Gawndy the Great

Thanks I do try my best.

Just watch us cough it up tomorrow.

Blatant frees not being paid. You can see the umps putting whistle to mouth and then the voice in ear say play on ;)

No replay for that push on Casboult = free kick for sure but afl choosing not to show.

Curnow is just an absolute gun. FMD

These umpires.

How’s that for a soft free to Curnow.

There are no easy games in finals. Here or Gabba or AO. Last weeks pressure was pretty good. We need to repeat that performance and try to better it this week and next. You cannot expect to just turn it in finals.

If Elliot concussed, they are really at risk next week against Bombers.

2 weeks

Dusty rumours to Suns to join Hardwick. The bloke has played 287 games - why would you ruin a stellar chance to be a 300 game 1 club player. Does my head in.

We definitely want to be playing Pies I reckon.

Geez if that is a block … Gawn should get 10 of those a game.

Good game so far. Lions potent off half back with kicking. Pies similar with handballs.

On ya woey.

Yeah i saw this as well. I think the main difference is the number of bottom 4 teams we have played vs others. Getting both North and Hawthorn twice is the main reason. I think most top 8 teams have only played one bottom 4 team twice, whereas Cats have only played them each once.

Yeah I though about that. He should have gone for the mark. If he did he would have either got a free kick for being held or got frontal contact.

Expected to be much better.. he has been hampered for nearly two years now. At some point you need to call a spade a spade. Unfortunately I think the game is moving past him due to a body not able to keep up with the demands of AFL. I’m aware it’s a harsh assessment and I hope he proves me wrong but at this rate he’ll be spending time in the VFL next year.

Just shows how little Salem and Bowey have been doing this year.

There goes top 2.

Not sure on Bowey - he is just going...barely. Frankly i have been disappointed with Salem and Bowey the most this year. Salem has at least an excuse in injury and thyroid. They need to find some spark in their game to more speed on the ball. Watson with speed and skill could really change things up there. It all depends on game plan of course, but if we really want to isolate our forwards and minimize turnover, it all starts in D50 with good, athletic players with skill. It is why Collingwood's average forward line looks so good.

Im hearing Harmes is on circa 500K pa. If we were to move him on for scraps (3rd rounder) and traded Grundy out who is on reportedly 600-650K pa. Surely we could put a decent contract in front of a needed player? Then there is additional cap that maybe freed up by a retiring BBB or a departing Tommo. I doubt TMac will retire and probably need him for depth - if he does somehow get back to '18 or even '21 form it probably can make the 22. Expecting we get 2-3 players from the draft including Brown's son so they'll be on minimum wage. Still leaves a potential treasure chest even if Grundy did stay.

We do need better decision makers and ball users. So i reckon you could start him off half back in his career. I can definitely see a need McKerchin in our team, but im just suspect of Duursma - whose spot does he take in our current 22? Is it someone like Sparrow?

Watson for me is x-factor and ill love him in our team with one of picks if he is still there. He has largely been deployed in the forward line, but i wonder if he has ever had a run through the middle and could he entrench himself as an outside player?

It was definitely mind boggling, and i was disgusted like many on here, but we are carrying on like he would have converted. Whether he could have found a target 20m closer (would have been called on no doubt) remains to be seen. To me the bigger howler was the non-goal call. Its gets my heart rate up every time i hear it on the radio or see the replay on TV - i just cannot move past how bad that decision was. I just hope in the whole scheme of things it becomes irrelevant. I would hate if that becomes a defining part of our season. We wont know of course until all things are done.