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I do love it when I see him dash away with the footy going on a daring adventure that usually ends with a 50m bomb to hopefulness. But... A tall defender's first job is beating his bloke and not the daring dash. Knowing your role is more important than the 'point of difference' that Frost allows with his spurts of excitedness. It is similar to the criticisms of Tom McD and his kicking; he screws up one or two of his 7 kicks? Oh ok, but he has just destroyed the best forward on the other team by doing his job and playing his very important role. That is not to say that I think Frost is anything other than developing well as a tall back, but Lever is a different level and would free up T Mac and also Hibberd with the way he plays his crucial role.

You could argue that for any pick. It is an argument that any discussion over the merits of a deal is folly - not just the Kelly for Salem, Tyson, and Hunt deal.

No, you haven... ooohhhhh, I see what you did there... ... Jon Ralph sucks.

Yes! I did! It's me from ten years ago! Don't trust a word he says, he is a [censored] idiot... I think I was 'number27' without the space...

Ummm, where are the new posters...

Love rumours. Happy to have them. My only comment: It's 'Dees.' It's a C-apostrophe! Haha... ... But, seriously, change it.

Would prefer to lose Frost and Kent than Watts and a pick. I would do the Watts deal for Lever but would want to move on Frost anyway so it would make sense to include him in that deal. IF he decides to come to the Dees of course.

A clear second in contested possessions just behind Adelaide... Look, the numbers will allow anyone to find whatever they want to find if you look at them the right way. I see a team that has been consistent with how it plays and the pressure it applies. However, as CB says - we don't have the balance right and can go for 10 minutes making bad handball after bad handball and when you screw up with that skill - you get hurt. But, we have improved so much on last year, and are lightyears away from what we were in 2014. So we haven't perfected Goodwin's style in Year 1 - we can still do some damage in a couple of weeks time if we have everyone fit and our bottom 6 contribute.

We also were able to isolate him. Pack marking he doesn't do. If we are to do any damage in any finals series in the era of Hogan - it will be a forward line that gets him one-on-one more often than not.

Perfect summation. When Wagner somehow gets handed the footy 40m out from goal I ask myself "what the [censored] are you doing there?!? Where are you playing?! Is someone trying to take you forward to make us ineffectual?" Wagner's dilated pupils with the footy forward of centre fill me with a sense that, maybe, those proposed zoning rules aren't bad after all...

I think he has him now. Just a great team player who usually does exactly the right thing and has enough confidence to do things that some leave to others.

He also had a snap toward the city end that was effing pitiful. He skulks around like he has no confidence in himself. Fake it, mate! You're in the AFL! Nibbler faked it for two years and now he is doing what he thought he could do all along.

The Tigers are a good team and they have an opportunity to play Geelong at what will surely be played at the G in front of 90k predominantly Tigers fans. They are a huge show to be hosting a Prelim. Adelaide will lose to WCE IMO. They will be playing after the Geel-GWS that will settle the minor premiership if anyone cares about that. This means that we will on the tightrope if we lose to the Pies. Exciting. Sorry, I misspelled: Excruciating.

If we absolutely smack them by 12 goals... The Eagles would have to do something similar against the Crows in Perth next week.

Wow. So has Nathan Jones. What kind of a point is that?

If we don't win by enough tomorrow, the Eagles can still catch us if we lose to the Pies. Just sayin.

Nevermind.

If Gold Coast keep this up - we can rest players against the Pies...

Mate, if Jack didn't love footy and playing with that team - he would have quit years ago. You do realise the mess of a footy club you have been following for the past decade?

Well, there you go. It is comforting when the numbers back up my own eyes...

I know you finagled that to get Sydney a top 4 spot so we can avoid them. I know because I have been doing the same thing...

That's a relative statement. Yes, it functioned enough to win but we had 62 Inside 50s and had 26 scoring shots. In our best wins: StK 55 and 30, Ess 55 and 27, WB 54 and 28, Adel 53 and 22, Coll 57 and 29, WCE 47 and 24, PA 62 and 23. There is a lot of noise in those numbers but we were running at a better efficiency earlier in the year. And we have left ourselves a tiny bit exposed in those last two stirring wins with excellent starts that didn't get enough out of the domination. A rough guide would be a shot at goal for every two entries and we didn't get that, so I do believe it can function much better.

This. I honestly do not know why there is so much spite involved with his dip in form and demotion.

Get your dictionary out.