Lord Travis

And rightly so. We’ve been pathetic this season and are a joke amongst the league again. Brisbane absolutely embarrassed us on the weekend, thrashing us around the stoppages - the core of our gameplan apparently. It was insulting and shows how far we’ve fallen since the second half of last year. Until there is a big change in gamestyle, every team in the league would rightly pencil in a win against us. Even Carlton this weekend would fancy themselves after knocking off Freo in Perth minus Cripps and Curnow!

Members have done their bit. The club has not. Disappointing result for all.

I’ve been banging on about Noah Anderson all year. As sad as it is, we might actually land him!

It’s a fair point you raise kongwacker, but I think it’s more to do with lack of structure and opposition pressure than our players possessions not being damaging enough. Clarry is the perfect example. He’s my favorite player, but sometimes he makes me tear my hair out. Some weeks he absorbs opposition pressure, takes a tackle, holds the ball high and passes off to a free team mate. Other weeks he plays hot potato and handballs immediately for no reason and just shifts opposition pressure to his teammate. It comes down to that oppo pressure, but also our structure. He doesn’t want to move it quickly because he doesn’t trust our forwards to contest etc. Solve our structural problems and teach the players to absorb pressure and not [censored] the bed. Our possessions will then have more meaning.

Carlton will be without Cripps and C Curnow. If we lose to them it will be up there as one of our worst losses in decades. Absolutely gutting how this year has turned out for us. Pathetic.

Baker showing why he was delisted from Brisbane without getting a game. Looks a mile off it and has been caught more times than any player I can remember. Get Gawn off the field. He’s clearly injured so why bother risking making the injury worse!

Tim Smith isn’t afl standard. Time to [censored] him off and bring Pruess in as a tall option and take some pressure off Gawn.

Game over. What a [censored] waste of time this club is. Midfield has been pathetic today. Their effort around the centre bounces has been shameful - Max dominating or not.

[censored] our midfield is [censored]. We need to bring some skill in over the offseason. This is so hard to watch us win the hard ball then [censored] up over and over.

[censored] hell TMac that was lazy!

Defensive running by Baker was shocking there. Cost us a goal. We’re making a meal of easy opportunities going forward and are lucky they haven’t kicked straight.

Baker having a poor game. TMac looking good again. We should win today.

Carn Dees! Fire up and bully these bastards!

They’re currently 7th, so middle of the road this year. We’re currently 11th and not great this year.

100% correct. We don’t know the ins and outside of meetings and testing etc, but there have been clearly drafting errors in the past where an obvious talent is overlooked and then blossomed.

Still annoys me watching Miers run around and tear it up for the cats. Many of us on here were crying out to draft him after he kicked a bag at under age level in finals. He was still available late and was clearly a smart drafting choice. Recruiters often look at players performing well and think they’ve hit their ceiling and dismiss them. If a kids performing well at underage level, then he’s worth a chance IMO. Look at Sydney Stack now performing immediately too! Miers is a small forward who applies pressure and finds the ball. He’d be our leading goal kicker right now in the opening season of his career ?

Marked it. He was brilliant up forward in the last quarter. I wish our tall forwards were able to compete in contested marking situations like him.

No way Freo let Langdon go for third rounder. He’s worth a late first/early second round pick. He’ll be top 5 in their BnF two years running now and is only 23.

Port are 7th and likely won’t make finals. Hinkley has been in charge for 6 years at Port and hasn’t achieved huge success with what I’d say hasn’t been one of the most talented lists during that period. Chris Fagan has been the best coach this year thus far for mine. Taken what’s been a bottom placed teams for years to 6th on the ladder, making them very competitive and likely to play finals this year. He’s built that club well. Probably too early for this thread. Best see what transpired in the second half of the season.

Add another tick for the old ‘Nathan Jones starts a fight - we win’ stat. Never fails! Wish he started more of them these days!

Who’s everybody? What’s he worth? Get it done!

Hit the draft as high as possible. We haven’t taken a kid in the first round since 2015. We need to stagger the age profile of our list or risk shooting ourselves in the foot in future. We don’t want a big sudden drop off. We want talent spread to be competitive for longer. We’ve traded in enough talent the past few years with May, Lever, Melksham etc. Time to add the talented youth again and not just speculative late picks. Take a speedy skilled midfielder with our first pick. If they’re good enough, they’ll have an impact early in their career. Look at Duursma, Rozee and Butters at Port. All having an impact now and all look future guns too. They bring energy and flair to the place.

Petracca had a great game today. Really got involved and threw his weight around. Great to see him switched on for longer periods and staying involved. Hopefully this is the start of his return to damaging form.

One of our biggest weaknesses is on field leadership and organization. We got Lever and May not only for their footballing ability, but because they’re leaders and generals. Great to see May organizing troops and playing well again today. He’ll be a huge asset for the backline for the next few years. Love him!

Would be stoked if we land Anderson. Kid looks like such a damaging prospect. Could be a gun forward, mid or half back IMO. I want him as a damaging goal kicking mid. Pick 2 yes please!