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In: Robertson (plays QB well, need his goal kicking), Cheney (surely is doing enough at Casey to warrant a recall) Out: I have no idea. Miller certainly will come under consideration. Otherwise, Bell? Whelan?

First of all, you can't seriously think that hitouts are a decent measure of a forward? I'll accept that my previous comment was biased. Newton's numbers may show equal or better output than Miller, but I think it would be fair to say that it's much of a muchness between the two. When Newton's had recalls, he's let us down. I really can't see the benefit of Newton for Miller.

It's been confirmed: Wallace will finish as coach after this week's match against the Bulldogs. Source: SEN (taking the press conference live now)

Nadal's out of the French Open! Defeated in 4 sets by Robin Soderling. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...3-11088,00.html Sporting upset of the year?

About an hour ago on SEN Keven Bartlett said that his mail was that Wallace would coach this week and then sign off. Wouldn't surprise me. We'll see in 13 minutes I guess.

I agree. I just don't think the timing is right now. But some time later this year I'm sure we'll see him.

Miller might have played like absolute crap on the weekend, but he's still a better proposition than Newton. At least he runs and chases. You'd get a similar output from Newton on a good day.

I cannot believe what people are saying about Watts. Unbelievable. FFS, he's only just turned 18, he's playing on a wing/half-foward and got more than 20 disposals. He mightn't be ready for AFL football yet, but for a kid like him, playing out of position, and not being able to train fully because he's still at school, I certainly can't see any reason for concern. The positives to come out of this match are Jurrah and Cheney, I reckon. Cheney should get a call up this week. He was stiff to get dropped in the first place. Should be in the team. I doubt Jurrah's close to ready for AFL football yet, but I'm excited to see him amongst the goals.

And West Coast still needs another 2 wins...

Good on him.

I heard that in a highlights package on the 5th quarter last night. That was just crap. Whilst I'm glad I didn't have to listen to DR, the 774 commentators weren't that great either. There were plenty of players I hardly heard last night who racked up disposals (Geary is one of them). Jamar got little credit for the ruckwork, PJ got more. Rivers got more negatives about his kicking than positives.

Exactly right WJ. Almost every week now we hear Bailey say something along the lines of how we're overposessing or using the handball too often, yet it continues to happen. I think the problem last night was, again, that there was no target up the ground. At stages last night the commentators were berating us for not having anyone forward of the centre. It's happened many times this year, the forwards get sucked up the ground chasing their opponents and don't hold position. That means our defenders and midfielders look up and see nothing, so they handpass and go backwards/sideways. Our poor skill just exacerbates the problem.

According to the paper he played 80% of game time. No he didn't. Maybe you're thinking of Maric, who played about 4 games because he had to couple footy with school? Watts isn't ready. He isn't playing decent footy at Casey yet. He's had one good game, the rest he's been struggling. I don't want him to be thrust into AFL level with a heap of expectation on his shoulders if he isn't gaining confidence from his footy at VFL level.

I'm assuming that Rivers played on Koschitzke? From the radio I couldn't tell. About the only thing that got Rivers a mention was a couple of poor kicks (which, actually, is something Rivers needs to work on).

I didn't have the luxury of being able to see the game, but from 774's radio coverage (which was pretty crap, but I didn't want to risk getting worse coverage from MMM), it seemed as though Johnson, Bennell, Green and McLean played well. Having read the papers, it's obvious that Jamar had a good return as well.

Do we usually travel with 2 emergencies? What are the chances of Cheney in for Frawley?

Why is there a strike through Cheney's name?

So aside from 3 season-enders, we've only got 2 official injuries? Must be the lowest in years. (though I'm sure Buckley's injured) Wonnaeamirri might as well be listed as 'indefinite' if they're going to put 4-6 against his name.

Where's Leon Davis?

You can't go past beating Collingwood, can you? I'd love to see 2011 or 2012 as the next number in 45's sig. As for the captain, well, if Dean Bailey is on the podium collecting the cup, I don't care who's standing with him.

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I haven't had time to read the other posts on Bell, but I don't think he's ever going to be good enough and I would have prefered Cheney. Having said that, at least Bailey is rewarding those who play well at Casey. Hopefully Newton and Robertson will see what hard work can get you.

These decisions are made before the season begins. Ten anticipated that Richmond would be doing well at this stage of the season, and that Freo would be a middle of the road team. They would not have expected St Kilda to be doing as well as they are. Overall, though, none of our interstate matches are televised on free to air in Melbourne (that is, the Port in Adelaide, WC in Perth, St Kilda on the Gold Coast, Brisbane in Brisbane and Sydney in Canberra matches). The only match that's not in Melbourne that can be seen on free to air is the Geelong match. So, in essence, we're rarely on free to air, and when we are, it's almost always a match in Melbourne that the majority of our supporters could go to anyway. Which sucks.

McNamara's been playing both back and forward at Casey. He could be played in the forward line if he did debut. Bailey's been talking about getting players to be flexible enough to be able to play in more than one position: I'd think McNamara fits that mould, and should be looked at over the next few weeks.

I'm not entirely sold on this. It would help in that we wouldn't be having MCG home games against the likes of Port, Freo, WCE, GC17 and Adelaide, and the financial windfall is obvious. But this administration has been talking about making sure our home ground is the MCG, about how the other clubs are all tenants. By selling 4 games to Darwin we lose that dominance of the MCG. And of course there's the extra travel. Based on 4 Darwin games, I'd be happy only if we had another 3 interstate games on top of that. Of the remaining 15, we could still have 12 or 13 MCG matches, with the rest being Etihad. But if we were to lose 4 MCG games per year to Darwin, then I would be against the idea. Strawbsodwyer's suggestion of back-to-back games in Darwin is something that might make it easier to stomach (i.e. we could have 2 fortnights in the season where we play in Darwin both weeks, spending the rest of the time marketing and drumming up support).