Yokozuna

They have panicked??? Are you serious??? complete opposite to panicking in my opinion. Sound and sensible thoughts to work out match ups I think. would you prefer the coaches sit there and stick with the same team just to make sure nobody is upset and to keep the fans happy cos they feel bad for bailey? if the team needs another tall, which we do, someone is going to be unlucky. it could have been any of Spargo, fritsch or tyson in my opinion, and unfortunately bailey is the one to miss out. the team setup v the weakest is better with smith, who in my opinion, was playing a super game before he got injured. I am not worried about what he did in the 2s last week, means nothing really. The interesting part will be to see how he copes with the speed and pressure this week.

Haven’t oksted for a while, and I would like to think my mail this year has been pretty spot on, as my source is very reliable. Hunt is a big, big chance to come in this week, for Tyson most likely. Want his pace and run for the big ground. not a certainty, but very possible a this stage of the week.

If he was one of our worst, according to others and not me, then we will keep on winning. EVERYBODY made mistakes last night, and I think he made 2 (and only two that people have noted). I thought he was great last night, not even close to our bottom 3. and whoever was in our bottom 3 still played their roles last night, I don’t think we had any passengers, while Geelong had several. if we had kicked straight and showed more composure, we would have won by over 10 goals.

Great game by weid, so happy to see it, especially loved his aggression. But to say we can’t fit all of him, hogan and tmac is short sighted in my opinion, just because the tigers are going well with mainly smaller forwards, doesn’t mean everyone else has too!! the game changes and develops, and new trends come and go. You just play your style and tactics and if we start the new trend of playing 3 mobile talls, and win a flag, then I guarantee everyone else will Start to ask why shouldn’t we play 3 talls.

I know he does a few lazy things, but you know what, he aint alone. I watched several players today, and in many other games, do the same. There was a goal in the second quarter where GWS got a free kick in the middle and ran forward, and you can see all our mids lagging behind, letting shiel and others run forward unmarked to hit a leading forward. You can see Oliver slowly running behind letting him go. I doubt we are all lambasting Clayton for that. I know the others may be more consistent, but I feel so many people look to see what players are doing wrong, and forgive others for doing the same thing. Petracca played a very good game yesterday, in the part of the game when it needed to be won, not the final quarter when the game was done. He WILL be a gun. He DOES need to do some extra work on and off the track, but lets look at what he does well, and if he is currently our 10th - 15th player picked, that is bloody great for us! On a seperate note, for those saying how great De Goey is, what were they saying at the start of this year about him??? It doesnt take a lot for it to click, and it WILL click for Petracca.

I believe viney will play in the VFL final when we have our bye, been given special permission by the AFL (so my source tells me, and no, I won’t name my source ?) gets through the game and he plays in our first final.

We don't CURRENTLY have a 1st round pick next year, but do Yu think we can't get one ny trading for it next year? not sure how and who, but I am sure they would be thinking about it already!

I can tell you now, he isn't putting enough mayo on it. i heard the same story the other day from a very reliable source. the Adelaide bloke asked us for our offer and we said our piece, he then came back with "give us two first round picks", we said "no" and he just got up and left. Came back 10 minutes later and they spoke again, he asked for 2 first rounders again, we said NO and he got up and left again!!!! no BS, exactly what happened.

well, i have mail (from 2 sources in and around the club mind you) and they are very confident Lever will be in the red and blue next season. and for those worrying about his pay and being the highest paid at the club, you need to spend some money to improve, and 800k in a couple of years wont be seen as a huge salary anyway. and who else is demanding all our money anyway??? according to some on here, we have depth issues and not enough players, so we can afford to pay him more to get him here while we are paying the younger/ less talented players less at the moment. If you dont want Lever for 800k a season in our side, i guess you are happy with us being in the middle of the ladder every year?

I would love to have Clarkson at Melbourne, he is the one I have been hoping we could get. I do not want Eade. I just dont rate him and am not a fan. That being said though, do you think Clarkson would leave? He will get more money from us, and a longer contract, however, with the quality of the Hawthorn list you would think they will stay near the top of the ladder for a few more years. That would mean he would more than likely have another contract again from the Hawks. You need to ask yourself, why would he leave the Hawks? As much as I want him as a coach, and I am ecstatic about the approach we are allegedly taking, I cant see it happening. I am thinking that we will most likely have someone like Neeld at the helm next year, who I would be more than happy with. I hope I am wrong though and the Clarkson comes over to us!