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As much as the last 2 weeks have need pretty ordinary, i actually thought Tuesday night we competed, we fought for most of the night. I honestly believe its a confidence thing and that can change. But thinking longer term i really believe we need to find a way to get back into R1 of this years draft, i think its critical actually and we must do whatever it takes, as what is being shown up at the moment is that we still lack a genuine game breaking mid, Oliver is a beauty and Petracca may get there, Viney is obviously a gun, but we need better class. So how do we do it? Suggestions welcome...

I think Tim Smith must be seriously in the frame.. i did hear a little whisper late last week.. didn't play Casey.. can anyone clarify if he is in fact injured?

Liam Jones was only ever a failed forward until he was tried down back. I dont mean for him to replace Oliver and play there permanently, but get him in the play.. get some spark. Anyway, seems like you know best so lets move on.

Petracca needs a rocket. He cant coast through games and he is represents our team.. his form is good when we are up and about.. people may not like it but he is a flat track bully at the moment.. he is better than that In saying that: IN:Hunt - Play him on ball, get him in the game / Pedo - No Brainer / Hannan - Natural footballer OUT: Melksham - to dumb runs away from where he should go / Bugg - no Footy IQ / Harmes: tries but limited.

His concussion issues are a big factor in play here. Goes under radar of other more public concussion sufferers..but make no mistake, its cruelling his game.

Still think TMac loss is hurting us badly. He leads up at the ball, creates space in the F50. Our entries are very ordinary. We are winning enough ball, we get it in there enough, NO 1 in comp i think, and while it seems we do score, i think it can be a lot better.

Jeffy looked disinterested and timid when around the ball. Hi stays in but on notice i reckon

we had many passengers and still should have won ( Melk / Nev / Lever / Jeffy - all pretty ordinary) Oliver & Gawn combo may become the best in the comp didn't panic at half time - made changes to get us back in the game.

Would we rather Ablett not play or Viney not play? Frankly i would rather Ablett plays and if Viney isn't 100% then he doesn't. marathon season, not a sprint.

Makes sense to me.. actually has great goal awareness.

Those hls show what a great player Lyon was when fit.. silky, quick, great hands. We should have won 1990.

Yeah apologies, he did.. think he missed recently with a hammy though?

Looks like Jeremy Cameron will miss again this week.. Hammy. No Greene no Cameron.

yeah from a source.

Oscar and JKH will play i reckon along with Hogan.. i dont expect to see Pedo in the team..

What a load of absolute rubbish.

I think if you don't know the full story, then its a bit rich to take the moral high ground. The problem is to many people think what happened with the Billy thing was a criminal offence, when in actual fact it was just a personal issue that was played out publicly. But we all have the right to judge i guess, just lets keep the battles with mental health out of it, its very real and it has been ongoing for a while.

I can confirm that James Hird will not be involved with SEN, either in the Morning show with Garry, or calling on a Friday night. Just an FYI. And also, people having a crack at Garry's "Mental Health" issues should just have a think about it.. keep the thoughts to yourself, feel free to lambast him for decisions made in the past, but i think its in very poor taste to question someones illness. Thats all.

Gaz has been sorely missed in the media and it will be great having him back Talking footy. Will declare that i know him well and it that has been a tough year for him, but he is doing well.

I reckon we will push hard to swap a Future 2nd rounder for Hibberd and keep 26... in fact I know that's what the Dees will offer, remains to be seen if Ess want that or this years. Hopefully our next year's 2nd pick is high 30's!

Forecast is for rain.. Michie is s mud runner, will be good in conditions, probably explains 1 less tall?

oh look, another smart alec.. we don't have enough of these!

Very interested to hear that Wayne Carey will spend some time with Jesse Hogan over the coming weeks. I believe Goodwin is behind it and its very much a Football mentoring role.. some instructional work.. forward line movement. I think its a good move, a bit unlike Melbourne, but its Goodwin again on the front foot.

Don't watch it much at all, usually scroll through till I get the news bit from Barrett, then I'm out. But Good luck to her, at the end of the day, its another Job, high pressured and scrutinised a lot. I actually find the most balanced footy discussion show to Be Talking Footy on 7mate. not a massive wrap on the panellists, but they don't scream over each other, they don't contrive arguments, they are not journo's, so you actually get footy talk that you can listen to, again, don't always agree with them, but its a watchable show.

Simple.. Competitors.. thats what we are building, a team that will just keep having a crack.. its what some of our better teams have been built on in the past. I love it. There will be enough class in the side, but give me a team of bulls and heart anytime. As for the Weid? well, big boys take a while, so we will not know for a while. But i cannot wait to see us attack teams next year. Jayden Hunt could be an x-factor in our side, genuine outside pace, will be interesting to see how he progresses. 2016 might be the year we see a team that is capable of playing Finals sooner rather than later.