Adam The God

My opinion was it was a dopey thread, because you've gone the early crow. Reactionary if you like. But are you saying you're the only one allowed an opinion?

Someone with a screen name "COVID Dan" creates a dopey thread. Fancy that.

We kick straight and it's a comfortable win. I don't think this undermines the loading discussions. That said, we were very poor in the second half.

Kick straight and we win comfortably by 5 or so goals. We always threatened to lose games last year with poor goalkicking. That was my one concern heading into last year's finals series. The Bulldogs round 20 game in particular, but you could argue this year poor goalkicking has cost us against Sydney, Bulldogs and now Collingwood. The most glaringly obvious was tonight's game though. Collingwood played out of their skins. Their pressure was elite and we let them transition too easily at times. But we shouldn't be losing that game. It's fixable if it doesn't become mental. Really poor result though obviously and now we could well miss the top 4.

Given the drugs stuff though, would he have the respect? I'd hate him anywhere near our club. But agree, if Yze goes, we need the best.

No, he like everyone else, just needs to play his role.

Totally different game nowadays. Let's just get the job done.

It means you can be shut down more easily. Shut down the two keys and it goes a long way to beating you. I'd rather have more unpredictable goal sources.

And then McKay down the other end. In 2 years time their spine looks pretty good. Have they nailed their midfield picks over the last few years is the question?

Wow, so Cadman at 2. Righto. Interesting. He probably goes West then.

I'd send him to Maynard or Howe. Moore will surely go to Brown.

I don't think it's any different to most games in 2021...

I like Sparrow too, but he's still a young guy and works through really inconsistent patches. The same with JJ. I could see both losing their spots come finals if the competition for spots was tight. I think JJs wing is safe now though that they're intent on playing Gus through the midfield.

I think you're misinterpreting Goodwin's earlier remarks personally. I think he meant we didn't need to score (as much) if we gave the opposition little. Of course they want to be able to score heavily, but that comes off the back of strong defence and getting the forward mix right.

You could be right, but I'd be staggered if Gus isn't in the midfield this week. This is one of the aces up our sleeve we've been holding back. I reckon he'll play midfield. If Harmes does come in it will be at the expense of a forward or half forward/mid rotation - see Melksham or Sparrow. As for captain Jack Sparrow, I reckon his game against Freo has been bizarrely overrated. I thought he was dreadful in the first half, before working his way back into it during the second half. If they want to bring Harmes in, I'd suggest it's mostly likely Sparrow.

I don't understand why we don't have Tomlinson as a sub every game. I get the injection of pace like a Chandler or Bedford, but talls are vital to our structure and game style, so having someone that has the capacity to play tall back, forward, wing or ruck seems like the ideal sub. But you may be right, mate. Harmes could well be sub.

Watching Goodwin's press conference, he hesitated when discussing where Harmes will play. He might just not want to give up too much in a press conference, but my read on it is I think Harmes will play VFL this week.

There's a reason he's not in AA calculation this year, Andy. He doesn't have the same mobility IMV, but Lever at 90-95% could still help us win back to back. #positivebinners

Not partly due to COVID. Wholly due to COVID. Anyone that thinks people are staying away because it's cold are kidding themselves. COVID is stopping many from going.

If Darcy had nominated his club of choice as someone other than the Bulldogs, then the Bulldogs would have no reason to target him Besides, English has come on and they probably don't need two guys that can mostly only ruck. I wonder if Darcy would be open to us. 😉

I wonder if Darcy has indicated he'd be open to a move back east, hence their aggressive LJ offer?

That St Kilda game is directly before I believe we started loading, hence the little bump in performance, which you hope to get off the back of the first week of heavy loading.

I dunno. I think it was pretty clear Chris Scott was talking about loading a couple of weeks ago. People would prefer to look at other factors as to why we suddenly slumped in a mirror image to last year. I'd suggest if we don't win the flag people next year will be saying the same thing. It'll be pretty hard to defend on the body evidence if we win another flag though.

His name is Max Gawn and he is and should be our captain. He's perfect. Lever is the next captain for mine, by quite a way. Petracca may well be a good VC.

And now they start it earlier, particularly if you get early wins on the board. Modern players are a lot fitter than 2007 though.