FireInTheBennelly

He'd probably fit.

We're not allowed to get free kicks inside forward 50. It very rarely happens. I'd like to see the free kick inside forward 50 league ladder for the last 10 years. I reckon I know where we'd sit.

Hunt's been thrown in the deep end this year up forward. Was tried there before and it failed, but he's having a red hot crack at it. I've always thought it was his natural position, and if he gets his goal kicking going he could well be a superstar. Give him space i50 and he'll lead up, give him the ball in space around 60 out and he doesn't need to look up and find a target, he knows where it is. I think there's massive upside. Back on track though. I'd have Finlayson, but we'd need to pay for him. Coniglio comes free (trade value), as have all of the Hawks premiership winners. The free agency bus is the one we need to be getting on. People keep saying 'but he's not what we need'. Take the bloody freebie and find a way to make it work.

As if the total confusion over his and he's wasn't annoying enough, we now have a new face in the race. Welcome to the party 'he his'.

Skills have been poor for 15 years GYM. How is that even possible?

Exactly my line of thinking coach. If he takes 2 contested goal square marks early you just watch our forward 50 open up as they'll need to double team him. The intercept marks inside forward 50 have to stop. I'm having flashbacks to the Adam Oxley game every week.

Well there you go, I could've sworn he was forward line coach after checking the MFC website in about round 3. I stand corrected.

Chaplin has to go, I mean seriously, WTF. He's taken the highest scoring team to an absolute pathetic shambles forward of centre

Makes perfect sense to me. You obviously didn't put in enough effort at the bar! Hope you're somewhere else having another crack at it.

Fair dinkum our skills are atrocious. Surely it's time to forget about the whole lower the eyes going into 50 thing, because we simply cannot kick. Have a quick look and if Hunt isn't on a clear lead bomb it long and throw Preuss in the goal square. Hunt's up and about, Baker showed he's up to it at ground level and Lockhart similar. We need to get the ball to ground and at the moment our i50s are just being picked off because of our poor kicking/decision making.

Casey radio just said we lost Lever just prior to half time. Almost meltdown time. Need some info.

Agreed Jaded. Trade out both McDonalds, bring in Brown and pick up Coniglio as free agent to rotate wing and inside.

Starting to appreciate Clarko's point of view

Why wasn't that 50?

That review was more 50-50 than ours last week. They got this one right, what happened last week?

Wasn't he the traveling emergency, and flew back from Perth overnight to play for Casey. He might've been like me and gone all Mr Crankypants.

He got as far as he did by trying desperately not to bottom out, and succeeded at that. Unfortunately that strategy doesn't work these days and when you find yourself in the lower rungs on the ladder you really need to bottom out to get what's needed to go back up. He should've called it a rebuild when the likes of Harvey were pushed out the door. The last 3 years could've been developmental, rather than treading water. At the end of the day, they haven't been able to pick up elite talent via the draft, and have simply topped up with role players. I don't think we'll see him as a senior coach again.

Not sure what you expected. The AFL got the man of the moment in the Friday night spotlight and threw in Nicholls 'The Fixer' to boot. Something is very rotten in the game at the moment.

Most of the paying public are blissfully unaware of these things, and the media won't highlight them because their accreditation will be at risk.

Exactly where I was going DS56

You couldn't make this stuff up Sue. Surely you give your best, most in form umpires the Friday night primetime game? So the AFL must've been happy with his efforts.

I see the umpire at the centre of the howler call on Smith last week has been awarded with Friday night's blockbuster Swans v Pies. Good job champ.

Have to agree with that.

Unleash the Prawn!

You've mentioned this before and it's again, not true. I won't be quoting you again, so hopefully this is the last of it, for me at least. Nothing personal with any of this by the way, I'd happily buy you a beer at the footy. I'm not a hater. All the best anyway.