The Jackson FIX

I’m still waiting for our flag unfurling from the 2019 pre-season predictions.

There are surely financial expectations that should see this idea sink quickly... surely MFC gate is going to be significantly higher if the game is at the G? How do you compensate them? How do you compensate MCC supporters that would have to pay to watch them at Marvel?

Any news on #TomMcDonaldWatch? Going to be hard to win early games if we lose another forward marking option.

Rookie spots aren’t a charity. From what I saw today the gap is too big. Of course they give him advice and if he improves enough (because of it or for other reasons) then we’ll have another dip but you don’t list a bloke because he might be ok.

Best since Neitz... that standing might not last long though given what Trac looks like he is capable of.

Haha I am not bald and there was no ill-intent in my comments, intended in affection only. Apologies if taken that way.

Good to see little Wiz get a goal in the red and blue. Unlikely to get a spot this yr - just too undercooked. Probably sent back to WA with some clear instructions on what he has to work on ahead of next year’s draft.

I know it has been said before, but Rosman looks like he must have gone through puberty when he was 6.

Little Jeff has the same body shape as as his old man!

How good was it to watch full-length quarters of footy again!

Great little period of forward pressure here. Some really good signs in this second half.

My goodness we look good when we are on and move it through the middle. Quick.

Jacko doing really well in ruck contests. Just needs time/ exposure to work on his tapwork

A couple of things to like about Sparrow in this second half

Stupid kick Trac.

Young fella Chand looks like broken hand?

SOJ!

From a very small sample, we seem to be adding an additional short link-kick with this new rule. Ie two smaller kicks to get back in the corridor instead of one slightly longer kick. I think that is smart given our turnover history

VERY difficult to tell which one was Hunt & which one was Langdon

Skills aside; - May/Lever combo looking better every week - desperately need to solve shutting down mobile forwaRd lines - apart from dropping Jones forward for a bit, nothing interesting being tried to cover for the Weid/Brown gap early in the year. Be brave. Oliver deep forward maybe? - Harmes makes us look slow in the middle

My biggest disappointment from today is that there are not enough people at the ground to boo Tom Lynch

Execution and decision making is poor but I think they may be side effects from leather poisoning

Skills always going to be iffy in an early hit out like this but our ability to contain small/mobile forward lines remains a huge concern... based on this performance it doesn’t look like we did enough in the pre-season to address this

Win a flag. That’ll sort our marketing out.