SFebes

Business end of the season now, if we are serious and want to defend the title, we need to start ramping up and building form and momentum. If we lose tonight, I dont think the boys are hungry enough. Form from here is a non-negotiable. Have Geelong peaked too early, I hope so.

Oliver out, Sparrow to midfield, Hunt in to cover Sparrows role. Out: Oliver In: Hunt

We also had a much later start to preseason......

Sean Darcy (Jackson)

If Jackson goes home, I'd be pushing for Sean Darcy as part of that deal. Looks good forward and played as one as a junior apparently.

We need to nail that kick in, switch and spread. I haven't seen much switching around HB lately either, maybe a confidence thing. IIRC, our form changed last year when we switched, spread and took the game on around HB. Langdon is the play-maker in this scenario, among others. What worked last year certainly isn't working this year, its up to the coaches to find a way now but its got to stop, same thing - kick it to Max every bloody time.

The Cats showed all of their cards last night, we showed them nothing.....

I've had this thought for a while now but IMO we need to go shopping for two decent key forwards, it needs to be this off season. Trade players while they have value. Brown - game looks past him and nowhere near the player he used to be, age. McDonald - injury prone, age Weideman - not looking good and is now 25. Jackson - hasn't shown much as KPF and will probably go west. Fritsch - cant keep relying on him. Mitch Brown - no, age. Aside from that, we dont have much ready to take a game by the horns. We need a Neitz, Schwarz, Hogan type or two.

He's tough, you won't keep this kid down long. He'll play next week.

I do wonder what the ratio of kicking to the left is with our kick ins? Combined with the kick it to Gawn problem. Would love the stats on these.

I'm not a believer at all. Think its just excuses. Other clubs load too, including the side that just belted us (yes should've been more).

Our lack of run and legs has been very concerning.

Geelong made us look slow.....

Geelong made us look slow.....

I really wish people would stop comparing last year to this year. Current form is all that matters, not what happened last year or even a month ago.

Hard to get a gauge on Geelong, but they have two big forwards in red hot form. Shut them down and we are in. Geelong is my most hated side ever, I just cannot stand them or their coach.

But they won. Brisbane kicked 10.18 from memory and Eagles gained a few players back finally. Brisbane and Geelong are doing OK.

Brisbane and Geelong should be loading as well, they seem to be going OK. Time to stop the excuses and start digging deep when the heat is on.

I'd hardly say our season was soaring at all, we have just been getting the job done all year. We were 31pts up on Fremantle, 26pts up on Sydney and 22pts up on Collingwood, so clearly we aren't that far off. The goals seemed to have come against when we were stretched by talls in defence, ie; Petty going off the ground multiple times, Lever and the absence of May. The concerning part for me was when it happened, the players dropped their heads and didn't dig deep and fight back. We have a couple of key outs, but our depth should be able to withhold it, lets see how we run out games after the bye. Also just on that, we didn't get much of a break with the bye, an extra 2 days?? total of 9 all up. Must win this game for a confidence point of view, need to finish top 2.

Perhaps just the much later start to pre-season?

Unsure about loading, as I have no proof its even happening. However, we did start pre-season very late after the GF. Could have a lot to do with it. Combined with the above possibility of loading and injuries to key talls, we just have to ride it out and hope we freshen up after the bye. It still doesn't excuse the habit of old bombing long manically into F50. We need a lot more from Petracca, Pickett, Jackson, B Brown, ANB and Lever though, some have had very underwhelming years.

Underwhelmed, seems like more spin from Pert. 2021 is a big big year for this footy club.

Narkle, Clark and Constable (is he still there?) are of interest to me from Geelong.

Everytime I watch him the ball bounces off his hands when trying to mark.

We would have ruined him anyway and he would've been delisted, don't panic.