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Is it no coincidence that as soon as Bartlett leaves we've made signsignificant inroads regarding this? I believe Roffey had a strong relationship with the state government around this whereas Bartlett didn't? Roffey and Pert may just be bigger recruits then what Roos and Jackson were. Significant milestone in our club history ??

Some significant development. Can someone give summary, it's paywall.

No he won't.

If it's in Geelong I say bring it. Not like we play the MCG all that well as of late..

They won't drop Viney. Goody and the coaches love him too much. The only changes that'll happen are the forced ones like McDonald or Salem if they don't pull up well.

Yes that tackle was bloody brilliant huh.. I think he has to enter All Australian talk. He won't get it, but surely he's numbers stack up with some of the best small forwards in the game?

A good win and one to take some really good positives out of it. It was a bit of a training drill and honestly dont mind that we dropped off a little. Still had 7 shots at goal, so not like we just didn't put scoreboard pressure. I'll start with the negatives: Harmes and Viney were simply horrible ( am I allowed to say that @Baghdad Bob? ) the amount of times these two got the ball, tucked it under their arm, put a don't argue and then get pinged. It was absolutely infuriating! I thought maybe after a serious bake at half time that maybe they'll cut the crap out. But they didn't, they kept doing it. It's selfish, and makes them both look like absolute muppets. Does Harmes honestly think he's Dusty Martin? The coaches need to hit these two between the eye because it's simply going to cost us finals and the up and coming big games that are coming up. I would love the club to send a statement and drop one of them if not both, but we know it won't happen. The other negative is that at times we played a bit too much Hollywood. Cute little flick no look handballs over the top etc. Sparrow and Harmes were the main suspects. It's a minor thing that can be cleaned up. Another game where we kicked more points then goals. Guys like Viney, Harmes, McDonald, Petracca all missed simple goals that were in front. How on earth can this be rectified? They do enough goal kicking at training, but it's getting beyond the joke now. Positives Forward pressure and tackling inside 50 was immense. It was evident, and probably the best I've seen it all year. If we could please bring that every week then there's no doubt we can go all the way. I hope this is the confidence boosting game that Brown needed. His workmate was fantastic and there was glimpse of the Ben Broen we've come to applaud from his days at North when he was at his absolute elite. He was on a good defender in Sam Collins who I rate highly. As much as I was hard on Jackson throughout the week, it was a great game to return to form and give him some much needed confidence. It still doesn't change my opinion that heading into finals I'm not entirely sure if he's in our best team. I'm taking into consideration of the low quality of opposition out there, but I suppose you can only play who you are matched up against. Thought Jayden Hunt played another good game. Really loving the dash he is providing and since the GWS game he's really simplified his game. Harrison Petty doesn't get much acknowledgement, but his defending today was elite. Just well times spoils and his closing speed is something that's not really mentioned much. Just a great general defender who now looks comfortable at this level. Oliver was crazy good. The fact that we were still showing enormous pressure in the dying minutes of the game shows we were still not satisfied with our work. Huge few weeks coming up.

Has officially kicked 30 goals this year. For a 20 year old 2nd year player this is seriously underrated, and a phenomenal achievement for a small forward. Has really found his mojo again since the Port game.

Never in doubt

Hawks putting on a clinic. Brisbane have really dropped away of late. Reckon Hawks sending a statement re Clarkson...

Hawthorn 6 goals up middle of the 3rd qtr is huge for our top 4 chances.

Harmes is god awful..( relax @Baghdad Bob.. before you go all mental health on me ) he won't get dropped unfortunately. There'll be only forced changes. My ins and outs Weideman for McDonald Hibberd for Salem

What happened to Salem? Was carrying ice after the game. And was listed as 'Out' on the AFL website

Hes an absolute mess of a player. Needs to FRO to Casey and learn to play football. This guy will kills us come finals. The issue I have is Goodwin is unfortunately too soft to drop him.

Wowee is Jack Viney the biggest liability out there?

This is the Benny Brown we love!

Your goal Sparrow..... our defence is ****house. Lever just sitting back in no man's land.

A part of me would just love to sit back and enjoy a good drubbing of the Suns today. Talent on paper says so. The other part knows deep down that I'll once again sit through a game knowing we've kicked 7.13 to 3 quarter time and we're 4 points up heading into the last quarter..... Please be option 1.

Yeah cool

He was okay. Turned it over a few times.

They weren't that strong.

Ridiculously out of his depth in the AFL system. 3 years on the list and legit would struggle to get a game even at suburban level. I mean this in the kindest way because I'm sure he's a hard worker and certainly comes from a good family. But he'd be the worst player I've ever seen on our list since Brendan Van Shaik. For every Mason Cox there is always your Austin Bradtke's when taking a punt on these project types. Thank him for his service at years end and move on.

Briggs, Stockdale, Freeman and Spark are serious ball butchers.

Jeepers Jetta having a shocker there. Unfortunately our VFL are just ordinary suburban players. Killing is with turnovers.