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Weideman will not be dropped. He is learning his craft. Last week we were lauding him for competing as a tall fwd. Yesterday TMac was our ruckman for half the game, so he cannot be everywhere. Lockart is developing as a smallish fwd. He has the hunger and a lot of times the skills. Oscar Baker is still learning the pace of the game. Only the real good blokes get away with the "shimmying". Petty is learning Preuss is a backup ruckman. He is NOT a GAWN before we criticise him to death by putting hime up as the next JC.

I liked it last week when we won and we kept all out players and were making a charge to the finals. The selectors stuffed it up this week by picking OMac (albeit as an emerg) He would have to be the worst Emerg in the AFL. so we should trade him for a better emergency. He got plenty of kicks and handballs ,but it was on the wrong day. Just when people needed an experienced whipping boy, they do not play him. Be fair , Zorko is an AAust, Neale was a bargain for them , Hipwood had better gets his pictures from today , because he is not as good as he thinks he is. because he was part of the Hogan trade. We could have made direct trade for May vs OMac (even though he is an Emerg) Gawny will probably ber out for a while )I reckon) so we will see what tak Preuss has.. Weid is only another week older so has not fully developed yet from last week. I hate to say this because he is one of my favourites, but Gus did three clanging hanballs (over shoulder without looking) and OMac did not read them. As a consequence 3 goals down. Our problem today is that we just did not execute to the standard that we set ourselves up to. WHat is the point in trading like no tomorrow our 4 year players to get someone who just appears to be better onl;y because we do not see them every gamne. I feel we will learn from 2019 and with very little change of personnel will improve drastically in 2020.

Well said, I am really glad the Club are taking this line with developing young players. Shows a bit more foresight than some people.

According to the Age this morning Petracca could be trade bait. It seems to be journalist nowadays you think you have to have a brainfart to get noticed.

Cale Moton, Jimmy Toumpas, Judas Sculley plus a few others went a lot higher than Oscar, but then he is the current target since Frosty has come good and Jack W has left us.

Fair enough, I meant 100 kgs, I was actually thinking about my weight.

Agree wholeherartedly. . For the doomsayers who have put him inthe the hopeless useless, never , his fault that we leak goals, his fault that we cannot kick goals etc. Let's put some comparisons out there : OMac 196 cm /1900 kgs 23 y.o Frosty (the inventor of "Frostball" . 194/93 A month off 26 y.o Weid : 195/97 ( also responsible for causing the Iceberg to drop into the Anntarctic sea and float up to hit the Titanic) 22 y.o Lever 195/91 23 y.o ( has been likened to JC !!) Common thread all these players have different abilities and levels of. But Weid is still considered as a WIP, Frosty after surviving numerous postings is now the flavour of the month, sorry week (a month is too long) They are all big kids , let them develop and assess their worth to the Club when their career is finished. In the meantime it is time to get off this blokes back !!!!! Enough is enough

You are joking ( I hope)

Noticed that, who does he think he is Jordan Lewis ? But that is the value of experience, because Lever is only 70 games approx and some people expect him to be the backline guru

That was my question. Apparently I hear (without inside knowledge) that the players really respond to him and respect the way he goes about it, so it stands to reason to bring a person like that back into the gameday group. The players are elevated and demoted , so the coaching panel probably should be the same. It is called management

Yeh, TMAc can introduce himself to all his new team mates

6 Viney 5 Oliver 4 Salem 3 TMac is back 2 Lockart 1 Petracca

Viney and TMac'best games of the year. Lockart locked in !! Shows a bit of go !!!! Harmesy did it again on Fyffe (did not stop him altogether, but who can.

Still think that !!!

Do not know how we are going to go next week , because TMac is going back to Casey according to the experts !!!!!!! Get Brad Hill and Andrew Brayshaw real quick

I actually think Tmac has provided a genuine round the ground contest. I agree with the commentatorts (not often mind you) but it has been a very good game. Freo have the capacity to move the ball , lucky when you have Fyffe, Hills and walters. But we just need to mave a bit better (and kick a little better) and not give goals via clangers in the middle of the ground. Gee we are lucky that one of the MacDonalds did not do the stuff ups that lead to goals in 1st Q

The wya some posters "think" you could draw the conclusion that the kid is a mixture of Trump, Stalin, plus wgatever evil comes into our mind. He is a young bloke who has been given a chance to play AFL and I would be absolutely suprised if he does not give everything when he is preparing and playing. I think sometimes in our criticism of a player ( and it had happened often e.g. Watts, Lewis, Weideman etc) we make blanket statements and refuse to acknowledge team efforts or any efforts at all. Have noted he is not playing @ Casey hence he has not played ( I could be wrong) since being demoted . Let's cut some slack for the kid.

Yes and I am available for the next 10 weeks

Thanks for the explanation and well done on coming up with a credible rating system. A long long way from some pot shots at players that appear somtimes.

I am continually amazed as to how Stats are compiled and what criteria are used. Is a handball effective if it leaves the hand properly , goes 1M to another player who fumbles it (and is that a critical error for that player OR should it be an ieffective handball ?? Gus clearances are positive and provide a quick transition into our forward line. Is it an error to Gus, that the fwd leade into the wrong zone etc... I would hope the Club analyse (and I am confident they would) all this, because frankly I feell many of our posters take the simplistic view in bagging players.

Could we let the kid : Learn the coaches names FInd his way around the building Learn the Club Song Then we will trade him !!

Surely we are trying to build a culture and Gus has a culture and attitude a lot of clubs would love. So why do people come up with such "questionable thought processes" The next proposal will be to trade Clkarrie because he handballs too much. Then we can m ove on Gawny and Weis because they are not really good set shots when the siren sounds. If everybody was perfect and the game was so easy, nobody would play it.

I hate to say this, but the statsd guide really fails to take into account the impact the player has. In this way I refer to Clarrie leading the rankings. On pure numbers he is streets ahead, but in effectiveness of his possessions/disposal I feel he is a big part of the problem in that his disposal via hanjdball at all costs is not enabling us to beak free. The same can be said of Jack V . We play a lot more effectively when the ball is cleared and Gus and Harmesy should be our targets to move the ball on as they are attacking midfielders rather than accumulators like Clarrie or stoppage people like Jack V. Question : Is Clarrie dual handed with his handballs, because I feel he is often handballing to his left (by his right hand) Bit too technical or wrong ???

I can guarantee TMac and Jones will NOT be dropped !! Lockart , maybe, but I feel he is learning his craft in the VFL. If we had an outside MId who can run like the wind, then Viney as small fwd and Spargs back to correct some issues. ( Although you cannot doubt his effort and courage.) OMac in as CHF

Apparently Trac is one of the leading "ground ball getters" in AFL. I think he is playing as an old fashioned HFF. THe problem is that he does not contirbute much in relation to keeping the ball in th Fwd line and he is not the only one. Furthermore I thought he was probably our best Fwd today. We mus get Fritsch and Salem to be our connectors into the FWD line. This time last year people were likening him to the great RF.