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Jetta cooked? First game back, ran into something special. Surely he deserves another match .

I think his lick with two minutes to go, may turn him into an outstanding player. His inability to’ kick straightforward goals has been a real downer. That was a class act under pressure

U are of course facetious. But I noticed that with 10 to go and scores level he moved May to CHF. In other words trying to win the game rather than hold in defensively. It shows he hasn’t lost both courage and enterprise. Woukd have been slaughtered if it had lead to a loss

Played quite well v Geelong but lacked determination v Tigers

Hell.i thought Hannan was good, first match back. Hunt was awful.

I thought he was pretty good in the pre season matches which were reasonably competitive

He was anything but average in the effect he had upon MFC. i know he had problems But I woukd never have let him go

At the time we were playing well in Q2 TMAC was battling like hell, creating contests, nearly clunking a couple. Then he nearly gets broken ribs in Q3 but still takes a great grab and kicks a goal in the last.Get off his back! The problem is the gameplan when we beat the Cats easily in the finals in 2018 Weideman took a few marks.Even if he only creates a contest he must be played

They did only kick 7 goals five. but I agree, our gameplay was [censored]. We must have another tall forward

Hannan was v good for his first match for ages. Better than many others

Yes it definitely leaked like a sieve? Geelong who played in last year’s prelim, had 12 scoring shots. Some leak!

Without doubt something happened last weekend which caused doubt about Bennell. FWIW I woukd play Jackson again. He wasn’t too bad v Blues, shows all the promise. Play him alongside the FF, this requiring a Cats tall to play on him, we need his height.

Just watched On Utube our match v GWS the last round before the finals in 2018. Although I was at that match, I hadn’t realised just how clever was Spargo, both by hand and foot setting up a number of goals . Lost his way last year, but having watched this I believe we should persevere with hiM

I think Brown is big enough, but is he good enough.? He did play well in the practice match. Had he kicked decently v WC it would have been much closer

This week’s team made sense because it was forecast to be quite wet. We were lucky the match wasn’t played! i think we do need a key forward and on the basis of the Practice match perhaps it has to be Brown

Bugger me!!! Someone wants to play Hore this week and You want to play Petty. both are injured for long periods

Sorry, but that’s rubbish. Lever doesn’t hold our defence together. He never held any defence together. He can play very well if we play 7 defenders and he is the loose man. That was his role in a very good Adelaide side, which played 7 defenders including Talia and Brown who played on the key forwards . When it was rumoured that we were hoping to get him, Mick Malthouse, at that time a great supporter of MFC, commented that he had never seen Lever best an opponent man on man. On this occasion Malthouse is correct. If we want to see Lever at his best, let him play as a loose man, on no-one . May and OMac on the key forwards. If we can afford to do that Id be very pleased

I agree re Hore but he’s injured, out for a long time

There are a number of players who’ve retired or been delisted by Dees, including some with quite high profiles . In such circumstances, bitter ex players are v likely to criticise. Yet I know of none who have

Don’t believe that many of those blokes woukd be critical of Goodwin. Half of them are injured, most of the others are not in best 22.lockhart a bit stiff but was given a good run ( out of nowhere) last year. Have a listen to the interviews with Chaplin/ Richardson re tge players’ respect for the coach

Well last year Lewis and Vince went into print in support of our coach. And I am quite close to a Player delisted at the end of last year with every reason to be [censored] off with Goodwin, but who continued to tell: me that he and the playing group were totally behind hi

A good post. I would just add that I can recall very few teams which have made 7 changes, including 2 18yos and have won. I reckon the coaching staff have decided that this team rather than the team for R1 offers more for the year as a whole. There will be disappointments but from what we saw I’m not sure the coaching staff got it wrong. and one other point. Carlton are not a bad team. On paper I thought they would win. Their players have played far more together, as a team, than ours have

Mate, read what recently retired players, Lewis, Vince etc, or present assistant coaches say, notably that the players love playing for Goodwin

Well once OMac was dropped Smith had to play back didnt he? I actually thought Smith looked v nervous. i hate dropping a bloke after one match but in my view Omac is critical to the success of the May/ Lever combination.

What bloody rubbish. He was trying hard all day. V good opponent. And he did win the ball and get it to Fritsch for the winning score