The Jackson FIX

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.

Oliver’s contract feels like it’s going to be the most overcooked, most annoying storyline of the year.

I worked pretty closely with hq (as a sponsor) for about 5 years and had never seen an organisation with so much unnecessary fat. That changed last year though, I think they slashed about half of their workforce

Less enthusiastic about him ruck/forward but could give us flexibility to play May forward if we’re struggling in that area.

Eddie might not have bad intentions but he did not have the awareness and tone he needed to display as the influential figure he is. When Eddie felt compelled to reel off his own achievements in the presser today, I couldn’t help but feel that a smarter, more appropriate leader would’ve just said ‘I’m sorry, I haven’t been as good as I could have been’ and left it at that. Onwards/upwards for Collingwood and the rest of us.

Sadly, in an extreme right-wing Donald Trump world I’m sure he has plenty of admirers.

I’m a Spargo fan. He started to show he could be the link player we wanted ANB to be. The depth of his boot isn’t a myth though. It has been an issue. Perhaps he is improving in that area but to say it is a myth is inaccurate.

RoCo is unhinged. Unstable at best. Viney has a red switch. Those two will end up in a punch on with each other one day.

I don’t believe we have the mental strength to string together a consistent season that results in threatening for a flag but I do agree with the point that there is more depth and capability in parts of the ground than we’ve had for a while. Small back/one wing/small frwd my only real question marks at the moment - I reckon in prior years I’ve had a LOT more question marks

Surgery. Doh.