Damo

I so want Swans to win while Ling pours [censored] on Papley for mssing goals and goes overboard with love on Gaz and Selwood. Why have Ling commentate this game? Even if he was only 'special Comments" he goes overboard.

Dean Cox.

As soon as he started talking about the weather again, i switched off. I wonder if other teams actually make their hands sticky and we dont.

All sizzle no sausage. Goes to ground way too easy. Roves to the wrong spots. If he had Spargos smarts he would be a killa dilla.

Max Gawn 3.00 to kick at least one goal. I reckon he will be drifting forward a lot. That miss must have hurt. Combine with Clayton 25+ will pay $6.

I honestly believe the players are being treated softly and given mixed messages. Get the ball inside 35 from goal. It may not be pretty but Take marks that you should. Handball accurately. Kick to the spread position not to a pack. One in, two out in packs. Handball outside the pack. At last training, kick a goal from 35 metres, then go to the rooms. If not go to the back of the line. Once someone has missed 3 in a row, 6AM swim for the whole team. Do it every day till no one misses easy goals. We need Clarkson or my preference, Dean Cox. The man is super intense, you could see it when he played and "rested' on the bench. Always in the game, barking instructions. We need a big change.

the only players i'd list as absolutely keepers would be: may petracca jackson lever gawn oliver langdon rivers Brayshaw I rate almost as highly as Petracca. If it is for J.Cameron Id sell either.

I hope Adelaide win a game as they will for sure ask for an extra pick round one.

Brayshaw - undervalued, wins clinches

OUT: Hannan cannot hit a target. Pickett, runs to wrong spots and cannot keep his feet, just too costly to keep him in.

The dogs have a full list. They still swap players in and out of the side. Goody is very hesitant to make changes because we dont have a long injury list. this shows he thinks our team is finely balanced and a little bit out of luck. And now he has Richo as a yes man. he isnt ready to tough it out without help. Goody is out of his league and push comes to shove too many on this site want him to stay next year.

How do you know?

Cant believe this is not resolved for so long. If Smith had been given half the chances Tom Mac has been gifted in the last 2 YEARS he would be a good tall KP player by now or at least moved on! Toms name is just in indelible ink on the white board. For Fcks sake make a change. Try Oscar! couldnt be worse.

Kozzie has has plenty of time and has had a heap of praise. All sizzle no sausage. He just runs to the wrong spots. Its obvious. Spargo gets to the right spot but is a little fumbley at speed. Bedford looked great early in the year why is he not tried? On a windy day with a hard surface, small fwds should be waxing in, getting goals. We lost because we had many players not running hard enough. Wied just wont chase and Melksham will but never catches, reminds me of Frawley. The other obvious reason we wont go far is we cannot hit targets and we seem to praise each other for "nearly' taking marks. There is not enough acid placed on this team when they lose. Only one side suffered from that wind. Wont take long for the coach to blame conditions. It makes me spew up!

Can someone explain why we cant ask the ruckman to punch it in a certain direction, say towards our goals? Preuss does not have Gawn's finesse and to say to the midfielders I am going to swipe it left, right or forwards must give us forewarning even if it does not come off without a hitch. Doggies midfielders will be expecting the ball to land in the circle as a result of a nil-nil ruck contest and a probable scrum.. i know i loved Strawbs and I havent moved on but why not give it a go? serious question.

We need outside run and small forwards.These can be found or developed. Jeremy Cameron is very expensive. As RFA he would would cost 1.5M at least. It may mean we need to sell off Petracca or Angus. We have 1 or 2 too many great midfielders which will be hard to pay. We would win a flag with Jeremy Cameron in our team like Tigers did with Lynch. They didn't balk when Reivoldt was still kicking goals, as they knew they had to get one of the best. They had small forwards but they came up with the contract and got the chocolates. Time is right, Now or never.

If he is objective he would point out occasionally where we missed a free or how we tried to set up play. he sure points out our oppositions failures to get a free kick. He is obsessed with us not converting inside 50 which stymied him tonight because we did. He brings up good points often as a commentator but could praise us now and again. He was on cloud 9 when Port [censored] on us.

Oliver Petracca Langdon Brayshaw Spargo May

Cant believe how many think the glass is half empty.... wait we are melbourne! Go Dees!

Good call @WERRIDEE

Tell Pruess to punch the ball at ball ups. It would have to help us if we are aware of his intention and help his career. Even if he only plays 1st half at 90% because he gets cooked, it would be refreshing to see and Oliver and Brayshaw would pounce.

Im starting to come around to Ben Brown. He is the right age group and he is solely a FF. But at what cost? If we swapped Weid for Collingwoods 1st rounder would we get anything more than that pick 15-20 to make the deal with North? If just a straight swap, would we need to absorb some of his (as I understand it) large contract? Would we have to add in another player, maybe a midfielder for North to be interested? Brayshaw, Salem? It sounds over the odds for Big Benny but if we are truly needing Brown for a flag and Ben King and Cameron are unobtainable, who else is ready to go and a true Full forward?

Would like to see Tom Mac but it generally means all his opponents in the air are labelled "has great closing speed".

6 - Gawn 5 - Petracca 4 - Oliver 3 - Viney 2 - Langdon 1 - Weideman