leave it to deever

Lazy handball options kill us.

Bowey hasn't been the same since his injury.

Move Tmac fwd as much as we can.

Petty looking up and about but his shots at goal have been deplorable at three...nine this year.

Needs to show some leadership.

That was embarrassing

Surely Fritta is due for a big game but I reckon it's Jvr that's going to kick most of our goals.

Geez, your sitting in a seat, 50 thousand feet in the air travelling across continents at 900 kms an hour while eating salty snacks. Sorry the Internet isn't fast enough for you.

Can you please buy us a couple of giant forwards and two Tracca replacements. Will send cash later. Cheers.

I think it's a mind thing for the bloke. I mean in his game against the Cats he was fantastic and clunking them like the ball had Velcro and Petts has the matching Velcro gloves. But most games he has been all at sea and hasn't even kicked straight at goal like in the Tigers game. He must play down back or at Casey. I'm not sure why Goody won't move him. Maybe today against a bottom team, he'll play into some form. It's a worry.

Maybe we will win. Didn't think I'd be posting this six weeks ago.

Woke doesn't mean what you think it does. I know language is an ever changing and evolving organism but it would be nice for it to have a baseline and not be corrupted by people not motivated enough to use a dictionary from time to time.

I'm not saying it was deliberate but you unlike some seem to understand the biomechanics of the game. In a spoil you want to get close to the ball.....a knee retards this process. And if it's not necessarily needed what's wrong with questions about doing it when although remote leads to a player hospitalized? It's not so unreasonable to talk about it.

It wasn't necessary. As mentioned stopped him getting closer to the ball. You answered your own post. Four busted ribs, torn spleen and punctured lung normal.....Junk.

Could hardly have more muscle mass than Tracc So your all for putting out the knee out when it's totally unnecessary and tearing a blokes Spleen. Bravo. Someone points out it's unnecessary and could be avoided and your response is... junk. Aren't you the voice of reason. Go and take your anger meds.

Eyes of the Mfc and back on the instigator of this injury...Darcy Moore. Now I'm not calling him out for malicious intent as knees in backs are clearly footy acts. But are they always necessary. In this case it wasn't necessary at all and did nothing towards the football. All it did was impeded moores ability to spoil and cause severe injury to one of our best. If it's such an obvious and natural part of the game, I do wonder how come we don't see more injuries? Knees should be kept in unless going for a mark. Just out of respect to fellow players and to not create any spinal injuries too.

Didn't I just say that.

Good points Sydney. I think Grundys tap work is pretty good and yep he's pretty good for a big man at ground level. But to consider him as a fwd option wasn't a great idea because as you say he can't mark. I mean that in itself is a huge indictment on the whole plan. For a bloke not too far from seven feet in height he averages about two marks a game. And he doesn't get into contests quick enough either. Max reads the play so well and as such we see him constantly in contests from one end of the ground to the other. Max is stronger and less likely to be moved out the way.

It seemed like a good idea at the time. The big issue was not selecting him in finals. That and a way too inexperienced sub in Laurie was a big coaching error.

Thanks Bingers. I didn't know he had said that. Im guessing it was a while ago and that he likely regrets it.

Id call for Petty to be dropped or at least moved to the backline but Goody seems pretty stubborn about this. Although it seems he's painted himself into a corner because eventually his hand will be forced. I'm sorry but it's now down to just poor coaching with this selection . It's probably harming the blokes career and he needs a spell at Casey to regain his old form and confidence. Preferably in the backline where he's played best. This is not an indictment of Petty. Lots of good players have slumps. I'm sure he doesn't want to be a fwd. This is now all on Goody as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't blame Petty for leaving but pretty sure we wouldn't get the same offer again.

Thanks for the reply Sydee. Appreciate it I would argue that Luke Jackson wasn't really much of a loss. He probably is for his ruck craft but we kind of covered that with Grundy. I think it's fair to say Jackson wasn't really a good forward. Gus I believe is a big loss. And Oliver while playing this year hasn't been his best for sure. Trac is only recently out. I don't mean to be argumentive but I don't feel we have found cause for the drop off. I think our forward line has deteriorated even more this year and our mids have been well below their best. And without Petty and Lever starring in our backline that too has been ordinary lately.

Hopefully Oliver and Viney can dig deep and play out of their collective skins for the remainder of the season and stop anymore Freo type beltings. Alas I don't think we will make finals with Trac sidelined for the rest of the season. It's more a case of just playing to show some pride and dignity of the club and stop a premiership team from being humiliated. Milkshake may come back in four or so weeks an bolster our goal kicking power. Such a tragedy that he went out just before the finals last year. In actual fact, I think we have been quite lucky on the injury front of we suffer a few others it could be nasty. Which brings me to the big issue. How did a team of 21 and one that probably should have won the flag last year ( pies were pretenders and our fwd line injuries were cruel as could be plus Gus being taken out) be reduced to where we are today? Why to we not have any players to cover our injuries or to drop players in poor form? It seems we just thought adding rejected players from other clubs would see us manage. Does anyone have any real reasons as to why we don't have any depth anymore. Did we have a lot in 21 ? I really would like to know what happened. Genuinely. I mean it's not like a whole bunch of players from the 21 squad just got up and walked out. And the few who did leave or retire were not exactly superstars.

Grundys tap work is very good and he's also pretty good at ground level. But Maxy is still a better ruck than Grundy. And as a player, Max is streets ahead of Grundy. I do wonder if our list was as incredible as people have argued. Of course our list was great but not a list of the ages. There was never a star full forward. I think it was a case of Goody getting the absolute best of the boys in 21. We also had a great run in terms of few injuries. But in 21 the signs of a missing forward line were definitely there. Tmac started 21 very well and was instrumental in us kicking some big score but he started to go downhill mid season. Bbb as well. At the start of 22 our forward line showed big problems. Again Bbb and Tmac had issues. Jackson left but he was never a prolific fwd by any stretch. 23 saw the same as this year as the Grundy/ Mac fwd idea unravelled. That was it. Lucky for us Milk stepped up but was dealt a cruel blow. So our list with a great backline and definitely classy midfield was left exposed the last two years by a dodgy forward line A great list has a great fwd line. We didn't and don't. We did well to play finals in 22 and 23 but surprise... surprise our fwd line imploded on both finals campaigns. Now this year our midfield despite the objections of a few faithful fans has definitely struggled leaving only one component left...our backline. Against Freo and Eagles and pies we saw Lever out injured and Petty still not defending. So our fwd , midfield and backline all had big issues and there goes the ballgame. Sorry Ww S, I went way off on a tangent or two here.

Some really unflattering mugs in that Hawks team.