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Happy for Fremantle to have him.

Our performance against GWS is more the outlier since half way through last year.

This is quite something.

Noughton having a shocker.

Strange game.

I get your concerns and there is a risk with an aging Melksham but we are an incredibly dumb football team and he helps our footy smarts immensely.

Long may it continue.

Would love CH7 to poach David King.

Surely BYD or Ineos have a few spare dollars about to sponsor us.

We were dreadful the second half of last year, we got what we deserved fixture wise.

Not over yet, the Saints can find ways to lose matches.

Seriously the standard of umpiring since they added the extra umpire is atrocious. It’s getting harder and harder to watch non Melbourne games.

I don’t really get too worked up about team selections. But it does do my head in a little bit watching a club pick a debutant as sub play them for a quarter then drop them. I just don’t think it’s fair on the player, I get it if there is no one else available but that wasn’t the case last week.

I don’t doubt it.

David King is bloody hard work listening too.

Yep very hard to sustain. Their team buy in reminds me of us in 21 though. Very early days of course and hopefully they lose form and can’t find it again.

Hawthorn will [censored] some teams this year. Their pressure and system is very impressive, sadly.

Hopefully a new CEO might get us a shorts sponsor.

I know I am in the minority around here with how we will go this season but despite a lot of positives today we still lost. If we are to make finals this year we can’t afford to lose the close ones. XL with an amazing debut looked like a seasoned pro. Kozzy and McVee could well be two of our three most important players, we lack X factor and a gun lock defender without them. Looking forward to watching the development of our youngsters this year.

How is Gerard Healy still a commentator.

If the Saints don’t improve their pressure they could get hammered today.

Just curious when you think the list is primed for success? I don’t think we will make finals this year but think we will be in better shape next year when a lot of those younger players you mentioned might impact games more.

Hawthorn certainly seem to have a very good system and buy in.

Why is it so slippery?

Very unlikely the team lines up that way but the backline looks unbalanced to me.