Adam The God

Oofa doofa. This is gonna be ugly. The crowd will be back to 2008-2013 levels and the performance could match it.

It's funny because I've just looked at the stats and seen Rivers had 25 touches and 6 clearances of 70%+ TOG, plus a goal. You look at those numbers and you go, he is definitely on the way. But whenever he's in traffic under heat, he makes poor decisions IMO. When he has the play in front of him, it's a different story. He's explosive and confident, and tries to play make. Anyway, I hope I'm wrong.

I thought we were pathetic. Fritta played his best game for ages, which was welcome. We seemed far more fatigued than them. A stack load of regulation tackles missed that led to scores against. Our midfield murdered for most of the night. I was very envious of how well their tall forwards marked the ball, in comparison to our forwards. But the thing that the Bulldogs do regularly and I think we managed once for an entire half, is kick the ball to the advantage of our forwards. Again, our ball movement has basically gone back into its shell. Did we waste half a year trying to work on our transition game? Our lack of dare was really disappointing. And I wanted to see Turner play forward, because he's a great mark. We have a lot of work to do over the summer and it'll be a fascinating watch on McQualter.

I'll go with this again after tonight. "It's the midfield, stupid". Rivers is not a midfielder, he doesn't have the awareness. He's hugely damaging as a half back, he should stay there. I'd be looking to get McVee into the midfield, but we need more. We need two gun kids that can plug and play in the midfield IMO.

I can see that too. Good call.

From the little I've seen of Sid Draper, he seems like a Merrett clone with perhaps not the same level of foot skills. I'm quite excited about his potential. If he could make the step up to AFL level he'd certainly provide a point of difference for our midfield. Very explosive around stoppage.

My step mum is from Geraldton, so my old man seems to think that every WA footballer comes from Geraldton. Lesson here, don't trust your old man, BPA.

But surely he knew that at the time. I did.

I've always liked the saying "it's the midfield, stupid". Whilst a hardened KPF would be great, I've come to the view that we need to add more elite talent to the midfield and even behind the ball. We have a number of needs. Midfield, half backs, a KPF and a genuine back up or transition plan for Max. I'd argue that the lowest of these priorities is a KPF. Would be nice, but we only have so much TPP and trade capital.

We play well at Marvel, I do worry about a shoot out again. If that happens one of our guys will kick a bag. Who knows how close we'll get.

Unless we prefer what Kolt brings? Like if Kolt was Trac (I acknowledge he's not), Trac would come straight back in. I think this says something about Laurie, but it says more about how we value Kolt. I think...

They clearly love Kolt ahead of Laurie. On first inspection given Laurie's equal team high score involvements last week, it's a bizarre decision. But if we love Kolt more, I wonder if Laurie will be encouraged to explore his options...

He's also from Geraldton (ie country WA), not going anywhere.

28 might be a little old, but he's often toweled up Max around stoppages.

No, I've moved on from Houston. Wouldn't say no if we could get him with a future 1st in 2025 or 2026, but it sounds like it's over.

I'm beginning to get very excited over this coming draft. It feels like 2014 all over again!

So there is some chance that we could get two top 20 players next year via F/S and our NGA. Even more reason to dangle our first rounder next year...

Thank you mate 🙏

This is it. My hope too.

I tried to change the name, but I'm stuck with it for a year haha. Apparently, we are actively thinking about putting McVee through the midfield next year, so we'll see. It's interesting RE Trac. Against the Blues, he almost single handedly played a forward hand and won us that game. Without him playing forward for the rest of the game, we don't stay in it. Then against Collingwood on KB, before he got injured, everything he touched across half forward led to a scoring opportunity. Often we stuffed the chance. When he went off, we had no forward half connector. Those two games show you how vital he has become for our forward half, that said he's a superstar mid too, so you want to try and get a 60 forward, 40 midfield split I reckon, depending on the opponent and the balance of the game. I've come around to the idea of trying to hit this top 20 in 2024 really hard. If we could land two midfield young guns (think Port in the 2018 draft), it changes our list profile and sets us up for 5-10 years. Use our 2024 first rounder on a young gun, and dangle our 2025 first rounder (and 2026 @old55?) to see if we can't land another.

A ruck fella. @ChaserJ or @dazzledavey36, I think I read it from one of you?

Does anyone have any information on ticketing for this week? I assume Level 4 will be open, but there's often a chance to get tickets on Level 1 too. Hoping that's the case as I hate level 4. Any deets, much appreciated. 🙏

Nice haircut, Binners.

I want Bolton if we can manage it. :P

In other words, I'd be trading out of the first round in those drafts because the first round will be mauled by Tassie access. And again, we have a F/S and an NGA next year that directly go to both weaknesses on our list. KPD and ruck respectively. Kalani White isn't going to GCS. That's nonsense. The more I think about it, the more validity hitting the 2024 first round really hard has. Use your future firsts to do strengthen your hand.