Bay Riffin

Question - why do we start so poorly lately? In the first quarter they switched the ball defensively with little bother from us to stand theirplayers. We were just spectating and they came to play. didnt the North game show us anything? We fixed this up mainly in the second half but why arent we covering the crosses earlier. Kozze was meandering around and they just played chines checkers with our forwards with ease and ran the ball up the ground. fely like under 12s stuff.. Thank god for ANB as he always is alert for this.

exactly what i thought at the time. [censored] kicking put him in that situation. Petty did everything right.

its extraordinary. its was all the umpires. !! talk about excuses. I thought Richmond melted under pressure in the last, their backline became very shaky, Dusty nowhere to be seen as we just closed them down perfectly.

the thing with recruiting collingwood players, is even when they make the squad of 25 its headline news. its just ridiculous week after week how many non-stories are posted about Grundy. The stories this week are he may or may not be back, riverting news. Geez I hope he plays in a finals against them and we win.

a real mixed bag but in no way did the crows deserve to win that. We made them kick from long range and angles so its not like they were missing sitters. 2 50 metres (the Melksham one wasnt even a free) in the last quarter and the Lever bump as he kicked it is downfield was a freebie goal. please. Then inexpilcably we made some horrible turnovers to gift them goals, so we almost lost it, but in no way could the crows really think they deserved to win. I did love how they whinged re holding e.g Woewoedin mark and goal, with all their off the ball holds on Gawn, Petracca Viney all day. Apart from short periods of wonderful footy it was a wokmanlike perofrmance. Job done, so now please start rotating and resting some players as we play the weaker teams.

I think ifif Harley Reid has told Weagles he doesn't want to play there, they would be open to trading pick 1 to get as full value as possible. i.e effectively trading for Reid. If we had pick 4 its not out of the question we could get him. If Reid is head and shoulders above the rest that is.

Agreed. The hawks game with Petty and JVR as key forwards was our best mix. Petty was BOG till he got injured in that game. Sliding doors hey. He's still worth a try up forward and would compliment Brown.

Grundy has been at least as good as Gawn, he impacted last week but to be honest looked out of form, fumbling a fair bit and dropping marks. I hope this is a rest.

Actually in comparison to Cyrils first 3 years, Cyrils was getting about 4 more disposals a game so your'e right there (Roughly Kozzie 11 disp to Cyril 15). But Kozzies kicking a lot more goals (40 v approx 24). I'll take the twice as many goals from Kozzie and say he's in fornt of Cyril at the same age.

whos that ?

no we didn't. We kicked straighter. Predicted score had saints winning based on the stats. Previous weeks like the GWS game we smashed sides in the midfield but goal kicking was off. Thats the first time in a while our midfield got beat (slightly).

not sure what supporters want from Goodwin. He's not a song and dance man. He described the game. One reporter tried for the click bait with "Yeah, but wouldn't you say its disappointing in the end as Saints had a few men down ? ". Goodwin "No". I liked it. What a stupid question like saints weren't able to fight it out at least. No game is easy.

Maybe he should watch his client play. Up untill last weekend Brown has not warranted a promotion to the ones.

and the kick outside 50 went through due to a ridiculous free not awarded for McVee in the goal square (being held by the jumper) who had the advantage to mark or at least punch it through. Carl 22-13 free kicks all night they got a helping hand.

couldn't agree more. and people like Whately ready to burn the accused at stake. Based on zero evidence put before them. Absolutly disgraceful.

what would we offer a VFL player in his 6th year ?? or are you thinking Casey offer him something ?

yep and that 4th quarter was frees 10-2 Ports way. they had a lot of help.

Yes we havent seen a lot but his cameos look good to me. He's big, will fill out, looks a very good mark but also a very nice kick. hopefully he continues this trajectory and could be ready for a debut next year. looks a classic full back type

at what stage were you pulling the trigger and tag ? Did you want to pull the trigger against Gold Coast when Rowell punished us first half? or Anderson as the game went on ? Do we go the tag and possibly miss out on running away with the win against GC. Do remember were running over Port, Oliver gets injured and some crucial umpiring created some huge turnovers. hindsights easy.

probs the highest in the league but who's counting.

agreed and so many vital incorrect decisions that lead to Port goals. I don't think we played poorly. and the rain evens things up.

You're right and was very aggressive and getting into the grill of the opposition as ell. I think he's feeling more confident.

finally someone a bit more realistic. The suns midfield played out of their skin, and broke the lines briliiantly. We did very very well to continually stop their defensive transition into the forward line. Hunter, Langdon, ANB were defensively strong and set up well. Thats what helped win the game. and Witts was excellent in the ruck.

many here willing to bag you for having an opinion Beelzebub. I happen to agree with you but pity a fellow supporter who may not see the totally altruistic side to this.

If he had to choose 1 young player with a bright future who is yet to be in the regular 22, who would it be, and why ?