Roost it far

He damages his hamstring then spends 5-6 days in a hospital bed on antibiotics and doing no rehab. He’s 90% better from all reports and watching his training loads. The last 10% can be problematic. He can run and train he just can’t hit the after burners. So no I don’t think it’s any more than that

We have no idea about Oliver’s injury or what extent the infection hampered recovery. Let’s stop pot shotting the club as it’s highly unlikely it’s to do with mismanagement

Could you imagine a forward line of JVR, Brown, Gawn and Schache

Can we not play Jordan FFS. It’s like buying vanilla when chocolate and neopolitan are also in the fridge. Surely one of Woewodin, Howes or Laurie get the call up

I’ve been watching Schache for 6 weeks in the two’s. I hoped, like really hoped, he would help our forward live. I’m not convinced. He’s just not a combative beast that’s required at AFL. Look at JVR, he loves the contest.

Can we pick some bodies who can kick

Which is your stall?

He’s not playing again this year you wouldn’t think

One thing to remain positive about is it clearly shows we have forward half options.

I thought Petty was our defensive forward?

Did you happen to get a coffee or toasted sandwich from the woman with the caravan?

We have 2 first rucks who both have their best spot as first ruck. I’d play them off the bench more and sub one out regularly if I was to play both

Really? You actually believe that a player would hold something over his coach to get a game. Goodwins indiscretions are largely public information anyway

Whilst the ladder might say the season is tight the top 3 is streets ahead of the rest, Melbourne can make that the top 4 by showing us the preseason and early season form over the next month

You can’t play Gawn, Grundy and Brown as forwards. How anyone thinks that’s going to work is beyond me. Like has been said Gawn’s best is as the ruck and playing a kick behind play. Bring JVR in and rest Gawn or Grundy.

Correct it want there. The point was made though that in several occasions we just chose a poor option. So at least the options are there

Just watched Lyon’s analysis on the couch. Our forward connection was there it was just missed or ignored. Such an annoying loss

You can’t take Salem or McVee from defence, they’re simply too good at it. Bowey I’d be happy to try forward

In: Tomlinson, Oliver, JVR, Woewodin out: Harmes, Fritsch, Chandler, Grundy/Gawn. I think we need a few weeks with Petty up forward, Tomlinson down back and only one genuine ruck. It’ll never happen but I’d like to see it. Brown, Grundy and Gawn all in the same side will never work

I suggest the club win this week and win well. A dry, fast deck with no wind. What more could we want? I’ll take the loading reasoning to a point. What happened in Alice was embarrassing. Clearly we couldn’t kick a goal and our forward half was 30 players full most of the time. Rather than bomb it long you need to pick it apart kick by kick just 4 or 5 times for a goal and you win the match easily. Where were the cool heads? What were the coaches doing? Why can’t ANB hit up a 15m pass at pace? People yell at Kozzie, FFS, he’s not there to bash his body into packs and he needs just a little space to work in. Give it to him. Get the forwards leading out to the wings, it’s not that hard with our list to beat GWS, we couldn’t do it and it wasn’t all because we didn’t kick straight.

Jefferson played as the third tall in a vfl match and you want him in the ones? Jordan offers nothing new. The other 3 aren’t unlikely

Leppitsch

I hope we give a young guy an opportunity next week. Woewodin or Laurie and no Harmes. Fritsch out, JVR in. Dry track, big win against the saints and we're good to go........oh wait a minute :(

Probably time we play that game at the G

That's really not what I wanted to hear, tell him he's got 4 weeks to get better.