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**Positive Post Warning** FB Bowey May Salem HB McVee McDonald Rivers C Windsor Petracca Langdon HF Melksham Turner Sparrow FF Chandler Petty Pickett R Gawn Oliver Langford Int Fritsch Spargo Sharp Lindsay sub Laurie Actually not a bad starting 18 (*I've selected from the 26 picked) Main issues (aside from kicking straight) are McVee out of form and a lack of defensive talls, assuming Turner starts fwd. Rivers could be tried as intercept defender? Or Turner plays back and AJ comes in to ruck to leave Petty fwd. We need a stay at home tall fwd. Hopefully Viney, Lever, and in form Kolt and JVR can come in soon to increase the quality of our bench and we won't be an easy game for any team

Okay i agree Fritsch is horribly out of form but can we stop the no tackles name tag? last week he actually tackled unlike other weeks. he had 4 including 2 inside 50 tackles so if he is finally starting to do what the coaches ask….

Every single club is the same When winning the crowds are good, when losing not so good The hardcore fans go every week, the casuals fans go when it’s fun We just happen to have less of both than most clubs

Million dollar man Grundy signing a 10 year deal stands out as one of the worst contract calls in recent history Also Treloar for 6 years and trading him for peanuts after 1 year

looking like Melksham Petty Laurie in for JVR Jeffo and Kolt Decent changes. Fritsch hanging on by his short and curlies

Gold Coast should win this easily. Hawks have rested plenty Both Coming off a 5 day break but no travel for GC which is important

Blues made it in on 13 wins last year

PR 101 for LJ He can’t play the whole season with people thinking he will leave Refute the claims Houston style But I reckon he’ll be with us next year

We have virtually no injuries so we should see a continued improvement across the next month I reckon Some teams injury lists are really growing and this always has an impact eventually Can’t see us beating the best team in the comp though. Their midfield is ridiculously good.

Poor entries inside 50's going too wide Poor skilled players that just aren't good kicks like Viney, Trac etc Lack of mental toughness Not having a stable effective fwd line. JVR, Turner are very good kicks usually (and Fristch but I can't deal with him right now). If these 3 were in form and mentally in the zone with LJ as 2nd ruck we would see a big difference Every time a fwd has a shot they must feel like if they miss they might get dropped. Stability counts and we have zero

23yo Ruck/Fwd kicked 43 goals over the past 2 seasons Hit Out avg this year is >27 this year Our list is crying out for LJ! We have recruited VFL and players not getting a game to try to fill the void like Fullarton and AJ - he would have a huge impact on our structure In isolation (disregarding the Kozzi situation), this is a 'where do we sign' situation

You don't there is proof he exists?? *Sorry, I'll leave now.

Freo will be praying he doesn’t speak to reporters He makes Clarry sound like Stephen Fry

Future first and one player perhaps?

All we can do is speculate but if he wants away from family and old mates could be showing he is maturing. He made a bad call going back Who can stay away from the mighty demons???

As others have said, this is good and hopefully LJ realising his old mates and some family aren’t after his best interests. Premiership footy mates are mates forever

Rivers and others were very close to LJ Should be good for WA boys retention

Fantastic news!! We desperately need a 2nd ruck/fwd He is one if the very few that compliments Gawn and then he can take over in a few years

I played soccer for 20 years and I would say there is no benefit aside from general foot/eye coordination. I would say we play these games to mentally refresh, loosen the body and have fun. It is one of those things that people look at when you are losing and not if you are winning. Goal kicking is largely mental, these are professional athletes. Fristch is one of the best kicks for goal technically I have seen. He is missing due to pressure and the how tough footy is mentally.

Someone like an Andrew McQualter? I genuinely wonder how he would do at the demons. Is it just WC that are broken?

This is not a plausible narrative. Goodwin has been Senior Coach for 4 years prior to the flag, making all key decisions. In his first match, there were only 8 of the premiership players in the team. Blokes likes Billy Stretch, Watts, Weid, Hannan playing. You act as if this was Chris Scott taking over a premiership team! We hadn't made finals for 10 years. Roos did a great job taking us from a basket case to a decent, well run team. Make no mistake, Simon Goodwin was instrumental in our flag and to state otherwise is disrespectful and foolish.

I agree it is time for a change with Goodwin, or soon at least However, tactically Goodwin did well against the Hawks. Which has been the biggest knock on him. If we kicked straight we would have been up by 5 goals at 3/4 time. The issues were kicking for goal and failing to run out the game. Some of which falls on Goodwin and some of which falls on the fitness staff and the players themselves Do I blame Goodwin because a 29yo player like Fritsch missed 2 easy goals? No I do not. They are professional players, they should all be able to kick for goal as a minimum requirement and practice more if they need it

Can't believe he went for a check-side with his kick for goal. could have made all the difference to his confidence had he kick that. He was only 20m from goal. Unless you are Kozzi, increase the angle and snap with your left for an easy goal One of the many terrible kicks for goal on the day. We are meant to be professional football players. Kicking for goal should be something that is a given when you've played the game your whole life

Never heard of that Footy Show but it looks like they deliberately collected the most annoying attention grabbing fools (apologies to Nick) Who would watch that dribble?

Even when they had Hogan, Riccardi, Stringer etc all out injured he wasn't even an emergency Why bother blocking him if he will never get a game? With Lever and Hore constantly injured, if he ends up being a backman, we could use another interceptor and leave Turner fwd