Adam The God

Riley is done for mine. I'd venture as far as saying Matt Jones offers more across four quarters. Neither should be at the club next year.

Rubbish, mate.

And can I just say, Jeremy Howe was appalling today. I watched him jog right in front of me in the last quarter, when a St Kilda player sprinted past him. He's the sort of player that we need to trade desperately. I think they will pull the trigger at the end of the year. I'm not sure Howe's checked out. I think he's just a lazy, has it all on his terms, sort of footballer. Blokes like him will take us nowhere. I'd prefer to see him never play again, but that would obviously lessen his trade value.

If you don't have the skills in the first place, you're not going to get very far. It's not Roos' fault. The players continue to refuse to work hard and run and spread. It's a lack of courage that kills us every week. It's why we have to handball round in circles each week. I've no doubt Roos is teaching the players better decision making, but some of them just don't have it in them to execute. You only have to look at guys like Brayshaw. He just makes the right decision nearly every time. Some have it, some don't.

St Kilda are in trouble. We smashed them in all the key stats today. They were pretty well drilled and we made far too many clangers. Almost 50, by the way. I'm not up with the records, but can anyone tell me if that's some kind of record? We halve our clangers and we win. As simple as that.

The increase in errors across the last two weeks is particularly worrying.

And those rubbishing Toumpas are blinded by their bias. Two goals, 26 touches and 8 tackles. That's a gun game. Okay, so he may have been at fault for the last goal, but I reckon the whole team (especially the leaders) have to cop the blame for that.

We weren't even good for a whole quarter. Every couple of minutes we would make an horrendous error and just gift them goals.

Don't let their half reasonable stats trick you. Stretch and ANB aren't ready yet. They'll only keep playing if injuries persist.

Well, we'll get St Kilda at the G, Carlton and possibly Brisbane or another one we don't expect. Oh yeah. Essendon. That said, I'm finding the last two weeks very puzzling. They have been so error riddled. We were more efficient earlier in the season. I wonder if they are tiring, but you know what, they don't bloody deserve excise after excuse.

So I've been predicting 6-8 wins for most of the year. I think it'll be 6.

We also dominated the key stats and still never really looked like it. We need more midfield class. I'll say it again. We need more midfield class.

Could anyone else see Stevens getting free out the back of that centre stoppage well before it happened? Lack of leadership. Someone should have plonked themselves on that side of the contest. Woeful performance. Another game at that hole of a ground that we never looked like winning.

Was beaten quite a bit early, but he's come back strongly. Still only depth though.

Disagree. I think he's made some good decisions under pressure today.

Cross has been fine. The bloke who's been hopeless is Jeremy Howe. Back to his lazy best.

Disgraceful first half. We've had intensity for about 10 mins.

Two goals Gawn has given up now.

Overuse, overuse, overuse.

That is all he can do. He's not even that elite. Jones goes, Watts clearly stays and McKenzie goes.

Congrats, Lynden. Hopefully you put in a better performance this week. We're gonna need it without Garland. But labelling him a champion is laughable and really shows you up, Olisik.

Agreed. Gawn dominates and we win.

Haha, indeed.

I actually think we were backing ourselves to win it irrespective of Oxley. Our coaches thought, as I did, that we were winning all the key stats, it was just a matter of making sure we limited Cloke's output. So we put Cross back in front of him. Unfortunately, Gawn ran out of puff in the last and here the midfield ascendancy was lost. Still, had Howe goaled early in the last, it would only have been a two goal game. Had we not made so many crucial errors throughout the match, I think we would have won the game and we wouldn't even be talking about Oxley's intercept marks. I'm on the coaching panel's side with this one.

It's Neal-Bullen. 'Neal' is not a middle name. As a person with a double-barrelled surname, that stuff is important. I like the rest of the post though.