In Harmes Way

Agreed. Nev quite rightly is highly respected on here and by the club, and has designed another ripper of a jumper for our mob. It’s great the names of the indigenous boys that have played for us is recognised, I’d also love it if the club could publish a translation of what’s written on the front.

Not a bad fixture overall for us to finish, good 6-7 day breaks against tougher opponents and not a ridiculous amount of travel with short turnarounds between games and no obvious difference in the break between rounds for our opponents): Collingwood - Gabba - Sat evening off a 6 day break (Coll 4 day break) Doggies - Metricon - Sat afternoon, 7 day break (Doggies 6 day break) St Kilda - Alice Springs - Sat evening, 7 day break (Saints 6 day break) Sydney - Cairns - Thursday twilight, 5 day break (Swans 5 day break) Freo - Cairns - Monday evening, 4 day break (Dockers 5 day break) GWS - Gabba - Saturday, 5 day break (GWS 4 day break) Ess - TBC (Essendon play rnd 17 game in SA on same day as us in Qld)

He's a ripper. VERY happy with this.

I’m certainly keeping my width with my COVID diet.

I think Bennell, Spargo and Kossie are vying for 2 positions - all three warrant a spot but I don't think we can fit them in, and it's not at the expense of Hannan IMV. I'll leave this one to the professionals. TMac unfortunately makes way for Maxy. If Jackson needs a rest, then TMac takes his role - but only if. Viney for Harmes, for me, who isn't having his best year. Agree with the negative commentary on AVB, who has been a bit undisciplined, however I'd keep him in against the pies and fine him for every brain fart. I'm loving how the backline is gelling at the moment, as does my boy. No changes down back please. Sorry Lockhart, yes you're having a good year but I think we need to let Rivers run (pun intended). I reckon they'll have him back in though, reading between the lines of Goody's presser.

I wonder if not knowing who your opponent is in 2-3 weeks time is causing planning issues for football departments.

I'm a fan of the quarters won stat https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_ladder?year=2020&pt=PD&st=Q1&sb=p According to Footywire, we are 15th of the 18 teams for first quarters won (3-6-1, 83%), 8th for 2nd quarters (6-4, 107.9%), 17th for 3rd quarters (3-7, 81.3%) and 1st for last quarters (8-2, 196.3%). We really need to work out how to come out firing from the first bounce. These stats show we seem to work our way into games and then the half time break destroys our momentum. I'd put the exceptional last quarter performance down to great fitness relative to the opponent. Sure a couple of easy scalps helps the percentage, but an 8-2 record is no fluke. Four quarter effort on Saturday pls.

Always think of his torps fondly There was a ripper on the Anzac Day eve game vs Richmond in the rain (2015?), City End. Just about hit the centre circle. I wondered before that kick why he was intently checking the ball pressure. Worth getting wet to watch.

Just watched the replay of the Hawthorn game Another great example of terrific leading, which has in turn improved the quality of delivery inside 50, and he marks more than he brings to ground. Happy overall he’s getting more shots at goal

Rather he wins a Norm Smith than a Brownlow....

Luke Jackson's work below his knees and speed of dishing out handballs - to advantage - is unparalleled in my opinion for an 18yo of his size.

Someone needs to have a word with the Fox commentators to even up the chat around what's a free kick. Seemed very biased towards North in commentating on the dubious free kicks (despite the fact they were handsomely winning the free kick count). Even needed to pan to Byron shaking his head in the stands for the commentators to then point out that Kozzie was a bit unlucky. FFS.

Petracca holding his feet and spinning out of trouble is a thing of beauty.

It's a strange feeling, being comfortable that we're not going to fold in the last quarter. I could get used to it.

Let’s beat this bunch of schlemiels

And (rightly) Rance got 2 weeks for the hit on Watts, where Lynch gets a $500 fine. Same act, therefore the AFL must not be as worried as as they used to be with respect to protecting player's heads (esp. when they can't defend themselves).

AF - brings back fond memories. I took the family across to Adelaide for the weekend to watch that game. We were right at the top of the main grandstand. As the ferals were getting progressively quiet as we picked up after half time, I yelled out "how good was that" for Clarry's goal. And then wondered if we'd get out unscathed. Gees it was a great night.

My beef with all of this is that the AFL are now changing the rules mid season so one club gets a different and better outcome for exactly the same act than another team. Another layer of farce.

Don't let the AFL umpires get anywhere near the server. We'll be screwed.

The woo hoo guy is there tonight! nice goal melksham

We need a forward line to win by that much Sku. Trac to kick 5 and we'll win by 5.

All this talk of selfish and not playing for each other My view is that some/most players don't trust their teammates to execute - and so don't give them the ball, try to take on the tackler or do it all themselves until they get into trouble and cough it up or give the ball to a teammate in an even worse predicament who then turns it over. Sure, they all might be mates, however we're never going to win a flag without the team having inherent trust in the abilities of all 22 on the field. Even Barassi has said the Dees of the 50's/60's weren't a team of superstars.

Have to agree with this. I've liked both his analysis and the difficult questions. Only feedback would be not to have player Q&A videos in the lobby of the team hotel with players wandering around in the background in a towel mucking around etc.

I can’t see Weid and Jackson beating Talia and Doedee. I hope they effectively bring the ball to ground and ANB lays at least 20 tackles. i can see why they dropped OMac after last week, but I thought he’d be a good matchup on Lynch. i can’t see us kicking a bag, but we should win unconvincingly.

It’s all good for this sort of talk when all our list are healthy Give one of our mids away that haven’t even hit their peak yet and listen to the noise when we have an injury or two....got no depth blah blah blah, stupid trade Just look at the Jesse Hogan thread for evidence - and he wanted to leave, so we had to do the best deal possible on that basis