kemp

thankyou kc. your help is appreciated week in week out.

do we know any stats/scores yet?

Great analysis of stats HT. you make this place worth regular visits.

I hope Barry Prendergast is still evaluating the top ten properly not following the glitz and glamour of top picks. There are still four likely chances of wins in Port, North, Richmond and Fremantle. If hell breaks loose(erupting demons everywhere), we could end up with pick 5. Not saying its of a high likelihood, but possible. The following to me (in the next eight rounds) would be far more pleasing than two top picks: Col Garland playing a game (not a necessity but hope he's doing well) Dunn and Maric kicking 15 goals each Robbo, Bate and Jurrah kicking 25 each Miller/Newton back for 20 goals (either or) restrict 5 oppositions to under 75 points. If we can do all of these, suddenly we dont need a Butcher as a forward prospect, just one quality midfielder. If it turns out not to be scully or even trengove and we get some other keen youngster, id still be happy that our list is young enough to not have to worry about depleted drafts for the next however long.

Recent sooking is surely him hating himself for not having the confidence of old to fly. After some injuries there can be an attached stigma of every time you jump, your landing could be your last. Growing in reassurance each week as seen against WCE where he seemed unimpeded like previous weeks. One more decent year in him IMO, and then a well deserved 2011 forward pocket rest to retirement. Hope he can still bag 40 in that final year and get his tally to 500. Would provide a great salute to himself and the club honouring his commitment. Fingers crossed. Would be great to give him one more final to try and cut loose in, but probably too far a stretch (i reckon 2011 finish will be about 10th)

All for Dunn coming back in as a mirror of Matty Bate's role. Love to see Bate coming through the midfield and then popping up for some leads on/to the 50 arc. The inverse role needs to be given to Dunn. If working we'll have our HFF positions filled for the next 5 years. This to me is not a replacement for Col, who is often referred to as a half forward but to me it seems pretty clear he's a goal kicking mid. Dunn was a forward to begin with and now, having done some hard yards learning midfielder roles, should add what he's learnt to his trick bag and go back to how he began. The occasional relief stint is all the midfield time he should get. His forward line pressure was one of the reasons we one against richmond.

there could be a clean out of richmonds forwards with a new coach and if we are prepared to throw away a second round pick, we could do a lot worse. Then again, maybe we could just give Newton one more chance. Its not like he's solely responsible for all our losses. C'mon Newts, a summer of goalkicking practice!

I once thought of him as a possible saviour/captian to be, but will Bails finally attempt to take control of the list by dropping someone who has been a walk up starter for years regardless of form? I hear much talk of underperfoming players being dropped, and I for one would like to see some shaking up, impactive coaching. West Coast should crumble here either way and if done without Brocky, he would need to push himself pretty hard to surpass the talk of critics and be asserted as a star as he once was. Thoughts, anyone?

Threre is no choice: Scully and Butcher. If the first game (NAB Cup) next year we named: FB: Frawley Martin Bennell HB: Garland Rivers Strauss C: Morton Moloney© Davey HF: Bate Watts Wonaeamirri FF: Sylvia Jurrah Green F: Jamar Grimes Jones Int: Meesen(or Spencer) Scully Butcher Hughes I would be a very happy member.

All this talk about the really young guns like grimey and morts, and we keep overlooking a man everyone at the club values: Brent Moloney. He has the heart that the club needs to build its culture around and with a warrior like Jonesy by his side in the centre they can power our engine room for many years to come. When these two have the fire in their eyes it has opportunity to spread. With a little bit of silk on their wings and a contested marker or three (a quality crumber would be nice also) up forward we would be well on the way to rebuilt. Moloney is a leader for the club looking forward, and im beyond sick of seeing bruce as a replacement captain. not a positive for the future.

outs: frawley and rivers ins: cheney and newton would like newton to have had one more week of goal kicking practice but hopefully he used the time he had off for this. dunn has a great opportunity to tag a gilbee type from the half forward and hurt them with a goal or three. if cheney doesnt perform, belly will be back and id rather he just pressed for a spot to keep people on their toes.

dunn to play third man up when johnson is rucking and then run with cox. who else is worth tagging?

6 brent moloney 5 aaron davey 4 james frawley 3 jared rivers 2 brad miller 1 lyndon dunn

cant wait for this boy to have the muscle to back his mind. its not fear that holds him back its knowledge. when something has to give its likely to be his body. one, maybe two more preseasons and he will be in top flight and one on the hardest players in the afl to stop. i sincerely hope he treats the time between now and his body being ready as a lesson in how opposition players play (for future reference on how he can get past them) and where and when his team mates want it. pray he doesnt get seriously crunched by selwood this weekend to prove his hardness to you.

Where can I find a report on the game? Been looking for a while and nothing yet. Could someone help me?