Adam The God

His opponent had 7 score involvements and 27 touches. If he was doing a tagging job, I wouldn't have thought he did a great job. Thought his game was pretty overrated, but the most pleasing thing was (aside from early on), his ball use was better.

I thought his presser was notable as he certainly seemed to open the door for Fritta or JVR to return as soon as this week.

He's done 100% TOG before. He's incredible.

We noticed Lingers coming to the bench too. I wondered whether they are finally managing our players a little better. When you've got so much dynamic running required as opposed to aerobic up and back, it might allow Lingers to be fresher and therefore better with disposal. His DE is really good this year. Might have something to do with it.

Righto, so no re-tendering will be required. 👌

Interesting. So it wouldn't be a giant leap for Trac to take on the captaincy next year and give Gawny a chop out for his last few years.

Melksham ensures the ball comes to ground. If JVR and others can start to do that, great. Until then, Melksham stays.

Lindsay will be an A grader. Either at half back, on a wing or even through the midfield. He's got leadership pedigree, beautiful skills, a decent tackler (although missed a few on the weekend) and he has pace. What's not to like? The ceiling is high.

Figured, but I still liked it.

It's too early to tell. What might be our best line up now is unlikely to be our best line up by the end of the year. I hope we can get a look at Adams and Sestan at AFL level soon. I think Turner should be in our best side too.

Yep, Daicos is a gun. The little twerp.

I've been saying for a while I'd much prefer us go two talls and mids/smalls are them. I'm glad we seem to revert to this on the weekend.

I think that's his go. Petty as the big banana and JVR as the second banana and relief ruck.

Rivers played a very aggressive "running back" role without McVee in the team. IMV, he needs to stay at half back with the footy in front of him. He's always been super dynamic in that role. His disposal can be iffy, but if we have more movement ahead of us, he looks A+ (only 3 turnovers from 26 touches on the weekend). Without AMW, McVee should be locking down on the best opposition small and rebounding off them.

He's a shocking kick, but he still kicked the most important one down at the Cattery. Thanks Big Maxy!

I wonder what Caro will say...

Yeah, May really worries me. As does Lever. I just wonder if we're actually going past them as a team. Controversial perhaps. I'd be trying to get Adams in there. He's a nice kick and quick. The beauty of TMac as a defender is he's super quick to move it on and with movement ahead of him (with further belief in the new system), he's the sort of KPB we want. A neat kick who moves it on quickly and efficiently.

The AFL will change them on the fly as usual.

I think JVR is clearly better than Fullarton, but make JVR earn his recall with some better VFL form. You just need a second ruck to chop out for Max and provide a contest in the air, ideally on the ground and kick a goal a game. JVR can do that.

It was Rivers, who he probably fended off too high on, but had Bolton not slipped he would have been past Rivers who fell to ground...

We backed out of Houston. We didn't want to pay a top 5 pick for him when we realised it was going to land top 5.

It'll be interesting to see what Richmond does to stifle our ball movement if we're as aggressive and run in waves as much as yesterday. Will that handball game be able to stand up to manic Richmond pressure? And if we make a few errors and a team really brings the heat, will we go back into our shells or keep going for it? This will determine how sustainable this game plan is with this group.

He's got leader written all over him for mine. He's not the most gregarious individual, but you can tell he's a pro, and you can never have enough of those. Love his left foot and has good agility for a guy whose knock is pace.

Collingwood and Geelong are the oldest lists in the league. Consistency is to be expected.

Really?