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nor can you conclude he will be ordinary. its such early day, but he showed good promise.

I'd delist weideman and Brown before Petty who will be stronger and has shown a bit more in his total games. and can play both ends.

can anyone explain how Essendon have a full side to choose from sans McKenna. He wasn't training remotely. I do not trust Essendon for a minute to report honestly.

surely we can't turn May into a garbage kick. thats the end of the line.

I look at that side, at near full strength and even knowing my own team, for the life of me I cannot fathom how we can't put ordinary sides away. Imagine Clarkson with a team of May, Lever, Jetta down back, a midfield of Gawn, Viney, Oliver, Brayshaw, Petracca, Langdon, Thomlinson and Bennell for cameos, then a forward line of Tmac, Kozzie, AVB, Melksham, Jackson/Weid, Hannan to choose from. We have the talent, we have the balance. The only concession is the limited experience together for our backline and forward line, but if we can't put it together this season at full strength then we are doomed.

everyone tunes in for ANB. Just nobody admits it.

based on what ? before his knee he was producing elite levels. had a good round 1, so so round 2. and I think 1 first rounders is a stretch when we got Harrison Petty at pick 37 as part of the deal. and I rate Lever miles ahead of Stocker and O'Brien so far. Lever, Pick 37 and Pick 47. FOR Pick 10 (2017), pick 19 (2018) and Pick 59 (2018)

Petty looks good to me. what did we get from St Kilda ?

i hate collingwood but can't see what Heritier wants by rehashing old issues.i thought the pies did everything Heritier asked of them.

interesting take. What disappoints me so far this season is we are still unorganized, especially down back. I actually think up forward we had decent kicking to position etc but we were just beaten by Carltons defence. Weitering was fist class. But down back after 3 years we still don't seem to be organised. How can this be ? I will giv ite a few more weeks as Rivers is new and May / Lever need a bit more time but I expect this to improve. If we had an organised backline we would be hard to beat. and thats a coaching problem.

disagree. we were at our lowest and when the game was on last year we bullied them. they were very lucky to get close. agreed this time they should have won but didn't. they were a lot older

He played the last minute beautifully with experience. go watch the replay, he read they were going to go long under pressure and Martin was in the wrong position for an impossible kick under pressure from Walsh. When he marked the ball it was ALL carlton everywhere on his side. He kicked to Fritsch advantage whilst outnumbered and we got the ball back when others arrived. we were gone if he didn't do that. dead in the water. But some one here just think he should have pinpointed a perfect pass to the non existent teammate ?!?!?

yes, in the dying moments the kick to Langdon into space was critical, which should have resulted in a shot on goal to Thomlinson who had his arms chopped. showed skill and poise. still at full forward he got the ball in dangerous spots, just didn't convert.

we have a better list than Carlton. our best should beat them easily. we just stopped. and still won.

yes good summary. I felt we lost that intensity to want the contested ball. they wanted it more. also we have less comitting to the contest which is good but we need time together to know where everyone should be. especially in defence and up forward. it will take time for Bennel, Langdon Thomlinson to gel at stoppages.

and what was your solution ?

its a hard one. we were out on a our feet and he had no easy options. Carlton were running all over us. the question is how can that happen as they were a man down. I think our youngsters and Bennel perhaps had no petrol in the tank.

I agree. Lets not forget these guys in our backline have played very few games together. that cohesiveness can help save goals and rebound more easily. and its being able to work with our wingers and midfield to get that release kick out.

Wow. I’d give petracca (bog) and clarify votes. Clarry head to head with cripps first hal and won convincingly.

Yes let’s chop a bloke because he’s not playing Brownlow football. Have some patience. Look at weitering yesterday. 18 months ago another lost draft pick at Carlton. Now developing into an elite backman and could e got votes yesterday.

how ridiculously minor is that. an interview. from a distance. Sam Maclure reporting that Pickett and Spargo breached rules.

you don't get ticks for playing them. playing well yeah, but not getting games.

was Hibberd that bad ? he was getting the ball, running aggresively then kicking into a forward line outnumbered and was made to look like thats his bad kicking.

yep I thought that should happen before round 1 given 2019. but we looked insipid.

what was it before round 1 then ?