TheWiz

Time to hang up the boots Ben. Very disappointing past three games. Just lumbers about and barely breaks a mild jog. West Coast: 99 minutes for 3 touches, 1 goal and 1 tackle. Brisbane: 97 minutes for 4 touches, 1 goal and 0 tackles. Adelaide: 82 minutes for 5 touches, 0 goals, and 1 tackle.

I think Carlton are close to #1 on goals for centre clearances, but 2nd worst at goals outside. Collingwood beat them by exploiting this by having goal side players and forcing stoppages. We just blatantly bombed it in to outnumbered forwards and got punished on the rebound.

Viney was the only one from start to finish. Thank goodness.

This is the most pathetic forward 50 display I’ve ever seen. Billings - 4 touches Fritsch - 3 touches Petty - 1 touch Pickett - 1 touch JVR - 7 touches and not one in our 50 Inside 50s - 28 to 20 our way, and not a single score from any of them. The ball is being walked out. Everyone else is pulling their weight. No matter how good your midfield and defence is you can’t counter the ball being rebounded out so quickly.

4 minutes into the game and he’s yet to touch it!! Up there with his mate Petty!!

5 minutes go in the second quarter and he’s yet to touch it!!

You can do it mate. Just remember- this will be your biggest test… if you can do this you can do anything!!

We’re winning inside 50s 16 to 12 and we don’t have a single score. Are you actually kidding me. This is pathetic.

Disappointed he isn’t wearing those sunnies…

The one thing that all my Essendon mates say is “we have a young list, what do you expect - we’ve just got to put games into them”. It’s rubbish. Shout out to @WheeloRatings, but Essendon are at the AFL mean (25.9 years) and only 0.2 years younger than us, which isn’t that impressive when you think we have Ben Brown (31), TMac (31) and Gawn (32) playing. Absolutely time for the focus and commentary on their culture to be turned up.

“Silky” McVeee… strong!

In 5 days they’ve done 549 km 638 disposals 122 tackles 49 scoring shots … and 2/2 wins - so bloody good Go Dees

The AFL has completely butchered umpiring. Umpires have been calling to get rid of the bounce due to injuries and mental health since 2014, the AFL changed their training and they no longer train together or have access to a gym, and they abuse they cop is back because it’s clear that dissent is not a rule anymore this year. This is against the backdrop of footy being short of 6,000 umpires.

Great thoughts. Do you see any merit in Tomlinson back in for TMac going forward?

First scan post the Port game is in…

Spot on WYL. A lot of clubs don’t know how painful it is like we do. We had to endure two expansion clubs and free agency in our rebuild. If you’re rebuilding in 2027-29, it’s going to be very challenging. It’s tough to rebuild a list, it’s even tougher when all the available talent - young and old (like Scully and Frawley) - gets sucked out.

For some context, at the time he had 3 children under 2, including two with autism, and no family support.

No change for me. Woey was a great injection of speed, but I think we’d need Billing’s clean disposals / fwd 50 entries for this game. Milera out is a big loss for Adelaide, so I think we should have some forward advantage over their depleted backline. TMac should go to Tex to leave Leaver as the intercept. I feel for Max. ROB is a tough opponent, so after a 5 day break I wouldn’t mind if we shared some of the rucking duties around. Adelaide has uncharacteristically poor disposal efficiencies at the moment. Keep the midfield pressure on. Leave Crouch alone as he doesn’t always take the best options and man up on Dawson who should be their best player. Laird is elite so not much we can do there.

Mid way through the 4th quarter he did a late bump on Rozee from behind. It was paid as a downfield free kick and Rozee did look like he had some wind knocked out. When I saw the replay it didn’t look too bad. More body on body and a bit towards the side and back. A second later I think it would be more of an issue, but I would be surprised if he was suspended for it.

What a ripper of a game. Just like Jack - tough and gritty. Well deserved! 🔴🔵

Howes… 4 disposals (all uncontested), 3 turnovers and 1 free against Literal dead weight

They keep running Brown under the footy. Put someone out the back of the pack. Worked for Fritsch’s first goal

Salem has to work harder. First touch midway through the 2nd quarter isn’t good enough

They only one I knew was Doedee (partly because of the unusual name) who they lost to Brisbane last year!

They need to get rid of Crouch. Gets a lot of it, but doesn’t play to their strategy and always puts the ball into a worse position. Cannibalising Dawson who is a much better user.