Lord Travis

Yep. She had an opportunity to show the AFL has a backbone and would take players health more seriously etc. She failed. Maynard now has a premiership medal and a long career ahead of him while Angus is retired. The way she handled that incident was a poor start to her tenure. Anyone can say they're not happy, but actions speak louder than words. She took no action and didn't challenge the tribunal result either. Rules been changed since, but justice was not served. Not to say she won't redeem herself and do valuable things in her GM role, but I don't see anything overly impressive yet.

She did a great job handling the Brayshaw situation when it arose last year...

Nothing finer than watching Collingwood get belted. They were the second weakest premiers of this century behind Bulldogs 2016. A shame that neanderthal Maynard made it through the match unscathed. I wish nothing but ill upon him.

Makes me sick seeing Carlton leapfrog past us this past year. The only difference between us is they play fast aggressive football with ball in hand and can hit leading forward targets.

Just goes to show preseason matches are completely and utterly irrelevant. We belted Carlton last week. They come out next week in the real stuff and best Brisbane up at the gabba. We come out and roll over to the Swans.

Probably, but never realistically in the picture for whatever reason. That trade was baffling and has to be draft tampering. Carlton gave up a future third round pick for Acres, who had just been Freos best player in the finals before exit. He's a good footballer and has toweled us up a few times now.

Going to be hard playing from the back pocket! Our drafting and player development has been much improved this past decade, but we still haven't developed a capable marking key forward since the 2000s. I hope this was a short term lesson for Jefferson and not a plan to try turning him into a defender when we're crying out for a key forward and burnt a first round pick on him.

Clarry completely gassed by the end. Not his best game tonight but still pretty serviceable. 29 disposals and 6 clearances off bugger all preseason and other issues to overcome is a strong effort from a champion. Chin up Clarry!

We tried it 2017-2018 and it didn't work. Looked good in one preseason match, but he's not a natural midfielder. He's not blessed with strong endurance and not great around packs unless he's hitting it front on. With Bowey out for a while you'd think, Salem back to HBF.

Our worst loss all season in 2023 was 15 points. We're already worse off and defending hasn't been our main issue tonight. It's gonna be a slog of a year.

Grundy close to BOG tonight. Good on him. Disappointing from Gawn tonight. Had his colors lowered for the first time in years.

Game over. What a waste of time. So who do we have fit in the VFL to come in next week? Outs in Laurie, Chandler, Spargo.

What a disappointment this is turning into. Losing to a team missing it's two best midfielders and leaders. Some really stupid and lazy efforts tonight with players bashing into each other with no communication.

Windsor is a player. Got the speed but his defensive efforts are top notch too. Looks another smart drafting selection by JT!

Brilliant from Mcvee. Can we clone him?

Laurie subbed off. Billings on. About time!

Gawn having a shocker. Grundy has him worked out. It's really hard watching this team play. Just weight of numbers and hope for the best.

Get Laurie off the ground now. Can't find the ball. Drops uncontested marks. Can't hit a target. Playing a man down here.

1 goal from over 20 insides 50s. Abysmal. Nothing has changed. Skill level and method is poor.

What is going on with Fritsch?!

Don't enjoy potting players, but I'm yet to see anything from Laurie that suggests he's up to the level yet. Sub him off for Billings at half time.

Didn't like that first quarter. Our ball movement is still stagnant or kick in hope. We're burning all our chances. We've got a few who are seriously lacking intensity out there too. Viney digging in as always though. Such a warrior and the ultimate team mate. Follow his lead boys!

Billings the sub. If we're not sure Windsor has the endurance to go the full match at pace, expect he'll be subbed off third quarter and Billings slots onto the wing.

All three debutants are skilled ball users. Great move by the coaches to address a weakness and try to find the right balance. Pumped for Thurs night now. Go Dees!

"Attempted spoil" apparently.