Grouse

player health and ability to run out games and over run opposition late must be due go burgess. There us a marked improvement since his arrival. I sure hope mfc has an off sider learning what he does because I'm sure he will take a bigger offer when it presents itself.

Tomlinson for benell and tmac for maxy. Play both Max and preuss.

Any danger of Salem making contact? Looks scared in every contest. Won't tackle.

I agree that a 4 qtr effort will get us the points. We have been starting incredibly slowly which is the problem. If we can start by winning the contested possession and clearances I am confident we will out score them.

I think Brown out for them will help them score. Brown has been like when we have tmac up forward. We bomb long to an out of form player who doesn't score. Both are match winners in form but destroy our teams ability to score when off.

Here we go again. Let's put a non back (think fritch, Smith) down back just to upset the balance and wreck the players confidence for the rest of the year.

I agree. It seems to be an ongoing problem. Harmes to backline, fritch to backline, Smith to backline. All wasted there in my opinion. We also seem to keep persisting with horribly out of form players. Why bring back tmac, the most out of form bloke in the comp, when we need some speed? The worst selection of the year. Tmac is finished and if he's picked again we will loose again.

Tmac selection just doesn't make and sense to me. He's looked wooden all year and hasn't been target at all. I'd love to be wrong but I just don't know what he brings to the team at the moment. We have looked so much better up forward without him.

Red team looked mostly like starting team this week. Blue almost pipped them. That either means we have great depth or not a strong top 22. We have to drop tmac. Play an extra medium forward. Or send him to the back line?

Yes, would love to see it streamed on afl live. It would be good to see all our players and get an idea of depth. We can only hope.

https://watch.thewest.com.au/show/pub-103027 Great highlight vid of rivers with Jackson involved. I love this pick. His kicks are lace out.

If omacs got any chance of improving he needs to start with a haircut.... Something like Nathan Carroll. Does anyone know his barber and could have a quiet word?

he's only 22 and if we can get him for not much then it's worth a shot. If he's prepared to work hard with personal trainer ect to get back then you would expect that he might have matured a bit with off field behaviour as well.

How I felt after the first few rounds this year after thinking we were a chance. "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words" I'm backing them in to return to finals next year.