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If Jack Watts comes in at three-quarter time and doesn't do something good against players from the worst team in the competition - all of whom have been working hard for 90 solid minutes, I will be severely annoyed.

How kind of you.

I really think that having a unique game-plan is essential to winning a Premiership, because as others have said, it is very difficult for other teams to counter that with which they have little experience. However, regarding the press, I do think that it's a disadvantage not to apply it ourselves, since if our forwards don't do it at training, our defenders have less experience penetrating it than other teams who have access to the press every single training session. At the moment, we only experience it once per week, whereas every other team has to battle through it each and every training session. Seems like a disadvantage to me.

Liam Jurrah > Legend > Champion > Superstar > Elite > Star > A-Grade > B-Grade > most footballers > hack > spud > publicity recruit.

That was his fault for not making it clear that he was not taking advantage. If we could make it so that players were always clear which team's free kick it was (by having different sounding whistles, for example), then it would be easy for the players to ALWAYS be the sole arbiters of whether advantage is or is not taken. If we brought in a rule like, "It's always play-on unless the next player from that team to intentionally touch the ball clearly raises their hand and signals that they want the ball to be returned to the person who was awarded the free kick," then the problem would be solved, IMO.

What about each umpire having two whistles, each with distinctly different sounds? The umpire blows the whistle designated to the team who gets the free, at which point the player from that team can either take advantage, or opt for the free kick. It's when players don't know which team's free kick it is, that trouble starts.

LOL. Genius.

Gys and Swallow, eh? All we need now is a Dick or Cox. Master Bate might be the key to the whole game, too, so we ought to slip him into the . . . team. I wonder if we'll be playing in the wet.

What the hell? Did Kevin Sheedy hit this guy on the knee with a hammer or something? Total BS.

I honestly rate Hurley very highly. I'd pick him even over Jack Riewoldt, because that's how highly I rate him. Not too mention that Jack Riewoldt is a petulant little b*tch. Jack Watts is underwhelming so far, but he seems to be unlucky more than anything. Just little things like weird bounces not going his way, just dropping marks, his kicks not quite hitting their targets, kicks dropping just at his feet, tackles just not sticking, and so forth.

Over Nine thousaaaaannnnnndddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Exactly. Leaders still lead, regardless of their titles. That's what makes them leaders. Not only that, but all good leaders learn from their mistakes better than most people. We'll just have to see whether Moloney is a good leader in that regard.

Put him wherever the guy who's tagging him is least comfortable. Give the dudes around Davey explicit instructions to protect him. Frawley in the backline, Jamar around the middle, Aussie in the forward-line, etc. Give him every chance to break his tag, because he's important enough to put in the effort to do that.

I'd be so mad that I might just urinate in the very next bar I entered.

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Green - Needed a rocket Jones - Needed a rocket Bartram - Needed a rocket Watts - Needed a rocket Gysberts - Needed a rocket Bennell - Needed a rocket Frawley - Needed a rocket Trengove - Needed a rocket Morton - Needed a rocket Sylvia - Needed a rocket Dunn - Needed a rocket Grimes - Needed a rocket Garland - Needed a rocket Moloney - Needed a rocket Jurrah - Needed a rocket Rivers - Needed a rocket Wonaeamirri - Needed a rocket Martin - Needed a rocket Tapscott - Needed a rocket Davey - Needed a rocket Jamar - Needed a rocket Bail - Needed a rocket Bailey - Thankfully has rockets

No. 44 Rohan Bail.

He seems to be the most generally unlucky player in football at the moment. His tackles just fail to stick, his kicks miss by inches, balls don't bounce quite right for him, and so on.

Way before. They both contributed nothing, but Watts' tackles didn't stick, whereas Dunn's tackles were all over the shoulder. I'd prefer a young guy with good endeavour and good kicking skills over a free-kick giving, no possession getting player who should have stepped up years ago. Dunn should be our sub at best this week..

If he dropped that basic uncontested mark in the first 30 seconds of the game, you might not have remembered it. Look at what Jones did right and what he did wrong. If the good outweighs the bad, then I'd say he's had a good day, regardless of when his errors occurred. Having said that, perhaps he dropped the mark because he couldn't handle the pressure of the situation, in which case your point has more validity.

Except for the fact that if we win against Brisbane, it's because we're playing Brisbane and not any other team.

That is not a very good idea. If Davey gets dropped, then our next most creative player will get tagged. That couldn't possibly be good for our side.

If a team wins every game by 1 point, then they will win the Premiership every year. Therefore, a win is always enough.

6 - Rivers. Started poorly but was great at taking defensive marks on whoever was the target. Should never be allowed to be isolated, and we should focus our entire game around having him playing loose. 5 - Moloney. Excellent clearance work. Easily our best player, when it comes to taking advantage of one of our only real strengths - our ruck division. 4 - Jurrah. Hopefully showed himself what he's capable of WHEN HE TRIES. He's not God, and I hope he realises that. 3- Jamar. Could have absolutely broken the game open if he'd kicked at goal accurately. Around the ground and in the ruck, there's very few better than him in the entire AFL. 2 - Jones. Answered his critics in the third quarter, but one good quarter out of 12 is not enough. 1 - Martin. Has finally adapted to the spot we need him to play in. the Jamar-Martin combo is going to be very good in the coming years. I wonder what we'll do when Max Gawn comes on.

Some people do give him credit. Clint Bizket, you an me in this thread alone. And there'd be thousands of people at the game today who'll be giving him credit, because it is due. Sometimes he's not very good for us. Today he has been.