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Yeh was a bad game for him, but grundy looked pretty good. In the wet weather surely you plonk gawn 10m out from goal and get the Smalls around him. Leave Grundy in the ruck

Id say the gawn dropped mark was more so

That was pathetic, still tried to handball in the wet. Again we cannot play wet weather footy. Smith had a couple of good weeks but that's his time done. Petracca was well held and hid impact forward of the ball was stopped. Geel played the conditions way better

How big was the smile on your face @binman when you got to say "i told you so" Great win, GREAT win. should have been bigger. not a lot of passengers which was good. Spargo getting subbed out and Oliver/Bowie still to come back in raises the question again about too many small fwds in the side. Thoughts? Tommo and Smith had great games, what happens with Petty? personally i think he is a defender, but Tommo is a better defender than any of our fwd back up options are as forwards. Do we stick with Tommo and put Petty fwd? (Smith holds his spot for now, but eventually i think he will need to be replaced)

Good to see McVee get some love in the media today and get a big pump up from Leigh Montagna (who is one of very few so called experts that I don't mind). Have been surprised about the calls for his spot in the side on demonland. Think we have a real gem there and he is only going to grow more. Who do you think is our next Judd McVee? I think it might be Howes, but we never saw Judd coming so who knows.

This is the win we needed to scratch out the past 2 weeks. Not pretty, but being at the game Blues never really looked like closing tgat gap. Amazing how May looks back to his best which another tall down back, Tommo stays in for mine. Also thought smith played an important role as more of a decoy than a key fwd, and I've never been a smith fan so it has taken a bit to say that. I still think we are maybe playing 1 to many small forwards, thought?

In: Tommo, Hunter Out: Harmes, T-Mac

Big issue this week with our talls, not separating enough and allowing their opponent to impact a contest as the third man. Kane Cornes said he doesn't think we need a second Fwd, we should just play JVR and Grundy/Gawn. Which scares me a bit. Is it possible that the continual changing of out tall fwd set up means there is no connection? Should we after the buy set and forget our fwd line?

40% disp, not very good. ,mind you not alone in the small fwd department

That was an insipid display. fwd entries were horrible, Lever dropped everything that came to him, we missed at least 5 goals from pretty much directly in front. and our hand balling needs to be looked at, either handball 2-3 to many times or we put the ball in the air so our team mate get crunched. And my biggest pet peeve was the amount of times we "carelled" a player and the stop and just ran inside unhindered. Goodwin has an important month ahead, needs to do some work.

I'm not a Boo'r, but have no problem with people doing it, he left the club after 3 years. sure he went home, but it was the $$ that got him there. wasted draft pick and resources on him, they drafted him knowing what he could become and him leaving would have changed the whole recruiting method. Don't care really if people Boo him but some people saying we should applaud him instead is ridiculous !

70s is Low TOG for key position players. So id say they are managing him and he may even have a week off at some stage

Yes which is were we went wrong last yr, as well as a couple of injuries.

I have no idea, but have a sneaky suspicion they are managing his loads for the secon half of the year. would like to know what his time on ground looks like each game in the VFL

JJ is one of my favorites but it is a player we can afford to lose. and it is apparent he doesn't have the game style that goody and the team want. He is a real in and under midfielder and unfortunately with Oliver, Viney, Trac and Sparrow and even Brayshaw he is to far down the order to be able to play the role he is best at. I'd love to see him thrive and if it's at another club then so be it, as long as its not the Dogs, Coll, Ess or Carl!

No, he isn't very good as a fwd. he is ok as a ruck but again not that great. we have 5 fwds that are as good as him.

Correct, although IMO he is the only one that gets to stay in

Out: Oliver, Hunter, ANB In: Sparrow, Harmes, JJ Brashaw into the middle, JJ onto the Wing and Harmes onto the HFF as a mid rotation with Brayshaw, Viney, Trac, Sparrow and Rivers.

Interested to here @binman's take on our small fwds. As I know he loves all of our small fwds. I think we are playing 1 to many, and they are thinking each other will put pressure on and then no one does. All three (Spargo, Kossie and ANB) clock up the KMs and each have something to give. ANB - endurance, Kossie - goal kicking and speed, Spargo - ball use. ANB and Kossie had shocking games on the weekend in a game where the ball spent more time on the deck. No Oliver for a while I think one of those small fwds need to be a midfielder, weather that is a Harmes, Laurie, JJ or someone else maybe.

We need to go to the umpiring department and ask for a please explain! Max and Grundy get blocked, geld and pushed in ruck contests all the time, usually against the 2nd ruck or fwd ruck and it never gets called. I seriously thing they believe that because it's not an actual ruckman they can do what they want to win the Tap

Awesome, thanks for that. Very I interesting that they are printed with the queen on them. Could become valuable in years to come!

Gus is such a good speaker. Petracca is on 360 again tonight too i think

In: T-Mac, Jordon into the 22, i would like to see Howes or Laurie as sub but think it will be Melksham Out: Petty, Sparrow

I can't believe how many people look to smith, he will get gobbled up at AFL level (again). This could be a blessing in disguise, who ever comes in should get this 4 block period to nail that spot. Hopefully they lock it in and petty can return to def, i really think we are missing him back there.

we also had 2 weeks from when we got in to when the game was played that year. Depending on your membership level you just got an e-mail saying which level ticket you wanted. i think there is a ballot too.