Deemania since 56

I'll second that! Match loser is more apt. Repeatedly.

It is good to see ANB working so hard and his ground coverage is tremendous (most opposition sides tend to divert around him, now. as a consequence). His defensive game is really improving; and, it is just great when he is nearing the goals - he has improved his accuracy and kit-bag of kicking skills to score rather frequently and often, has found space in which to deploy.

May, he could do the job nicely.

Got the same problem....too many greats! Many were the best ever across the whole League.

Almost impossible to apply, allocate rankings or competitively indicate this week. Our team has evolved from individual praise on performance to a quality rating based upon linkages and game sustenance between 'groups' (large and small) of players in the process of decapitating an opposition comprehensively. Crowns for best on ground are pluralised in process chains across many increasingly worthy candidates, not just individual beneficiaries.

Evidentiary protocols with umpires and their impacting on games really needs attention.

The linkage and execution of 'team' - particularly forward - is starting to detract from close and rewarding individual performances, reviews and recoveries across the game. The blend, the recruiting and the improved systems are producing dividends we have all awaited. Go Dees!

So, a potentially outstanding and currently realistic talent in JJ is afforded another substitute status or relegation to the VFL level. He has to be the sub at the minimum. Experience is the only way we can maximise and extend his value to the team and his future development; a game played is a 'game invested' in this young man. West Coast is a perfect opportunity for him to play and it is one in which very little 'risk' from his selection is going to present itself. I think many of us can perceive at least two other players (who most probably will play with less form) that could be rested and replaced by JJ for both immediate and longer-term team health. Let's not lose this upcoming gun with so much to offer as we race towards career sunsets for the identifiable few.

And so they should - Petty has the ear-markings of a great swingman - the opportunity may well elevate his confidence.

Yep, Spargs and ANB have to stay. Their workrate is enormous and oppositions know they can cover the ground to compete in many on-field locations before the oppo-kick is delivered. Melk cannot do that. Other smalls can, but Melk doesn't. Just the same, I regard Melk as a good choice for tactical sub - for other reasons - but not this week against the Eagles.

I'd like to see some comments from Yze and Chocko in regard to Sestan - a talent well and truly 'on-the-way' who could be enormous with some addition seasoning.

We really must retain and further develop/encourage JJ to do his thang. He is a rilly goodie.

Really good at the weekend against Sydney. JJ is a second Chandler with an array of alternative skills. He needed to learn to play on rather than to go back and take a kick (after trying to visualise a target from the over-covered static forward lines last year) and has achieved that - and shown that aptitude to very good effect this year. JJ is a dangerous player with perceptive skills execution - and finds targets very well. He's also a bit taller than expected from a distance, capable of good intercepts and spoils on the opposition - and nearly always lands on two feet, ready to take off or scrounge for the team taps. Oh, I forgot: JJ goes vertical for the spoil - he ain't huge or gravitationally challenged - and the 2-feet landing enables him to utilise a great first two/three steps with possession of the ball, and this reminds me closely of one of our great backmen of the past who did the same to win heaps of the ball and its delivery - Brett Bailey.

I think we all are nervous on game day. By thinking positively of success, I can justify optimism to some extent and thus, reduce the stress of those realities I have been attempting to ignore. It also provides a deeper analysis when the game is finally on - soon after the first bounce - making me appreciate what our players are attempting to do under all circumstances and processes. However, each to their own, I guess; we all have mechanisms unique to our own psyche.

Tag with Chandler - the two add dimensions not yet considered from the centre field to the goal mouth.

Chandler was great. At the game, I was impressed with the effort of JJ, as well. He was not phantastique but he did try some things that sparked interest and was solid in some defensive efforts. More experience for him, please! I can imagine both Chandler and JJ being a rather varied, potent and successful tag-team on the forward line.

Percentage gains on the horizon! We could find such boosters very useful on top of the four points and it could last for quite a few weeks.

Ain't it the truth!

If there can be a singularity for the turning point, that kick to that guy making space all alone was the moment.

Yes. Melksham is an ideal 'tactical' sub and injected skill set.

As a club, I really hope that we can squash the jinx that the Swans have over us - it probably cannot be put down to some talent differential between 'us' and 'them', we just seem to capitulate at various points of games that we play against them. I'd hope that the coaching staff have been thorough in this assessment - onfield, we are a better team with a losing mantra, and our game plans and outcomes seem to lack buoyancy when it matters. Across recent encounters, we seem to situate ourselves in a sink-or-swim catharsis, the latter seldom producing recoveries and ascendancies that matter in order to achieve the four points. Why, for example, do we seem content to search for 'learnings for next time' rather than play consistently to dictate our terms of these encounters? We can humiliate most teams but the Swans, so often, have our measure and abundant luck in the conduct of the game after the main interval.

The mobility of the smalls in the forward line - and yes, we have plenty for the Swans game - could be very effective if they realised that will take very little part in the marking contests (but perhaps and only if the ball is consistently brought to ground) and in reality, that should in itself be a cue for the swarming and balanced ants to stream to the 50m line and beyond to spaces or leading to spaces for the rejuvenated ( ? ) game plan of the midfielders to hit any of multiple targets streaming towards them. Gus, Clarrie, Tracca and JJ all have the skills to do this as a strong aspect of the forward team retention of the ball. Ya carnt kick 'em goals if yas don't have the ball! FFS. Footiskry do it with 7m kicks, almost always paid as a mark by the snot goblins. So, let's win and keep the ball rather than have 'hopeful' retention from one possible target with fluttering wings up deep forward.

Really agree with all you have indicated. Exciting times ahead, multifunctional and dedicated across the field - a symbiosis that only the long-awaiting fans could (and historically did) imagine.

Yep, and he popped up across the game in isolated spaces quite regularly. Kicking, passing and backing-up have definitely improved and he seems to be on his way to some valuable consistency. Happy for him, a really nice fella underneath, as well.

Observed. Internalised. Just knew something would activate the snotty-goblinized 'string-pullers' and their attempts at showcasing.