Lord Travis

Seems like a horrible draft this year due to the amount of potential top 20 players tied to academy and other bids. Also a few Tassie boys, which clubs will be hesitant to draft high due to the AFL flipping the bill to send them down to the new Tassie team in a few years. If that predicted top 20 a few posts back is roughly accurate, that's 7 out of the first 20 players compromised in a way. Trading up to get Reid or someone else we've got our eye on is probably the right tactic, or potentially trading out of this years draft to get a swag of first rounders for next years draft if there's less bid related players. Thoughts?

That’s a bummer. He was probably the best key forward available and is a real talent. If he wasn’t playing in a rubbish team he’s be Coleman material.

The disposal efficiency measurement is interesting. Langdon has a higher disposal efficiency than ANB, however ANB is bang on AFL average. ANB also has a higher disposal efficiency than Kozzie! I would consider Kozzie a far more skilled player, but according to the stats ANB is more skilful. It's not the best stat to use to measure a lot of players. For ANB's role, I'd suggest pressure acts, tackles, and score involvements are key measurements. For those stats, from what I can find he's top 5 in each category at the club again this season. He's clearly having a decent impact and will not be dropped anytime soon. In fact, going by impact stats, he's borderline top 10 at the club this year. Will be interesting to see how high he finishes in the BnF...

Well done to Kade. He's had to wait for opportunity and he's grabbed it this season and proved he belongs at AFL level. Just needs to straighten his radar and start nailing his shots like earlier this season!

Doesn’t reflect well on their selection committee if players have to drop themselves for poor form.

Talk of dropping Neal-Bullen is always a good laugh. He’s one of the first picked by the coaches every week because he fronts up and does the thankless hard stuff that the general footballer watcher doesn’t appreciate because it’s not flashy etc. He was our 8th best overall rated player on the weekend. He was rated the best player on the ground overall defensively. We beat Collingwood because we had applied immense pressure on the ball carrier. Nibbler had 26 pressure acts, the most of anyone on the ground with Viney second at 24. Nibbler had 6 effective tackles, third behind Viney and Trac. He had 5 tackles inside 50, the most of any player on the ground. He was a key part of our victory and I’d go as far as saying if he didn’t play we would have lost that match. What he brings in pressure and running to link up or block space is immense, and as long as he keeps fronting up and busting his gut he will rightly never be dropped.

Was shown in the coaches box on broadcast during the game. He ran laps of the MCG after the game too. Goodwin said in his after match press conference that he’ll be right to play next match.

Looked flat?! They nearly overran us with seconds to go!

Kozzie has been rubbish for weeks. His constant mark of the year attempts cost the team multiple goals every week. It’s a real problem and the coaching staff need to get to work with him or send him to the VFL to find form. Playing a man down today with him out there. So frustrating as he can be a match winner and has the potential to be one of the best players in the league.

What the hell has happened to our kicking?!

Dominated the game but can’t score. Game over.

Kozzie need to stop flying for low percentage screamers and do a job as a crumbed. It’s beyond pathetic at this point. Coaches should consider dropping him if he doesn’t start playing for the team.

Their game style is just superior. It’s going to be a long day and season watching them win

2017 was the last time we’ve beat the Pies at the MCG. We owe them today. Get it done Dees!

Horrendous umpiring and atrocious skill level tonight. There’s been some seriously poor games recently. This may be the worst year of footy I can remember actually in terms of game quality. Such poor skill level and the umpiring gets worse by the week.

Blues just can’t kick straight. Lack of scoreboard pressure and wasting their opportunities meant Bombers eventually got passed them and kicked away. Blues are better than 14th on the ladder suggests. They’re completely average, but if the could kick straighter for goal they’d be 8-12th on the ladder instead.

Cmon tigers, put Freo away and help out those draft picks of ours!

Love Butters. Best player in the comp this year. Very jealous of Ports young mids. Butters, Rozee and Horne-Francis are all explosive and hit the scoreboard. Hoping Sparrow can become a similar player as he’s got the physical attributes to do so, just needs it all the click at once. Showed promise the last few weeks.

Carlton are 14th on the ladder and their midfield is ranked 18th for turning contest into score. Collingwood are top of the ladder and have a drastically better performing midfield. They’re barely comparable at this stage and we’ve really got our work cut out for us this week. I’m expecting a 3 goal loss but would pick this game above all others in the H&A season to win!

Sucks Clarry will miss. With DeGoey and Sidebottom out, it would’ve been a rare opportunity to take control of the midfield. That’s harder now.

Absurd isn’t it. It was a perfect tackle and should’ve been a free kick to Butler. The game is stuffed.

I hate the Pies, but we’re currently their bunnies. Only thing I care about is finally beating them after years of embarrassment. Get it done Dees!

Agree with all you’ve written there and we should structure up differently depending on opponent, ant least trying it throughout the year as we learn a bit more leading up to finals. Our premiership backline had an extra tall though; Petty in place of one of the smalls. That structure works best for us as it helps free Lever to intercept, and our game is based around scoring for defensive turnovers.

True. Last year was a wasted season with the list we had.

No. Still listed as 2-3 weeks in injury report and no mention of him by anyone in media.