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While pushing can be dangerous as we have seen and I am not a Mansell fan, this is ridiculous. They were wrestling and he pushed him away and then Lynch hits him with an arm I think, clumsily at the end of the contest. How is Mansell meant to see that happening from his action? It wasn’t even a hard push. Because the Saint got concussed they are looking for a player to penalise. Lynch is actually the one who struck and concussed him. Players are punching each other and getting a fine.

Tbh, I think Fritta needs a Casey game more than Howes and I would keep him in the 23 and play him mid/forward. He could even be the sub this week.

You mean like our last 2?

Been saying the same. Not sure about the next year at Casey comment though.

Correct, he wasn’t.

We don't deserve daiquiries atm, more like mashed banana on mouldy bread.

He is great in other areas that we also need and we can carry one poor user of the ball. The problem is he has about 15 mates with the same level of disposal skill.

That's the puzzling thing, we don't have a [censored] list. Yes our injuries have killed us. The Roos and Suns had 1-2 out each, while we were without our quickest and best ball users and then we lose another XL in the first few minutes. We may improve when these guys return, but if not, we are ending up near the bottom and without our first pick.

Something is wrong. Langdon, Rivers, Fritta, Howes and JVR as examples, are playing horribly. JVR dropped 3 chest marks yesterday. Fritta dropped about 3 and missed 3 shots and his tackling is a joke. Langdon is turning over the ball every possession, as is Rivers and Howes is panicking and giving it away too often. What is causing this? We know Viney has poor disposal, but now Oliver and Tracc are turning it over regularly. Max couldn't give a 3 metre handball yesterday under no pressure, that would have given us a certain goal. I repeat, something is wrong, players don't lose all their skill overnight.

It did.

So who is responsible for basic skill errors like our inability to pass, handball, mark, tackle and kick for goal? We are now terrible at all of the above. We are an error riddled team, apparently devoid of any confidence in the game plan, if they even know what it is and each other. There has to be something wrong somewhere.

Interesting they take Knobel when then have Witts, Moyle and Read.

You mean Suns not match fit like Tom Green who with 35 possies was the leader in our game against the Giants. Hope you are right though, this is now a seriously important game for us to get our season going, or possibly watch it fall away early, with the Cats at Cotton On Park next friday.

Not only do we not have a Nibbler or Gus type, we also don’t have a Jordon or Bedford type, who can lock down a mid/forward who is hurting us.

As well as getting Kalani.