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and we had something like 50 more hit outs, just shows that hit outs aren't that important

You just get T McDonald to ruck for 5 mins a qtr. You don't need a second ruck, look at last week, the bulldogs basically had no hit outs and won the clearances. I just think playing Jackson in the form he is in basically is us playing with 21 men. Mix up the forward line with a bloke that can kick goals and hit targets. You need to drop players who are severly out of form

More Jackson, the bloke is out of form, really thought Melksham should have come on for him

Don't get this, happy for Bowey and Sparrow, but this really doesn't address our forward line issues

To get Cerra we would need to off load Brayshaw, that opens up some space. The big question would be more does fremantle accept brayshaw and a mid 30s pick for Cerra

It is the same reason why we played finals and didn't play finals in 2019/20, one player we need to fire isn't at the moment and the start of the year he was. He makes us dangerous up forward and when full of confidence doesn't miss goals, when he plays well so do we are we are a different side. I have notice over the past 6-8 weeks we seems to spend a lot of time complaining to the umpires. To simplify our problems, we need T McDonald firing, he doesn't fire we struggle. Backline is strong, mids can't kick but get enough of the ball forward we need Tom working with Ben kicking his 2-3 goals a week

We need to try something different, the past 6 weeks we seem flat, robotic and most players just can't kick. Jones and M Brown have been injured not sure when their last game of footy was, bringing in Melksham is a no brainer he is better option than Harmes. The other option with a bit of X factor about him is Smith as a forward for Jackson with TMac playing that second ruck role.

Thanks, my point is you don't need a lot of touches to impact a game. You can't expect a Bedford or Chandler to come in and get 18-24 touches, get that 10-14 lay some inside 50m tackles, hit their targets with the ball they get and hopefully hit the scoreboard. We just need to add another forward that will help keep the ball inside 50 and put opposition defenders under pressure.

Pickett gets the ball about 8 times a match, puts forward pressure on and kicks goals, Spargo gets it a bit more 10-14 times a game but each time he kicks it into our forward 50m arc I think that stat was we score 75% of the time ranked 2nd in the AFL. Can Bedford or Chandler do a the same 10-15 touches forward pressure and help impact the scoreboard either off their own boot or setting up a score. To me we are looking very robotic in the way we play no real dare or flare, it is almost like we play safe all the time rather than taking the game on, that to me has been to biggest change in our game.

Assuming you are talking about M Brown, I thought he was injured and we don't need a tall, I reckon we will be a better functioning forward line by adding Melksham and another defensive small rather than adding a tall. No question Jackson needs to be dropped along with Harmes. We need to try something as our forward line isn't functioning, sides are rebounding way to easily from our forward 50m arc. If you keep doing the same thing you aren't going to improve. We have Geelong and WCE that thrive on intercept marking rebounding from defensive 50, they control the football from their defensive 50m.

If you bring in Melksham which I'm a fan of, you need to also add some more defensive pressure up forward, I don't think Bedford or Chandler has really had the opportunity to show if they are up to AFL level, you can't judge on the small sample we have seen .

The concern is we already have Fritsch that we cop his lack of defensive pressure, that is why I think it is important to bring in Melksham with Bedford or Chandler to add some defensive pressure up forward.

We continue to push an out number into the midfield, like most sides but what I noticed on the weekend we kept adding pushing more forwards into there to get this out number. We all know ANB as soon as the ball is bounced he becomes a midfielder, we saw on Saturday that we often pushed Spargo and Pickett into this role as well really leaving a big out number in our forward half. This works well if you can control the footy once you get it, we can't. The patches of play we were able to run out using our numbers and keep the footy often lead to Brown or Fritsch getting on the end of it. We had a ruck on the weekend winning every tap with ease for us to lose the clearances is a real concern. This is an ongoing issue that we don't seem to be able to address.

Becoming or has been for 2 years. Our midfield struggles to hit a target but have other strengths, this guy can't get the footy, when he does he can't hit a target. We need something different in our midfield group, you can't just have inside mids that can't hit targets. Harmes to me looks at his best as that defensive half forward, he should have been sent to Daniel on the weekend. We need to bring in Melksham, offers the same but a much smarter football with good skills. We need to bring in some more forward pressure Bedford or Chandler for Jackson and then Rivers or Hibberd goes out for Bowey My Team Bowey May Petty Hunt Lever Salem Langdon Brayshaw Jordon Melksham TMac Spargo Fritsch Brown Pickett Gawn Oliver Petracca Viney, Hibberd, ANB, Bedford

Bowey is a true footballer, smart and can kick the footy.

Jackson comes out, Harmes to join him. Melksham comes in and im not sure if we stick with 3 talls or bring in a small forward. Bring in Bedford or Weiderman depending on our set up. I think Fitsch is such a defensive liability up forward we can't play 3 talls, as our talls don't offer a lot once it hits the ground. Would also like to see Bowey, the list is pretty long on players out of form but expect Rivers or Hibberd to make way for him.

We just had players miss goals and targets when we really needed them to hit them. Our foot skills are bad. Forward pressure was really bad.

Our forward Défense is bad real bad

We just can't kick

You cant control the umpires you can control a dominate ruckman not hitting to our players, forwards how can't mark and kick. Blame umpires all you want we have massive clearance and forward issues

Don't believe the stats our mids are getting smashed, our forwards are woeful.

Bringing Harmes in for AVB same same doesn't make the side any better, a hard running defensive player with poor kicking and decision making. Would have loved to see Melksham, just someone that is Footy smart and can kick the football. On Jackson, I think we are being sucked in on by his 5-10mins a qtr in the Ruck, we can cover this with a Weid or Tmac or Gawn staying out of the forward line and rucking for longer with a short spell each qtr on the bench. I rate Brayshaw as one of our better clearance players, he actually reads the ruck contest well, to have him on the wing is a waste. I still think our best stoppage set up is Oliver, Petracca and Brayshaw.

Adam Cerra from the Dockers, he is the player we need to compliment our Midfield, would offer Brayshaw and some pick swaps. Dockers get an inside mid we get our outside mid.

Sign any kid they can lock them away just in case they are any good

I read that gws has 1200 kids in their academy