Adam The God

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?

No, it's decision making mostly. As evidenced by yesterday.

Who for though? Our back half is starting to really ping and is a key reason our ball movement is improving. Ollie is a good kick, but I wouldn't be tinker8ngmwith the back half. Injuries will come, Ollie will get his turn if he keeps improving.

And who plays second ruck if it's Fritta? If May doesn't get up, I hope it's finally Adams' turn. Adams is a good name. Better as a Christian name, but with a surname like that he deserves a game.

What did you think of the game today mate? Did it look like the pre season ball movement that some have said? Thought we were so exciting. And of course Goody and Chaplin have been there before playing that way with earlier iterations of this team. Bassett's attacking defensive set up during his time at Port will be an interesting watch for the rest of the season. Hopefully having May, Lever and McVee back in the back 7, we'll manage to win more 1v1s back there, but it felt like the easy scores against were a midfield problem. Either from too aggressive set ups or poor set ups or poor defensive transition. I also hope having May and Lever back doesn't slow or [censored] our bounce off half back.

Lord Edward Is God saw his first full game win today. He was singing the song loudly with his nuffy dad. Thank you, Demons.

Play like that and 2018 again more often and we'll be getting 30k+ to that game. Which given the number of supporters we actually have, would be a bloody brilliant effort.

I've never been TMac's biggest fan, particularly as a defender, but he has been bloody brilliant this year, and proved me wrong. As dazzle said, give him another contract. Is showing tremendous leadership.

Pity he doesn't kick it like JVR.