Boots and all

Me too, for some reason he reminds me of a white walker from GoT. Might be the eyes.

That's our issue, we were on top for almost the first quarter and a half, dominated inside 50's, but compare Hawkins, Cameron, Rowan to Brown, McDonald and Fritsch. Their forwards only need a sniff and manage to find space....so frustrating. Makes me want to vomit.

Exactly!!!!

Now they are picking through our defence easily, our strength.

Geelong are rightly flag favourites.

I think we might be getting shown how to play footy. You can't go to sleep like that. Game over now, because we haven't been able to score easily enough tonight.

At some stage I would love to see Petty play Hawkins, even if only for his further development.

I don't think our boys will fear any club or concern themselves about the permutations of other games, ground selection or anything else out of their control. One game at time, one week at a time, we can take all comers and that's what it means to win a flag..you need to beat the best to be the best!!

He looked sore on the weekend.

I think JJ is still struggling a bit. He is one player that looks sore and has lost a bit of explosiveness. I haven't looked at his stats for the weekend, the comment is more about his movement.

I was really surprised at his work before the kick came in too. He had ample opportunity to cut back into the centre of the ground which would have made Kossies kick easier. He would probably have had a shot at goal.

That's Melk, he can turn a game with burst footy but doesn't seem to be there over the full course of a game.

I would like to see Viney play on a forward flank...

Well, we need to win these last two H and A games!!!

The location too, free kicks inside the oppo forward 50 are the killers.

Haha, until just now I thought that was Tim Watson haha.

Confidence and fitness. He moved a bit like the Terminator in the first couple of weeks (Arnie's version, not the T1000). His leap is better and he seems more able to get low in the tackles.

Exactly. If the intent is to use up the clock, a number of those lateral kicks work best. Work it to forward and lock the ball in the 50. We are good and preventing the release from there, it's as much a strength as our stoppage work.

It also showed that TMc could play up the ground as a link player more regularly allowing Fritta and BBB to do the work inside 50.

Yep, I might be getting a bit ahead of myself haha. Harmes might have a shocker against the Crows next week and I'll be crying to get Vines back in the guts. 🤣

....which would ultimately be for Hunt assuming the worst on that ankle.

Yeah, his role has to change I think. A better option than Sparrow, will earn more possessions and similar disposal quality. I am concerned that after 2 weeks break and on the back of pretty ordinary form he may not perform at all (let me be wrong, please). The great thing about Harmes tonight was his burst/movement to space and creation of an outside option for Trac and Clarrie. Viney does not do that, thinks differently, and doesn't have the class to hit Harmes on the break. It's a problem for mine.

Yeah, but you have to win the battles or there is no ultimate war to be won!!

So what to do with Vines, I'm not sure!!!

Me too, I think he syncs better with Trac and Clayton tbh. Been very disappointed with Vines since returning from injury. The lashing out last week has to be frustration on his part and just seemed to be trying too hard..