Neil Crompton

I prefer to worry about this year first WCW. Both Gus and Jacko are ours for the rest of the season, nothing will change that. If the boys need more time, so be it (no matter how frustrating). As long as their first priority is winning a premiership this year, I don’t care how long they take.

Where is the fun in that Sue? Half the enjoyment of DL is working out who’s having a lend and who’s not. It’s called thinking for yourself. But as a general rule, until the Club confirms it, it ain’t yet real.

That’s probably why he is going home.

What’s the bet Jacko is BOG this week just to ensure some credibility with his future teammates given his rather ordinary performances so far this year.

On form, Chandler to come in. On form, Harmes out.

Why would you expect it to turn in the coming weeks? Our biggest problem this year has been winning stoppage clearances. We have only won clearances 8 times in 18 games this year - and guess what, we won every game. If we don’t win clearances we only win 50% of the time. This to me is the major difference between us this year and us last year. And why I have no confidence in our premiership chances this year. So please tell me how this is going to turn in the coming weeks, so I can believe again.

If there is ever a game to play Gus in the middle, it’s this week.

That's the spirit.

Can we please place all our grammar lessons into the one post, so we can all easily refer to it when we are unsure of our apostrophes and our colons, and our spelling of players names. At present these gems are spread out over hundreds of separate topics that makes it too hard to reference in our time of need.

Agree. If they are leaving, we wont hear till after our last game. If they are staying, we may not hear till after the last game.

Who says they have peaked? God forbid, they may still be building.

His “lack of development and ability to perform” has been questioned over and over again. There cannot be anything left to question. I’ll admit I find him the most frustrating player because I really want him to perform, but if he doesn’t “have it”, then thats not his fault as Luci has said. Perhaps instead, question the selectors who picked him!

Gus doesn’t strike me as the kind of person to leave the MFC just for the money. To me it would be virtually all about the opportunity to play the role that he feels best suits him. If MFC are not going to give him that opportunity, then why wouldn’t you look around? With the wealth of talent we have down back, I cannot understand why Gus hasn’t been given a shot in the middle - particularly last week with Oliver out. If mid time opportunity is his beef, then I’d say last week would have been a knife in the back. I’d suggest that Gus is a much better all round player now than when he came 3rd in the Brownlow back in 2018, and as such, would be much better equipped to lift our dismal clearance numbers. So give him a go in the center Goody, what have you got to lose? (Other than Gus).

I’d like to know why, with an all Australian midfield, we cannot constantly win clearances? In only 8 out of 17 games this year have we won total stoppage clearance - and worse, in only 5 games have we won the centre clearance battle. Yet every time we have won the stoppage clearance, we have won the game - 8 from 8 - which I don’t think is any sort of coincidence. We have obviously won 5 of the remaining 9 matches without winning clearances, so we set ourselves up well enough to overcome this lose about 55% of the time. (I don’t know the stats from last year but I don’t remember us being so poor at these stoppages). We only have to look at the GF last year to know what damage we can do if we win the centre clearances, but there have been very, very few signs of this happening this year. 3 out of our 4 centre bounce players are All Australian, and we continually lose clearance? That’s a really big problem in my eyes. Don’t tell me about defensive pressure on opposition clearance means we can win the ball back, etc, because so far this year if we win clearance, we win the game. If we lose clearances, we win 55% of the games. I’d much prefer to win the clearances thank you.

Well played Ethan.

what such an inspirational person she is. And such a breathe of fresh air.

Any more losses and I'll be getting loaded

A number of posters also find constant put downs of our players tiresome. Get over it.

Ouch! (haha and I thought you said you understood boys humour!)

Because it can get so cold, “Mama told me not to come”

Haha That makes 2 of you

He’d fit right in here then would he Luci.

Now I’ve got it - well done D, great puzzle.

Sorry layzie, I don’t know and to be honest I don’t care. It is my hope that this thread closes so that his name is not a focus on DL anymore. Of course that is just my bias that the MFC and TW should never be spoken of in the same sentence (like I just did……spit!)

Thanks for that. Not sure I still don’t believe there is a problem up forward, in addition to fatigue, but I’m here to learn. Another question, if we know we are fatigued during certain games say after half time, what is our plan B to account for that? Surely we don’t meekly accept that we will be overrun and lose games? Perhaps the coaches need to work on a better Plan B at these times.