Roost it far

It’s not a shot at him. Sure I said it bluntly but that’s how I’m feeling today. I watch him play and I don’t see it. He just doesn’t have that presence of a key foward. Oh and I’m in Healesville but my place is worth a bit!

That’s not true

3 from the next 7

Other results doing us some real favours

Stats say that’s untrue

My current preferred lineup F: Pickett JVR Sparrow HF: Woewodin Schache Bowey C: Hunter Petracca Langdon HB: Lever Petty Rivers B: Hibberd May McVee R: Gawn Oliver Viney I: Grundy Chandler Turner ANB S: Spargo

We see if differently. Tomlinson needs a miracle, Brown a resurrection and TMac a rebirth

That’s what a smart coach would do, Goodwin will play him

My view after watching the last 2 games Jefferson a bust….I’ll sell my house if he makes it Woewodin almost good enough Schache uninspiring but maybe needed Brown cooked like the last snag on the bbq at 10pm on GF night Sestan miles away MW never make it Turner play him in the ones FFS Melksham yesterdays news oh and to top the weekend off I think Gawn might be cooked. I love big Maxy but we saw what we saw the last fortnight.

People calling for Brown to play should watch him at Casey. Collingwood would run off him like kids at a picnic.

Maybe it's as simple as our coach is out of ideas and our skipper is out of gas. Add that fact that our best midfielders now have half a dozen competitors that are better than them and we're back being middle of the road.

Out: Harmes In: Hunter I'm not even confident of beating Carlton that's how badly we're travelling. We need 4 wins from the next 7 games.

We’ve lost our dare, we get pressured in our D50 and seem to fumble and mis kick. We no longer have Max waiting to gobble up the quick kick out. I’d love to see them run and move the ball with some dash and maybe that will return.

The issue is we don’t blood enough youngsters. ANB started well yesterday then left, Harmes the same, Spargo and Chandler were off and TMac is not the present or the future. That’s 5 of your 22 not doing much. I’d prefer we play Schache, Turner and one of Laurie or Woewodin, or a bit of both and look to seeing where our list is at. Problem is we should have been doing that since round 1 and I can’t see Goodwin changing things up much from know on. We’re “stuck” at the top and look stale and unadventurous. Surely with Petty out and Turner playing well you get him into the side? How many poor games does Spargo get to play before Laurie has a chance? TMac over Schache? At least Schache can run. (I can’t believe I want Schache in the side but what’s the alternative?)

Sure, but every time we come up against it by a lesser side such as Freo we should be able to withstand it and beat them. We don’t, we roll over and die, starting with Gawn.

Every other team knows that we can’t take unrelenting pressure. We crack and our leader falls over under said pressure

We don’t take the game on. We should be moving it in quickly and if no one’s free we should be kicking it to a contest and backing our team mates to win or halve said contest. Gawn being cooked has left us without a key pillar of our dominance. Grundy has been good but not sure he’s the answer.

Bedford isn’t the answer

Actually our defence is pretty good still

If the Suns go on and win we’ll stay top 4 and keep pretending we’re one of the big boys. Fact is the big boys don’t like us and will kick us out soon enough. We can then go back and play with the middle of the road chaps.

It’s a strong line up

This year should be a strong draft for us and if we can come up with a smart trade or 2 we’ll be back in the game. We need some run and some forward power.

We traded up to get Holmes but Geelong then took the Tiges pick in front of ours

Throw the game plan out. Tell the players to back themselves and run…..both ways. We’re too stagnant. At one point today May marks in D50 and just turns around and kicks it long to a one on one on the wing, it gets squared and help arrives, we win the contest take it forward and kick a goal. At no point did Freo get set. We simply beat them at the contest. If our game is defence and contest then play that way. Go long to a contest, roll in the Calvary and do it again. Keep May as the backstop and sure you’ll lose some. It’s pretty much what the pies do and it’s working. We’re a contest team and we’re damn good at it. It’s like we’re playing against our strengths sometimes