Garbo

Brayshaw is a Melbourne (city) boy through and through there is no go home factor there. His parents are here his GF is from here, his mates are here, the only ppl not here are his brothers.

Why would we trade him when he is contracted for another year and value can only increase. Crows would need to be paying massive overs, something like a mid first round pick given he was taken at 27 and shown himself to be at least capable.

I think it’s more that reputations are earned in finals and anyone watching that game could see Oliver was on another level. If he keeps that up for 2 more games no one will ever question Oliver’s status as a genuine star again. I find it interesting that Petracca is now the sidekick in the way the media talks about them now.

Think we scare them more, they couldn’t beat us down there after getting 44 up no chance they beat us after we have a week off in a neutral venue. No one wants to play us now in a straight up match as they know they can’t win.

Well we have one player in Hibberd who has done the job on Cameron before, Smith was atrocious tonight and nothing I have seen this or any other week gives me any confidence he will do any better. I don’t care for who but he can’t be in the team next game. Second Tmac needs to go, I don’t care how good he was in the first half of this year he is cooked and a complete liability, I don’t care if it’s Melksham or Weid or anyone else you can name get him out of there. Between these 2 jokers we start 2 players down. If we make those 2 changes…

Why does smith get a pass, his opponent single handedly kept lions in the game, the number of times he was out of position or caught ball watching is unacceptable, granted he was playing on a good player but given the lions supply Cameron should not have had anywhere near the influence he did. Smith should not been seen again this year after that performance

Smith just not ready for this level of game yet

I think it’s amazing bont and trac genuinely play pure on ball roles and have a level of productivity in front of goal that they can push out a full time fwd, in the past Danger and Martin would split there time fwd and mid to have his output. Still it would be good to have them named 1 and 2 mids next to Gawn as the premier followers they are but alas.

What terrible teams, feel like we could beat either one

Interesting when you look at Peter Wright this year his out out is on par with tmac, is there any other key fwds unable to get a game who are worth looking at.

If we are to spend any capital going after some one it needs to be another key fwd. Tmac is back to his 2019/20 form post bye. Ben Brown looks extremely limited as a player. Jackson could be anything but I don’t see him as a main target fwd long term. Short term for next year I’d be getting Tex Walker in the door, because of his recent issue he would come basically free I’d imagine so nothing to loose there. Long term I’d be trying to get Ben King in the door post 2022, feel like he is almost certainly heading back to Melbourne, Tigers managed with Lynch in there flag window so no reason we couldn’t do the same.

Wouldn’t be surprised if we start this game with an extra at the ball, I get a feeling Goodwin has been saving this all year as a bit of a shock and awe tactic if it works we can smash them round the ball and put them away early but if it fails revert to the extra behind play and grind it out. We tried this vs cats last week in the first half and it might have worked if we made more of our chances and cats didn’t have that run on late in the 2nd. But as we showed we can grind back from basically any deficit so it’s worth the gamble.

I’d love if the followers line was Gawn, Oliver, Petracca all together

Persist with tmac for another week, he won’t be the difference between winning and loosing anyway. Jordan in for Smith. Rivers is better back as that mid size than Smith anyway and Jordan brings more round the ground.

King will be nice but May more important in the here and now, if we get even one flag and may is a big part of that it’s paid for itself and more. Lever no question we have already won that.

At 24 he is only going to get better, scary to think. Has the potential to be the best of a generation.

No one should ever doubt he bleeds red and blue.

Only good thing is is happened tonight and not next week, maybe we got this out of our system, beat port and it’s like this never happened

Need to just walk this one out and start preparing for next week, no point risking anything more on a lost cause. No point dwelling on this anymore cats just were on fire for 10 minutes. Won’t do it again if we play at some point and won’t be at gmhba

Different type of game for dogs, didn’t think they could win in a low scoring contest

The argument to keep Melksham for his ball use into 50 only makes sense if he actually gets it. As it stands he got so little of the ball last week any difference in our efficiency as a team is just psychosomatic

Due to the fact port can pass them on percentage even with a win and not us

I think Brayshaw has adjusted well to his new role this year, it’s not all smooth sailing but I think given more time he will continue to improve in that role. Not every wing need to be run and gun like Langdon, my main knock against him is that he completely shanks a few kicks a game not unlike trac, if he can tidy that up I think a lot of the criticism will go away.

Playing smith is like having frost back, no confidence in the backline now

Backline needs to work out there structure better to many loose players, mids need to lift round the ball, crows getting to many touches, fwd line good work from limited chances