dazzledavey36

A great day spent at the footy. My 5 year old first ever AFL game and boy did he love it!

It was pretty swirly and thought we converted well considering the conditions.

It was a scrappy game but when we were challenged in the 3rd quarter we rode the bump and found another gear.

Besides the scrappy disposal Petracca showed some of his old bursts from stoppages. He was strong and really tried to generate a lot of forward entries.

Tmac was close to BOG for me. Please dont drop him Goody..

Fritta and Rivers were good i thought.

Melksham will sign a new contract, mark my words! I am hoping Tmac is the same.

Langford will be a beauty!

Jefferson will be fine. As I said after the Adelaide game, you just have to load him up with games and experience. Could have easily had 3 goals for the day. For a guy of his size, he certainly doesn't mind crashing the packs and bring the ball to ground.

Loved JVR's game as well! Let's just leave both he and Jeffo in for the rest of the year.

And Xerri is a dirty thug, enjoy your holiday you [censored]

Jefferson having a good quarter

Jefferson definitely crashing the packs. Competing well.

Petraccas disposal is absolutely woeful.

Didn't see Melksham go off? Is it serious?

Taking my 5 year old to his first ever AFL game.

Dont let me down Dees...

Kozzie to run riot.

8 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Good signs with some of our up and coming young players.

Mentha - great game, hit the scoreboard, ran hard and carried the footy when needed. Give him a full preseason working hard in the off season alongside Kozzie and I have no doubt he can play senior footy next year.

Kentfield - This guy is a brute. When he took that pack mark he literally left three Werribee players on the ground in pain. The huge upside with him is that he hasnt completed a AFL pre season to date. There is something definitely to work with here. Crazy that he's still only 19. I see a bit of Josh Treacy about him.

Culley - Liked his work, spent time inside and out and he was pretty classy and had poise as well.

Howes - Last time he plays VFL this year. He was a clear BOG.

Adams - Ready for AFL action. Just give him a chance Goody.

Verrall - He plays much better when hes the main number 1 ruckman. My only issues with him is he doesn't take marks around the ground. I think for him to step up, this is something he needs to do more around the ground. Other then that he was good tonight.

Forgot about Noah Yze.

Hes definitely improved a lot in the 12 months. Hes definitely got the sticky hands and I think he's well deserved of a rookie list spot.

There is something to work with on Yze and I believe coming back as a overage player for Oakleigh Chargers and doing a pre season with the Dees has really helped his development.

He looked solid last night and probably unlucky not to kick 4 considering they were relatively easy shots.

We could have an off season where a Yze and White join the Dees!

5 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Who does Adams replace? TMac/May, or Lever?

I'm a bit worried about Howes being in the same camp as Laurie - too good for VFL, but not quite good enough for AFL. But unlike others, every time he goes back to Casey he seems to step up and play well.

Lever.

I like the combination of May and Turner now. Lever is becoming far too much of a liability in our back 6 imo.

Good signs with some of our up and coming young players.

Mentha - great game, hit the scoreboard, ran hard and carried the footy when needed. Give him a full preseason working hard in the off season alongside Kozzie and I have no doubt he can play senior footy next year.

Kentfield - This guy is a brute. When he took that pack mark he literally left three Werribee players on the ground in pain. The huge upside with him is that he hasnt completed a AFL pre season to date. There is something definitely to work with here. Crazy that he's still only 19. I see a bit of Josh Treacy about him.

Culley - Liked his work, spent time inside and out and he was pretty classy and had poise as well.

Howes - Last time he plays VFL this year. He was a clear BOG.

Adams - Ready for AFL action. Just give him a chance Goody.

Verrall - He plays much better when hes the main number 1 ruckman. My only issues with him is he doesn't take marks around the ground. I think for him to step up, this is something he needs to do more around the ground. Other then that he was good tonight.

Sheesh what a clunk by Kentfield

What a flush by Mentha!

22 minutes ago, doomsday dee said:

Yep sorry,I've never seen contracted players wanting out

They can request out all they want. The club won't be letting them go.

26 minutes ago, doomsday dee said:

Gee's,I hope your right GW,otherwise the old egg on your face trick.id be more worried about Rivers,JVR,Woey and Bill Laurie not getting a opportunity.anyway well just have to wait and see

Rivers ans JVR are both contracted.

Woey and Laurie are fringes and would be no loss whatsoever. For some unknown reason Goodwin clearly doesnt rate Laurie. I think Woewodin is most likely a delisted at the end of the year.

The hope for their own sake is they get opportunities elsewhere, but i highly doubt it.

15 minutes ago, Doug Reemer said:

No what I’m getting at is. If only 1 play or 2 players are omitted on a Thursday for a Sunday. Only 1 or 2 can be bought in. Excluding late outs.

So when Sharp was the only player omitted. We could only choose one from the squad named.

Yeah nah.

Last night West Coast initially omitted 3 players last night in Tim Kelly, Bo Allan and Sandy Brock.

As of 5pm tonight after teams were finalised they omitted a fourth player in Jack Williams who was already named on the extended bench. So they ended up dropping an extra player after initial making the three omissions last night. This literally goes against your argument.

