Rodney (Balls) Grinter

As others have pointed out the Dog look kinda like a potential premiership winning team at the moment and he's in that team, so I wouldn't be writing him off. Some players mature late and he's clearly found his fit and an enviroment where he's thriving so good on him. Not every player in a premiership is an absolute star and every premiership team needs players that do the team thing and sacrifice their game for the benifit of the team.

Excited for this game. I think it's a tough ask beating the WA teams over there when they are in form and they probably deserve to be favourites, but I'm not writing us off. If we do loose, so long as we're compeditive and show something, then that will be OK enough with me. Mostly I'm looking forward to us playing some good opposition to get a better feel for where we are at right now.

For what it's worth, I thought Ryan had spilled the mark at the time, but in retrospect he did clearly control the mark until the point he hit the ground. Was a great mark, which in a sence showed great courage, but I actually think it also shows a level of contempt for you own well-being when you repeatedly jump for marks without caring hoe you land like that. He had a sore shoulder after that effort, but could just have easily concussed himself or done serious neck injury. Shaun Smith use to do it all the time and I got my sister a great photo form the age, which I got developed into an A1 poster size of him landing pretty much on his head following a similar mark.

The thing that really hurt about Jordon though is that 5 months after he left for Sydney, we lost Brayshaw through concussion and he would have had more opportunities that would have kept him on our list. I know Jordon probably isn't ever going to be an absolute A Grade / dominant player, but he the kind of solid player that great teams all need. That he's been best 23 up at Sydney ever since and played in a grand final for them shows that he's defiantly an AFL standard player.

Just like Kingy did with the players. Whatever is is it's been a great change. Our content has been so much more professional, contemporary and watchable.

This is a bloody brilliant watch: Our new media team would have to be rating up there as one of the recruits of the year.

What about 11? Would suit him.

Agreed. He did get shown up on a few occasions when playing as a deep defender, but: a) Alot of more seasoned players might also have been exposed in a similar way playing against someone with the skills and athletic profile of NAS b) He can take it on as a learning experience. Overall, he did a pretty decent job and we won the game, so happy days. If he kicked that set shot on goal he had, it would have been the icing on the cake. Hope he can continue these kind of performances and build his own game at the same time.

Who called it better? Was woundering why the kid in the stands was 'going off' even more than I was, then after watching it for tge 3rd or 4th time realised he was probably one of Lattrelle's family members and that's why the cameras were on him. How good is that and absolutely gold in the current circumstances for Kozzie to have a special family moment like that with Latrelle on the field.

Agreed, but stop giving away tips to the opposition please Jeff 😂

Agreed, I could see Latrelle in the open, an open paddock to run into and was just cheering and hoping that he'd pull off what we'd seen him do in preseason on the big stage.

I think opponents are probably well aware that he does this thing, but knowing that's what he's going to do and stopping him from doing it are two very different things. Agility like him and Kozzie have got is a rare thing and I don't think there are many that could match them in that department well enough to lay their hands on them.

I'm not a CJ hater, but didn't think kicking out to him short in the pocket from kick-ins was a winning strategy. Most times, he just bombed down the line to the back flank/boundary and/or turned it over.

Yeah, I'm with you there on Sharpie as well. Loved how he worked his way into the game, stood up in some big moments in the last quarter. Hope he can keep it going over the next few weeks and really make a spot for himself in the side.

Latrelle's running goal was the highlight of the game for me. The build-up and the roar from the crowd when he kicked it was incredible and I thought really got the crowd into the game and got us going. There are some players that have a real connection with the crowd, just doing their own thing and he's definitely one of them. Excitement machine and hard worker in one.