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Clarry isn’t fit enough, if you watched him at the game yesterday you would see he is constantly out of position because he is walking or slowly jogging allowing hawks to find an extra player when chaining the ball down the ground

We dominated the contest for 3/4 today but once again couldn’t get reward on the scoreboard, hawks get on top for a single qtr and did what we couldn’t. Goodwin says Oliver had a tagging role today, but all I saw was a player unable to go contest to contest requiring other players to cover for him. Jeffo thrown into the seniors despite not showing he’s at the level even in the vfl why should we expect different at AFL Fritsch not pulling his weight again and now not even finishing off in front of goal. It’s clear standards have been dropping for some time now and our coaches seem unable or unwilling to do anything about it. Until we have someone who can make the tough call nothing is going to change.

We train based on feel good now, we can’t have any hurt feelings

Why would Pickett stay now, unlikely Goodwin survives this year, we will be out of contention for a few year at minimum and if Gawn and may retire before then god help us. We are even less likely to keep him now than before this season started, the only plus is freo might at least have a good first round pick this year.

Only a wasted if we were a chance to start with, club needs to make some hard calls on some players so we can move fwd

Oliver not fit enough we can’t keep playing him, until he gets back to a reasonable fitness level back to vfl. Jeffo not ready for AFL Fritsch needs to go back to vfl for real this time. Langford looks like he will be an absolute gun

Oliver clearly not up to standard, we can’t keep covering for him means everyone else working twice as hard and we are cooked by the 4th qtr

How so, we clearly have 3 tall fwds in fritsch, jvr and Jeffo that can’t hit the side of a barn door, and Jeffo and fritsch have offered 0 in any other regard, what was the thinking in going with the extra tall

Unfortunately this looks like a game we lost at the selection table

Oliver is better when he has the ball but Viney is still much superior what he does without it, Oliver needs to get first hands to the ball at stoppage because he’s not catching anyone if it gets out

I’d guess 3 goals 3 tackles

The problem is fritsch plays like a tall as well so you are effectively playing 3 talls, I’m not sure it works unless they are all of a high quality. Given there output I think we look much better just playing 2 and taking an extra mid size player like melksham. I suspect maybe they will use fritsch in that role this week, which I can’t see working out.

Unless Viney is injured maybe having Oliver and Viney makes the mid to slow

44k last year to the 4pm sat game round 3, be a good showing if we beat that I think

Looking fwd to this weeks game, after 3 wins in a row we get a test against a contender, if we can at least be competitive then I think it shows we should continue to persist with the current group a while longer, if we go back to the round 2-5 output then it’s time to move on from some of the older players and bring in the kids and find out what we have because this group is done

Don’t have to imagine the 90s to 00s was that for us

The 1-8 wasn’t against wc though, outside a repeat of last year this game shouldn’t present any issues, plus if u want to talk pressure and stats just look at wc this year they would love to be us

I dread to think how boring those games will be

Think rivers goes and mid to cover Oliver, Turner back in his place. Melk comes in for Fullerton and Petty backs up ruck.

Odd we are going so small, who is going to backup max, seems like the only option will be petty, better hope none of our talls get injured on the day

Goodwin said before round 1 he still has work to do to get back to his best, I think this is all part of that journey, good news is it sounds like him and the club are on the same page these days.

Like for like in my book, but I think Laurie probably has earned the call up.

Is he mentioned in any of the rolling AA teams, feel like based on that he needs to be in the conversation

He might well be if he’s on the outer now and doesn’t want to change

If we were to get him you would have to wonder how long he would be able to get a game in mid given we after drafted high end mids heavily over the last few years, seems an ungraded in a player like sparrow but then you have to wonder how much longer he has to outside depth