Chook

Can I just say that might be the smartest, most well rounded post I have read on any forum ever. Totally agree.

Someone like . . . Deanox?

I just hope we're not 50 points down at half-time. Cause then we won't even have a chance of winning.

This means that Brock McLean could still win the Demonland b&f despite missing the last 7 rounds.

To ask how many people here were actually at the game. I'd have thought that was pretty obvious.

That's Rich.

One thing I think was really positive is that we kept the Dogs to their lowest score of the year. We also did this without sacrificing much of our own scoring power. Indeed, we only scored a few less that last time.

I was there, about eight rows back in the cheer squad, 3.5 meters between each goalpost, as I am at every game. I reckon I was the loudest there, and it's a shame. I'm sitting in the cheer squad, so I would hope all the guys and girls around me would be at least as loud as me. I mean, at one stage I heard a group of Doggies supporters admonishing us as "the Silent Cheer Squad." But that's okay, each to his own.

Yeah, I was right behind him in the cheer squad when he kicked it and was quite blown away. I reckon our kick-in strategy should be for Wheaters to kick to a pack situation in the center-square, whose only goal is to create a spoilage type situation with crumbers such as Davey and Wonaeamirri standing in a smart position. This maximizes Paul's thumping kick, as well as Flash and Aussie's strengths. It also makes turnovers from kick-ins less immediately dangerous.

Give him three more weeks in the side, and if you still think he sucks, then talk about delisting him. Remember Colin Garland.

To be honest, I just picked a name. Maybe you're right, but I still think that we rate our own more highly than other clubs do - and that's to be expected. It's just that I've heard opposition supporters and also commentators praise Brucey far higher than I think he deserves.

Of course you do. But then, the more things you say, the greater the likelyhood that at least one of them will be right.

Didn't you say that's what we should do if we finish 14th?

The wierd thing about Cam Bruce is that I reckon other clubs rate him higher than we do. Usually it's the other way around. I guarantee that 90% of opposition club supporters have never heard of Cale Morton, for example.

Oh. Okay. Silly me.

The fact that we finish last and still pick a player whom few people regard as worthy of pick no. 1.

Yeah, and he's kicked something like 2.4/2 oof and 4.2, hasn't he? I think he's also shown an increased work ethic too. But I don't think the Dogs are the team to play him against. We need a lot of forward pressure against them, so I wouldn't bring him in.

That's great, although I wonder where Brad Miller is.

Is that because we love our players too much, or because they're actually good?

A guy named Justin Sherman

Well that's just awesome!

Did you even watch the game? Every time he got the ball, he passed it off to a player running around the back, knowing that if he did kick it, he'd turn it over. That's smart. Knowing your limitations is a fantastic quality. The only time I can remember him butchering the ball, is when he didn't have a player to palm it off to. Instead of getting the support he needed from his team-mates, he kicked it out on the full. If he'd had help, he would have been responsible for yet another positive forward thrust - as he was all day.

Or he is good. Why can't we leave it at that? If he was a giant with all the right attributes, you'd probably be lamenting his not living up to his potential. As long as Wonnaeamirri isn't stealing goals from other players, I'm happy with however many he kicks.

Can I just say also that that Bruce goal must have been a grand total of two centimeters from touching the post. As soon as he kicked that, I knew we'd win.