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I hope Goodwin can use him for his noticeable skill set, he is definitely a driver both offensively and defensively out on our flanks. Genuine pace is gradually building across the team.

It meant that the 'team' began to anticipate, make space, find space, provide good alternatives; McV did kick well, too, looking for links within a potential, longer chain.

I really like McV kicking in from Fullback; he has a good boot and delivery arc; it also releases - where necessary - May's good marking upfield, his aggressive distribution and unsettling of opponent packs and hopefuls. In time, when back in the gameday, it will release Bowser for his clever space-making, accurate passing and beneficial plunder into forward progress of the ball to great team effect.

Excellent - great to see ...

6. Oliver 5. May 4. Gawn 3. Billings 2. Petracca 1. Chandler

The Tracc/Oliver combo with Viney nearby is solid as a rock - and great to see. 6

It's difficult to live with a calculating cat but I like this type of feline outlook.

It's impossible to be like Collingwood; for starters, how does one operate with half a brain, no societal consciousness, limited reasoning and a distinctive penchant for toothlessness?

Billings' mobility (as one of the skills he consistently displays) would make a significant difference to our forward line woes and a full game would assist in his Demon revival, setting one of those long-awaited alternative strategies to the pillars of salt so transfixed within our forward line array and the effectiveness of our midfield clearances.

They certainly were impressive. Sydney are this season's showcase foot passers (so far) with that touch of forward mobility and across-the-field support.

Injury? Our medical queue is already quite busy - and thus, embarrassing to some extent. Here we go, again ... unexpected changes ... almost silent in their implementation ... why are they doing this?

Shake up ... is Goodwin hungry enough to take the team where it deserves to be?

Such situations necessitate the best possible performances by Sparrow and Rivers. Otherwise, we gap fill, once again. Time for these two 'up the sleeve aces' to shine. Please, someone, motivate them both to excel with confidence.

Regretfully so ... and no-one has bothered to ameliorate this situation despite a disappointingly long interval of extreme non-possession up forward.

The 'mongrel' to win football matches has waned considerably, with Viney remaining the only contestant for the badge (with some inclusive regards for May, Bowser, McVie and hopefully, Picket in weeks to come). Non-mongrel is wonderful sportsmanship, but it has crept over the team like a dose of influenza wherein all of our bad habits onfield and in game play are appearing faster than a speeding bullet. So is our tendency to lose matches. CP is needed to support Viney in the carrying of the team credibility badge and its desire ...

Me, too. Woey could be a shorter-term running flanker - fwd or back.

That is true, Antioch. For the past two seasons, it seems to have negatively affected team selections, newby game experience, recruiting and the loss of key players, senior player integration, team-wide co-ordinations and understandings. The motivators and their motivations seem to have played a second fiddle in such outright confusion.

The more people at selection, the more the variance until a 'tolerated' selection is achieved. We have a balance as a result, based upon individual performances, not credibility; not teamwork combinations and smarts across midlines and flanks. Play-makers and progressions are thus hampered as is the persistency of ad hoc game control, hopeful game planning, game plan execution/alternatives and the depth of player responsibilities/understanding.

Method and inspiration hold the coaches back; the players are not well performed as a consequence, reliant on individual skilling and zonal weaknesses for maybe, the next rebound - but these are now fewer in number.

It's great that we have capable players coming back, and this will make a difference, onfield. However, we must address the lack of 'systems' and creative opportunities, foot-passing, player linkages across the field, mobile and leading forward efforts, team support (instead of individual efforts and long bombs), plus other characteristics that remain as stains upon our ball progression, sustained ball possession and scoring abilities. Three seasons of progressive loss of these attributes may well prove devastating - coaches, beware!

At this stage of his career, yep, the perfect conditioning for forward nouse (and how it might be beaten).

Sometime-backup for May?

It is going to be very interesting to watch Yze steer Richmond this year - to what improvement, I wonder. I am sure that he will lift the Tigers and their onfield performances, the number of wins they achieve, the cohesion between players and their respective roles and importantly, the slate of alternative game plans and tactics that adopt to game conditions and circumstances - just what (in total), Goodwin failed to achieve. Might have been very opportune to promote Yze to the Demon senior coaching position, offering SG to the Tiges for a few peanuts.

6 Viney 5 May 4 Fritsch 3 Bowey 2 McVee 1 Tomlinson

I think it possible - after attempting so many marks against much taller opposition defenders - that Chandler has been given crazy instructions not to play his versatile (and profitable) role as a forward line free agent, roving to opportunities and space, emerging in possession from fwd-50 packs, isolating himself to long runs from whence the goodness flows into a set shot (he is very good at these) and a few mobile scores. Why? Kozzie cannot do it all and our static forwards (other than Fritta) suffer weekly from inaction and static geo-location.