DistrACTION Jackson

Has been injury prone since then, but there are many instances where players are injury prone for many years and then get their bodies right. Think Shaun Burgoyne, everyone thought he was cooked and then he ended up playing 400 games 🤯. Definitely not saying Salem will play 400, but I think we have to continue working with him to get his body cherry ripe. Important player when up and going.

100% agree. If one of Turner or Petty can’t ruck then one should come out for Fullarton. JVR is a generational full forward for god’s sake.

Why are the commentators trying to have a crack at a Melbourne player for ‘staging’ again? Kolt got bumped late by Zorko and how are they to know how hard he felt the hit? These commentators are a disgrace (hodge in particular) and I wish the club would call them out on their carp

Adam’s was the one being held there and they somehow give a free the other way? Weird!

I’m an optimist like you Binman, but I can’t see us playing finals this year and that’s ok. I was really impressed with how our young side took it up to the Lions, with some good games from our senior players. I was expecting a 4-5 goal loss, and after getting over the close loss I was proud of the effort. I’d be interested to know the age differences between the two sides.

haha I can't believe they haven't moved the microphone!

Reciprocal doesn’t mean you can just play there as much as you want. You have the option to play there on certain days, but you have to pay to play.

He’s an underage key tall playing a year above. Wouldn’t be worried about him making it until he plays the U18 carnival next year in his own age group.

Not sure what the point of dropping Brown was, unless they’ve told him and Woey they plan to rotate them as subs so they can continue getting some full games at Casey. Surely if Fritsch has another stinker his spot has to come into question though.

It's not really stealth, we all know about it!

The only way we can win this game is to turn it into an absolute slog. If it is a shootout the Lions will easily outscore us. We need to be at our defensive best to have a chance. Not confident, but sometimes it's nice just watching the footy with no expectations!

Just out of contract. Former pick 28, so doubt they will get much more than a 3rd rounder if he wants to leave.

Would definitely give him another 12 months if he wanted to go on. We will have a decent amount of turnover this year anyway with likely/confirmed departures of: Brayshaw, Smith, Schache, Tomlinson, Brown & Hunter. That would be 6 players we have to replace and we usually take 2-3 players at the draft.

Wouldn't bother responding to him/her.... probably the most negative poster on here, which is saying something given the stuff you see!

It was great to see Clarry in the recent video on the website having fun and looking really healthy and happy. I am very confident Clarry will get back to his best at some point, either late this year but if not I expect him to really explode next year.

Wouldn’t expect anything less from their supporters.

6 years is a lot for Josh Battle. Good player, but he’s no Weitering/Sam Taylor

I think all the talk of retirement etc is very premature. It's still very raw for him and he's obviously still recovering. I'm very hopefully he will be back ready to go for round 1.

The idea that our under 22 talent isn't any good is ridiculous. If they weren't any good we wouldn't win any games. Terrible take George. Also people, injury issues permitting Trac, Salem, Oliver, Lever, Langdon, Fritsch have a good 5-6 years left. We don't have to think about replacing them for a long time. Yes, Gawn and May are obviously nearing the end in probably 2 years, however we can use trade a FA to replace them if we can't develop within. Stop worrying about replacing players, that's the list manager and recruiters job.

Rather than go after a midfielder, could we look at someone like Harry Perryman as a Rivers replacement and make him a permanent midfielder? The other option would be Isaac Cumming who is also from the Giants.

Good interview and great to hear he is doing ok. He seems very keen to get back out there once he has recovered and I can’t wait to see him down at the club!

I'm pretty sure he came on after the 2012 draft, so wasn't involved in drafting Toumpas. Anyway don't want to get into revisionism about every draft, but I'm sure if we looked into it in detail he would be up there as one of the best draft talent spotters in the competition.

And helped take one of the worst performing clubs in history to a premiership? The Weid over Curnow/McKay was his biggest miss. But he hasn't missed too often in that time.

Please don't speak about JT that way..... bloke deserves a statue

I think we are all onboard players who stage getting a fine.... only issue is I've seen countless players staging this year and they've got nothing and definitely no media pile on like this week. Nick Daicos did something identical and the only person to call him out was Kane Cornes. The media as a majority are as gutless as they come.