Bates Mate

Milked our should I say melked that 50

Good on ya weid. F U Bulldogs

I forgot about freekick Bulldogs

Weid started well

Alice is a home game we choose to play away from the G. Two six day breaks coming into next week away against the Dockers isn't ideal. They travelled this week and would be flying back today so not a massive advantage to them. We have a day longer break against the pies and 2 day longer break than the Blues the following week. Swings and round abouts

Go watch last year's Grand final if you think he's easily replaceable. Bloke is heart and soul

BBB had 8 marks ,2 goals and could've been 3-4, Fritsch 15 disposals 4 scores . Melksham had 7 tackles and contributed to at least 2 goals. Id say he did the job he was asked against port. I've been a big critic of his but he can do a good defensive role on a medium to tall defender , and he is also has the ability to deliver better than most into our forward line. People are upset we are not trying a rookie in jvr and potting Melksham for his game on the weekend really don't get it.

Melksham couple of great tackles and involved a couple of goals. Offers more than Bedford has the last few weeks. Petty is a better player than thommo it's pretty straight forward

worth a listen, Daisy is a class act and talks through the hunt , dermie comments with measured logic and eloquence.

I'm mostly underwhelmed by Weid as well but he has shown he can at least create a contest at AFL level , and on occasions been better than serviceable. Jvr will get his chance next year. He has shown glimpses but hardly banging down the door will multiple bags and dominating at VFL. If we choose to go tall I'd prefer to go with a player who we know can compete at AFL and won't be a liability

This is the issue now. Umpires have to second guess what they see. Kozzy from the umpires viewpoint was a clear head high tackle. From reply on the other angle you can see kozzy was part of the reason why it was high . Incorrect calls happen due to umpire's positioning all the time. Think about how many times you see a player blatantly throw the ball when you watching in the stands. But umpire calls play on as he can only see the back of the player and the ball being released due to the fact the player's facing the other way. End result play on. Point is umpire should only be expected to judge what he sees, not what he thinks is happening on an angle he can't see.

Just like a lot of demonlanders :-)

Rivers deserves a run of games thought he was good today. Brayshaw effectively replaces bowey as a distributor who can intercept mark. Rivers offers playing tall/ small good dash and decent kick and can't get exploited like Bowey has been in a couple games this year. Bowser will be back but not sure if this year. Jordon doing great on the wing

Kozzie, Langdon, Jordan, Hibberd, Bbb

I thought Jordon and Langdon worked their guts out all game on the wings. Both played great IMHO

He's lost his skills space jam style. Mongrel kicks and touched off the boot multiple times. May not much better

Our "pressure" forwards are costing us big time just running next to the contests . Coming out way too easy

Or Chandler or Laurie 2 disposals 1 tackle we are a man down

And zero creativity. We look scared to take the game on

Yep I agree. Our defensive zone is making us lazy. We are guarding space not players and port can chip it around as easy as they like

Can't teach presence and swag. Unfortunately Weid won't ever have it

Depends on how you think the Dee's will finish the season. If your thinking we will end well the blues as we can reclaim top spot. If your thinking we will finish bad the cats as Blues will be fighting for our top four spot. I'll just sit back and watch wishing we had at least 1 of these big forwards

Not sure about players but I assume it's the same as coaches who have to upload a photo of a rat test to an app twice a week.

Petty stepped in and took his spot. Petty is a better player case closed

Hunt hasn't really been a spark of halfback for a couple of years. They seem to prefer using him to lockdown the opposition's quickest forward which he has done mostly a good job at when required. I think they prefer to have the ball in boweys and Salem's hands due to more reliable kicks. Issue is neither have been that great lately at being attacking with their kicks and we are paying for it with very slow, safe ball movement into our attacking half