whatwhat say what

6: viney 5: gawn 4: jetta 3: oliver 2: brayshaw 1: t mac our top 6 were good tonight; our bottom six were very quiet

nicholls he hates melbourne and has ever since gawn thumped one of his crap bounces away from him and whinged "what'd you do that for?" to big max unfortunately, maggots gonna maggot - and we got infested tonight we were ill-disciplined

anyone who constantly calls for lewis and vince to be dropped doesn't understand how important the roles they play are for the side and we have no one else who can play their role available people say 'jones / brayshaw / player x' can rotate through the half-back line but we are so much better off with them in the guts i have no issues with petracca - it was bloody tough for forwards out there tonight, and everyone who thinks he's going to have a 'break out' game needs to understand he's probably always going to be a 15-25 possession, 4-7 marks, 1-3 goal a game player...tonight he had 17, 6 and 1 straight - more possessions than any other nominal forward hogan looks completed out of sorts

fantastic tonight dixon is a colossus and o mac played him well

that was so disappointing maggots gonna maggot...

hoff thrown back = win for us

JESUS DOM

god i love nev

this is torture with the tight camera angles as 7's preference you have no idea what's happening looks like a fierce contest early

Absolutely packing it...I hate watching on tv

Not quite... One is playing afl and earning in excess of $1m a year, the other is battling away in the sanfl trying to get back into an afl side on less than half the other...

This sort of offer to me screams that they know McGovern is leaving

Think Port will be too strong at home If it was at the G I’d tip us

so he's saying we're a chance?

they have dom tyson going to virtually every club!

sure does gawn - oliver - viney - jones - brayshaw - harmes - tyson (possibly) - vince as a tagger on ebert or wines (maybe) - fritsch on the outside - hogan, t mac, anb, melksham, hannan rotating up to the contest ryder - wines - ebert - powell-pepper - wingard - rockliff - polec on the outside - robbie gray, westhoff, boak, motlop rotating up to the contest

dixon, marshall, westhoff, ryder, r gray, wingard, s gray, motlop, rockliff and boak generally make up their forward structure, with generally a 5 man forward line at any given time as they play a structure not too dissimilar to us (also, given the quality and intensity of those players that rotate through forward line for them, it's hardly a surprise that watts is out at the moment) i'm more interested in who they'll match up on t mac, hogan, melksham, etc. as we should - theoretically - have an advantage in our forward line as their backline is quite inexperienced, with jonas likely to miss again with a hamstring, hartlett out for the year, and pittard and hombsh the only relatively experienced players out there, despite some talented kids in howard, darcy byrne-jones and dan houston in particular it should be a cracking game

If, as expected, Carlton slide their way into another top pick, will they really pick another tall forward - be it Lukosious or King - given their dearth of midfielders? They desperately need top class support for Cripps

stretch is not in the same class as gaff he has a lot of development left in him, but i still doubt whether he'll approach being at gaff's level of output gotta get gaff

it's three off as a minimum, yeah? currently out of contract at the end of 2018: Name Years Service Status Aaron Vandenberg 4 Non-Free Agent Angus Brayshaw 4 Non-Free Agent Bernie Vince 5 Non-Free Agent Cameron Pedersen 6 Non-Free Agent Dean Kent 6 Non-Free Agent Declan Keilty 2 Non-Free Agent Dion Johnstone 2 Non-Free Agent Harley Balic 1 Non-Free Agent James Harmes 5 Non-Free Agent Jay Kennedy-Harris 5 Non-Free Agent Joshua Wagner 3 Non-Free Agent Lachlan Filipovic 2 Non-Free Agent Mitch King 3 Non-Free Agent Neville Jetta 10 Unrestricted Free Agent Oscar McDonald 4 Non-Free Agent Patrick McKenna 2 Non-Free Agent Tim Smith 2 Non-Free Agent Tomas Bugg 3 Non-Free Agent i would personally like to keep all of avb (rose-coloured glasses from memories of his few really strong games, in reality his body doesn't look capable of coping with the physical demands of afl football), brayshaw, harmes, filipovic, jetta, o mac, tim smith of that list as a bare minimum that leaves vince as a potential retirement, pedo the same, kent as trade bait, keilty as a potential re-rookie, dj and balic who knows, jkh as a delist, wagner as a delist, king as a downgrade to rookie, mckenna as a delist, and bugg as a potential delist then you'd expect we'd get enquiries about some contracted players - the obvious examples are tyson and kent i would have my top five priority of free agents as being: andrew gaff rory sloane cameron guthrie harbrow and wallis or dahlhaus would be next...in the presumption that we're not a surprise dark horse candidate for tom lynch from gc17 it would seem that we are keen on ed langdon either this year or end of next, and who knows what other player will suddenly "demand" a trade it'll be interesting to see who is out of favour and suits our needs of a ball mover

gaff will likely be an all-australian this year meth coke will keep him i reckon, but lose the gov instead

carlton vs st. kilda on a friday night in a few weeks should be riveting viewing

i'm so bored of this 'watts was a sacrificial lamb to marketing' narrative i'm almost certain - and, please, someone with access to stats correct me if i'm wrong - he was doing very, very well in the vfl in the weeks leading up to qb 2009, including a bag of goals the week before everyone remembers him being gang-tackled in the opening moments on field but no one remembers the pirouette away from a tackler minutes later and the drill kick down field he has / had all the skill in the world...just none of the application

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/play-on-star-melbourne-draftees-to-port-adelaide-reserves-sad-demise-of-exdees-trio/news-story/ac5654c1d1cdade6d2a9f81de8d22c45

wow...that's a fantastic appointment