DeeSpencer

I'd be happy to give Kolt a run through half forward and the wing and open up the on ball time for Culley and Langford to see if those guys can get their hands on the ball. Could even swap him to half back and promote Linsday to the wing if the game needs that.

I'd rather start without a tag, we need better defensive buy in across the board and we need the 3 on ballers we do have at any stage to be providing ball winning and attacking drive too.

Yep, Steele, Sparrow and Kolt have tackled in the midfield at the contest but K Pickett looks the only guy who can lay a tackle in space

That said, I think Lever is washed but I’m not sure T Mc back in makes any difference

Levers been much better since 1/4 time. The game plan is multiple zone defenders and less one on one. We need to see some actual midfield cover and forward pressure before we cast judgment on the deep part of the zone

Think we need to play a 3rd tall (ie. have one fit) which then moves him back in to the midfield more. But then how does he play higher with an already slow midfield?

Howes, Latrelle, Salem, Petty, Sharp would all be dropped if were dropping softies, and there’s not enough at Casey to cover any of them. Coach him through it

I don’t care how many he kicks I can’t do this with Sharp’s selfishness. It’s bad for team spirit. Learn to freaking handball

They played every week last year! Lindsay hasn’t been any worse than Rivers. Let’s give him some time to learn half back and become more physical. Harvey is a bit of a worry but he’s not built for March footy. He’s 3rd for clearances. He’ll build intensity (hopefully sooner than later)

He’s a beautiful drop punt too. Just had to balance up. Back to Casey to do the fundamentals

He’s in the McAdam zone right now

The players are leading and open, we’re just bombing due to perceived pressure. We have to remember this is our first test against real opposition. Our soft preseason hasn’t helped

So much bombing away. The players are out. 1 extra handball or short kick and we are on!

Can we get Pickett a pair of shorts that fit! Lindsay adapting to half back against real pressure for the first time. Harvey doing a lot of good stuff but he’s been off the pace all preseason. Hes not built for March footy, but he needs to sharpen up. Quality is still there

Can we get Pickett a pair of shorts that fit!

Had enough of the headless Jiath, he’s so dumb

Just a truly awful miss

Diabolical Rivers fumble but Lever was asleep at the wheel

Both missing the same chromosome

Credit to Gawn, Steele, Chandler and some others who tightened right up that quarter and put their heads over the ball! Simple skill errors cost us a few more goals across the half. If we can score 45+ a half against Freo we’re building something pretty good. Obviously we can’t give up 65 but once we started actually having a dip we stemmed that bleeding.

Disco hand/finger, Windsor shoulder possible ac

Nonsense. Look at how much run and grunt we lack at the drop of the ball. Last thing we need is a big bopper on the bench

first look of Culley in the ruck - nope

Perhaps to ruck or just to buy Petty the ruck rotation.

Because we have lazy players who wander off the mark with no intensity