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At the risk of being repetitive its not the young players that are causing our problems. Its our senior Premiership players like Petty, Fritsch and Oliver that haven't fired a shot all year.

Another week of Fritsch with less than 2 possessions to half time. He's a liability they way he's playing. Zero pressure and absolutely lame attempts at tackling ALtho Petty had a better week we have been playing 3 men down with Petty Fritsch and Oliver for the past 5 or so weeks. No wonder we have been struggling .

Acttually if he tags Andrews out of the game that would be a win for us

Of course it had to be melbourne. Perennial whipping team when it comes to new interpretations of rules. How many. staging fines have been handed down in het past 10 years? Complete BS. Like the 70m penalty against Oliver

And repeatedly we have no crumbers at the fall of the ball allowing the oppo to sweep the ball or if defence If that's the game plan it's cooked. It seems to be because we do it every week

Clarry spent his time wrestling with Philips Shows no interest in attacking the ball. Gave away 4/5 free kicks? A shell of his former self. Would have been better putting him at full fwd and dragging fritch

Fritch is the laziest football in the country. F off back to Coldstream if your want to play like you did tonight. Pathetic effort

If we serve up the same [censored] we served tonight why TF would anyone go. Totally [censored] performance. Heads need to roll

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Let's see if Stubborn Simon fries Petty's brain completely or gives him a chance to find form down back Another bad game will likely scar Petty for life

Sums it up well

Just turned it on to see Cripps throw the ball right in front of the Umpire..... play on Disgusting. Think I'll watch better homes and garden

Whateley's just another garden variety doorknob that is paid to pontificate 7 days a week about footy. He's another clickbait outrage machine - but never against the AFL or umpires mind you. That would put in jeopardy his handsome pay check. Who gives a fat rat's clacker what he thinks?

Is Rivers training with the mids?

Re JSmith, appreciate we can't discuss the case but two questions I think are reasonable (and hopefully not in breach of the current editorial policy...) 1. Anyone shed any light as to why there is radio silence from all involved or where its at? Every other similar case has been headline material for months. 2. What is the situation re our salary cap etc. Can we delist at year's end?

Haven't they got the two Davey boys?

ANB was going to be traded at the end of 2020 - with no suitors he stayed To say it was part of a masterplan is stretching it

Because that's not how we roll. We'll continue to ignore him until such time as we may need a backup ruck and then we'll select Shache, but not play him. After that we will trade Fullerton to the next up and coming Premier that is desperate for a ruck and we'll give them a leg up and take of 4th round pick

some lady who spends a lot of time on legal cases.

I don't think so Goody will probably roll out the same team the following week.

Our DNA is contest and defence We have lost contest by a wide margin this year. Some here talk about post-clearance possession and slingshot off the backline but the reality is we have been poor in the midfield all year. Winning clearance and/or helping our defence springboard forward. Oliver is down, Viney appears to be playing injured, Petracca has been needed forward to prop up the Petty experiment. Pickett shows some excitement when he goes in there but doesn't impact enough. Rivers hasn't been allowed in there. Salem's form has been very patchy. One big failure it would seem is how poorly the 'second tier' or 'up and coming' midfield has been playing. Sparrow is a big one. I am a fan but his output has been terrible. We seem to be using him in shut down roles but maybe we are robbing ourselves. Laurie hasn't come on as we would have expected. And then there is Bowey who has been inured for a large part of the year, Spargo who hasn't played since rd 1, Howes who is being asked to do a lot, McVee who has lost a lot of his drive... I got to thinking which players have improved this year. TMac, JvR, ANB, Maybe Max Those that have gone backwards Petty, Viney, May, Langdon, McVee, Fritsch, Oliver, Salem, Chandler, Sparrow, Spargo, Hunter This is our problem in a nutshell The same or thereabouts Turner, Rivers, Lever, Bowey, Pickett, Petracca Not one of young players (that have played at least 1 season) have improved this year. That bodes poorly for the future

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You're clutching at straws here What is a doctor over the phone going to do that a doctor on the spot can't do. Seriously bad take.

Something isnt right about the whole experiment. That Brodie was on the outer from rd 17 on says that they put a line through him. Rd 12 and 13 we beat Carlton and Collingwood - both teams that play two rucks. Yet we chose to go into finals against Carlton and Collingwood without two rucks doesn't ring true for me. Melbourne, Grundy and Gawn have been very tight lipped about it, only saying nice things about each other but it smells to me. The final nail being the choice of Schache when Max had a broken toe. One day the story will come out....

I am more concerned with Tracc's comments that he has been spooked by this and couldn't watch any games over the weekend. etc. The body will likely heal but the mental scares could well end up being worse.