My point is you can make as many changes you want from your extended bench on Sunday games. Just because one player gets omitted doesn't mean you can't make further omissions. Teams dont fully get finalised until friday afternoon.

I dont mind that Jefferson stays in.

Was hoping for Campbell and Howes though. Tholstrup is bloody lucky.

Just now, Doug Reemer said:

Oh would you look at this.. Zane Duursma omitted after being named in the initial extended bench last night.

Shock [censored] horror

You come off very stupid here.

Windsor is

Sharp out.

The DeeBrief.. lols.

You know you're scraping the barrel when you're taking these guys guys.

43 minutes ago, Doug Reemer said:

Wrong.

They have to name who’s omitted on the Thursday for a Sunday game.

No they dont...

They can still omit players from the extended bench when the final teams get released on a 5pm Friday.

This has been a thing for many years.. how have you not picked up on this?

3 minutes ago, layzie said:

If anyone says that a certain coach is 'great to have a beer with' as their main strength then I'm out.

The game has never been more demanding on senior coaches and you need to be a high football IQ literally dreaming of tactics and gameplans at night. The 'good bloke' coach sucks and doesn't win flags, Bob Davis as great a man as he was wouldn't last two seconds today. I would prefer to have a rocket scientist who lives in the basement studying tape all day than the guy who stays with the guys at the pub for another few rounds.

And I'm not saying that Goodwin is like the above or is soft. Up until the flag I've mostly thought he was reasonably balanced eg firm in his believe of what he was trying to achieve with his system/culture while still maintaining good rapport with players.

This year however, all we've heard of is the rapport and connection side of things and players loving and supporting him despite repeatedly coming out in first quarters putting up meek efforts.

You are 100% spot on Laze..

I tend to go back to when he was happy to show the door for Jack Watts and Jesse Hogan for instance but yet had a different stance on the likes of Petracca, Oliver and Petty.

Back then I think we actually respected his willingness to change the club culture as both Hogan and Watts were much loved players within the playing group and supporters. We had opportunities to reshape our list with the likes of Oliver and Petty trade for instance but that didn't eventuate

My feel is that hes gotten way too comfortable with the players and that in itself can be a messy line to cross.

33 minutes ago, Doug Reemer said:

Jefferson can’t be omitted now.

They already nominated who was dropped it was Sharp.

He can still be omitted, final team selections aren't made official until 5pm today.

Blake Howes or Caleb Windsor would be one of the ins for Sharp and then weather they decide to make any more changes from there then who knows.

I reckon Campbell plays.

Could be for Jefferson, unless they drop Tholstrup and still play the 3 talls.

3 minutes ago, Ollie fan said:

Well, it got us a bit more than that. Er, it got us a flag, remember? Which is more than Kingsley has achieved.

"Love" didn't buy us a flag mate. A well structured and disciplined team was what got us a flag.

And this whole 'oh but but we won a flag!' Commentary just needs to simply stop. Stop living in the past.

Not only was that 4 years ago that happened, but we have achieved absolutely nothing since. There have been changes to our playing list, football department and opposition teams have easily worked us out.

The game has completely changed and shifted away from the contested bull at the gate style which made us so successful back in 2021 and our contested mids have been exposed because of it.

8 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Not a chance in hell it happens. I agree Goodwin may be better suited to the role but having a new coach come in with the old coach looking over his shoulder? Who would want that situation?

I'm surprised Richardson has lasted this long, one of Perts mates who should've gone at the end of last year.

Well said.

Dont care if the players love the coach. Sick to death of this whole "love" narrative thats been driven by the coach all season.

All love has gotten us is two bottom 5 finishes in the last two years.

Get a coach like Adam Kingsley who has a good balance of having a good rapport with the players but also a hard [censored] who isn't afraid to pull players into line.

2 hours ago, GS_1905 said:

Hang on. I thought the inside line was the signed and the reporting was just delayed?

I hope we are not being held ransom by him or his management.

This.

Was said on here that announcement was meant to occur two weeks ago? Most reports state that he is not way near close to signing a new deal.

15 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Silly statement.

Aside from the fact that we have a number if players we need to build our side around (Turner, Lindsay and Langford) come to mind, a culture of entertaining trades for everyone is a great way to destabilise the club.

We have some players to make trading decisions on, for sure, but that list should only have 3-4 names on it.

Yet the same big name players are destabilising the club on field and through that its costing us in a drop in memberships and lack of on field success.

Im not in the boat of every player should be put up for trade but the following players need to be seriously discussed for trade at the end of the year: Lever, Salem, Fritsch, Oliver, Spargo, Sparrow. All of them haven't played a decent game since 2022-2023.

Now history will say that its a rarity that clubs will just trade out 6 players all in the one go, but we would be absolutely silly if these names aren't seriously brought up as trade discussions for draft or trade capital.

If its true that Lever felt blindsided and angry because he felt disrespected at the fact he was even drop then see ya later Jake.

Your form has been absolute poor since 2022 and as a leader hes been sub par.

Turner has taken his spot anyhow, the guy is a dead set liability as his body is cooked big time.