Bay Riffin

There are a lot of academies etc. don't be surprised if its about pick 15 in the end.

i think you will find if he didnt have a bunch of poor games in the backline, he would have stayed there. His disposal in general play and field kicking is not AFL standard in my opinion. Handballing especially is very very poor if you take notice. He is however a decent kick for goal and has played some decent games up forward. He won't be much of a loss if we delist.

14 possies and 2 goals tonight. He’s a good snap. Was more involved in the play. Still looks raw in general play but credit where credit is due.

Who had the goal of making finals in 2020 ? In 2017 we missed finals by the smallest margin in history.

Yes and Dew did very little and now the AFL have thrown him unprecedented last chance draft gifts to help get them up the ladder. He’s proven nothing with ibis coaching.

Perfectly summed up. Under 12s stuff as they just waited to move it outside to waiting numbers. He can’t change it so we need to change the coach.

and zero imagination from the coach. Put him in the ruck, drop gawn up forward. anything.

how is it bull $%^& when you don't disagree with what I wrote ? we won contested ball. simple as that. go watch the third quarter. skills, skills and skills killed us tonight. I'm getting sick after every loss putting it down to effort. its not always that.We had chances moving forward and positioned well and we just kicked horrendously, even for us.

when he turns the ball over and they goal, he is a KEY reason we lost. He was terrible tonight. sometimes under the least pressure of all our players.

and we don't play Bennell. ?

he was shocking tonight and we just can't keep him on the list. Get Petty right, recruit another young tall and axe him. simple decision.

They didn't beat us in contested ball. We won more contests, and we had 11 more inside 50s. its down to two words. Confidence and SKILL. We come off a good win and play with no confidence in our kicking. Our skills are a shambles. We have to accept this with our one sided recruiting.

and i think that criticism has been fair. whats scary though is he had the ex saints coach helping him. lets see if he can repeat it.

Agree with a lot of this. I was flabbergasted when we drafted Sparrow after throwing everything at inside mids. How many can you possibly have ? And hearing Jordan is developing as an inside mid. Just sounds like insanity to me. Where do they think we were going to play them? Its like the coaching and recruiting staff can’t see what everyone else can plainly see. Langdon is now our most important transition player. And he needs more fast mates. It’s like we don’t value pace or kicking skills at all. kozzie defies that trend last year at the draft and perhaps they have woken up. But 5 years too late.

his progress looks good. I agree on the Todd Viney analogy, but it seems almost bamboozling we recruited an inside mid type after we got all the others in. If he comes good, and I think he might, where do we play him ? same may go for Jordan who Egan says is ready to step up now like Sparrow.

I loved Roos but he stuffed that up. he had a known quantity in Tyson who was never going to be an A grader as he was simpley too slow and not agile either. and an average kick. It gave us a short term solution but as an experienced premiership coach I expect him to covet those early picks and bring in experience elsewhere. and maybe sacrifice a game or two.

if you analyse his kicking its a low trajectory and his depth perception along with his action is poor for field kicking. kicking into the man on the mark is a specialty for him. but weirdly he kicks dead straight. In cricket parlance he's got the line right but his length is poor.

might be time for Jackson to be rotated out and that works out balance wise. don't run Jackson into the ground with these short breaks.

I would have Viney forward and rotating with Oliver, so we always have one of them in the guts. Increase Brayshaws minutes in the middle, potentially Petraccas as well and Harmes more midfield minutes and get him back to run with roles. A forward line with Viney/Oliver, Kossie, Bennell, Melksham, Fritsch, Hannan to add to the talls should do some serious damage. This team should be doing more but Goodwin has to change things up a bit.

Harmes was so crucial like Cameron Ling, in 2018 he'd take the opposition best player often, keep them quiet and get plenty of ball himself. maybe we need to give him those roles again. throw him on Treloar or Sidebottom.

disagree. The AFL responds to whatever has 'optics' as they say, we see it time and again. and I assume the approach was done a while ago with no result so why not bring it out.

People are right to put things into perspective. the true test is yet to come but let me say this. I want to put things into another perspective. for so many years I've seen us capitulate to North and experience gut wrenching losses, sometimes when I thought we were definitely the best team but alas not on the scoreboard. We've had time when we had players down, critical umpiring decisions against us etc culminating in heart breaking losses.Time and time again. Yes North were men down tonight for the last quarter but we've had our fair share of bad luck against this side in close games culminating in a ridiculous run of losses. Tonight it went our way injury wise and we beat them emphatically. We deserve to celebrate the win. God knows we absolutely deserve it.

this was a significant game because they have our first rounder. If we finish bottom 3 they get a massive gift, but if we win just 3-4 more game I beleive they will finish with a pick 15+ due to academy picks. It may not seem so silly after all. but we need to keep winning !!

so easy to say in hindsight. out of form and not getting near it in the practice games, but you are definite he should have played?. that could also been disastrous until he showed he was ready.

tonight showed how overstocked we are with midfielders. which was a positive with Brayshaw 29 possies and a goal more than stepping up. I think Goodwin needs to change things up and give him more time, let Viney and Oliver go forward as we do have very good back up. I like the look of Sparrow now but have to say even the day he was recruited, why ? if he comes good he is yet another tough contested midfielder.