godees

won't be over 35k. hoping to get close tho. dogs supporters never turn out in numbers for our home games against them (and vice versa for us)

how good was he!!!!

That was the goalkicking list

read the report again

Add Bennell to the outs and I'd be happy with those. We need some class and grunt for us to even get within 10 goals of the Cats next Sunday!

bennell is class. the only reason you could drop him would be his light body

in - robbo, grimes, maric

out - newton, bartram, jetta

all straight swaps. i do love the way jetta chases though

Robbo will be a definite inclusion for next week, possibly for Juice. I think Jetta and Bennell need a rest in the magoos too.

jetta and bartram you mean. benny has been great

you could tell he was still [censored] off with himself after the game even though they won

that was perfection bombers! let them think they had it then boom! will make it hurt so much more. The only thing that can top that this weekend is a dees win tomorrow (and maybe 10 goals by JW for casey!)

Nice.

Looking forward to it, and reports on Maric and Jurrah mainly.

and anyone else who is able to kick a goal...

how much of teh game did robbo play?

Good post. I actually thought Bennell has been very promising both weeks...

me too. i don't know what he did to deserve this criticism. he didn't get much of the ball but I thought he did well when he did get it. I have been very impressed with him, especially given he is still tiny.

Of course we are a chance. I actually think we should win it - they have a bucket load of injuries/us very few and they are a month behind us in preparation. But even a comprehensive win wouldn't convince me that we are going to be any good this year. We will have to wait to see how we go in round 1. nab cup means very very little (on field, off field it could mean a bit if we do well).

Dwayne needs to be reminded how much our supporters raised in ONE MONTH for debt demolision. Who gives a [censored] if the afl, media, other clubs don't care/notice if we continue to exist, because we do care and we showed in august that we still do have plenty of support and will fight.

I'm not a huge wrap for him (and was hoping we would try to offload him in trade week given he would have some value as a recent first round draft pick) but he does have some very useful attributes that may allow him to develop into a good player. Something i noticed previously was that while he is very good at staying with his forward on the lead etc, he is pretty useless defensively, ie. he'll be there but he won't be able to get the spoil in. I'm hoping this is something that can be taught. I think issues about his disposal are overrated and from what i have seen, he is adequate in that area. Worth persisting with but im not expecting much.

Awesome! very happy. Loved blease in the national champs

and blease as well still available. swift then trengove please!

I know for a fact last year one of the picks in the second half of the top 10 was contacted by the club that picked him up on the wed or thurs saying they would be picking him up. I think it is very common in the top 10 for the clubs to notify them before the draft.

No way, don't let him go - give him 2 years. He was (finally!) fantastic in the backline this year, one of the few highlights and real improvers this year. And i really noticed our ability to get the ball out of defence fall dramatically in the last few games when he got injured, and I think his loss played a significant part in that. IMO he is best 22 if he can keep this year's form up. I'll be pretty annoyed if we let him go because we won't offer 2 years - our money issue really shouldn't be coming into it as he wouldn't be asking for much. Carlton again...FFS!

pick 29 is nowhere near enough.

he is from adelaide and the official line is he wanted to return home for 'family reasons'. not much we can do about that.

I know carroll is a bit of an idiot, but I can't recall him being involved in any off-field issue involving women. I think your comment is unfair on him and inappropriate.

Yze stated in an interview a few weeks ago that he feels he could go around again next year

Yze stated in an interview a few weeks ago that he feels he could go around again next year

I think some of you have it so wrong on Bell and are letting your biases against him show. Although, I don't think we actually had any players who genuinely played a good game, I think Bell was our best. He did make mistakes but was ok with the ball (no worse than most of the team) and shut out Ebert then didn't do too badly on Motlop, who was dominating everyone else. Going by Bailey's comments post game it seems he also thinks Bell did a reasonable job - so take the blinkers off!

We had more tackles at half time (37) than WCE had for the entire game (35). Says it all really.

The whole match was played at the intensity of a VFL 2nds game, so the 80% effeciency was hardly outstanding.

I'm hoping like hell that Morton becomes the elite player that we sadly need, but he does things that lack polish, and age can't excuse. I'm not surprised that he hasn't been nominated for the NAB Rising Star prior to this round.

Palmer and Morton are on a par with their foot disposal, but the difference is that Palmer is pretty much Freo's no. 1 on-baller, and is targeted by the opposition far more than Morton.

I have watched morton closely for a few weeks as a friend of mine loves to bag him (carlton supporter) and Morton has regularly made some terrible clangers. BUT yesterday, apart from that early OOB, his disposal was accurate AND smart. He did some very intelligent things with the football and was quite evasive at times. Even my friend was impressed and agreed that he was one of the best on ground.

Polish? What about that bulk against essendon before he kicked the goal in the last quarter. He did another very impressive one yesterday where he faked the handball and took out the player, then handballed to a free player and we were off.

Morton definitely throws up some shocking kicks more often than we would like, but he also has kicked some brilliant goals from outside 50 and done some very TJ-like spotting up of targets in the 50. He is a ball magnet, good evasive skills, good vision, and a good football brain. His kicking can be anything from hideous to amazing but he definitely has the tools and with a few seasons under his belt I think he will be smashing them (and well above Palmer).

All winning did for us yesterday was going from having pick 18 to having pick 19. Even if you're a fan of tanking for picks, there wasn't a whole lot to gain from a loss from our point of view.

And in the whole scheme of things, winning is more valuable than moving down from 18 to 19. Seriously, anyone who is angry we won today has to get some perspective. We moved from 18 to 19 - big deal! If we were to win the next 2 games that would be a completely different story, but there is no doubt we won more than we lost yesterday.