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Had heard from inside the club it was for not meeting certain standards on field last week, not sure why he was singled out as he couldn’t have been the only one

Bad game good win, not sure how many other sides would let you back in like that, Dee’s really need to work on these first qtrs but it’s the end result that matters

If that was the case then he wouldn’t have been omitted he would have simply been rested and I don't see how he was dropped for anything on field so its just a process of elimination.

He must have broken some team rule, I hope king will elaborate and not dodge the question if asked, his form would not warrant getting dropped over other players

Rivers getting dropped certainly wasn’t on my bingo card, king must be sending some kind of message as it can’t purely be on form

I’d like to see a stat of how many goals we have conceded from clangers

Only hope is freo drops off like they did vs cats last week

Yep it’s a mystery, he seems to have the weapons to be a good player, ball in hand running into 50 you rarely see him miss, I always hoped he would become a goal scoring mid in the vein of trac, but he just never took that next step and still seems to go missing for chucks of the game and now has been replaced by Tholstrup in that defensive run with roll today. His time is running out in his 8th year still unable to lock a roll down.

I think CJ did a lot good today but I saw a few to many instances where he pulled up short rather than commit to the contest, I’m more concerned about that than if he used the ball well or the hurt factor

Gawn is going to need some help vs Jackson and Darcy, double so since he ran himself into the ground today, as exciting as Latrelles debut was he probably needs to spend some time in the 2nds building up his game. Sparrow could also be in trouble and for a player in his 8th year he needs to be doing more. Whatever the case someone needs to make way for Moose at a minimum.

One of the most satisfying wins in a while, to put the boot into saints after they thought they would be relevant again and to get revenge for last year at the same time. I couldn’t have asked for more

Just shows how bad the blues probably are, the fact the teams that play round 0 vs teams that don’t is 7 wins 0 losses over the last 2 years isn’t something to ignore

That extra week cats had in there legs certainly didn’t hurt either

Sure and as stated it was a single practice match, basically a glorified training session. As we saw this weekend the form from those games is a meaningless proxy for the real thing. We would need to see a lot more from Heath before anyone should be talking about sacrificing Max’s game. If he has the talent it will be evident without Max needing to change anything just as it was with Jackson.

You act like Max Heath and Kalani are banging the door down, before Kentfield got injured Heath wasn’t even in the side as the backup ruck. The hard truth is we haven’t had anyone since Jackson left that has put there hand up in any real way, and we saw with him it didn’t require Max to sacrifice his game to develop Jackson. While its too soon to say on Kalani, I dont see anything in Heath or Kentfields future other than as roll players, so until we either recruit or trade for the starting ruck we are going to still need Max playing full minutes. Happy to be proven wrong but we are going to need to see a lot more from any of them than a few preseason games and as stated it shouldn’t require Max to limit his game if they are good enough.