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Feel like most people said the same thing last year and we went out in straight sets, the early season form tells me we don’t have what it takes vs the best and will just be making up the numbers come finals. This could be partly address if we didn’t muck round trying to play a fwd line primarily lead by a rookie, a backman and a ruck.

The luck been tigers aren’t a finals level team and are presently in the bottom 4. Tigers of only a few years back would have put us on our backside. We have lost 2 of 3 games against the present top 8

Good to get the win but hopefully the team learns some lessons from that. Petty isn’t a forward and needs to go back. Hibbo is done unless injures dictate he plays, he gets beaten way to often these days and has lost a step, I counted his direct opponents kicking 4 goals tonight possibly more Tmac or Brown needs to always play to assist Vanrooyen, a forward line consisting of him Petty and resting ruck won’t work against any sides come finals. All in all we just got lucky tigers aren’t the team they were.

Or is this our level at the moment, we are on track to concede another 100 points again, win or loose that’s not finals footy

We dropped tmac who was going fine it’s our own fault

Hibbo should be left in VFL after this, guy has clearly gone a year to long time to bring in Turner

Don’t quite understand that logic, we are playing tall forwards made up of 2nd year player in van rooyen, a resting ruck and a unproven key back swinging fwd. All over a dedicated key fwd who kicked 4 goals only 2 games ago. Sure Tmac isn’t the bees knees but that lineup is asking for trouble.

Not to many players who can hold there head up after than game. 2 times in 5 games not a good sign. All we can do is hold onto the hope that it’s a long year and it’s not about what happens now but in September

Exposes everything fwd back and mid

2 of our worst games in 3 years in the last 5 weeks, why is our form so up and down

Unless something changes we aren’t winning today bombers just doing the same thing over and over

We are to short mids need to more to pressure the kick

Mids need to get involved more just letting the bombers have to many unpressured entries fwd

Essendon just working harder

Long as it’s not freo again sick of those guys plus they got nothing left to give, if its wc maybe we can package Pickett and Freo first pick for pick 1

AFL needs to set a threshold and if a player wishes to keep playing after reaching that threshold then they loose the ability to sue for damages later. If the afl allows players like McCartin to continue to play without any kind of waver then they are opening them self upto all kinds of issues down the track, inversely I don’t think a player should be forced to retire and forgo what could be a very lucrative career based on advise that changes by the day and is so open to interpretation. Just like how people do other jobs that knowingly put them self in danger as part of the job players need to be the one to make the choice eyes wide open if they want to run onto the field and risk permanent injury

I’d say petty goes back and Hibbo out, and brown comes in. JVR probably has until gawn is back to displace brown or tmac if he wants to hold his spot

Looked like he didn’t know where to go, doesn’t find space and just seems to defend his man. As soon as Brown is fit he needs to go back, which also releases lever to play the 3rd tall and be more attacking.

Nothing less than 10 goals a qtr

Need to up there intensity taking it a bit easy

Luke Jackson in response to any criticism

4 smalls fwds doesn’t go into 3 and Chandler can’t be dropped after that so it’s out of ANB and Spargo as stiff as that may be on one of them. Nothing silly like dropping Brown for Pickett will happen if Brown is injured another tall will come in. Pickett also can’t play the minutes in the mid to replace Sparrow or Jordan either so I’d say they are safe as well. Tough week for the selection committee

So I’m assuming with hibbard in petty goes fwd and plays the tmac role and backup ruck

Disappointing dogs bring effort and can do this to lions and we dish up what we did last week.

All preseason we were playing schache as 2nd ruck if Gawn or Grundy wasn’t taking part in the sims, I’d say it’s almost certain he will come in and play that role now. If not for making to many changes at once I’d be bring in Vanrooyen for Tmac next week anyway. Along with Schache for Gawn and May for Tomlinson