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brisbane is the one throwing big coin at him. alex rance's moves could impact everything. he stays with the tiggas, he goes on holidays for a year, he walks from the tiggas - all could have massive impact on other trading options. richmond will be screaming bloody murder if they lose him as we lost chip, simply as he wasn't in the top 10 paid players in his out-of-contract year. the big difference is that we planned for chip to go. richmond's defence is built around rance.

Rice going that early might be a surprise.

Will Hoskin-Elliott has re-signed with GWS. He was one of the ones expected to walk.

fantastic report. as a matter of interest, did tucker get any runs through the midfield - i worry that despite my perception that he'd move into the mids this year, he's going to continue to play the runner role off half-back. this might indicate he doesn't have the awareness to play through the middle, or that his clean kicking is preferred purely outside. it would see him slide significantly in my view; i had him pegged as a top 10, but he might be more like a strauss (should've been a third rounder) or a harrison wigg et al.

what's the best with fitzpatrick as chairman they get it?

great post little goffy.

poor jeremy howe. normally he has no challenges...this year, if crownbet wanna pay out on something, pay out on nic nat. that was something special!

I actually think calling out a 13 year old as the face of Australian racism was the perfect call - it's ingrained racism that is at the core of the issue, where a child doesn't know any better than to call an aboriginal an ape. It opened up a massive dialogue, which was the whole point. Goodes is not liked because he's strident and doesn't take a backwards step, nor is he content to go along.

watts bump on impey in lieu of a tackle was pathetic.

jetta subbed out for viney. lumumba moves into defensive role. this is gonna get ugly.

very poor since midway through second quarter.

fitz has gone forward - that's him, hogan, pedersen and howe all effectively playing as 'tall forwards' with m jones as a defensive forward, and garlett as a small dangerous forward. way too top heavy.

we can't the ball forward of centre currently.

broadbent seems to be now playing a defensive role on vince, who is playing a defensive role on boak. means that we should have a spare somewhere - who is it?

bail for viney would make some sense, but fitz looks sore in the rooms, having his hips worked on - he could be gone straight away at half-time.

they've kicking goals for fun now.

need to move someone onto schulz, dunn can't compete against him. jetta has gone to monfries cos he's destroying us.

another free, another goal.

and their dominance continues. we've stopped running.

yeah, they've been dominant for the last 10 minutes.

gus brayshaw leading the contested possession count currently. they've got some dominance back now, we need to hit back in the last 5 mins.

brayshaw tackle - now THAT deserves a htb decision.

another absolutely rubbish htb decision. they just pluck em out of nowhere.

unbelievable that they can get a shot on the hooter. it seems to happen so regularly against us. big team lifter for them, outstanding kick by schulz.

Wingard has had three touches, yet to really have an effect.