dazzledavey36

Go baggers!

Which he's done for the past 2 years....

You were calling for Rivers ro be dropped only 3 weeks ago...

Can't believe Harmes is getting games. I would have brought Hibberd in and assign Rivers to play a midfield role in place of Sparrow.

Dunstan had a choice between the Dees, Gold Coast and the Bombers.

Sheesh.. Poor Luke Dunstan. Gets 40 plus disposals in the twos and still can't get a gig when a inside mid goes out. Seriously stiff.. might as well pack his bags and go play suburban footy.

Enough for you to care to still comment? Ignore it then.

Giddy the [censored] up!

Well of course he'll say that to the media... he would have been frustrated as hell also. This is also has nothing to do with Suma's comments btw.

He does that regardless when he's playing as a midfielder.

I think personally think our back 6 have been fine.. Who you taking out from there out of Salem, Bowey and McVee/Hibberd??

100% My post was literally praising our midfield unit who have stepped up in his absence. It's just gives us a different avenue which I think has caught teams off guard, but shows we can still beat quality teams without relying on the one player.

The issue during the Daniher years was unfortunately we could never recruit a star player and that was purely due to having no money and [censored] poor facilities etc. In fact, we could barely recruit solid players consistently. Always felt had we been able to recruit a star player or two we could have potentially snagged a flag. Losing Jeff Farmer put us back imo.

No I never said that? You've certainly missed my point. With Oliver missing, what this has created which we haven't been able to do for a long time due to Oliver's durability, is that we've had to look at other avenues to cover his loss which I think we've done successfully in my opinion. Guys like Sparrow, Jordon, Rivers and Brayshaw have had to step up and take on extra responsibilities and if you want proof that they've done a tremendous job then as I have already stated, we've beaten every team in clearences bar the Freo game where that was the start of Oliver missing through injury. So I have no idea where you gotten this whole ''we've dropped our numbers in clearences right back"' when it's actually the complete opposite and false. The other point I was also trying to make was that it shows we can adapt and not fully rely on one player to carry us. We're unpredictable with our stoppage set up and I think that's a positive in itself. Oliver coming back will be significant for us towards finals, it's the cherry on top. But it also means we don't have to completely throw him straight into the engine room and rely on him to carry the midfield brunt. Ease him back and get him cherry ripe for September.

If anything our clearence game has gotten a lot better since Oliver did his hammy. We were losing the clearence battle in the first half of the year. Remember Brisbane? Since Oliver went down, starting from the Fremantle match, we've won the clearence game against teams 7-1 with the only game where we were beaten in all 3 facets was against freo. Since then we've beaten all remaining teams in stoppages, centre clearence and general clearences. Great effort without Oliver. Just shows when we are unpredictable with our set up we can certainly overcome teams with our clearence game. Oliver will be a welcome return, but we're doing just fine without him.

Reported in the Age that we've moved on from Henry after signing Chandler up. Never mind, TU provided the link.

Pretty sure I've read that we've ruled him out now.

An interesting stat. No team that has finished 4th since 2000 has won a premiership...

Wrong thread.

Come to us pick 4..

Yes agree, the personal jabs was unnecessary. He's a premiership hero in my eyes so he's got enough respect for me. I'll be honest and I think I could upset a few here, but I'm starting to think even his own teammates don't trust him on field. Unfortunately, this is a real thing in footy clubs. His body is slowly letting him down and when you're getting beaten easily one on ones then that starts to play on your mind as a teammate so then find yourself assessing other options. I saw this last week and yesterday as well. It was glaring to say. There's been moments where he's lead into space and they've totally ignored him by either going the difficult option or just playing the percentage. Goodwins comments post game pretty much confirms that he wasn't overly impressed with Browns game and I think we'll see him getting dropped.