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Cool. Just seemed left field.

Evidence? Source? Trolling? ???

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I would be happy if they belt the crap out of each other in a nil all draw. We should get a bead on the cats and any new things they are up to in preparation for next week.

Are Richmond good, Carlton woeful, or both?

I'm keen to see how the new rules are used to change the game up, and how teams respond. Think there has been sone ducks and drakes with the kick ins in particular. I am not keen to see the maggots destroy games with their one sided, biased umpiring. ie Rance, Danger, Blabblett, Dusty etc all get free passes.

1. Richmond 2. Adelaide 3. Melbourne 4. WCE 5. Collingwood 6. GWS 7. Geelong 8. North 9. Port 10. Essendon 11.Sydney 12. Dogs 13. Brisbane 14. Hawthorn 15. Carlton 16. St Kilda 17. GCS 18. Fremantle

Ambitious goal for round 1, but ok, I’m on board with it...

Wow. Poor guy. I hope he has someone who is helping him with his anxiety. Making poor choices around alcohol may or may not be caused by the anxiety, or even correlated. I do not know if this is a club imposed ‘sanction’ for his alcohol abuse against club rules, self imposed or negotiated? No listed return date. Looks bad. I wish the young man every success in getting well.

Waiting for Gandalf and Bilbo to set out on an adventure

Would suggest he was completely fatigued. The rest of the team were, too, but perhaps his ‘indicators’ showed that he was cooked for that game??

Guy Walker is a standout. He will stand out most of the season, apparently (poor kid).

Dunn suited our old game plan, and was a perfect fit for the filth. Round the boundary here we come! He was a liability at the end of his career with us, and couldn’t crack the firsts. Good luck to him for prospering in a system that plays the way he knows. Howe? OK, seemed to want to get to the pies and we were just a stepping stone. Now he is there, where will he lead them? Is flying for everything a leadership trait? Seems like it is more about him. But honestly, good luck to them. I suppose they are leaders compared to half the other muppets they have on their list. Suggest we stick to our own knitting and win a flag before belittling the less fortunate.

We should win based on where we both ended up last year, but this is a new year. Our entry into 50 has been average at best, and our best defence is not on the park, and we have lacked man on man pressure. Hopefully the JLT was us testing little things and doesnt represent our real game play. The scratch match against Collingwood was a better overall style of play. My big concerns: Hore doing kickout duties. Preuss?? Ability to man on man in the 666 setup in defence. Viney being cherry ripe. Port should be average, particularly with their injuries. Its up to us to blow it by not having our head in the game siren to siren.

As I recall, he plays small defender (rebound/runner) , not so much a Nev 'lockdown' defender type. Could see him being cover for Lewis, and he could also put pressure on Hunt. In a couple of games he played further up the ground, including in attack where he got a few goals. Seemed good over the ball, and looked to have a good (accurate) passing kick in traffic. More workmanlike than mercurial from what I saw, but a really solid small footballer. Well worth the pick up. Think we have ruck covered with Max/Preuss/Keilty (Bradtke too green), and we seemed to lack quality in the flank / run and distribute role, and unless Hunt finds his best headband, could be an inspired pickup.

Can someone post the mumford one, and the May one, please? The comparison would be enlightening...

Ridiculous. No contact with the head. Little fella bounced of big fella. should we appeal?

They might be better having 4 screens - one at each point where the 50 arc touches the boundary. Imagine trying to see the board from the far pockets, whilst trying to not let your opponent give you the slip. A single board at the interchange is rubbish. Even better is to have then installed around the grounds. For home ground advantage, the boundary signage for our home games could simply have the symbols whizz around the ground and flash so they cannot be missed

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Keilty did a really serviceable job in the ruck, he got some nice taps and got some good second efforts to help us get clearances. Did himself plenty of favours, I would think. our biggest issue was being lazy in transition. We would win a contest then not be precise enough with ball delivery to capitalise. Both exiting 50, and or entry to i50. Hore should not kick in. Takes a nice intercept mark, but is not that player. Frost makes key mistakes and the upside is not big enough to cover these. Headless chook moments need to be reduced. Trac’s set shot was a stinker, but his snap from further out was sublime. i didn’t keep across rotations, so don’t know if he was missing or resting, or whatever. Also when we play putrid footy for 2 quarters, unless you are running him through the middle he is the sort of player who would be missing. TMac did not look 100%. our clearance work and contested ball was still good, and our midfield set looks very strong (and deep). We may need better 1:1 work to allow this to shine. The new rules will see more 1:1 contests rather than chaos scrums, so we will need to push hard to make contests so we can play to our strengths. Sagging off will cost big time this year.

When you prefer Le Miz to Phantom of the opera.

Swap Preuss for Max and see what happens. Chalk and cheese. Preuss couldn’t even run from one flank to another to make a throw in. Our skills in finding targets through the middle and into half toward is poor. Second stringers making lots of errors. Forward pressure is not good enough. There are no points on offer, thank god.

A lot of second tier players not pushing for the firsts with this effort,

I’m glad that he didn’t. I would hate to have to call our coach an [censored]-hole.

And we should have clear goals what we want to see, particularly setting certain players clear KPIs for the day. No points on offer, but a chance to set ourselves up for the year. You cant win the flag in March, but you can lose it. Systems and processes training, match fitness, and better defining Rd 1 Werridee’s best 22. After that, look good enough to bag some more memberships as people climb on board!