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The caveat is ..though ostensibly we play zone the game still requires you to physically man up at times. THIS is often when we bleed goals This HAS to change

Have no problem looking elsewhere. If anything our track record suggests we wont go shopping in main st, not unless someone drops by for a coffee. We have a sort of missing man/ missing link to our preferred setup. something like Hibberd Tmac Hunt Jetta PosVac. Frost Get the right bloke that becomes a lot more than servicable. Im not that fussed...as long as whoever it is can hold down that role.

I think there are many that appreciate May and Lever types are BETTER defenders. Our defence needs to get better if we're to compete at top 4 level.

Bugger. That makes it worse as we have to, from now

Pies aren't that big up the sharp end. They can however move it into their 50 with effect. You need pacey defenders who can spoil and crowd.

What worries me is those top 4, waxing and waning seem to more than occasionally start games and carry on. We've yet to really start one game well all year. Ironically perhaps the best 1st qtr was against the Tiges We seem in a rut. Reminds me of a F1 team some years back who's auto start sequence for beginning races wad f'd. Leaving them in 4th or 5th at the first turn coming off pole. They found winning hard too. I don't think all the blame should be shouldered by the players

The sooks as youll have them are simply lamenting the play. Observers are entitled to that. Has been my experience that invariably once the issues dissipate the commentary changes. Im sure players are trialled and observed at training and possibly the magoos when they're challenged, playing different roles. I suspect Oscar isn't played up the sharp end for a reason.

Relieved...sums up nicely. I'm relieved also.

Being asleep in the first qtr !! mitigates ?? Yeah I know...you're on about some folk who couldn't make it on the park. Catchup footy is why we've lost a lot of games.

Have a very similar view though tbh im still disappointed to be 5-5. Hawthorn was a debacle. No excuse for not winning. Plenty of reasons though. You would reasonably expect that one of( at least ) Dockers Tigers Roos games was genuinely gettable. With our Outs in. 8-2 not implausible. Even as 7-3 possible 6-4 at worst. 5-5 not good enough to place us in a finals bound path. (imho)

Hard to occur if you're not there

A lot of the team wouldn't be getting a game on that basis

Oliver should probably make a brilliant Chess Player. He has a rare ability. Not only is he sublime of physical attributes but he can project where other ought to be , even before they seem to know lol. Very few ppl can read the play at his level.

In game where games are played.. I'd love Gawn to be selected on the extended bench , subject to a fitness test that morning. Would have Eddie's lads in a lather wondering, second guessing and sweating.

It's interesting to note the various camps we posters reposit. There's an idiom..What is..IS This is my trunk to which i attach any branches. Scorelines , win, losses are only a projection of what is...not what might have been. If only Freddy had kicked that goal(s) if we'd had 5 mins longer..if we'd beaten the Whosawattits...then we'd be such and such on the ladder.....on...on...and on. All that is a form of denial. As PD purports the litmus...or the true currency is performance. If someone is fluffing it ...well, they're fluffing it...No point saying they are fluffing it 2 times a game less than last year.. A Fluff is still a fluff. It makes them a fluffer and not an accomplished or reliably able player. There are players simply getting a game, because..A) the FD has tried most everyone else..no shining light yet and/or B) No viable alternative. It's moot to suggest ( imho ) that a player MUST be AFL standard as he is getting a game. There are roles to play in the game plan. Not all of any list are groomed for them. Suggest that as a player is selected he must be AFL standard is akin to passing someone with a D grade. Yes technically not a fail...hardly an accomplishment !! What exactly DOES AFL standard mean ? It's thrown around like a hot spud really. All it means is the bloke is capable of taking the field at that level. It really offers no qualification to what will happen in so doing. Without doubt players get gigs before time or as part of ongoing development. Opportunity is often the key to a players success. We all like the "stories" of that Bloke who sneaked into a team and ripped the game apart. Yeah I like them too but they are rare as hens teeth. More often players get a shot, another, and sometimes another because when the FD looks down the list there's no one behind said Bloke. I'm reminded of the way many subjects' exams are graded. Some are purely subjective ( don't you love the arts ..lol ) and the more technically orientated ones often have a pure result standardised. This to suit enrollments and fundings and agendas. What IS...wis you got 76/100 you got 43/100 you got 100/100 ( or even 105/100 ) . What happens is the more desperate to fill campuses take the 45/100 the 50/100 as that's invariably all there's to choose from. In some eye's view that makes them tertiary standard. Life will show otherwise. Footy isn't a lot different. Yes some do like to score performances entirely upon what they actually did...not colour it with excuses. Scoreboards don't understand excuses. A season is defined by the games and the games are outcomed ONLY by the score. ( arguably overly influenced by umpires' and league's agendas to 'rules' I'll allow )

As a psuedo abstract , the teams that WILL make the 8 are thd the ones who have completed the task of winning the games they should as well as the odd pick-up against the tide. I currently struggle to include us.

Adelaide Hawthorn Frost Omac Oliver Hibberd Unlikely unless we learn to play 4 qtr footy and string wins together. Reality is we haven't.

Not on fta

The rumours have us linked ( or liking )Lever. Lyon wants us to get May

Think we've got a keeper here

May IS a good player..a normally very capable FB. Interesting game though yesterday. I still lean more towards Lever.

Did well did Milkshake. That wing style role suits him much better. That time away has done him , nor us , any harm at all. Happy for him to repeat in a fortnight

Dad..... Purple reckons Hogan's back for our game !!!

Changes v Pies Have to see who's available.

Changing to plan B....or C when needed...not 30 mins late. Against some opponents you might get away with it. As we get closer to September we probably wont be the only improvers. Blink at the wrong moment, you're done. The Box will need to act as ( or even before) the match requires. There's a lot of sliding doors in footy. Don't wont to be uttering ' missed by that much' !!