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Trac as captain may rub a lot of the playing group the wrong way. Hopefully the player vote is somewhat unanimous if that is to be the case.

What about Smith's unprovoked hit to the head of Impey with the footy, while he had his back turn. At least Nash was in the field of play and he clumsily knocked Miers out. Smith should be graded as intentional and low impact, which I believe is a 1 week suspension. How else can it be graded?

No winners in footy today

A ‘not 15 mark’ met by a tackle is never HTB unless it’s Geelong.

A bee in my bonnet is when an opposition player follows another through the protected zone then proceeds to engage with the player with ball. This should be an automatic 50 even after called to play on. The player should be required to clear the protected zone before re engaging if he enters the protected zone.

So Oliver is our most highly rated player? Why doesnt it feel like that? Also Windsor suffering 2nd year blues..but with the injury interrupted pre-season, one can be forgiven. Hopefully he builds up some form.

Given its an absolute free reign on some of these NGA prospects, does any know why Tarion Ah-mu doesn't qualify for it? Have they actually given a solid reason as silly as it maybe?

It’s like a golfer who constantly slices - they’ll aim further Left (RH golfer) to compensate and the sub consciously realise they need to leave the face open otherwise it’s going way left and the issue is compounded. The flaw is the technique. For Max run straight at the man and kick over him. There is an argument to be had that his height of ball drop probably doesn’t compensate for the rotation of the earth (sorry flat earth era) hence the shankery we see.

I’ll just leave this here for future reference. Tommy, if your trolling… eat 💩

Saints don’t have a midfield. Why bother spending 1.5+ large on TDK. If I was them I’d be looking for inside midfielders. What the hell has happened to Jack Steele.

The pressure points were a bit lower than expected, still sub 200, which means it can be even better.

Yeah that setup was very interesting...giving him total space in F50 to roam free. Only works when the oppo doesnt have a suitable match-up, which most teams wont.

To me this highlights that defence is not really decided by the back 6. It shows that a bit of pressure up the field goes a long long way.

Kozzy 6 Bowey 5 Gawn 4 Petty 3 Viney 2 TMac 1 *Unlikey to Miss: Chandler, Langford and Rivers

Their young team will struggle on a 5 day break.

Better they get it out of their system this week. I think Yze would have got them up against their former coach and departing players

That’s totally fudged… no way we can fire him this year, we wouldn’t be able to recover. I suppose we just have to keep going and hope that today was the start of a good run.

Real fizzer in Adelaide

Possibly but we had more effort in the f50 today. Petty plays the role better than JVR and I thought the absence of Fritta allowed us an extra small to put pressure when the ball hits the ground. Fullerton didn’t do much but competed and bough ball to ground. JVT and Fritta often get caught out of position and the turnover is very damaging.

No ruckman is smashing it atm

You could see we were pressing up just about 10m too high and Freo were super good rebounding off a defensive turnover. They are top 4 in the AFL at this so not surprised that they did this well.

I think at face value those two have been contributing to our woes. Not solely responsible, but the forward line functioned better without them today. I hope they are made to earn there way back.

Top 4 chances?

30m?

We going to cough this up. Fitness ??????