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Bit harsh on Brayshaw His possesion count was low by his standards (which may reflect his role) but I think he had the 3rd highest tackle count ,which is an area he needs to work on. He has been squeezed out of the midfield by rank in that Viney wants in there and oliver's natural position is as a ball magnet . CLArrie was magnificent in the last qtr. Whilst ANB did have a high tackle/pressure count, he misses too many shots (set and snaps) to be a really top small fwd. Pity, because his effort level is great.

Yes, sorry 6 Clarrie 5 for Tmac ( only because he went missing in last Qtr ???? 4 Trac 3 Fritshc 2 Harmes 1 MAy

WHen you consider it we gutsed it out in the last quarter even though I feel we were out on our feet. Sensational effort from Oliver, In just about every contest. Preuss was pretty handy actually

6 Oliver 5 Oliver 4 Petracca (first half in particular) 3 Fritsch 2 Harmes 1 May

I think DUnkley may be a bigger small fwd. Lockart shows enormous promisw. ANB epiomises one ,but lacks any confidence(rightly) in his goal kicking. Melsham is not playing Hannan does not get enough ball. SO I think we have got plenty, but just need someone to step up. Maybe Jetta /Viney to Fwd. Guaranteed they will provide a contest.

Set shots are our achilles heel. Surely Someone can get Tracd to lowere the ball drop < and Wieds A small fwd like ANB MUST be better around the goals. He is not confident at shooting,.. Agree we could have this shot to ribbons but for our goal kicking.

Agree whole heartedly.

No,,,I reckon he will be good. Thanks for background. We seem to have picked up a good couple of roughies as well in Marty Hore and young Lockart.

No, he would fit in really well. CAtchibg Gus'look-away handballs !!

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