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Garland is a seriously dumb footballer.

Any danger Watts could go two handed in a marking contest?

T Mac is having an absolute Barry Crocker. Grimes effectively playing CHF. Says a lot really.

Pedo a fantastic tackle followed by an horrendous turnover.

Their mosquito fleet is tearing us apart.

Skills are atrocious, same as it has been for years. Without Hogan down there we have no one to kick the ball toward.

we have no one to kick to across half forward and our back line is shockingly poor by foot.

i thin that might be wj;s point... i just want to see us play as well as we did in the second half last week for the entire match. first to the ball, super intense defensive pressure, dominant at stoppages. after that my requests get silly: - frost to kick 5 in a dominant role up forward - vince and salem rebounding every time the ball comes out of defence hitting targets - kennedy and watts to continue performances from last week - oscar mcdonald to keep tom boyd to 3 possessions

it's not so much attacking footy as it is transition from defence to attack, and then vice-versa.

gws looked sharp i thought. good skills.

i live in fear of losing this game.

like roquefort.

you know it's a bare cupboard when watts and vickery are two of the bigger free agent names.

For what it's worth, many clubs are fundamentally opposed to these x number of weeks time periods. Geelong for instance has lobbied for three time scales: - short term - medium term - long term Going to be hard to shift the mindset to something such as this however.

jake niall (ex-the age) on fox sports news just confirmed that negotiations have stalled and jesse wants to see how transition from roos to goodwin works, and essentially decision will be dictated to some degree on whether we can make finals in the next two seasons. something about the line "if it is to be, it's up to me" comes to mind to be honest...

They're apparently bringing back some key players, such as the elder Boyd and Liberatore coming back from his knee knack. It should be another good test - we passed last week, which Port had said in the lead in was the tune-up for their round 1 side. Let's see how we travel this week.

To use one of these inane football terms, our 'frontal pressure' from about 15 mins in the first quarter to the 15 minute of the last quarter was superb. We only went missing defensively in the first 15 and the last 5 minutes of the game.

reported where? I feel sorry for Mitch in a lot of ways.

current way of thinking... B: Jetta - Dunn - Garland HB: Salem - T. McDonald - Bugg C: Tyson - N. Jones - Brayshaw HF: Watts - Pedersen - vandenBerg F: Kent - Hogan - Garlett Foll: Gawn - Vince - Viney I/C: Oliver - Frost - Kennedy - Harmes Emerg: Wagner - Grimes - M. Jones

let's just remember, this is all nasher's fault. kid looks a jet. natural ball winner and knows how to use it from the looks of things. perhaps too prone to handball would be the one knock on what we saw yesterday. ability to win the contest as well as work super hard defensively and lay some serious tackles is massively encouraging.

Parish's first three kicks were all absolute shanks. Crowley is going to be very good for the Bombers this year if he can stay fit. There's quite a bit to like about the Bombers still, more so than Carlton at any rate, who admittedly are missing six of their better players.

was that the highlight where garlett nailed the subsequent goal running in? it was pretty exciting to watch.

toumpas, effectively. did you just see that transition end-to-end goal? freaky.

hogan all smiles too...

gawn is a man mountain. maximus gawnius: coming in 2016 to take the mantle from goldzilla as the best ruckman in the comp.