dazzledavey36

Agree. I hope you don't get howled down, but unfortunately I think you will. The issue I have with Jackson is that his non existent up forward. He's not a natural one, and I think he's taking up a spot for Brown or Weideman who at least will provide a contest. Issue is how do we manage him knowing full well he still plays 3nd ruck quiet well.

I'd rest him and start him as a medical sub next week then VFL the week after to get form.

Petty has been good. I thought he was solid yesterday.

I know times have changed and maybe I'm a bit out of wack here. I haven't really notice any other teams do it but Richmond few years ago. But the last few weeks I've seen our players laughing and joking as they run out or when they are just warming up before the bounce. Our starts have been terrible, and it's a genuine concern that we are always playing catch up footy. Is this a new thing? I question the mind set of some of these players who think it's going to be a walk in the park. Even in country footy we still get a serve pre game if players are seen laughing and joking when playing bottom sides.

No mention of Bailey Laurie either was apparently in a sling at the footy..

Finished watching replay late last night. Our first quarter was incredibly frustrating to watch. This unfortunately brought back memories of 2019. So many inside 50s for 0 reward. And once again it was the same usual suspects who continue to butcher it going forward.. Oliver, Harmes, Petracca and Viney. Notice these are so called leaders? Forward is a complete mess. Amount of times we had the ball forward of centre to then having to wait until the likes of Fritta and McDonald sprint back to give us an option. By then GWS were able to flood back numbers. McDonald played a good game playing as that roaming CHF, but yet we had to rely on Fritsch as our FF. Just a complete mess. I like Jackson, I really do. His ruck work and around the stuff is amazing for a young ruckman. But as a forward, he might as well be a witches cone. Doesn't add any value up forward and unfortunately he's a bit of a weak link because he's simply not a natural forward and this is taking away a spot for Weideman/Brown. Need to work out how best we use him moving forward because him up forward is simply not working. Stafford, Goodwin and whoever else is in charge of selection committee needs to swallow their ego's and arrogance and just get Brown in and leave him in there to build cohesion with his teammates. It was do bloody obvious that majority of us supporter raised this as a concern when team selections came out on Thursday. Petracca and Oliver are doing my [censored] head in. We saw the Hollywood [censored] they dished up against Collingwood and I said after that game that if Goodwin is fair dinkum he gives them an absolute bake. Well it's CLEARLY evident that nothing has been done by the coaching staff in rectifying this because that's 3 games in the row these two Id iots have cost us goals and turnovers through trying to be fancy. If I read another article that Petracca is in the same level as Bont I'll spew up! He is so far daylight apart from Bont that's its not funny. The comments around Hunt costing us the game is laughable. Besides those 3 blunders he actually played a good game. I can easily list 10 other things that cost us the game. He stays in the team. Full credit to May, Lever and Salem who were absolutely a rock in defence. They all did their job while the rest up the field completely shut the bed. I hope May tore shreds off them. How demoralised would it be when you and your back 6 are doing the job, but its the fruit cakes ahead who kill us with simple mistakes. I said last week that I believe the doggies were clearly the number 1 team in the comp as they were complete all over the ground. I said maybe their defence was shaky, but then I read a stat that they were number 1 in the AFL for some of the key defensive stats. Certain individuals who I won't name, had their rosy red and blue glasses on tried to justify this. This is why the doggies and Lions are the best team in the comp. They win they should be. We don't. Overall a very disappointing game.

Just said Ben Brown has been on the bench the whole last quarter.

Conditions not good? Sorry I'm only listening via radio.

Surely if they knew they were going to be on limited game time they wouldn't maybe be as annoyed?

No chance Viney gets dropped. Goodwin absolutely loves him. Go back to last weekends presser to hear about it. Get use to Viney, we've got another 5 years wit him..

Are you there Nev?

It was sarcasm DD... Fmd

Anyone know why Bailey Laurie not playing?

Yeah I went early. I'll watch the game.

Cheers mate

Had a game of footy today so didn't watch it, and picked up the phone to check the results. Was not one bit surprised. I need to watch the reply. But reading this thread it sounds like our so called guns in Oliver, Viney and Petracca failed to stand up when needed. Looking at stats I think its time to rest Kozzie and Jackson by the looks of it. I'll get caned for this, but I have felt it's Jackson who is the weak link in our forward line. Does a lot right around the ground but adds nothing up forward. Very disappointing result.

Watch both Weideman a d Brown not get a kick and we run with the small forward line.

Danger game. Reckon Giants will come out firing after 2 poor weeks in a row.

I'm watching shades of Cale Morton with Cox..

Kingy is on board https://www.sen.com.au/news/2021/07/01/king-fancies-phenom-to-win-rising-star-award/

Surprised to be honest. Our forward line structure has been poor the past couple of weeks. Don't care if it's wet or not. Brown needs time to build cohesion and chemistry with McDonald. The wet weather excuse is a cop out. Fritta, Spargo, and McDonald need to fir this weekend.

Base his work on his ruck skills and around the ground stuff, not his one little weakness that can be easily fixed.

Yeah... so that actually what happens when you don't kick goals in any game, you lose the match. But cheers C Obvious.

Different Mark Williams

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