Tony Tea

Footy is lies.

Played for us. Coached North. This week is the Brian Dixon Cup

Lever needs to show that he can contribute if oppositions deprive him of third-man-up opportunities by continuing to spread our defence with short kicks to a variety of forwards. Being the "extra" at the drop is the easiest gig in footy if oppositions don't spread it around. You've got no better example than last weekend when Adelaide was careless with their entries and kept picking out our free defenders, but when the Crows started looking for multiple short options, we had defenders out of position. Either Lever improves his man-on-man game or our on-ballers put more heat on delivery to force dump kicks and disable the short options. Last week we were one small defender short, and as a result, lacked ground cover and rebound zip.

Dawes had trampoline hands, JvR has a trampoline chest.

We need to get Dennis back. He loved us.

I'll temper that slightly, I'd love to know what the recruiters saw.

Gee, who knew Choco had been our goalkicking coach for 60 years?

It's simple, innit - NO trade.

Who wants perceptive and insightful analysis when you can have BT making mistakes.

Whatever happened to spotting something directly behind the goals from your kick and lobbing the ball on top of whatever it is you've sighted?

Possibly. But I would have thought you'd need at least a season, probably more, to reconfigure your fitness.

It's depressing for fans, too. Watching us over the last couple of years has been awful. You rarely expect us to win, and you know with certainty that if we are in a close game we'll lose because we haven't been able to put the game away. The last few weeks, as our game style has changed, have been a relief.

I actually reckon that we are failing to run out games because we are not yet used to our new style of play.

Agree. It was horrendous. Bordered on cheating.

A very wise man, if he does say so himself.