Tony Tea

We are one Jayden Hunt kick, one T-Mac grubber and one Wingard dropped mark off the bottom. Why aren't we "in the conversation"?

The Melbourne Way is Demonesque.

I'd like to see him given a Darcy Moore role for the rest of the season.

I like.

I wouls prefer a good spray to more attitudes, behaviours and learnings.

... is on the cards.

My concern with such smothers is that players are coached to crunch into the kicker's leg; especially when the player has knee history.

The people who run the Saints are guilty of myriad footy club sins. Committee shenanigans are in their DNA. (Even more than us.)

Get him on board. He clearly knows footy.

Footy chat has been suggesting we have been heavily into Langdon for a while now. In with a shot at least. Got a bit of a Hibberd feel to it.

Viney is possibly our most important player. He reminds me of the quote about Brett Kirk: "Can't kick, can't handball, can't mark, gun."

Not that Frosty and freewheeling are comfortable bedfellows.

With May able to lock down the marking threats, Frosty is able to freewheel.

We won because of the coaching changes. Nothing surer. 100%. It's science.

Tonight's outs make stuff all difference. Freo was winning yesterday and is still winning tonight.

Dunno anything about Misson's job, dunno anything about Burgess, dunno anything about what fitness people do, dunno anything about any fitness person compared with all the other clubs, cricket, soccer, gridiron, ice hockey, hockey, curling, League, Yawnion. Dunno.

I'm tipping that 99% of the time there is one stand out common denominator.

The worst thing about that dismal percentage is that it was predictable. In the last two years we have broken down offensively against the better defences, so it was only a matter of time until the lesser defences caught on. Chuck in our injury and operation ravaged offseason and we had no chance to work on some variations. Presuming we wanted to work on some variations.

Has Keath suddenly become a six foot line-breaking speedster with elite precision kicking?

Second half. 4.10 to 9 straight. And why? Because we don't have the forward craft to execute a full press and then score, whilr Collingwood bust us open for sitters.

So, Marvel is better than Wembley, Fenway Park, Nou Camp, San Siro, Bernabeu, the new Spurs stadium, and even the MCG, among manu others which don't readily leap to mind. Was this poll commissoned by the owners of the Marvel Universe?

No.

Frosty, in his previous guise as Carry On alumnus Lance Percival.

The best example is the StKilda game. In 2019 the Saints have kicked 115 -122 , yet against us they kicked 15-5, mostly because the kept strolling in for sitters after burning us with our turnovers.

Our poor defence earlier this year allowed our opponents to kick easy goals. It's not as if we have been torched by miracle goals, or even flukey goals. And when sides bust us open after a turnover, they are also kicking easy goals.