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his game was ok. the non spoil on Dixon early should never have happened. he also dangerously spoiled back into the corridor twice. but on the whole he just seems to be in the right place most of the time and spoiling fairly well. I wish he was a good kick but he isn't. His improvement is underrated and especially away from goal he is a lot more self assured.

we might just send Tom back early. we have Hogan Watts and Petracca with marking power up forward.

there was no gamble. it was safe as houses, unless an umpire wants to not follow the rules of the game. An easy change to stop this would be to allow one shot on goal, and if passed to a marking player, they are deemed marks in general play and you get the standard 7 seconds, meaning you can compose yourself a little bit, but you have to move it on.

and we smashed them in Adelaide. We could have Watts and Tyson back this and would go in confident.

what is a contested mark worth. We won the game on the weekend. Everytime we brinhg the ball to ground I think watch out. When Carlton marked, they went back play stopped a bit and we got back to position. Our ability to bring the ball to ground correlates with our wins this year, and that requires anticipation and speed. Remember we have 4 starting midfielders out on Sunday and shouldn't have won that. I remember the saints had Loewe and Lockett, the two best contested marks in the comp and everyone was certain they would win the premiership. It didn't happen.

Yes open them and shut them quickly before 17 other clubs get into him. Looks like a coaches dream, pace to burn, hard at it, very team orientated and nice long kick.

yes to this and to his knockers, how many AFL players would have missed a career if they were coach and didn't have patience? some like Gysberts start on fire but don't make it, Others like Ben Reid, Chris Dawes, Michael Tuck, Dippa arent up to it early then become premiership players. JKH has the ability of a Caleb Daniels and just needs the right role and some confidence. Where would Neville Jetta be if demonland coached the side. Long gone would be my guess. and Jetta was longer in the tooth before he became a regular. JKH is knocking the door down and I hope he gets another look in.

Jomnes is out for 3-4 weeks with an abductor strain. source is from an ex player.

my granpa puts viagra in his coffee.. I said you still getting some grandpa?, he said 'no its keeps the biscuits hard'.

everyone who has said Lewis was finished last week, please hope on board and give us your view.

like Hawthorn their development strategy is just get everyone else players already developed. just keep topping up. Danger and next year Ablett will have fallen into their laps. I agree they can go down the bottom.

The assertion is not an insult to our leaders at all. Have a look at our record with those leaders in the team over the past few years. Lewis has been critical to us when the game is going against us. Far to often when the momentum swings like the 2nd quarter on Monday, we have curled up our toes and got shellacked. Goodwin will have him as one of the first picked every week.

re-unite him with Jeffy.

Its why Hawthorn were so effective yet not winning the clearances. You can shut down the opposition in other ways. and when he gets his kicking game going he is vital to setting us up. will be top 5 in our B and F this year.

go watch the replay and concentrate on his defensive efforts, his positioning and being a key to stifling Collingwood in the second half. As someone on here said, you don't have to have the footy to be effective. He could do the same game again and he will not be dropped.

if he just looked to 'draw' the contests he would tackle more I think, but if his opponent isn't marking it his aim is to beat him and gain possession. We have a beauty here.

yes thought that was exceptional play that lead to a crucial goal for us.

Yep credit where credit is due. We just want to see it more than one week. big game against the doggies, so we will see if he can back it up.

I have a theory that Hogan is vital up forward when we don't have momentum and we can only bomb it in under enormous pressure, but when we have the momentum, Hogan in the middle is better as a linking target who can take a grab. Goodwin is starting to use him in the middle and I think we play better that way, especially if we have a recognised ruckman in so Pederson and watts can play as forwards.

were you saying that in the first month of footy ?

good luck getting Essendon to pay anyone for any wrong doing.

yes he was a great point of difference being a big bodied midfielder. As Commetti once said about Vanders, He doesn't do anything great, but does everything well. He is worth persisting with if we think he won't turn into a trengove situation and lose his pace.

Yes Reid has more ability. The pace of the game seems to have passed Tippett by. He wouldn't be worth a lot of the open market and I think is too slow defensively when he goes forward.

Journos and commentators describe it as they see it. Coaches can talk aspirationally. He thought our structures and endeavour was good in the first half. And it probably was. We were just woeful executing the play. Remember he got that side which was dialobiical to come out and play some decent footy after half time. His message was get the delivery right and we are right back in this. What he saw was something that needed tweaking, while everyone else thought it needed major surgery. But he got the job done. Normally we would have gone 'woe is me' and gone back into our shells. But we dug our heels in and kept working hard.

I was thinking the same thing. OMac is probably going to give more than Weideman as a forward and TMac can go back a bit more depending on the side. Would work for Collingwood with Frost taking Moore.