Adam The God

Love this picture. It's been doing the rounds on my email this week too.

I'm sorry. I'd be saying to Jeremy, 'here's $400,000, take it or leave it'. He's not worth more than that.

Yeah, it's these two who I'm really excited about this year. Thought Michie was good at times last year, but was obviously terrific the other night. Hope he can back it up against his old side. I'm expecting another goal from Newton this week too.

Really like Newton. Beautifully balanced, strong at the contest, can kick a goal (we need plenty of those) and makes pretty good decisions. Great little pick up for us.

I think we need a balance. We need to break even in uncontested ball too as we did against Adelaide. They're quicker than us, but their pace doesn't worry me as much as GWS's does.

I'd like us to crack 100 tackles this weekend. Really bring a tenacity to Freo and hopefully our decision making will be a lot better this week.

Well let's just say he's getting enough scoring involvements to keep his spot.

He reminds me very much of a younger Paul Chapman. His tackling gives me goosebumps. It's been a long time since a demon has tackled like him. He's pretty measured with his aggression too.

Clark... Incidentally, I wonder whether Clark will look for another new team now? Surely playing for a bottom four side will adversely affect his health.

I'd say opposition coaches probably just say run off Jeremy Howe. He won't chase.

I know it's horrible, but I can't fully invest in Hogan until we sign him up for another 5 or 6 years. Please do that soon, MFC. Oh and for the record, still happy for Howe to leave if we get something good for him. Whenever he goes forward he switches off. There was a moment on Friday night when he drifted forward and his man got the ball and he simply let him run off with it. His chase was pretty much non existent and everyone around us said 'lazy, Jeremy Howe'. He's a one trick pony.

Yeah, good post, IDIG. I agree RE: Toumpas. I'm still backing him in, but he is certainly low confidence, which has impacted on the quality of his disposal. Bail has to tackle like a man possessed. If he can do that he's worth his spot. Grimes is the obvious replacement for Jetta, but I'm not so confident he'll play within his limits. He hasn't shown he's capable of that IMO. Hopefully, as you say, the disposal efficiency improves with a bit of confidence.

The Doggies look good, but Adelaide aren't playing. There's no intensity.

Can you blame some of us though? So starved of success.

It's a very simple skill. Particularly, in comparison to kicking. It's probably more about presence of mind.

Neither can Kent, so it's just a matter of whether he's as quick as Kent. I don't think he is. But he's the best replacement unfortunately.

Ah okay. Well, fair enough.

Agreed. If everything goes right we could well win 10. Given we could have won 6-8 last year. It's all about confidence. If we can string a two or three together who knows.

All of a sudden that team has potential turn over merchants all over the ground. Grimes, Bail and Toumpas. When your team mates start turning it over with poor disposal, it puts other players under pressure and they begin to turn it over too. Very concerned if Dom doesn't pull up. Worried about Ballantyne too, without Jetta.

I think he'll go around another season and he is still easily best 18.

Very happy with Viv's game. Wouldn't have said it was 60% game time, I'd say more like 75-80%, but certainly very impressive. Newton and Michie may well become part of a very strong midfield. We just need a bit more speed through there.

Yep. There's still a lot of room for improvement in our midfield. Jones, Vince and Tyson could all play a lot better. Newton is a new favourite of mine. He's so well balanced. He's a quicker Tyson and he hits the scoreboard. We're building a goalkicking midfield, which is what we obviously must do.

I'm sick of hearing anyone that is beaten by Melbourne as being insipid. We're playing solid team football these days. Not always consistent, but when we're on top, we can break away. The media continually patronises us, but I guess that'll happen when you've been insipid for close to a decade.

I felt watching the game live that Jones made a lot of mistakes and he did, but having watched the replay twice now, gee he was good. Col Garland is also very underrated. Thought his performance was very solid. Didn't feel we played that well to be honest. Our tackling in the second half was excellent, but our decision making at times was deplorable. That's the positive for me. Still lots of room for improvement. Was very happy with the win.

Bailey was trying to emulate Geelong... except with no defensive structures or two way running.