Gawndy the Great

Anything said on 360 or any media platform wouldn’t surprise an afl coach. These guys know much more than what is discussed and if they don’t, then they are not in the right job.

The funniest thing he said on First Crack was this was evident in the last few weeks. But the last few weeks he was saying it’s Melbourne then, Flemington straight, then everyone else.

I’m torn about this. If it was about pure skill and impact. He is what we need right now as we don’t have time to wait for JVR or others to develop. Walker is a great CHF. Does he have it in him for another 1-2 years? He would be pretty cheap too I’d imagine it’s his history and character that could destabilise our culture. The stuff he said to Lever can be worked through but his recent indiscretions and racist remarks is a bit harder to swallow. But everyone deserves a second chance.

Hopefully that scratches Angus’s itch to play with his brother.

No media coverage in the past 2 months because it’s boring that we keep winning. We lose an AA FB our other AA midfielder is firing on 1 cylinder (V8) and we lose a game - admittedly with a 10 goal swing - and every footy show and analyst is now finally talking about us. How pathetic.

Jackson has been underperforming this year has had only a handful of good games by his standards so far. I wonder whether the drop in attitude is anything to go by. I dare say if he keeps this up I’ll be starting to turn on all of this trade nonsense.

If he gets off….. <finish this sentence>

These are all big inclusions. I think Salem will come back via VFL given lack of match fitness. Rewatching the game, I think it took Longmuir a half to work out that Trac was not fit and then he tagged Oliver knowing that we had no other clearance specialist. This is how the game turned and why Trac was switched to the forward line. It’s a one off but we do need another player that can come in to that role as Dunstan and Sparrow are just not elite in that area. I think the reason we lost was this simple. Even if May stayed in I’m not sure we could have held the lead but we wouldn’t have lost by 38 at least. So with a fitter Trac and the inclusions, I’m hoping for a good, solid response this week to put a line through some of the ? starting to develop.

Not everybody can grow into an AFL player. It’s cut throat and you need some mongrel, some aggression and an extremely high desire to succeed. I think Sam is very talented footy wise, great kick of the ball, fast on his feet and can clunk a mark here and there, but he lacks in the character attributes described above, which you cannot teach or learn. I think he will get dropped and now falls behind M. Brown and possibly JVR as our forward line depth.

A tale of two halves really and what was the most disappointing was our complete lack of engagement in the 3rd. We were soulless, leaderless, gutless and clueless. I can’t put my finger on it but nobody was brave enough to do something about it. Our mids were always caught offensive side and we failed to have a sweeper that could ready the play to mop up. D50 stocks were underdone with May and Petty looked unfit. Watch now how all teams stack up tall - bring in Tommo and let Lever play his natural game. Forward line connection is a complete mess. We have forgotten how to use the corridor and our turnover game is hopeless. It was our first real test and I’m saying we failed and failed quite badly. Can’t say I was surprised at the result but didn’t expect that level of capitulation - they just gave up. We got Melbourned.

We should sue for game plan copyright infringement

Also are the fans outnumbering us? For a moment I thought the game was at Subiaco.

That won’t count for anything but I’m with ya.

Get ready for a week of media full attack on the Dees. ‘We haven’t beaten anyone’, ‘Mayday - No May No Dees’, ‘ Are they really that good’ etc etc.

When a team is on , they. are just on. We had this coming for a long while.

That was not a high tackle.

Will be hard to hold a mark in the 2nd half. Ground is dewy. Freo will come out hard in 3Q so the boys need to be ready for it. Game is nowhere near over. Wish Tommo was the sub but he’ll get his chance next week.

Pretty ordinary start and we are lucky to be in front. Loosing May will mean that we can have a look at our future FB in Petty taking the #1 Forward. Need more pressure in the midfield.

Giants out of the blocks against Lions. Chance to make it three games clear of the Lions today.

Yeah but how long have we been saying it? He has been given an abundance of chances to make the spot his. What makes you think this time will be different?

Dermie is still a denier and dinosaur and it’s about time he is removed from the media circuit. Reckons the Hawks would smack em based on talent alone. Pfft, Hawks would run out of puff by half time. Andy Maher just says some really stupid things and if he cannot see why we are so good and successful he needs to find another profession. Do people forget our finals series so easily? it was a near all time record performance over 3 games.

They should be higher up than 7. Don’t know who put the doggies at 4.

That’s actually an option. He has height and can mark so we can also hold our forwards deep. There is also TMac on the wing too. As for Lingers, don’t expect to see him back until queens or after bye thanks to Johnny no Brains advertising his ailment for all to see.

Just off the plane in Singapore and the first thing my son says to on me on the phone is the Lions lost Dad !!! Pumped to be 2 games clear.

BBB, Sparrow, Frittata all ver accurate with good technique. Can’t kick them all though.