Mel Bourne

Maybe “good to go” is a stretch but he resumed full training six weeks back, noting on his social media: ”The last few weeks have been a bit ‘nuts’ but it’s good to be back” ?

Lockhart’s been good to go for six weeks now.

Agreed.

Salem out? That’s a very late call out of seemingly nowhere. Illness?

A little tired of saying this but I hope we play a big first quarter today. I accept it might not be the game plan (“absorbing” seems to be the direction) but I’d just like to see we’re capable of it.

Okee doke, seems I’m alone here. Really not a great name though, especially given the thousands of options.

That looks about right. My only wonder is whether Melksham is the right sub over Jones, Jetta or Sparrow.

Why is the podcast called “Deeluded”. Isn’t that a tad...negative?

I agree. Don’t care how he plays. Get him.

Can the club lock him in, a la Trac? Is the money there? Would be a wise investment, to say the absolute least.

He’s a pretty fascinating player. So brilliant in a multitude of ways and so often on our best players lists, but I’d struggle to name a worse kick at the club than Oliver.

I thought Langdon was better than “some useful endeavour”.

I’d be resting that troublesome foot of Viney’s one more week, and giving Chandler another run. His mistakes were symptomatic of somebody getting used to the big arena, and he needs a chance to adjust. But if his inclusion is a no-go, then it’s Sparrow for my money. No other changes.

I could be wrong about this, but you might be confusing that call (that people are hating on BT about) in the 3/4 with the one up the other end (in the last) when Lever was well tackled but managed to get his toe on the end of it after release. BT seemed unwilling to watch the replay which clearly showed Lever’s disposal, though ugly, was not HTB. Instead he banged on about it for the next couple of minutes, because he is an Aldi-Rex Hunt who needs to be be relegated to the half-time Auskick calls.

Interesting to note the absence of Viney correlating with our sudden drop in centre clearances.

Again, BT the [censored] saying that we "haven't beaten the best team in the competition". We are the best team!!!

Who's the player people are calling "Plugger" and can we not?

BT has just called the game about two minutes after he was hyping a comeback from Carlton. He is an insufferable [censored].

Kozzie needs to get involved, as does Big Benny Brown. Gawny seems mentally off. Trac needs to sharpen his mind. Our trademark, crazy, over-the-head handballs are anxiety-inducing.

Beautiful pass by Weid.

Chandler's teething problems have been a little expensive so far.

Nibbler's been a sturdy set-shot for us this year.

If you subtract our stupid mistakes and lack of conversion, we'd be ahead. Not so sure they'd be a part of the plan.

Dunno. He seems ok now.

These first quarters of ours really must be addressed. They will only erode confidence.