Neil Crompton

So, with Pert gone (thankfully), the question needs to be asked, who is now the front man / woman managing this project? Who is overseeing the new design work? Who is attending project meetings? Who is managing the funding shortfall? Who is leading the feasibility study? Surely it all doesn't come to a stop till the new CEO comes on-board! Given the leaks of the past few days, surely an email from our President explaining (as much as he can divulge) what is going on is warranted and required.

At the risk of offending Werridee, here is a team i'd like to see that takes Tracc, Oliver and Viney out of our mids for the main - although occasional spurts through the middle would be ok - as long as its only one of them at a time. B. McVee May Lever HB. Rivers Petty Sestan Mid. Windsor Langford Langdon HF. Tracc Turner Chandler F. Viney Jeffo JVR R. Max Bowie Kossie Bench. Oliver, Fritsch, Lindsay, Laurie - Salem.

Kalani White (200cm) and Benji Van Rooyen (202cm underager) would be an exciting combo.

I see young Van Rooyen is in the best players for WA. He’s the VR I believe we should chase.j He’s 202cm and underage by the way.

he should try kicking left footed. Can't be any worse.

How is that a cheap shot? He very carefully worded the statement you quoted, and it is absolutely true. Something hopefully time will mend for Trac, but for now it doesn't look good.

Just saw this quote about JVR taken from Zero Hanger: "However, winning a hitout is just half the battle of a ruck contest. The other half is knocking the ball to the advantage of a teammate to gain possession. No other non-ruck has been better at this facet of ruck craft than Jacob van Rooyen this season. The Demons key forward has rotated in and out of the Melbourne side in 2025, having featured in just eight games with struggles to get opportunities in front of the big sticks. However, when required, he's been much more than a servicable replacement for the AFL's greatest ruckman Max Gawn, hitting the Sherrin to advantage 33.3% of the time. While van Rooyen understandably has one of the lower ruck contests competed in per game with 12.5, he is wildly effective in those contests. In fact, van Rooyen's hitout to advantage rate of 33.3% is not just the best amongst non-rucks, it's the best in the entire league with rucks included too!" Perhaps we should view him as a forward pocket ruckman rather than a key position forward. Jeffo and Turner as keys, with JVR in the pocket.

The Club will do what it thinks best Re the coaching position. All the talk in the world here ain’t gonna change that, especially this year. So instead of all the destructive chat about sacking Goody, how about we put our thinking hats on and find some constructive ways we can improve this year. Here’s my take: Solve our forward connection and we become a good side. Why is our forward connection so bad? I believe at least 80% of the issue is delivery, and probably 20% forward line personnel. How do we fix our delivery? Don’t play Tracc, Oliver or Viney as mids. Get players in the middle who can deliver. Kossie, Langford, Bowie, Laurie for example. Let Tracc, Oliver, And Viney earn the right to play as a mid by improving their delivery skills. If they can’t then they play up forward or warm the bench, or go to Casey. That’s my 2 cents worth.

I’m so looking forward to the bye. I cannot take much more and I’m exhausted. And the TV is going to take about 2 weeks to repair. I’m hating loving this team!

I don’t care what the final score is, Oliver , Tracc and Viney can please leave

You just know that Kossie will have a stinker this week and then there will be hell to pay on DL re the length of his contract.

I luv the fence yelling at clouds.

Of course it won’t happen. That would be admitting that the ump’s got it wrong.

Picket, do you think that Jeffo wasn’t selected this week because it was the pies, and that he is being saved for the next game only 6 days away?

We all know what May is like on field - saying something after someone stuffs up is certainly nothing new. However, what really surprised me was Max’s reaction. If Max hadn’t shoved May, there’d be nothing to see. For Max to react like that is really out of character and probably shows how disappointed he was with himself rather than what May may have said. Both would’ve so much wanted to win this game, and both know we lost it, rather than the pies actually winning it. Disappointment can make us do strange things.

Probably Daz, but this late announcement is really [censored] me off. There is no obvious need for it. If we play saturday, we announce teams on Thursday. If we play sunday final teams are announced on Friday. Therefore, if my f'ing maths is correct, if we play Monday, surely we f'ing announce the teams on saturday! Unless I'm missing something, the AFL is just a joke. Did I mention I'm [censored]?

Haha Sounds like you may have heard something GW, but are trying so hard to disguise it.

After seeing Howes kick a very impressive running goal against the Swans, I tend to agree with you SONS. He certainly knew where the gap between the sticks was. Down back he tends to panic sometimes, but he looked so confident during that run, bounce and goal.

Haha, [censored]! - (something like kitty kat)

I think it’s time that Windsor learns his backman trade at Casey , or he gets moved to the wing, because he has little idea how to play his current role. Personally I’d have him on the wing. Time for Sestan to take over his role in the backline. He has consistently performed in the role at Casey and his kicking is exceptional - time to see what he’s made of.

We need to rid our backline of Windsor. He has no clue in this role. Get him back to the wing where he should be.

Why would we want an “almost player”? I think we have enough of those already.

Your original post has obviously upset @Ghostwriter. Your last post has done nothing, i would expect, but enflame the issue. This pizzes me off for two reasons: Firstly, GW is a great provider of information, and DL would be a much poorer place if we didn't receive this from her. You have now placed this at risk. Secondly, when you realise you have upset someone, intentionally or not, surely you apologise as a first step, prior to explaining that you hadn't aimed it at her. She may or may not believe you, but at least you haven't enflamed the issue. I'm sorry to be preaching, but we need to be more respectful of each other, and their views, on this site even if we have an opposing view. GW is sensitive to certain comments because of the krap she has received over the years, and you've been here long enough to know and understand that.

Did the Dees player have a helmet? I’m sure Maynard has charged any number of players during his career.

Kat I would be really shocked if it was the Gus incident being used. I highly doubt it would be. Even for the Pies that would be lower than their current low. They all know that Maynard got away with “murder”. I really don’t believe they would be advertising that fact.