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Great that Chin kicked that but should have handballed that off.

That’s amateur stuff right there.

Very good teams like Brisbane have the ability to rip open games very quickly. We would want to stop the momentum quickly after quarter time or this could get worse than Essendons performance last night.

We are actually going ok, some bad kicking but that’s nothing new.

Great start at set shots there.

This is pathetic from Essendon, I mean I am enjoying it but wow.

I could handle Essendon getting flogged tonight

Pretty uninspiring performance

Is it just my dodgy internet or is anyone else having issues with the broadcast?

Looks to be like JHF when at the Roos can’t wait to get the hell out of his current club.

Is Cal talking about this year or next?

Good luck with that Ghosty.

Yep he has been pretty average tonight.

I find it hard hearing the commentators calling Watson the wizard but he is quickly turning into a very good player.

Well I think he’s pretty good and has a very good future.

Hard to see GC missing finals this year, the way they are playing.

I acknowledge I am a grumpy person but it does my bloody head in that Marvel tenant clubs play home games at the MCG and we have to play a home game at Marvel.

For me if one of the youngsters is remotely close to selection I am picking them in front of one of May, Lever or McDonald if he needs a rest or form drops off. I will probably be on my own here but I am not sure Lever is an automatic choice in our best team anymore.

Overall I think rucks are overrated and the last three premiers have all had below average rucks in the grand final. Not saying the clubs didn’t worry about rucks though But I think rucks like LJ and TDK are incredibly important in the modern game. They are probably two of the most important players at their clubs and I would love either of them at Melbourne.

Why? Don’t we have future picks to play with?

I love your optimism but I just can’t see it happening. I think we are actually heading in the right direction but for me we clearly aren’t fit enough and doubt that is going to change this season. Mentally I don’t think this group is ready to grab and rise to the challenges and overall I think we have too many question marks. I hope you’re right though.

I reckon he is but not in the right direction.

I would say the ladder is a pretty good indicator to judge how our overall training is going. We are currently bottom four and leave ourselves open to criticism for pretty much anything. Particularly we have areas of the game we have seen the same issues for years.

I agree wholeheartedly we need to get some games into some of these younger players. This year is gone we need to be looking at next year and we have some old players in May, McDonald and Melksham who are still going ok but they aren’t playing in our next flag. I would love to see Sestan and Adam’s play quite a few games this year. I know lots of people don’t like Laurie but I don’t think he has been given a fair go to show if he’s up to it or not most of his games have been one game at a time. Would love to see him play three or four games in a row and see if he shows anything.

Super game Cats v GWS