kev martin

Good no change, sets us for stability and cohesion. Bad luck Daisy, hoping for next week. She will still be on the boundary, mustering them all. Take your opportunities. Go Dees.

To many problems associated with way. Loyalty, injury and not being managed well, reduced development, relocation costs and related family/friends upheavals, losing time with the primary club and so losing intimacy and bonding periods. Only benefit I can see is the experience a player will gain. The team in need could pluck a ~27 year old from the country or lesser leagues (if the rules allowed it), who has some craft already developed. Making for someone's dream to come true.

Good to see Daisy training. Let's hope she pulls up well tomorrow so as to give her a chance. What a tough person and inspirational for the team to do it for her if she cannot play. Go Daisy, go Dees.

Much rather see them encourage loyalty. Pay players extra pay, above the cap, for staying at the same club. Clubs get extra funds for retention. So encourage more buy in, and development by the clubs, in the players. Will reduce poaching. Players with home sickness or emotional distresses can have a please explain. The fringe players will eventually get a go if good enough, or will be traded/delisted at the right time. Manage their list better. Bad list management, such as Richmond can be fixed at the end of season. Get someone from outside the AFL if they lose important structural players that can't be replaced. After a please explain to the AFL hierarchy. They want supporters loyalty, how about the hierarchy show some mutual obligation to us with player retentions.

It was the cats

We have the momentum with us. Adelaide oval may be just as unknown to the Crows. Agree about Zanker, she can dominate when she is on and is a game winner. We are an effort team and Crows will have to be up for a fight, we can play with skill and flair. We are also well rounded, pace and good mixture of talls, shorts and strong bodies. Hope Bannan gets her hand on it a bit more, excitement plus. Magee can tackle, hard! Class from Gay and Hore. L. Pearce and Cunningham (good game last week), strong and determined. Hanks, Mithin and McNamara getting the ground balls and creating link and connection. Tarrant, Colvin, Birch, Lampard, Downie (better for the run) and Heath to repel the Crows. Parry and Sherrif play their roles. Scott to continue hitting the goals. Finally our, see ball, get ball, go hard and be smart, Paxy. Haven't heard if we had injuries. So, I think we go in unchanged, unless Daisy wants to play. Go Dees

I think he had problems finding separation. Weid will benefit from an open forward area that comes about by quick ball movement. Hoping he works well with Big Ben.

Geelong appeared to have a go slow in the quarters. My guess is that they try and save energy so they can hit hard during time on. It didn't seem to work well against the Hawks as they failed to transition well between fast and slow play. They had the green GT sign up but found it difficult to get the contested ball. The Hawks errors kept them in it. Melbourne's fitness will give us the edge if they use to play the GT sign in time on. Will the Cats start the keeping off game? Can we pressure them enough so as to get the turnover, or play man on man with some zoning and flood so they can't find an avenue forward when they decide to "go". Our style is to still get the ball and go fast. Though we are learning to temper ourselves. The Cats seem to flood the forward area, force the turnover and then retain the ball? I wouldn't trust them to play the same way against us and they may try the manic style themselves. Goody won't play the dour game. He loves the high scoring exciting style. I wonder if Geelong can go with us?

Just watched the cats. Lots of backward kicking and ball possession by them. Bring in Bowey for Jetts and blood him early. Need the close down speed and chase from him, when cats have it. Hoping Goody can win the strategy game. They are a control team against us, with our dynamism.

They will have more effort and have worked on their deficiencies. Can be season defining in the early rounds. The media has highlighted them and communal humiliation can fire them up in the first. They then run out of puff, if not a good team or the system is broken If It is a regular occurrence of being non-competitive, you don't "come out fired up".

They have to be able to celebrate. A release of the energy and share some joy. The song is as much for the supporters as the team. What you suggest is like drawing a "line in the sand" moment. Can be done, though you wouldn't want to do it it more than once in a season (line in sand not the song). It is really not the time for it. Devalues the effort they are giving and are winning anyway. They are addressing the problems and would be doing home truths with each other during the normal review and after calculated reflection. They know their general problems. Support and feedback from others when they have a clearer head and the video replays have been scrutinised is much better on the "Monday". Inaccurate and exaggeration of things could be said in the heat of the moment directly after a game, and off the cuff comments can lead to bad blood. Old school coaching may do what you suggest with the song but Goody is new school player management, respectful and calculated. Too much mental footy pressure is energy sapping.

