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Yeah, if we give Freo the time and space (read: lack of pressure) we gave Essendon, it’s a 15+ goal loss guaranteed. Freo have considerably more dangerous players than the dons. Over to you Dees! Harass the living [censored] out of em

No comma after ‘like’ but one after ‘mean’. You are out of control.

I just want milk that tastes like real milk. And forwards leading to the ball carrier. And said ball carrier kicking it to the advantage of that leading player. Just fundamental Aussie rules football stuff ya know? Not even elite, just fundamental. I feel like I’m at my local, asking for a pint of beer and the barman is like ‘oooooft, unmmm yeah look, we don’t actually do glasses here, best I can do is a dinner plate or beer’

Absolutely he does. Don’t disagree at all

Mmmm, that’s game

Starting to think this Maynard chap isn’t well liked

[censored] hell Brisbane don’t let these bastards win

Lol. 77 meters.

This is fun

They look identical, haha

Haven’t seen Brissy this year, let’s see what this Ashcroft kid is up too

Ok cool! Don’t mind it. Fascinated to see if there’s more leading towards the ball carrier

Hunner percent

Contrary to what I’ve said earlier about him…. The one defence (pardon the upcoming pun) I will put of Bevo with his list over the years, is he never had a strong defensive back 6 to work with. I think the only defenders (albeit, attacking type defenders) to get All Australians whilst under Bevo, are Macrae, Bailey Dale and Caleb Daniel. Matthew Boyd was the only defender in their 2016 premiership year to get one and he was on the interchange. Easton Wood won a spot in 2015, Bob Murphy also 2015. Easton Wood played a few years really well as a full back type player, but put him in Tigers/Geelong/US/Brisbane/Pies team and he is a 2nd maybe 3rd string defender. Never had a Rance, Grimes, McGovern, Stewart, (Blicsavs even!), May, Harris Andrews, Sam Taylor to work with. (Couple of pies defenders I won’t name because gross). So now I’m convincing myself that he’s gone alright, haha

It’s really a matter of representing the best 2 out of 3 primary colours. Always has been. Yellow, pffft, please.

Does she know how scoring works? ‘No no, the lower score the better, look at us go!’

Cornes said last year we still have $10 million left to pay over 6 years of his contract. Averages out to $1.6 million a year. Just say for no reason, that Cornes was wrong and it’s $8 million left. Averages out to $1.3 million a year. Yikes.

Yeah fair enough, strong points. I guess that’s a part of my point though, we can definitely limit teams scoring, that has never been our issue, we can’t score enough, even when winning inside 50’s constantly. If we don’t fix this, we’re just rinse and repeating the last few years IMO. We’ll have close games for sure but the better teams will find a way to score when they need to. The scores against us this year I put down to how unacceptably poor our pressure is across the entire ground. So naturally, teams are going to score more when they are allowed time and space to execute what we’ve given them. I remember hearing an interesting stat on SEN a while ago, which was 17 out of the last 18 flags have been won by teams in the top 3 for scoring from the back half. So yes, we need good defence, good movement from the back half, but it all counts for nothing if we just give the ball back in our F50 with garbage entries. And thus we get to the crux of the issue: our entries are rubbish and ineffectual, our forwards look lost, our small forwards offer very little pressure (whole team issue) and we still can’t score enough. I agree wholeheartedly about the players you mentioned that need the ball in their hand also. They have to be delivering inside 50, so play them in the best positions to do that. Tracc/Viney/Oliver have to get them the ball on the outside and they have to be on the outside. That 3 as a combination should also be finished. Invest in the younger guys.

But didn’t we do this exact thing last year? Return to defensive play to mitigate scoring and thus just lessen the amount we’d lose by? Unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean (Our pressure on the opposition has to increase BIG TIME across the ground.)

‘Leadership group being United as I’ve ever seen them. They’re connected off field better than they’ve ever been.’ Yeah… If I’ve learned anything over the last few years, it’s that anytime someone from the club says something is the ‘best ever’, I immediately know there’s issues with that thing.

I like the idea of Enright. Played and coached in the most stable and consistent era of possibly any club in history. Coached under Scott and is now under Ross Lion. The guy has been surrounded by success for decades so knows what it looks like. Doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be an unbelievable coach, but you’d think he would have a good insight into what standards are required for stability and consistency. I feel like Bevo is a coach of extremes. His strengths are very strong and his weaknesses are very weak. But ultimately, I don’t look at his record and think ‘get him immediately’.

It escalated so quickly, haha, loved it

No comma after an introductory ‘What I can assure you of’... disgraceful. Disgusting. Egregious even. Worst letter ever.

Yeah fair points. Looks to not have the strongest hands. But I oscillate between: Does he not have the ability to perform long run or is trying to develop as a young key forward in this team extremely difficult and a confidence killer? The vast majority of players haven’t improved/gone backwards so that points to an overall issue. You could very well be right in that marking indicates he won’t make it, but scoring goals also isn’t nothing. Especially in this very very low scoring forward line. I’d just give him more time personally. Starting by putting him back to VFL and see how he goes.

I’ve seen this game before. It’s Port. Haha