Bang Bang Bang

That was some unbelievable footy. Even if we lose from here, I've seen enough to be convinced we are legit. Jackson is sex. And 5 years for Salem was about 5 years too short.

Firstly, absolute full credit to the Richmond staff for not only providing a good quality live stream, but even providing full stats and regular "player spotlight" updates for Casey players. Absolutely [censored] on our Casey coverage from a great height. We couldn't even send one [censored] dude out there to tell us how the MFC players were going earlier in the year. Lots to learn from the best in the business. Now, to the game. Ben Brown is exactly as I remembered him at North. Annoying. Umpires' pet. Accurate. [censored] good. It's very nice to know that he's ours now. Bowey has been very busy. Bedford will get games this year, he has fantastic work rate and pressure. Skills aren't the best but there's a clear role for him. Bratdke is still a million miles off. I wonder how long we'll persist?

For some reason nobody ever talks about Salem? Not on here, not in the media, not anywhere. The guy is a very good player. 5 years is a long time at first glance but he also strikes me as somebody that will be just as good when he's 30 as he is now. All he relies on are good skills, a good footy brain and good upper body strength. Nothing too complicated nor anything that will diminish much with age. Fantastic news.

I'm no medical expert but that has to be some kind of modern miracle for May to only miss one match. Absolutely delighted.

First time watching AFL 360 in 2021, because I'd read on here that Goody was appearing, and probably the last. There were lots of interesting questions that could have been asked, that is after they finally acknowledged Goody's existence. How important is sentiment and culture and how important is form when thinking about Nathan Jones' 300th? How do you plan to squeeze Weideman and Ben Brown into the team? Will McDonald maybe go to a wing? What of Jackson? Will Fristch and May push for selection this week or are they more likely the week after? All these questions could have generated an interesting response but instead we got "Oh that Gawn's a good player isn't he?" "Oh that Petracca is pretty good too isn't he?" "Oh Dusty is a good player for Richmond too, imagine those two playing on each other..." Rubbish questions. At least "On the Couch" got some good responses from Jonesy and a classy AF tribute from Garry at the end. 360 was a complete waste of time.

It’s insane how good he is for a 2nd year ruckman. Gawn didn’t break out until his 6th. One thing I’ve noticed about Jackson is that he’s very smart. For example, yesterday he “might” have dived on the ball and he was very aware of the need to get the ball out of the pack because of this. Might sound like a little thing but he does a lot of this stuff every week. It’s very rare for an athletic ruckman to have an elite midfielder’s brains. He may never be a great overhead mark but I don’t think he needs to be as he’s so good in other areas. If he does work it out then watch out.

Jackson doesn’t count as a tall IMO so there’s that. He plays small like Watts (but will end up much much better).

One day we’re going to kick straight and absolutely annihilate a team. Ed Langdon is so dreamy.

Loving Jackson’s work around the ground. He’ll be unstoppable if he starts clunking marks more consistently.

Says a lot about the guy.

Jake Lever with the best defensive game by a Dee since Jake Lever in Round 1. What an absolute boss he was today.

I'd have to say that Spargo doing a Selwood to Selwood is one of the best things I'll see in my lifetime. Hate that guy with a passion.

He obviously doesn't remember that game against the Crows in 2019. TMac by a country mile for me, unless we're allowed to count Ben Brown.

I can understand the interest in this trade given the media love to hound us over it. But a little known fact - we were never taking Kelly. After Boyd there was no consensus #2 pick that year. GWS were keen on Kelly but a lot of names were in the mix. Our man was most likely Jack Billings, who had trained with us in earlier in 2013 and ended up going at 3 to the Saints. I'm not sure if this can be easily found on the internet but I'm almost certain somebody at the club confirmed this around 2015-2016. With that in mind, Salem is a better player than Billings on his own. Tyson gave good service early on and then helped us get us Preuss who in turn helped us get Ben Brown. Jayden Hunt has had a serviceable career to date. GWS would be very happy with Kelly's output too. Both clubs benefitted from the trade. In hindsight, probably keep the pick and draft Bontempelli, but the trade certainly wasn't as binary as the clickbait Herald Sun journos would have you believe.

Jason Taylor has a good eye for it, IMO. He had a particular good year in 2019 - three young guys who are already entrenched in the best 22. No need to wait and see if they come good, they already are. Somewhat annoyingly, he was also very keen on Georgiadis that year and Butters in 2018. Maybe the only questionable one he has on his resume is Weideman at 9 in 2015, but even that selection is getting pretty close to parity. No point picking Curnow if he never gets on the park.

Nobody will talk about Jackson given Kosi's genius, but seriously how good is he? Some of his pickups were akin to Pendlebury in his prime not a ruckman in his second year. Going to be very very good and allows us to use Gawn as we please.

Even when Toby kicked two in two, I didn't feel worried. This is a good team we're watching. Kosi is next level genius.

You’re kidding yourself. I agree Max was staging there but that was also one of the worst free kicks I’ve ever seen paid. “Obvious block” lol.

Such a satisfying win. A real team performance. I don't know who was BOG, but Kozi is a bloody machine. Suck [censored] to all those who were sharpening the pitchforks during the second quarter. Okay, I was one of them.Goody for PM.

Because he was a fringe player at Richmond, and like 17 other clubs we didn't have that amazing crystal ball you seem to have at your disposal.

You don't need to be playing champagne footy in Round 1 to win a flag. You just need to bank points. I'm sure we'll lose games this year. Some games will be more frustrating than others. But I prefer to live in the present. We won a game of footy. I genuinely feel sorry for those who can't savour that.

6. Lever 5. May 4. McDonald 3. Oliver 2. Petracca 1. Spargo

You guys are a [censored] miserable bunch. I'll take the 4 points any day of the week doesn't matter how we get them.

Steven May and Jake Lever were incredible really. As good as I've ever seen from a defensive duo in our colours.

Keep kicking it in May’s area please Freo.