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.

Our list deserves a look at a different style of play. (So do us fans.)

Teams have been doing it for several years now. There have been several knees courtesy of this dangerous tackle.

Ever since I confidently predicted the 2021 flag I've been determined to try to be positive.

Flag. Many pundits with face egg.

This is wrong. Thompson was the crucial member of our 2004 on ball brigade, but he injured his foot in round 13 against Essendon when we were 2nd on the ladder and despite a few wins over also-rans and a belated top of the ladder at round 18, we fell away without his contest work and ended up fifth and what's more, what's arguably worse, handed Essendon their last finals win.

Precisely what we need.

Absolutely putrid grand final. Game was worse than the pre-game.

Good player, but wrong sort of winger for us. We needed, and still need, more of a speed merchant.

Growing up in Melbourne, Glenelg, along with Sturt, Norwood and Port Adelaide, was one of the SA clubs you were always hearing about; especially Port Adelaide who had won a bazillion flags. Imagine my surprise when I recently discovered that not only has Glenelg won just a handful of flags, but that Norwood has nearly won as many flags as Port.

Daniel has one thing going for him - a miskick which ended up as a Brayshaw goal in the GF.