Fat Tony

The initial decision to play May on Gunston was a shocker. Petracca is 4kg too heavy.

Culley looks good but he needs to stop providing soft drop crumbs in the backline. He did that twice on the weekend and it cost two goals. That said, he looks like an AFL player.

The club might need changes but I don’t like sacking coaches with a year to go.

The final bounce of the ball before the collision was straight up and this meant Evan’s got there first. May obviously was expecting contact but a different bounce would have meant May was there first.

Jefferson is the antithesis of everything this club should be standing for. Poor in the contest and no second effort. The good elements of his game are below average.

Time to drop another premiership hero to send the senior players a message. We can't just coast through the season like it doesn't matter. Salem would be my choice. Jefferson must be dropped on complete lack of effort. Bring in some pace. Brown and Windsor.

Petracca fumbled and missed tackles all day. Jefferson is clearly a bust. No competitive fibre in his body.

I don’t think I’ve seen an AFL game with a team having more smothered kicks and kicks which barely hit the foot. Our first quarter was as poor an effort as there has been under Goodwin.

I love Kossie but I hate long-term deals and would prefer we waited given Kossie is contracted for another 2 years already. I think our list management team play it too softly with the player managers.

Viney will play AFL if he is fit. Shifting Rivers back is not about his form in the middle. He has been solid in the midfield recently. But Viney needs to play midfield if he plays. I think the roles of Petracca and Kossie are going well (with Langdon essentially playing on ball after the centre bounce). There are only 240 playing minutes for midfielders to go around. I don't mind Howes but this is the most logical solution IMO.

Surely a trip by hand where the tackle slips lower accidently (initially being legal) is not a sanction. Ridiculous.

If Viney comes into the side, Rivers needs to shift back. I see Langdon playing another tagging role on Butters and Petracca and Kossie playing centre bounces and then cheating forward. Howes likely makes way for Viney (even though he played a solid game). I think one of Langford or Lindsay starts as sub. Dees by 35.

I think we need to stick with Petty as a forward this year. We have six AFL standard key defenders (May, Lever, Turner, Petty, JVR and TMac) but no decent key forwards. (I am projecting on JVR.) It is hard to find good key forwards because it is much easier to play as a key defender than key forward because one-on-one contests are rare. In terms of average player ratings this season, the Pies have Mihocek (8.45), McStay (6.96), Membrey (6.22) and Cox (4.63). Melbourne have Melksham (9.09), JVR (6.83), Petty (6.03), so it is not much different.

Great effort yesterday. We just made a few crucial errors and e need to improve our accuracy. The Pies have only lost two games on expected score this year and we 'won' by 9. (I know we hate this stat.) Our best players are all in good form (Gawn, Petracca, Picket, Oliver and May) and our youth is quality. Fristch coming back into form has been important. I think we can still make a run at it but there is obviously not much margin for error.