-We have some fight in us! Good run and effort. Lever kept up the intercepts, as May played a different game (we missed his dominance). Oliver will get some "learnings", from that close tag. Bombed away too much into our crowded forward line. Need to work on hitting up the targets. In the first, GWS kept attacking from the wing and half-back. Great that we stopped that. Jetts, Tom and Trac had bad games. Need to kick the easy ones, for confidence, momentum and score pressure. They need a better routine, ( particularly Tracc, Oliver and Gawn). They seem to be working on relaxing instead of a serious method. Hold the ball steady, know how many steps and hit it sweetly. Repeat and repeat at training. Max gives us flexibility in playing forward, back or mid. Great to see Goody mix it up. Kossie, Langdon, Max, Fritta, Hunt, River for the entire game. Viney, ANB, Jackson, Brayshaw, Salem, Lever, Jones in bursts. Spargo, Sparrow, Tomlinson, Jordan as role players.

Need a goal kicking coach! Hold the ball steady to kick it sweetly. Bombing it into the forward area.

The time on periods are crucial. Game opens up, fatigue sets in and their bodies aren't used to it. Last year, shorter periods and more inter-changes Saw Sydney belt Richmond in the junk time. They wanted it more and the Tigers were not there. Our fitness and will should help. No switching off.

They have to be hungry for some success. Bring the pressure. All our lines are good, May and lever, Viney and Oliver, Kossie and Tom. It has been a while since I could say that. No more words, time for action. First to the ball, clean use and minimise the unforced errors. Go Dees.

Hoping we can be front runners throughout the season. Stay in the top 8, and be on the positive side of the win loss equation. Can't remember when that last happened! What dreams are made of, a less anxious home and away series that leads into a successful finals run. I wouldn't bet on it, though.

Welcome to Casey, Freo. It is not a place to showcase the game. Took control in the first when we were against the wind. Great team work. All running as one, with a smart game plan. Fell away in the second half as we made it an arm wrestle. Some of our small release handballs were beautiful. Good tackling, took any run away from the docks. Big kicks when we had the wind and hugging the boundary and creating stoppages when against it. Paxman, what an effort all game. Gay has the strut. Mithin will run at a brick wall. McGee had a good game and popped up when needed as did Colvin, Birch, Parry and Lampard, Sheriff as well. Hanks did a tie down role on their star. Zanker, Cunningham and Pearce good play. I think, we did not have a passenger. We need just a bit more composure around the goals. Train smart, then bring the pressure and be first to the ball when we play the crows

Looking at that picture. Can we put a roof up on the MCG and train on that? Just kidding.

I pay rates to Stonnington my brother in Bayside Council. We both have no children or drive cars. The council does very little for us. I've noticed that much of the public space is being used by the private schools. The Council will continue to commodify and give it to the highest bidder. Our community is stratified, with money and power being the impetuous. Poor kids will not be golfers, tennis players, yachtys', rowers, etcetera and now AFL players or any of the cheaper sports programs. Arts and sports are for the privileged classes as is our educational and health systems. Such is their entitled life and the unequal distribution of access.

The Maroons would soon be corrupted. Lining the pockets of their mates at the expense of sanity, fairness and logic.

Bike lanes are very good. Though getting to and off them from your destinations is still a problem. Cars rule the bitumen and we take a deep breath of CO and associated sulphur so as to brace when we venture as a commutor. Encourage all activities. Went to a greens meeting, not one used a bike. All had the combustion engine. When they walk the talk and not just imply "do as I say", and virtue signalling, perhaps, I could believe that their politics is beyond the need to get power for powers sake. Another problem with bike lanes is the disrespectful users. Bike clubs use them as speed ways. Commutors shunt past pedestrians and slower riders with the narrowest of margins. As a biker and pedestrian we need alot more work to make our paths safe. I have not owned a car for around 30 years.

Inactivity is the killer. Council should be working to get as many as possible out and about. Not, generating a pay wall.

You also have sole use to the facilities, such as toilets/showers, change rooms, canteens, meeting halls. The pick up want to use some grassed area. That is all. The organised collective do get priority. Perhaps the first approach to this group of pick ups was aggressive or in the past they have been spurned by you lot. All need to be respectful. Again, as a pick up player, I have been treated pretty badly by the organised at times. They become very protective of the stuff they have. If I am an unskilled, weaker and older player is there a place at your club for me to get a game and be welcomed? Or is it a clique group, where you have to be like the others to play, (which is what I find). Diversification can be a problem in these organised places.

All should be respectful to each other. No group should have to pay big amounts of money. Active involvement has so many benefits to all that money just puts the brake on. The pick up group should put things back where and how they find them. Because they disrespect the place they make it worse for others as well. Organised sport, has to have priority. Without that we all lose something in the community. There has to a place for the pick up group. People with cash shouldn't be able to dictate the terms . I hate the so called user pay system, social stratification, and creating privilege.

Very difficult for a pick up group to book a place. We become an unscheduled, disorganised group, which does not know what numbers and some don't have leisure money, we play without leaders, or insurance. Our beauty is that we do it without complications. Except for rangers and the committee coming after us. As a an over 60, it is very difficult to find a club where I can get a regular game anyway. If I was 16, activities are everywhere.