Bring-Back-Powell

Agree. He didn’t seem to bothered after the game. I assume he’ll play next week. Small sample but it was Petty’s best game of his career.

Not sticking up for Weed as he has issues but Keilty wasn’t up to the standard in his 2 games. May return if T Mac’s our for weeks.

On a hiding to nothing today. We win and they’ll say we beat a Cripps less and Curnow less Carlton, and our coach will embarrass himself with his emotional hugging and embracing of all 22 players, like he’s done with all our other mediocre wins this year. Lose, and we’ll rightly cop it left, right and centre.

And was bloody emotional after our Geelong final win. I reckon MFC is his number 1.

Gerard and Slobbo have promised to open up AFL 360 on Monday with a Melbourne lashing if we get done tomoz. Make no mistake, this year has been an absolute disgrace. There has to be casualties at the end of the year. And our head coach must surely be put on severe notice if we win just 0-2 games for the rest of the year. I keep defending our off season surgeries but apparently West Coast had 14 themselves and are now flying and probably flag favourites.

I wouldn't bet on us fighting tooth and nail from Sunday right through to the final siren at Blundstone Arena. Our club hasn't exactly got a fantastic track record of giving it their all every week, 100% of the time.

Would fit perfectly into our one-way unaccountable down skiing midfield.

Any chance we could also get his older brother as steak knives?

And probably a few weeks after that if he's strained or torn it.

Agree with the OP. Even O Mac, Spargo and JFK could've provided more than what our 3 tall fwds did last week.

He had an uneventful JLT series. Must have tweaked it at training before round 1....

There's also the motivation levels that may come into play. If we're a couple per cent off the opposition in terms of desire then that will go a long way to losing all those games. You could already see the desire drop off dramatically in the second half against a finals bound Brisbane when Hipwood jagged all those goals late in the 3rd qtr. West Coast, Richmond and Collingwood will all be hungry for top 4 spots where as we'll be playing for a bit of pride. I don't see those games going well. St Kilda have returned to the shallow end of the pool so I'd be hoping we can exact a bit of a revenge in that rd 19 game.

It’s annoying that it regularly takes a bad performance and a bit of media scrutiny to garner a response from the side. A sign of a really poor club.

It’s an indictment on this year’s squad that we’re going to struggle to match the 2015 squad’s achievement of 7 wins. A squad that regularly featured whipping boys such as Bail, M Jones, McKenzie, Toumpas, Dawes, Michie and Newton.

Please let both of these players be once in a generation type players.

I think our entire forward line is a shambles. We may have kicked less goals in other games this year, however last week (V Brisbane) our forward line was at it's most dysfunctional. Our entire forward line is a real concern going forward, and certainly agree with the OP that our list is sorely lacking a competent small forward.

I would hope the last player highlighted would be an answer to our problem given that he cost us 2 first rounders and we are 18th for points against.

Given that Carlton has a better percentage than us and has performed no worse than us this year I don't really see how a loss to Carlton changes anything in this disgrace of a season. Our coach has a longer contract afforded to him than the queen of England so he ain't going anywhere. Would just be another of a long list of shameful losses. If any action should have been taken, it should've been after St Kilda beat us by 40 points on our turf. That was as low as it gets.

Great effort compiling that list. Had no idea we actually played a practice match at Boronia in the early 90's!

How short were those goal posts! I've seen taller posts at the local under 6's game.

Kent to miss rest of season with quad injury.

The fact they got 13 consecutive games out of him is a minor miracle.

At the 29 game mark for each player (sauce - afl tables) Schwarz - 27 goals Weideman - 25 goals

I get that those in-game injuries really helped us, but if Freo were good enough they still could've beaten us despite being 2 players down. Many clubs have won games with 2 men down - as recently as round 12 when Sydney were down to one on the bench against West Coast.

Our average was inflated by our Port rd 1 game of 40K when all the red and blue army had premiership dreams. Play that game this week and we'd be lucky to get 23K and would be below St Kilda on the OP's table.