Fat Tony

I think we need to look at upgrading both our wingers and Salem looks cooked. But we’re potentially losing a lot of inside midfield depth, with Harmes, Jordon and Dunstan leaving and Brayshaw in some doubt. And I think we really need to try and win it next year given May and Gawn are both 32 next season.

Boak has played well tonight. He’s still a solid AFL midfielder.

I think Goodwin did a good job through the season. We experimented more but suffered from injuries and poor goal kicking when it counted. That said, we were very poor disciplined last night and disorganised. Four forward stoppages, we had no nominated ruck when Max was off.

We actually had 23-22 shots against Sydney if you count complete misses.

The lack of discipline and organisation was terrible. Frees against when kicking for goal or the game had stopped, 50m penalties, and four times we had no ruck in the forward stoppages. Players slipping in the centre square. Langdon had two terrible finals and looks a D grader. Salem has no drive and power. Finished. Jordon was hopeless. Sparrow fumbled too often. Fritsch’s misses cost us in both finals. Our set ups and centre clearance were ineffective and we didn’t defend well one on one. That’s four finals losses with more shots at goal.

The discount and the points table needs addressing. The points table runs out to around pick 70 and the average number of players getting drafted recently is around 50.

I think I would prefer to get Silvagni than Melksham based on the injury, age and Silvagni’s ability to play second ruck.

We just need to kick straight and win clearance. (It would be nice to hit up a few more targets inside 50 as well.)

Makes sense. We get crucified by the umpires every week.

Time to focus on Carlton now. Friday night will be brutal and we need to be ready. We will win the flag if we can tweak our game a bit and maintain intensity for four quarters.

You might be right. His output has declined this year but that could also be due to being shifted out of the midfield. He has still looked to be a good kick from the Port games I’ve seen this year.

I would look at Travis Boak as a short-term option. Great team player and example and could give us depth in the midfield.

Cannot see it happening. Thommo is too slow. We would be better off playing Petracca forward more and getting Sparrow and Jordon to play more in the midfield. Oliver, Viney, Sparrow and Jordon can win enough ball. Rivers can also go inside for a stint. Fritsch, Pickett, Petracca, TMac, Smith and Chandler can provide enough chances to kick a winning score. Our average score against has been only 59 in the last four matches.

I think Chol is a good option.

I think it will be difficult for us to attract a decent pure ruck as a back up. Nobody wants to be a certain VFL player. We are better off going for a forward/ruck who could play alongside Gawn and fill in as a ruckman if Gawn gets injured.

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The risk of pressing so high is that we get caught over the back occasionally but our defence was excellent for the most part. But Collingwood only had 15 shots for the whole game and just 9 shots after quarter time. I wouldn't be changing the way we defend. The issue with our tactics is much more with our ball use inside 50 (and our forwards competing better to get the ball to ground).

It is Monday morning and time to move on. As callus as it sounds, we need to stop focusing on the Brayshaw/Maynard incident and get ready for another monster battle. Just a few tweaks and we will this flag.

23 according to the AFL app.

Daniel Turner will be at least a good AFL player and is the answer down back. I think Chol is worth going for because he can play ruck/forward.

Can he take a hanger? It’s difficult to play as a deep forward without a leap against an AFL zone defence.

We had 23 shots to 15 on Thursday against the flag favourite. We just need average efficiency in front of goal to fix our game.

Is that confirmed? I assumed we would be Friday

Come on Old Dee, we’re playing excellent football everywhere except the front third. A couple of tweaks and we’ll win the flag.

One tactical change I think we need to make is to deliberately kick more torpedoes inside a crowded 50. Even a bad miss kick is better than a drop punt to Weitering.