially now 17th on the accuracy ladder, not 18th!! Go us!!

Since the bye we’ve kicked a far more respectable 85.70 (56%). Prior to the bye we were around 46%.

13 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Grundy is a diabolical $1.3M a year footballer. He might touch it 40 times, but very few of those touches hurt the oppo.

Yep. And as a ruckman, if you're not taking contested marks, you're not doing an extremely important part of your job.

1 hour ago, BLWNBA said:

Is that Mr Smith or Wight?

On 02/08/2025 at 17:31, DeeSpencer said:

16k, according to the North Korean stats bureau

I don’t like that number. They should fire the head of that stats bureau.

Coaches votes below:

Melbourne v West Coast

9 Max Gawn MELB

9 Jack Viney MELB

4 Bayley Fritsch MELB

3 Christian Salem MELB

2 Clayton Oliver MELB

2 Kysaiah Pickett MELB

1 Christian Petracca MELB

Great to see Gawn get the 9 although unfortunately Grundy also got 9 so he's still 4 above him on the leaderboard.

Looking like potentially two rucks in the AA team.

I've watched a few Sydney games this year. If Grundy is in AA contention he must have player extraordinarily well in the ones i missed.

22 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Despite heading towards historical inaccuracy that has cost us about 5 games this year, we’re officially now 17th on the accuracy ladder, not 18th!! Go us!!

Since the bye we’ve kicked a far more respectable 85.70 (56%). Prior to the bye we were around 46%.

Interesting I wonder where we would be sitting on the ladder had we kicked at 56% before the bye round?

1 hour ago, sue said:

I've watched a few Sydney games this year. If Grundy is in AA contention he must have player extraordinarily well in the ones i missed.

Same I get to see the swans more than I'd like tbh

Brodie tries very hard and has played well this year compared to the last few seasons, but he is no Max. If you had to choose either in your team, I'd struggle to even consider Brodie over Max.