Lord Travis

We should be absolutely belting the Eagles. They’re completely stuffed from Covid and ageing playing list. I don’t think people get how bad they are. Here’s some perspective. The only team with a worse percentage than this Eagles team in the past 20 years is GWS in their first season at 46%. Even our worst year under Neeld we were 54%. To not be 60 points up at least by this stage is weak. We’re playing Hollywood footy today with players taking stupid shots and wanting highlight reel stuff instead of just doing the team thing. After that assy move by Gawn, Goodwin was shown fuming on the bench!

Too much Hollywood [censored] today. Get back to basics and we win by 100+. This is poor.

Petraccas goal kicking for 2022 - 8 goals, 14 points (not counting complete misses). 2021 - 29 goals, 19 behinds. Tracs a superstar, but needs to tidy up his set shot routine if he’s to hit the highs of last year and hold the mantle of best player in the game.

Hope Trac gets his goal kicking radar back online before finals. His set shots have been poor this year.

Need to be a lot cleaner going inside 50. Shouldn’t be hard playing against an absolutely ****house team. Eagles are Neeld era bad and will have percentage in the 40s after today! Cmon boys put the foot down and be ruthless!

100+ win or extra training session as punishment 😜

Having seen the official teams now, anything less than a 60 point win would be a disappointment for the club. We can bang on about being defensive and our style not being conducive to smashing teams, but if we can’t absolutely [censored] them on turnover then it’d be disappointing. Freo and Brisbane both smashed them and are now a chunk of percentage ahead of us. If we drop a game then we fall to third. Percentage is important and this next two matches against Eagles and North is our best chance to give it an almighty bump. Be ruthless Dees. Let’s score 100+ and keep them to 30 or less.

It has disappeared the past fortnight. Multiple times players have raised arms and yelled at umpires again recently with no penalty. Thank god they backtracked the pathetic over-officiating of the rule. "Arms up, that's 50". 😆

I'm torn on this. I would've thought it's temporary to cover injuries, but Gus has been brilliant down back and his ability to read the play and intercept mark has surprised me. He's an elite interceptor it turns out! I'd be hesitant to shift him away from defence now, such is his impact on games this year. He's been BOG a few times already IMO. Rivers has been down on form this season since returning from injury, so I'd say on current form he makes way for Salem when he returns from injury, whilst JJ holds his wing spot.

He was captain of Gold Coast, so yes he was already a leader when we recruited him. He's definitely improved since coming to MFC and maturing further though.

Also loved him "spoiling" Z. Jones to even the ledger after his tunnelling of Langdon. You'd [censored] yourself with May in your area. Imagine standing under a high ball with him coming at you 😆

Always refreshing to hear him speak as he's so honest and open in a time when players and coaches are trined to straight bat every question. He's a ripper and is having another brilliant season. Thank god we had him down there as a rock in defence with all the other injuries early on.

It’s a disgrace. The Dogs are blatant cheaters and the umpires rarely penalize them. Can’t stand them. ****test club in the league the soft whingers. Was thrilled we belted them in the grand final last year. Rewatch that demolition regularly!

He had an average start to his career, didn’t find much ball and kicking was inconsistent when he did. The last 1.5 years he’s turned into a really good wingman, up there amongst the best in the league behind Langdon. Free agent this year, so suits us as we don’t have decent picks to trade. Not sure where he fits though unless we’re going to lose Brayshaw or Jordon and Sparrow types are demoted.

General afl media and opposition supporters don’t rate him, but other clubs definitely do. Just last week Sam Mitchell highlighted Petracca and ANB as keys to lock down on as they’re our highest score generators. He makes a big difference to our defensive pressure and ability to spread from contest.

There's some very good talent in there ahead of Bowey, though I'd rate him higher than the meeting odds place him. Horne-Francis is over-rated based on draft pick thus far compared to output of others there. Daicos and Martin in particular have been next level good and a clear level above the rest of the pack. I'd rate Bowey after them in 3rd spot. Very strong crop this year though. All those players there have had a big impact at their clubs and on games, Ginnivan has been a match winner on the big stage too. Absurd comment. He's averaging 25 disposals a game to start his career and has already had some BOG games. He's probably having the best debut season from any midfielder in my lifetime. Others up there are Buckley, Selwood, Judd, Oliver (more his second season due to now abolished sub rule), and statistically he's well ahead of them all. He obviously gets more attention due to his family name, but take the blinkers off and acknowledge his output. He's having an incredible debut season and looks set to become an elite midfielder of the competition for many years to come. Barring injury, he will rightly win the Rising Star award no contest.

The Hawks are on the right track. Mitchell has them playing attacking football and they’re further ahead of where most of us expected them to be. Though I never thought we’d lose on the weekend, they gave us a good contest and had they been a bit cleaner they may have given us a real scare. They may struggle in the coming years with some senior players winding up, but they’ve got a decent game style and some good young players coming through. Was a shame we didn’t see CJ play on the weekend for them as he’s a superb young talent who’d I’d kill to have at our club. While we’re at it, note me down as principle Western Bulldogs hater on the board. Can’t stand those soft throwing cheating mullet [censored] scum!

If Hill tries that on the weekend May will put him on his [censored] and they’ll be a man down 😆

A few years ago sure but about to hit 30 and his main asset is pace which will be on the decline soon. His main weakness is defensive running, which is our teams MO, so he’s not a fit for us.

Looks pretty flash

In 2018 he was voted by the coaches as the best player in the league. The coaches are the best judges as they know the game inside out and what roles players are being asked to fill etc. The past 5 coaches MVPs for context, 2017 - Dusty 2018 - Gawn 2019 - Bontempelli 2020 - Neale 2021 - Clarry Hard to argue with any of those. Gawn is a champion and gets recognized as one of if not the best player in the game.

Just hoping for four points today with unsettled team. I’m not there today as grandma rushed to hospital with Covid. Fingers crossed she survives. [censored] Covid

Freo are a legitimate contender. Superb young list and statistically the best defensive team in the league so far this year.

Forced changes: Viney in for Sparrow. Tmac in for Jackson. Bedford in for Pickett. Unforced change: Lever in for Smith.

Or 6-6-6 rule means no loose players and quick long bomb from centre stoppage works a treat 😉 That 2012 midfield is putrid and uninspiring. The 2012 forward line is pretty decent though IMO. Anyway obviously 2022 thumps them. Not sure what the point of this thread is!