Bay Riffin

I thought the article was poor. Solution ? put Thomlinson up forward. he is very poor one on one. Hes an elite runner with good foot skills so keep him in the middle. Love how eveyoner is all over the Dees now to kick the dog whilst it is down. especially all the drafting articles.

Richmond are not a great kicking side. and showed up again against us. They rely on their few good kickers massively in Cotchin, Martin and Houli to set up play. Martin dropped off and they lost a few games. there game is placed on pressure and little dinky kicks and chains of handpasses..

thats like my kids who don't want to shop because they have enough food for just the next meal.

May is playing good football, Lever OK and you are writing off Jackson. who were you spending them on in this 50/50 hindsight scenario ?

yes. and its astonishing how that isn't a major objective of the club. build around Lewis. There was a bloke who was a poor kick but ended up very reliable for Hawthorn and Melbourne.

great journalism. whoever wrote that headline should be sacked, but will probably win an award.

this is the post that affected me the most. it reflects how sad the situation is. it feels only a miracle can get us to the mountain top.

ridiculous to pot the Dees so far this year with a full team then include last year which is most of the numbers. Would like to see this year in comparison.

i absolutely believe it is not true.

exactly, we have 3 big forwards to choose from and May is playing well down back, sometimes very well. Moving May forward smells of breaking one of the few things that's working and things falling apart completely. Omac has had endless opportunities to show he is good enough and came up short. Keep May down back thank you.

i got that feeling too. almost resignation. our effort is there but what we lack is almost impossible to change. skill.

suited our list in 2018. I would then ask what is the style to suit our list? its certainly not slow and steady as we don't have the foot skills.

summed up perfectly at the end. and this is what is killing us. "We are a bad bad kicking team".

yeah not sure on the one on one part either.

yes and also pressing forward more. this week we should try and expose Richmonds lack of experienced talls down back.

wow. 3 servceable games in and some are marking Thomlinsons cards already. stunning judgement given he's just started with a new team.

if Bennell's defensive efforts are still like the Carlton game, then Goodwin has a point. it wasn't good on a few occasions. no use letting them waltz past without pressure.

whats happened with Sparrow? I don't hear of him on the injury list nor in the match reports.

yes. Watching the Geelong game on the weekend, was watching two completely different team styles. I thought our defensive pressure was actually good most of the game but Geelong had precise kicking all day long. a little bit off and they would have been on trouble. credit to them. We are the opposite. Watch the replay and Geelong so often 50-70m out kicked short to a safe target. they went safe all day. sometimes we just need to hit a short target up forward and tease out their backline to honour our forwards leading then occasionally go deep. and we need to mark then kick short quickly, not like Salems last effort which was to watch us outnumber them in the forward line, then wait 30 seconds then kick to an impossible contest.

they all showed significant improvement under Goodwin yes.

Tom McDonald, Harmes, Oliver, Brayshaw, Petracca, Melksham.

i think he is seen as one of the managers to 'win' off in the AFL. we paid too much for Lever, although people exagerate that cost. it was basically the equivalent of a first rounder and a late second rounder. I thought he definitely should have got more back for pick 5 in a super draft for May. That was highway robbery as he was in the second half of his career. and the North trade boggles the mind, even given next year is packed with father sons and academy picks. If we win the premiership we still lose. what ? and did we know we were getting Pickett ? I don't want a Dodoro who is the opposite but he gives too much. I feel like we might become middle of the road and have no top picks going into next year to improve us.

watch it again, a cats player gets in contact on his arm to dislodge the ball.

hard to take anything from the footage really given the lack of pressure. From what Goodwin was saying in the presser they want Bennell to get his legs underneath him. Right now with fitter players coming back they will wait till he is more durable. For all its worth we ran the game out on the weekend because he dropped those who dropped off against Carlton, namely Jackson, Jones and Bennell. you'd think its just a matter of time. hes now had 3 hit outs.

I’ve thought the last 2 years we need an injection of youth and pace in the backline. We just need it. jetta deserves all the accolades internally but he is slow as anyone in the AFL. That does cost us, despite him being a very good footballer.