GCDee

I blame Hogans on field attitude. All seriousness, tonight we will pants the bombers, it'll be close until mid way through the 3rd, then we will kick away and win by 50+ Tmac to kick 6.

Please God let us win this one. Don't know how I am going to get through work today.

Yep its jeffy time. Let's remember how he single handedly got us over the line round 2 last year when we were playing [censored] footy. We need speed, crumbling ability & some x factor.

I wasn't at the game and you really get limited viewership on the TV but did anyone notice if our mids were getting sucked too deep into our forward 50? It has always been our game plan to out number at the contest, however maybe our mids took it too far and cramped our forward line up too much rather than building that solid wall across the middle of the ground and HF. Just thinking back to the game our entries looks so cramped and crowded, and Geelong was constantly able to sling shot with run from their HB into a open F50 with space for their forwards to work their craft.

This..... We are simply down in confidence, get a win on the board and we will be flying. There almost seems to be percieved pressure with all of our players rushing their disposal since the prelim slaughter. It will click soon and we will be a very strong team again. Oh and the calvary will arrive too, lever, VDB, hannan, may & jeffy (still have hope for him) will make this team a lot stronger across all areas.

Calling it now we will win 8 of the next 10 and be top 4 going into the bye.

FB JETTA OMAC HIBBERD HF HUNT FROST SALEM C KK HARMES STRETCH HF MELK TMAC WEID FF TRAC PRUESS LOCKHART FOL GAWN OLIVER VINEY INT ANB (LAST CHANCE) FRITSCH JONES BRAYSHAW IN: STRETCH & PRUESS OUT: SPARROW & MAY

Its strange... I am weirdly calm about this year. From the second qtr we found a bit if our mojo in the midfield, when we start connecting we will bury teams. Next month of footy is obviously really important.

Yes.. we traded a guy who didn't want to be at our club for a proven full back, KK & Tom Sparrow.

We need pruess in purely from the structural stand point. 6 6 6 means he or Gawn will get one out inside 50 should we win the centre clearance and move forward quickly. T mac will play his best as a mobile forward and Weid will get the 3rd best tall defender. 75 i50s should be 20 goals as a minimum. I think Lockhart showed a bit early, so leave him up forward with Hunt at the feet of the talls. Bring back Jeffy (he is worth another chance) once he is ready for ANB (he is killing us at the moment). Both McDonald and Weid are getting to many kicks dumped on top of their heads when that is not playing to their strengths at all. Weid is best launching at the ball and McDonald is a excellent hit up target. It's a shame May is injured hopefully he wont be out for too long. The next three games are all very winnable 3-2 after 5 wouldn't be the end of the world considering how poor the preseason has been, we will be getting lever and hannan back shortly too.

Turning this off now... I'll watch goodies presser with interest.

4..

Make that 3

Really great fight back... seemed to play the last 10 minutes on our terms. Hope we come out firing and get some score board pressure going

Not sure how that wasnt ball?

Bruce!!!! What a grab.

Cheerios....

I'm not concerned about the cats.. dees by 19 in a low scoring game.

Good luck to him.... Really hoping he reaches his potential

The teams will be very interesting tonight... Goody hinted to limited changes in his presser however we have May & Lockhart basically confirmed. He also seemed very impressed with KK, however we really cannot afford to allow another underdone player come in.

Great effort! Best of luck

Spargo will play at his best when our midfield is up and firing. Believe it or not his worth is providing the spread forward of centre and not wrestling in marketing contests with opponents double his size, which kept happening to the poor guy on the weekend.

This... There is no chance there will be 4+ changes to the team.

Thanks Wise... I really cannot believe the over reactions on here over a loss, surely we weren't expecting to go 22-0 then 3-0 in finals.

That is a real "loser" way of thinking. How could you have us down for a loss in round 3 against the Dons given their performance on the weekend? They have the ability to bounce back after a poor performance but because we play poorly in round one our season is dead? Out of curiosity, round 1 last year did you give up on the season straight away? From memory in that game we didn't play anywhere near our best and some how were still in the game until the final siren. We were in the game (on the scoreboard) in the last quarter on the weekend, playing with 3 debutantes and a lot of senior players with limited preseason. Sure, Jones & Viney were likely not ready based on match fitness, however who would come in for those boys? They will be better for the run and I can guarantee they will not play that poorly next week. Sure we played poorly on the weekend, I got no doubt we will bounce back and play much closer to our best footy this weekend, have a little faith in your team and the powers in charge at the club. Just remember we could also genuinely be 3-1.