drdrake

I had a kick there on Saturday afternoon for about an hour it was really hard, looked great but the grass offered no cushioning at all. I wonder if Collingwood had many stress related injuries when they trained at the same oval

Our training oval is rock hard

Our training oval is like concrete

Pavlich was on so much money outside of football in WA, he was everywhere and Hogan would get the same in WA. Which to me might be one reason he does stay, going back to Perth everyone will want him, he doesn't strike me as a media type of guy and would rather surf with his mates than do this. WA is a fish bowl, it really can break good players

Nasher, unlike a lot of others on this site, I don't see Hogan as the be all end all type. Would love to see him play at Melbourne for the next 8 odd years but any doubt we need to do what is best for the club. We wouldn't be able to match the Fremantle offer, lets not kid ourselves on that. To me if there is any risk trade him on our terms and not risk getting a buddy like pick that Hawthorn received.

Agree with this. On King, I've seen him a couple of times and I reckon he isn't that far away. Big blokes take a bit of time because they basically need to learn to play again as they have been big and playing against smaller kids has been easy. Now they have to learn to play against blokes that are bigger and the others aren't much shorter than you.

Is he a free agent in 2019? If so I would consider trading him at years end if there is any chance of him leaving at the end of 2019. Ideally we get him to sign a 3 year contact extension by end of the year, but if not Fremantle hand over 2 first round draft picks and he is yours. We have a bloke developing nicely at Casey that will be banging down the door in 2019.

I saw one Tmac kick must have been when he was rucking and was down back, for a guy that is so dead eye with goal kicking his field kicking is really bad. Frost, the brain and legs go to fast and he gets himself into trouble, he can kick just picks the wrong option. Need to stick with him as we need him playing well to have any chance to make finals.

Pressure is on the players our next 5 games are on Channel 7, I reckon r23 will be on Channel 7 as well. It is time to perform when it really counts. 1998 was the best run home I've seen our club play, I think we went 5 straight leading into the finals playing what I still think is the most exciting football I have seen this club play. Hoping this year is the same

Went to goshes today for a kick with my son and a couple of his mates. All of us as soon as we walked onto the oval commented on how hard the ground was.

We are cooked, no pressure at all

Interesting reading through the Games played and Goals stats, our mids are kicking a lot more goals this year.

Must admit really concerned about these Next generation academies, looks like North, Collingwood and the doggies could be real winners this year with Father sons and NGA players. The kid North will get from Tasmania will be a gun and if no one bids for him prior to there first round pick they will get him for a high 20's pick. Collingwood have pick 15 and from memory next pick is in the 50s, they are set to get 2 players that should be top 20 picks for basically pick 15 and change.

Why can't a backman go in as your second ruck? Most teams have a tall forward that goes in and try to catch sides out but going smaller up forward whilst ruckman rest usually on the bench. Frost to ruck when the tall forward goes in, this keeps your forward structure. The Ins, we picked players based on where we are playing and that is good. Hopefully Kent has a ripping game at Casey next week, a forward line that has Spargo/Garlett/Kent it what we need

Lever has made our coaches, mids and forwards defensively lazy. Looks like to me we add Lever and we change our our game style to be more attacking knowing we have a gun key defender down back. The issue early in the season Lever was finding his feet, when he did we looked good, then injury comes and it has stuffed us up. Make no mistake this is a coaching issue called putting all eggs in one basket. All the defensive traits Roos tried to teach our players thrown out the door. Don't be sucked in this weekend, we will beat the Dockers, it will hide the issues until the Bulldogs get us the following week, then a massive downhill slide till the end of the season. We will finish with 10-12 wins with really 1 injured player

Is this the same Lewis that kicked out from Full Back straight to a St Kilda player, the same Lewis the centered the ball straight to a St Kilda player. We need to stop thinking what Lewis was but what he is. On changes, we need to keep some players in reserve for the following week Frost is a must, Spargo as well. No point going with three tall forwards in Darwin the last half the ball is always like soap. For me In Frost, Stretch, Spargo Out Weiderman, Petty and Tyson We need Garlett and Kent to find form really quickly at Casey

Yep, nothing that most supporters that understand footy haven't been saying for years. When the game is on our terms we are great as soon as we can't play the way we want we are disorganized and don't work hard enough to stop the momentum. You can go back to Paul Roos and the number of press conferences he mentioned that the side couldn't adjust during a quarter it took a qtr time or half time break for the coaches to address.

Absolute joke, we aren't even flat track bullies anymore. We still have serious issues between the ears

Joke

Cant blame umpires we a mentally weak side. A bottom 4 side absolutely smashing us.

The government has basically built facilities for every other AFL club that they take ownership of, look at the facility for Collingwood the massive social/function room over looking the oval, imagine the cash they bring in from that before and after matches plus functions through out the year.

No we won't, as I stated in my post interstate clubs are crying to the AFL for more home games at the MCG. The AFL doesn't want Richmond/Collingwood/Hawthorn playing to many interstate clubs at the MCG all about attendances. Dump Darwin, get Adelaide or WCE at the G, play Port or Freo in Alice.

As stated only the next 9 weeks will show us the answer to the topics question, if after that time the answer is no, we miss finals and really the season assessment will be a fail from a large percentage of our supporters. Make no mistake we all want the answer to be yes and hope I'm proved wrong and I will be happy to cop my whack if I am, but unfortunately IMO we will not win the 6 out of 9.

Prodee, respect the half glass full thinking you have for the 2018 side. We will be proven right or wrong over the next 9 weeks. Some on this site including me have lost any real confidence in the club to deliver and it will take a lot for us to change this. Winning 6 out of the next 9 will certainly put a few of us back in our box and give us some belief in our club, but as it stands today our club has proved nothing in 2018 except beaten up on sides we should have.

Yet, we still managed to lose the game, Hawthorn, Richmond, Collingwood, Sydney they know that is you pressure us for long enough we will crack. Port found a way to hang in there till we eventually cracked in the last quarter.