Dr. Gonzo

He needs to just play his role instead of doing too much. Stop grabbing it out of the centre bounce ruck, he always gets caught or kick smothered because he's too slow getting it to boot. Either punch it forward out of the ruck or handball to one of our mids to clear it. Stop grabbing it out of the ruck in the forward line, you're not Tom Hawkins - even if he does get his boot to it it's never going through for a goal. Stop being the last link up man to kick inside 50, hand it off to one of our runners to make that pass (Salem, Bowey, McVee, Spargo etc). Just play your role Max, I feel like he's trying to do too much to "lead" the team but it's counter productive. If he just played his role it would be far more effective.

5) when we get possession along the boundary side of the centre square we always look to handball outside and play against the boundary instead of switching inside and opening up the ground for our forward line. It's boring football and does not play to our strengths, making it difficult to score.

If you're not winning flags what's the point? This isn't an up and coming team where you can try to find the positives, we are smack bang in the middle of the premiership window and we are playing like also rans. Good to get the win of course but the way we're playing still worries me. Losses to Cats and GWS let a lot of air out of the tyres after the great win against the Pies, they'll need to do more than just get past an undermanned Saints side to win back that trust, starting with the Lions on Friday.

Glad I stayed home

Great goal Melksham, he's a terrific kick for goal from an angle

100%. Neither are good resting forward, Grundy can't mark around the ground. It just robs us of another runner or flexible tall.

The fact it's this close is pathetic. If we manage to lose this everyone at the club should be under the hammer. Everyone.

May ❤️ Viney 💙

Are we allergic to the corridor? Wtf is going on

Why are we playing aroubd the big dart, what happened to playing the corridor like we were in preseason

Why is Gus dragging his player into our 50? Stay out of there and leave it open FFS (in sure he's not the only one but just saw it and using it as an example - no wonder our forward line is always so congested).

He's looked so slow hasn't he? What's going on

He tries to do too much instead of just playing his role.

Pickett needs to get going. 1 touch so far! He's often around the ball but not at the ball, get in there and get the footy.

Yeah we are in trouble, you haven't watched us the last month?

The selection committee have lost the plot. Where the hell is JVR? Who is going to kick our goals? I'm not too concerned with the other changes but they had to recall JVR, that's a shocking decision.

What did he say specifically that you disagree with though? You might prefer one commentator over another which is fine but length of time out of the game is not a singular metric you can rely on to say "this person's comments are worthless" which is effectively what you're saying. Someone who has never played at the highest level may be one of the most insightful people to listen to whereas a current player/coach may actually have little idea. It's just a meaningless throwaway line to say "he's been out of the game too long what would he know".

By that reasoning no one other than recent ex-players can comment.

One of these three need to be moved forward of the ball. No point getting good kicks to half forward then [censored] the bed inside 50.

At half time Gus was interviewed coming off the ground - he made a comment along the lines of they were happy with the forward structure and the way they were handling the ball inside 50 and that it was just a conversion issue. He said eventually the goals will come. This so wrong it's not funny but it's obviously the message communicated by the coaches. The inaccuracy is caused by our forward structure, ball movement etc! The goals won't just magically start to happen because we are back to playing a brand of footy that makes it impossible to score (long bombs inside 50, congested forward half etc)

You can blame anb but the fish rots at the head - Max drops another chest mark, stuffs around with it in the middle after getting a free kick when we're down with 3 minutes left, then tries to dribble through a goal from a boundary throw in instead of handing it off. I said it in the game day thread but have a team of low footy IQ players, one of the few on our list who is a natural (JVR) gets dropped

We had a good thing going with Tomlinson in defence, allowed us to go with Petty/JVR forward - what the hell are they thinking?

So many of our players have such low footy IQ