Chook

Worst on Ground so far (3 votes is worst): 1. Colin Garland. Not hard enough at the football. Goes in with one hand too often. 2. Jack Watts. I know he's young, but for the amount of time he's on the ground, I can count the good things he's done this year on one hand - which incidentally is the number of hands he goes in with. 3. Lynden Dunn. Layed about 4 or 5 head-high tackles, and is apparently deaf. Slow, no run and is generally not damaging in any way. Best on Ground so far: 1. James Frawley. Anyone who says this guy does not give us run from defence is an idiot. Wins the ball in the backline, runs 15 metres and kicks in 30 - 50 metres himself on a consistent basis. Just awesome. 2. Mark Jamar. Destroying them in the ruck, and winning the ball at gound level. Disposal around the ground is miles better than just a couple of years ago, and if it weren't for his poor kicking at goal, he'd be easily BOG. 3. Liam Jurrah. When this guy is interested, he is absolutely awesome. Has probably contributed to 75% of our goals this game. Has anyone noticed how much slower Brad Green is this year. He seems to have bulked up and it has not worked for him at all, IMO. Remember that percentage is not likely to matter for us this year, given the draw we had, so as long as we win this game, I'll be satisfied. Particularly since we'll need to play well for the next half to do so.

Two contested possessions on the week-end. Two! For a guy like Nathan Jones, who's on the bottom of every pack, that's just not enough.

Actually, all of those rules are there to make players fatigued, so that impact injuries are decreased. There's a difference between speeding the game up (which the AFL likes) and speeding the players up (which the AFL does not like).

He reckons that Andy McKay is so conflicted that his "opinion" is likely to be heavily influenced by what the AFL thinks, and thus that reading his article would be a waste of time.

He should go wherever the guy who's tagging him is least comfortable. If Davey can't break a tag, maybe Bailey can break it for him.

Ah. New plan. Draft every player capable of beating Jack Watts. With all of them on the same team, Jacquie might actually perform well, since he has no competition. I kid! I kid!

Bingo. Small muscly bald man =/= good at in-and-under.

Wow. You must have gone to all his Casey games to make that kind of categorical statement.

I find it so hard to believe that those two statements could both be true that I wouldn't be surprised if the universe collapsed in on itself from the sheer unliklihood of it all.

Seems like he gave you a reason. And a good one at that. Maric does not appear to try as hard as he might. Tackling, chasing, running, kicking opportunistic goals. These are things a small forward must do. Maric only tries (and fails) at one of those.

Have to agree with this. Bhima, your work is great, but in a game like footy, percentages can be misleading. Sheer numbers are more significant than ratios.

No one wants to admit it, but I think we all know he can be lazy.

Maric, Jones, Jetta. Done.

It is. It was called correctly in the West Coast-Port Adelaide game (why I'd be watching that is beyond me). A guy took a mark just inside the boundary, on the run. Continued his run and went off his arc. By the time he did, he was out of bounds. "Razor" Ray Chamberlain called him on it and there was a ball-in.

Might want to give the phrase "at the present time" a bit of a rest, though. You could start a drinking game counting that catchphrase.

That he's smart enough to know where to go when he wants a larf.

I lol'd.

I like this criticism of Grimes because if there's one thing I don't want, it is for him to become our Nick Maxwell: Absolutely pumped up in the media, but in reality a 1-trick, 3rd-man up, pony with little real ability under pressure. I think Grimes could be much more than that, as long as he continues to improve.

I have a feeling this guy's going to get the McKenzie treatment from the brains trust over at the Rising Star department.

I have a feeling this guy's going to get the McKenzie treatment from the brains trust over at the Rising Star department.

After Lance Franklin had out-marked Colin Garland in a wrestle, Brad "the Genius" Johnson goes " Buddy would win 9 out of 10 of those." I'm like "Hey doofus, there's been three of those so far, and that's the first one he's won. Looks more like 3 out of 10 of those to me." In other words, Judy's a gun and I hope he's okay. EDIT: Don't you hate it when the commentators go "so-and-so's coming off with a knee." I would hope that everyone comes off with two knees. You'd think it'd be unlikely that they'd lose one while playing.

Clubs like Richmond, you mean? Sacking coaches is not usually the best move.

Are you joking? I thought he was pretty measured in his praise and criticism. Talked it up as a really important game and rightly criticised our leaders (Davey in particular) when we went to sleep.

If you had a shag every week, then after 3 1/2 years, don't you think you might have picked up a thing or two?

He can't help it that whenever he gets the ball, all his team-mates decide to play a vertical game of dead fish. Our guys do not move from kick-ins. The criticism I do have is the mentality that it's okay to casually jog over and pick up the ball when you're on kick-in duties. When the opponents kick a behind, he should SPRINT to that bag of balls and pick it up, then SPRINT to the goal-square, at which point everyone else within 50 metres of him should SPRINT in unison, to provide some sort of options.