Redleg

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Saw an article that said according to the author, he was staying or coming to the Dees.

If the AFL website article is correct, he is either staying or coming to us. Other clubs seem to be out of the picture.

Didn't put his body behind the ball a couple of times and hacked at it, but agree he was good and was clearly the backline general.

Two wins for the Dees yesterday, in two different states.

Didn't notice the umpires at all last night, so they get a tick from me.

With another pre season and knowing he is in our best 22, it will make him an even better player for us.

Yes the cake is banana cake.

Big game on this weekend, Casey v Roos.

This can add to your distress. Against Port we had twice as many F50's than Port did. We did not receive 1 single free kick in our F50 for the whole game. That means that not 1 single infringement by Port was deemed to have happened by the Umpires. That is just unbelievable when we have double the F50's of an opponent. To make matters worse, a doubtful mark and goal was paid to Wingard and a couple of 50's and goals were handed to Port. None were given to us and a goal was taken off Melksham for a man on man block, as called by the umpire, which doesn't exist and then a mark was taken off Brayshaw 20 out, directly in front, in the last 5 minutes of the game.

12 goals to 1 against us, from frees and 50's, in the last two games we lost, by 10 and 2 points .

You don't believe he has off field issues? You might need to start believing. While he could be picked on previous performances, it wouldn't be on current form.

Maybe his best is behind him, or like Cyril he has off field issues.

And also into Sloane.

Portable goal posts at one end for a while would solve it. I have two sets in my garage.

I am with you. There is more to it than player blame.

Must be out of them, as the banana never lets you down.

Well is another season about to completely unravel?

With Oscar, a returning Lever, a developing Petty, Frost and Keilty and the shorter pinch hitting Smith, we are ok for key backs.

What are you talking about, this is not a personal development seminar. It's a football club.

Agree Bin and that is why I have been banging on on DL for the last few years, to get rid of our ball butchers, as they start most of our troubles. We have recruited the hard body contested players , just about totally at the expense of some skillful and quick players, who can also apply defensive pressure.

There seems to be a " do one thing wrong and you are gone" policy with us. Billy and Frost seem to be victims of it, being given 1 game each I think this year and dropped after an error or two never to return. I wrote on here several times not to let Dunn go, who was also a victim of the policy apparently. He has certainly fitted in well and added to the 2nd team on the ladder, up until his ACL on the weekend. I am not worried about Oscar who will continue to get stronger and better and who bar 1 -2 games has been good. One of our Coaches who coached at the Dogs, dumped Higgins, who is now a Brownlow contender at the Roos. They don't know everything clearly, but sometimes they take a line and refuse to budge, no matter what is happening. We seem to have developed a fairly slow list and with Hunt out and Jeffy in poor form it is much worse. I said over summer we needed more pace, skill and spread from players who can also apply defensive pressure like a Daniel Rioli. IMO we need to make that our main priority. A Saad or Matthew Whelan type in the back half would also be helpful to allow us to turn defence into attack the way the 3 teams who have just beaten us did.

With Hunt and Jeffy playing good footy, we are a far more formidable team. ATM we are probably the slowest team in the AFL.

Jack Trengove 13 8 21 8 0 3 2 4 0 0 92 Fair game.

Looks like Gaff is no chance then.