dazzledavey36

Trac more focussed in running through blokes instead of giving off the first option. Gawn has gone MIA. McDonald is so cooked that he's struggling to to get to a contest from a speed point of view. Once the ball hits the ground he's a liability. Viney, Jordon and Oliver our best mids so far. Harmes sloppy for the 3rd week in a row. Both Kozzie and Spargo need to pull their finger out. Have not once spotted them at the drop of the ball when we've entered forward 50. Both giving us nothing. Backline doing a superb job.

We should be 30 points up. But no, once again our forward [censored] the bed when the opportunity presents itself. Our backline is saving our bacon and doing a tremendous job down back. Hope Steven May absolutely gives our forwards an absolute spray.

Horrendous game of footy. Full time pro footballers missing goals dead in front is seriously inexcusable.

McDonald is cooked.

Toby Bedford is the sub.

No one legit wanted him. I too want him to have a great game tonight, but 6 years in the system for very little return doesn't stack up well. The biggest weakness for him is confidence. He's so down on confidence and has been for 2 years now. The biggest worry I have of him coming in tonight is that he's not coming in on good form and his confidence low from having a poor game last week. Dropped easy marks against lesser opponents, poor body language, poor 2nd efforts and defensive work. It wasn't a good look last week Talent the there, mental strength isn't unfortunately. Going off this logic then Van Rooyen should be playing because he was far superior then Weideman last week. Coaching staff wouldn't throw him into the wolves so early which is good, but watching the whole VFL game last week he's imo behind a VFL ordinary player in Mitch Brown as you say, and an 18 year old forward who hasn't even played AFL level. Weids confidence was shot last week and it was very evident watching him play.

Lol... On last week's VFL form I'm seriously perplexed how Weideman gets a game. He was so poor last week and his body language was woeful. Went from being quite confident for tonight to now being not confident at all especially with this selection. Reward form, not by name.

2000 and 2013.. Enough said.

No surprises which is a good thing. But, Jake Melksham getting named emergency is genuinely taking the [censored] right? His VFL performance last week was woeful. Absolutely cooked.

Well you'd think if there was a Blake Howes debut we would have heard by now..

Yes

It was his left knee

Good riddance

Jeff Farmer??

Goody confirmed that Lever and Hibberd will miss again this week.

Why?

Doubt he plays but this shot was from today's training. You aren't wearing footy boots kicking a footy around if you are not close to playing. Hopefully hes back playing competitive footy in the next week or 2 at either VFL level or AFL.

Meh he goes alright.

Nice! To be honest on yesterday's performance alone you couldn't split Van Rooyen, Woewodin and Howes on the day All 3 showed they are ready for AFL action if needed. Van Rooyen for me would be my first pick personally because how physically ready he is and just thought his performance was a stand out from a position point of view. The club is in bloody good hands with these kids coming through!

In the Casey game I did not sight him at all in the last quarter. I am hoping this was more so a carry over due to 5 day break and not an injury. Have you heard anything specific?

Why? Smith is playing his role down back perfectly fine. He has ability to play on medium to small forwards. Our coaches don't make drastic positional changes unless it's a break glass emergency type.

Jacko's manager...

McVee certainly has the tools to play senior footy at AFL level this year if he continues on with good form. With Hibberd on his last legs and Hunt not exactly in good form there is certainly a chance for McVee and Deakyn Smith to press for senior selection. He defended well first and then attacked when he needed too. I didn't really notice much of that dash that we saw with his draft highlights, but that doesn't mean he didn't play his role. The coaches would have been really happy with his performance. On Rosman there has been a few comments on how ordinary he was etc. We need to temper expectations on the likes of Rosman and Laurie who really have barely played any footy in the past 18 months. I too didn't notice him until later on the game but I also didn't see anything that said he was ordinary throughout the game. Rosman played a new role yesterday in the backline and I put that down to our recent injuries to our talls. I think with his athleticism and marking ability they probably see him as that Joel Smith type who can play on talls and smalls. He's been training with the midfield group all summer so it's only been late that they have decided to move him down back in a role he's not use too at all. I personally like to see him settle down back in that role or even as a high half forward role due to his high endurance level. Took an absolute ripper of a mark in defence at one stage.