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Harmes re-signed until 2020 and Wagner to 2019 Q: Is OMac and Brayshaw trade bait?

Darling, Kennedy

Troy Chaplin

Fremantle were putrid last week so it will be interesting, we should [censored] them. A couple of close losses and a big win will get our percentage up there which may be handy

It's all about the journey

Is he even fit enough to play high HF? Seems to always be blowing up. I just hope he makes it

Jonathon Patton done his ACL (suspected), big loss considering Cameron out for another 4. So the 8 is open, plenty of sides above us with injuries, except Tigers. You don't get opportunities like the last two years.... we basically have 1 major injury

Even if we lose, it's where you are at round 23 silly.............

Agree, either way, he needs to get fitter

Another issue with the lad is, he's not tall enough to be a KPF and he's not small, quick enough to be a small forward, he's stuck in no mans land. He needs a big pre season and push into the midfield next year I think

It might be as simple as bringing in an "experienced KPD" in Sam Frost, like last year, then Tmac can stay forward. But mids still need to defend better, they're happy running into forward 50 for an easy goal but lazy to keep it in there

While 10 goals less is only 0.71 per game (or 4.3 points) and there is no doubt we are missing Lever but we were winning games without him and Tmac forward. IMO we need an experienced KPD, but the crux of the issue is defensive pressure from the midfield, seeing those clips from Sunday shows how lazy they are, or should I say, frontrunners. Also last year we leaked easy goals out the back so it's a structural/zone/coaching issue also not to mention laziness. You're right though, we need a defensive re-think, Lewis not getting any younger or quicker either. Hunt and Frost were a part of last years defence when Tmac went forward also.

I said this in the Goodwin thread: "He needs to be surrounded with more experience for a start, Rawlings should come back, Chaplin can go. I wouldn't mind seeing Adem Yze coming across from the Hawks and back to his old club, as well as Ratten and Scott Burns. Or perhaps raid Geelong for Knights or Scarlett to come meet up with Rooke and Egan. He had Roos' team with Stone, Bird and co but they left, we need to give him the best opportunity to succeed, even if he isn't the right guy or continues his ways, before his contract runs out at end of next year. " Yze would be the only Demon I'd look into and only because he's been in a successful Hawks system for a long time (2011). If I were the club I'd be trying everything to raid the successful clubs to surround Goodwin with.

So is it recruiting or development? *walks out backwards slowly

I can’t remember when TMac went forward but I was there for the WCE in WA when he played forward and we won.

We didn’t have Lever last year, yet we held up OK apart from maybe a Crows game in Darwin? So how did we cope last year and not get blown away? Doesn’t make sense to me on how we’ve leaked so badly this year, personnel issue or coaching/structural? Happy to be corrected on last years games but IIRC it wasn’t this bad.

I’m not sure why we’d bother with all the effort if we can’t do full match simulation?

In a heartbeat for me

How is Bailey Scott playing? Late season bolter?

Yikes! Petracca paying close attention....

Yep so only 6 years in total outside of the Daniher era since 1964, quite sad really. Remind me again why we got rid of him FFS!

It'll be like an Auskick set up, where we have a big park and they move the goal posts to wherever to fit in

I know a few ex fanatical AFL fans give up watching the game in the last 2 years, it's a very real thing. I'm finding the umpiring and state of the game plus commentators are a massive turn off.

Imagine a firing and improved Hunt plus Baker peeling off the HBF's in 5 years time.

I keep getting flashbacks to last year when all we heard is..... "It's where you are at the end of round 23"