Nasher

I'm guessing it probably won't be.

All my posts in the past have been along the lines of "don't think he's any good, but has a crack so I would like to be wrong".

I don't think it was even that we were that defensive - our tackling was not as good as it has been and we could hardly ever put pressure on to keep the ball in our forward 50 (too many talls?). Roos mentioned this in his presser - he also raised the fact that our forays forward were always fast when they should have been slow and slow when they should have been fast. We also gave them a heck of a lot of the footy in general play. I don't think it was the defensive mindset that hurt, it was just the players execution on the day. I don't know if it's young players fatiguing, players overawed by the occasion, or just the difference in class between the two sides, but I certainly don't blame the game plan.

Yep. At that exact moment, I died on the inside, and so did the team by the looks. Absolutely bloody hopeless decision.

Adam, this is pretty normal for blokes over 200cm I'd have thought. I can't think of too many men of ruckman size who are any good below their knees. I reckon if we're relying on Max to impact contests at ground level, we're doing it a bit wrong.

I have the right to explain myself when respectfully challenged by a poster I also respect. Would not have bothered responding to anyone else. (Yeah, yeah, letting it go now)

He's well on the way; has been excellent since coming back in to the side.

Redleg, I have difficulty understanding "what people meant" if it's not what they said at the best of times (call it a disability if you like), but in this case I think what he said was such a long way off what he meant (and said in a subsequent post) that I couldn't make the same connection that you have. Judging by the number of likes on my post, I wasn't the only one.

Out: Salem In: Kent I just don't think Salem is keeping up with the pace of the game that well and really struggled today and has been just hanging on for some time now. I've held the view all year that Kent is clearly in our best 22 and should be in the side, and from all reports was BOG for Casey on the weekend. The single change seems logical and timely. JKH played his worst game for the club to date but Roos has demonstrated that backing the player is his preferred method, so I suspect he'll get the opportunity to redeem himself. And lol at the guy who suggested Matt Jones might be dropped. There always seems to be one.

LOL. I'm the stupid one. This guy!

Stunning logic. Well done. Apparently goals in the first minute of the game don't count now.

6. Jones N 5. Dunn 4. Pedersen 3. Vince 2. Watts 1. Grimes

Bitterly disappointing. Well outclassed by a quality side. The thing that is probably a mitigating factor is that other than Dawes, our worst players were the youngest; I'm thinking Tyson, Viney, Salem and JKH all got lessons in how gun midfields go about it. Pedersen, Dunn and Nath Jones all continued their excellent form, and were our clear top 3 for mine.

Boring game so far.

I feel sick.

Had the travel budget, the company AND the family leave pass arranged to go, but failed on the logistics (flight times and strict timing on when I needed to get home). Still spewing.

These sorts of posts make me feel so old. I've seen this post 1000 times before. Different names but same content: every year some fresh faced poster wants to put the 38th-44th players on our list on the trade table. The other clubs do not want our garbage any more than we want theirs. Nobody is going to trade anything worthwhile for Tapscott or Blease. Unless they have a miraculous change of form, their AFL careers are drawing to a close.

Is he Jordan? I've not once seen him referred to as anything other than Jordie, including on the club's website. I had always just assumed he was just Jordie.

Schneider and Dempster?

We took Matt Jones and Dean Terlich with the picks we got for Martin. That said, we'd probably have landed both of them regardless of where our higher picks were as I doubt they were in hot demand, so it amounted to being a freebie to Brisbane.

Enjoying the Stefan Martin Experience do his best impersonation of a footballer reborn. He always seemed to me to that he should've been a better player than he was, hopefully he's able to keep it up.

Spencer is not behind Gawn, because Gawn doesn't have the engine for a full game in the ruck.

That feedback would feel like a slap in the face. It seems to me he had two choices: to work his ring off to improve, or decide footy's not for him and chuck in the towel. Credit to him for taking the harder but more rewarding road.

Having Rockliff is a nice dream and probably equal with Tyson, but the difference is I doubt Brisbane would have coughed up their first rounder as part of the package. It's not just Tyson, but the receipt of Salem that makes this deal look so sweet; we'd most likely have missed out on that if we'd dealt with Brisbane.

Surely the subject of this thread is a contender for this honour as well?