kallangurdemon

the 2nd quarter was just about a good a quarter as we have played all year and Oliver was the key factor .He is aa much a match winner as Petracca and when he began to fade we dropped off as a team .the TV coverage does not give recognition of both the enormous work rate and smart positioning of Langdon .much of his good work goes unseen on TV.

oliver langdon lever petracca gawn hunt

if lockhart is !82 cm i will give the game away as my eyes are deceiving me.he would at the most 2 inches taller than Spargo which put him in the 176 to 177 range and although he gives it his best shot he simply lacks Spargos natural ability

Spargos lack of size has been consistently exaggerated on this site .He is short but noticeably bigger than Daniel who he is continually compared to .He would be bigger than both Chandler and Pickett and there wouldnt be much difference with Lockhart .He is not overly quick but is a lot quicker than Nev .This week is not the week to test the experiment but there is some merit in giving it a look next season .

hes not a patch on Neita .not even sure where he plays- obviously somewhere between the centre and deep forward .

Thats a low blow .

im flabbergasted by what this thread claims is the Match Review response to the Oliver incident .Mumford all but removed Clarrys head from his shoulders with a swinging arm when Clarry was as open as a gate .He was in trainers arms until the quarter ended and started the next quarter on the bench in an apparent attempt to recover .I was acutely concerned that he would take no further part in the game .I assumed (foolishly it seems ) that there was no penalty by Match Review as the case went straight to the tribunal .Am to understand that there was no penalty at all for this case of wanton thuggery ?Surely this cant be the case .

Sadly you have hit the nail squarely on the head .Friendly fire or not it was still a shocking incident and has never been beyond serviceable since .Doubt he has the lung capacity for the wing .Is quicker than Langdon but doesnt have the same cruising speed or endurance .Will be surprised if he is on the list next year .

The last line tall has been a problem all year and I thought Smith did ok in the last 2 weeks ,He doesn't get the cheap possessions from the 20 metre kick to the boundary so his numbers are low.But he is genuinely strong in the contest and doesnt give up the easy possession or have multiple kicked on him like his predecessors so i see no reason to drop him .

i believe there is plenty of scope for change .This is a team where so much is left to so few .With the exception of May Langdon Oliver Petracca Gawn and Viney you could drop just about anyone without making any real difference ,.I drove home last night wondering how we won and in the end put it down to the 2 gift goals from Mumford which showed that there is still some things right in the universe .harmes jackson hibberd tmac hannan and sparrow should all come under consideration .

Possibly the most important player in the side .We would have lost both last nights game and the Saints game without him.Controlled the zone with complete assurance against quality opponents. Our only defender where you don't have your heart in your mouth when he charges towards a contest .An AA certainty .

its a credit to management to lock the deal inso early rather than have to go through the angst again of having the jumper and no major sponsor on it two weeks before season start .

not sure if we should focus on a player who hasnt had a game all year at a bottom 4 club.Big in physique but not a big mark .I also see him in the Paul Johnson mould .Better to do what we did with Langdon and get a player who will immediately add something to the team .

the danger may be that if Tom leaves Oscar may leave as well and where would we be then!

There was a bit of half ground practice match for those who hadnt played on Monday .Bennell played and kicked a nice goal but never broke out of a trot .Tmac and Hannan were both lively up forward .

I drove up to Maroochydore Sports complex this afternoon to watch the boys train .Missed the start and Max, Brayshaw and others were not on the oval. Jacko trained with the main group trained brightly and appeared unaffected by his hamstring .He may be a chance Saturday night. Harmes and Chunk did 3/4 pace work along the boundary by themselves. They worked hard but wouldn't have thought that they would be part of the mix for the Giants. Sparrow and James Jordan did repeat run throughs on their own and dont look far off. Goody, Salem and Clarry walked the boundary togteher talking in earnest, hopefully about tactics.The assistants took routine drills and all in all the team seemed more up and about then expected. A word for Neeta .For someone who hasn't played for 2 years and may be delisted at years end he ran laps with the knee bandaged like he was preparing to play at the Gabba on Saturday.Furthermore he looked in terrific shape. I had to leave near to the end as my wife accused me of using a trip to the Sunshine Coast as a pretext for watching the Dees train. She got that right.

an unexpected and probably undeserved final chance .Baker Preuss and Bedford out .Harmes Tmac and Hannan in more out of hope than conviction ,

we just arent good enough . If our A or B graders ,few as they are , dont have a day out we are not capable of beating anyone .I have locked myself in for a long period of misery .

Delist .Has always been quick which got him into the Lions Academy but they removed him when they realized he had no other attribute than pace .An ordinary player at Aspley.Struggled last year when given a look and has"nt progressed .One of a number we need bid farewell to .

his difficulty isn"t his attitude but rather that he still cant properly stretch out his leg and accordingly he plays at about 3/4 pace .His future depends on the continuing improvement of the injury

I didn't post yesterday because commenting on Oscar would have been too stressful .His journey at this club beggars belief .He has been an absolute spud from day one and a laughing stock of the competition but has remained on our list for 6 years .He is not an Isaac Weetra whose ineptness was realized after 1 game and then sensibly delisted .He is not a Brad Miller who was played week after week constantly struggled but always gave it his best shot .He is an absolute liability who has shown nothing in 6 years .But yet posters defend him and rubbish Clayton Oliver and Jack viney who would run through a brick wall for the club .This is not Demonland .This is Bizarroland where the worse you are the more you are appreciated.

perhaps we could change our full back structure by swapping back Dunn for May .that would get some threads going .

is clearly the form full back of the moment .Should be made AA full back purely on Saturday nights master class.

we could probably make another half dozen changes on that performance .We would have lost by 5 goals if not for the herculean effort of May .A gobsmacking performance over the next big thing in football .Pickett and Spargo cant be played in the same side and there is no reason to retain either .Melksham has hardly played a decent game all year and on the rare occasions that Hannan gets a possession he just turns it over .Vanders is a great trier but too slow .omac is breathtakingly inept and would not be considered for any other AFl list .Harmes ,Fritsch ANB Smith and even Hunt must come under close selection scrutiny .

we have gone form $2.00 to $2.15 since the team was announced .Maybe add someone from Sportsbet to the selection committee.