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I will absolutely cut Bayley some slack. Always trying times with a new born and he has been the reliable scoring source. However it doesn't change my expectations that if you're fronting up in that forward line at the moment, you need to be applying the bare minimum of defensive pressure efforts. We have 1 competitive key tall at best each week and are always scratching to find another who can do the job. We don't have the razor sharp cutting edge of a Brisbane or Adelaide forward line either so therefore in this forward setup we need everyone bringing their best tackling, chasing, coralling efforts each and every week. I love Bayely and want him back to his best doing his part for the team but we're at that point where a nice goal or two is outweighed by our inability to lock it in.

We haven't seen someone like Hunter for a long time. Someone who can play both sides and very well. Going to be an exciting watch, I doubt he'll be a WR and CB his whole career but it's interesting.

Mykel Williams is the edge rusher we've landed on at #9. Good hands, long arms. Has the natural strength but will need to develop the moves.

That quarter is going straight to the pool room with the 3rd quarter against Essendon.

A Richmond fan told me this once and I always assumed he was putting mayonnaise on it. Good to hear there was actually something to that story!

Yeah it really wouldn't hurt to media to leak another rumour or two.

As mentioned previously, 2 schools of thought on this. Neither is wrong and neither opinion can be deemed wrong at this point. We will see how good this idea is next week. Will we be full of run and fresher than ever? Do we capitulate and let bad habits creep in due to flirting with form? Hate to be fence guy but it's definitely a big picture thing.

Yeah no-one really talks about that. Can't be easy

Good call. At this point I'm much more interested in developing a consistent game style and where the majority of our score sources come from. Once that's honed I'll want to see some beltings again

The Heartbreak Kid... The Show-Stopper... Mr Wrestlemania...Shawn Michaels!! HBK, large and in charge!

HBK?

I thought May was underwhelming early on as well. Lynch was rinsing him in contests and he could never get the right position on him.

I'd love to see what we have in Culley

Thanks Daz. Had high hopes for him in 23 when I was watching more of Casey. Really tough to get a proper read on developing ruckman early on.

Do you guys worry that most of our 'scoring runs' coincide with scores from stoppage? Are you seeing enough in terms of scoring from back half transition? On the plus side we seemed to be back to a high level in scores from turnover.

Highly doubt many were saying he's the next big thing. Most were happy with with his effort in that game. Personally I just felt this game was coming so I'm not surprised.

Felt on a bit of an island last week when I said his effort was good but he was still a ways off what we needed as a no.2. So what I say will be pretty consistent with last week. He is not what we are looking for long term. How is Verall tracking?

Oh god so did I. I wasn't happy we brought him back so quickly, the sights were set on him. 0 tackles and 4 pressure acts. It was the first time where no amount of impressive goals could paper over those cracks, it doesn't work.

Should have elaborated a bit more. My relationship is like a pop song with very eery and haunting vocals. A brilliant song at that.

My relationship with the club is like Wuthering Heights the song by Kate Bush

15 tackles for Viney is incredible! Anyone know what the record in a game is?

Appreciate your take but respectfully I can't buy it, not when it's been happening all season. In every last quarter this year we've been smacked in uncontested ball so either the gameplan is really pathetic or we're seriously having trouble running out games and I think it's the latter. The inaccuracy late in the game could easily be down to fatigue which would back this up but even with that we started the last quarter with a Kade Chandler goal straight away, what more momentum did we need? In the Burgo days and even the start of I never any doubt over our ability to run out games. If we were in a game at 3QT you knew we were going to be there right at the end and grind it out if we had to. I don't feel this currently, not by a long shot.

It's a bold move. I do want to rest him when we can but it's not like there's a 6 day break coming up either. Time will tell if it was a smart move and the way we keep fading off in these games I hope it pays off.

I guess we'll find out? Happy with the points but it's becoming a worrying trend. I dont need to bury teams every week but at least breaking even in the last would have nice. I always have more confidence when I know our side can run out games, it gives you a chance. A win is a win is a win though.

I don't know how anyone can dispute it. It felt like we laid 3 tackles in that last quarter.