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I differ h, I hope he has a blinder, from the half back flank.

I reckon Gus is a more intelligent footy player, than Tracca is. Tracca is a bull, and probably hasn't needed to fine tune things as much, in his lifetime.

Brayshaw appears to show more desperation than Trac, A bit like Hibbo compared to OMc. The youngsters need to improve their intensity.

Your concerns listed are all experience learning's, + confidence accompanying. Another 3 seasons and he will do these things intuitively. But he does Have to improve his intensity, for when required. He just has the one laconic speed at present.

And make him run hard, both ways. change him off the bench. He would be useful helping carry the ball from defence.

Put him on the wing.

I don't know if you noticed the few occasions in the last couple of weeks, where both were clean bowled out on their lone-somes. The Ball went past them down low on separate occasions. They were each out in space. This cannot happen in future, if we're to play finals, its just an area of weakness, particularly for Oscar, & a lesser degree for Lever, when he was less confident than yesterday. Oscar has a long road of improvement ahead of him, before he becomes a leader, as defenders go. Admittedly the standard in the AFL has dropped, the last couple of years. but lets not put Oscar up on a pedestal. he's not that good yet. And I've been one of his biggest supporters over his journey. but he's improved, but only improved. He's got a lot of weakness's, including his leg strength. still. he's on the improve.

A little bit laconic, needs to develop some more intensity. For those soon to be, oneday, Finals games.

Yes but let us not get ahead of himself. He now has to improve below his knees, and gain more intensity,,, and stop getting clean bowled by full length deliveries. Lever as well, let some low balls roll past below knee level. We cannot let any ball past us in the back half. especially ground ball.

A girly name, 'charlie', but he wears the pants__ not so sure about wattshisface jacky boy. .... just whispering sweet nothings, into his shell like, is Charlie & Nat... and Oli's just making sure, all is above board. Maybe Brendon had a 'zit', on his neck ?

Well, he only got 4 kicks 'cf', but he nabbed 2 goals. Had 3 tackles, and 14 handballs, also took 4 marks, the little fella. Watta game !

self belief is what makes ALL the difference in talented but struggling young players. don't you ever ! look within the words, to search for the meaning ? or you haven't discovered this yourself, yet.

belief; self; a funny thing, happened on the way to the 'G'.

And he's a senior leader now... who is playing like a baby boy. He is NOT showing the way forward, as a 28Yr old regular senior player should be. ... more in the mold of, watts his name again. lackluster efforts.

Garlett has to be dropped, for not turning up for 2018.

not looking with an open viewpoint. looking thru a glass onion. so many can't see, what they do not want to see. the forward who maybe a defender in waiting. or the defender who maybe a wingman?

Well lets hope he's lay'd claim to all of them then. We might need the whole family yet.

Glass chins, never get stronger. Just like 2 chins, they never return to singularity.

Yes, I realise that. he lived around Sandringham I think. the point remains IF he wants to go West, I'd be Open to that happening. if we were compensated rightly.

That was the hawks pressure and our clubs collective panic, setting in. The Melbourne Yips, is what i'm talking about. (that here we go again thing) We have to work on 'cutting it', from all our minds. because what it does is magnify the pressure our players feel out there. They do indeed sense it. the fear/negativity. All Demons must learn to NOT Fear.

I'd be open to that if Angus wanted to go home West. If he wanted to do that, I would be open to trade. Also there is no guarantee on his health, in future seasons.

LoL. Devils advocate. I think he may well have been in the line of sight of selectors after his efforts. but not now. So, IMO, if I was selector, I would be looking to add a nippy player who can be defensive minded, to account for some nimble Hawks.

Simple. When houses, medicine and food, & just plain living, become a slavery act to survive, then the current capitalistic system has gone beyond its use buy date. This is the end of capitalism as we know it, because its become a cannibal. The anti-christ has worked its spell into the big 'C' ; and now its all downhill for big 'C'... 'the people, they are a changin'.

The "already developed" term, was in reference to his footy development.. not his mind/emotional development. That's the point of the post, that 'the inner club culture' has to be strong, beneficial, & supportive, with strong discipline. The doggies seems to me, a raw culture changing almost daily. they were a young talented team without enough senior leaders who could hold things together. They rode the crest of an emotional wave through to the Premiership, and never really got off that wave until it crashed ashore. Now its spot the pieces, and pickup what you can find. Stringer Wines and Grundy were my picks, to go with Viney, who was a lock for us. I wanted big size mids in that draft. And those who had other skills, like forward skills. see (Grundy & Stringer) It turns out the best options from hindsight show us that Wines & Grundy would have been the better partners for Viney. And we had one of them in the palm. Oh Toddy.

most footy supporters are from the lower half of this equation. If footy is about community, and the rotation of goodwill, & also money moving across that community, how is it good for most of it (money) to end-up in the pocket of too few ? This is not good for anything, Let alone footy and community.