Lord Travis

Every single club can say the same about a stack of different players. McInerny last through to pick 37 in the rookie draft, so every club passed on him over 100 times. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Likewise, though from what I've read they've been playing Bedford more back than forward?

Does anyone here have any knowledge of the upcoming draft? We have to use our first round pick this year as per the draft rules of not using one in the draft in the past 4 years. Who are the best hard running and pacy midfielders in the upcoming draft? We need quick mids who have good footskills and run both ways. Ports most recent draft crop of Conner Rozee, Zak Butters and Xavier Duursma gave us headaches in round 1 and look built for the modern game. Butters in particular looks like he will be a very damaging player. Who are the best pacy and agile small forwards? We need quick small forwards who can use speed to harass like Aaron Davey of years gone by and hit the scoreboard too. The likes of Spargo have poor-average pace and offer little to no defensive pressure (see Spargo zero tackles in round 1!). They also do not consistently hit the scoreboard, averaging less than a goal a game.

70,000 is a pipe dream. The club’s lucky they conned enough of us to beat our record and get close to 50,000. The 70,000 talk shows how delusional the higher ups are and how far off the pace we still are.

We’ve lost our past 5 matches now (Prelim, JLT 1+2, Round 1+2). That’s a bad form slump. We need to turn that around tonight or our season will quickly slip away as we lose touch with the top 4/8. I feel sick heading to the ground at the moment. I have no confidence we can get the job done and am confused how such a talented list can perform so poorly. FIRE UP DEMONS FFS!!!

If we lose tonight I’ll [censored] spew.

Would kill for Tim Kelly or Wayne Milera type to provide some zip and clean creative disposal. Exactly what we’re missing!

I was an advocate for drafting him. He looks decent. Solid role player, no fuss. Has the right attributes to make a decent career as a small forward. He’s just what we need and unfortunately we missed him. Now we move on and hope Bedford etc come on and fill that role.

0-2 doesn’t mean we can’t make top 4 or finals, but it does mean the margin for error has decreases each week we lose. We now need to go 15-5 for the remainder of the season. If we lose to the Bombers, we have to go 15-4. On form and seeing how other clubs have better adapted to the new rules, it seems unlikely we’ll perform that well. It’s a disappointing start to the year thus far, and I’d hate for this year to become a waste. Our list is clearly ready to challenge, so anything else is unacceptable.

That’s scary. Those numbers show they all hit their expected output or better. There’s not really any improvement to come from them. Our forward line seems to be the big weakness now. It’s obviously not scoring, but the most damning part is the lack of defensive pressure. If we get it forward and don’t score, we now fail to lock it in and it rebounds up the other end like lightning. Spargo was dropped for laying zero tackles last week. Lockhart cracked in for a first gamer. Hannan is cooked for most of the year. JKH is gone for the year. Kent no longer at the club. We need Garlett into the team ASAP.

Our game style is shithouse. It’s like we’ve gone back to 2014 when Paul Roos was just starting to teach our players how to defend and they were running around like headless chooks.

Need to have football basics drilled into him. Whether that’s VFL or AFL level I don’t know. He just makes far too many fundamental mistakes with the basics of the game. His strength and power are impressive, but aren’t utilized in games and therefore become irrelevant.

Our percentage is 48%. That’s Neeld era percentage!

The Petracca squib summed up his season thus far. We need to win next week or it’s season over. Only 3 teams in 100+ years have won the flag from 0-3.

1 goal in two quarters in unacceptable in any match. Fight it out boys and show some pride for the jumper for [censored] sake!

Key issue is still lack of leadership. Lewis might not be a great player anymore, but at least he’s a vocal leader who barks orders and organizes the troops. Lever is the same. Their leadership absence is evident. Neither Jones or Viney are vocal leaders. It’s great to have some lead by example types, but we need vocal leaders to organize us. This is still a young team who need guidance.

On track for an 80 point thumping here. What key changes do we make for next week to try and save our season?

So many key player a out of form. Gawn has been woeful. Has he drunk too much bath water?

Season on the ropes. Us vs Essendon next week, loser is likely cooked. So many player so out of form, and our game style is atrocious.

Would love to get Garlett back into our forward line... well any proven goal kicker really.

We don’t have a forward line. It’s amazing we were the highest scoring team last year somehow.

Fritsch has been disappointing so far this season too. I was expecting him to take another step forward this year and become a quality player, but he’s struggling. Oliver really digging in and trying to carry the team. He’s a star.

Petracca stuffed it again. How can anyone be satisfied with what he’s producing?

Then we drop him. He’s in the team on potential, not output. Either he gets involved and has an impact, or we drop him.

What’s happened to May? This season is falling apart for us!