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Look closer Ronald. It’s a half half guernsey. Your Bernie love is still safe.

Lack of a second tall target in the forward line killed us.

All from the shocking kick out from Salem.

Make no mistake. We are still in this game up to our eyeballs.

I’m not his biggest fan but he’s looked lively. Made fewer errors than others. Was pivotal in our last goal.

He and Lockhart have been great additions.

I’m actually kinda enjoying this. Just me? Sure I’m numerous beers down. Sure.

That was classy from Gus.

Kozzie is going to be some player. Clean every time.

Hunt is playing aggressive today. I like it.

Locky in another chain of great play.

Tom Stewart down. Our forward line needs every bit of help it can get.

We haven’t been bad on the ground but when the ball is in the air we are uncompetitive. Fritz just shouldn’t be dropping that mark at this level. If he takes that and converts we’d be a goal behind which would be reflective of the game.

Danger milked that for all its worth.

Locky. Put him in the side every week.

Harmes in the midfield ?

Welcome back Vanders. Give em hell son.

Dixon is box office when he’s in this mood.

That Round 1 loss to the Eagles is starting to look pretty ordinary. They suck.

I don’t think we are a mile off as my Demonland brethren above think. Even with our list massacred and our horrible lead in to the season, we were the fifth ranked team for inside 50s in 2019. The forwardline is the issue. We’ve added some outside run to the midfield and have plenty of weapons to rotate through the centre. We have arguably the best up and coming weapon in the league with Petracca. And yes, one player can make a sizeable difference. The backline isn’t the best in the league by any stretch but has enough quality if they can get game time together. They didn’t have their best day against Carlton but have looked okay in pre season and round 1. The forwardline however just isn’t anywhere near consistent enough. How that gets remedied quickly with the cattle we have I’m not sure, but our fortunes rest on it.

You’re a cheerful chap aren’t ya?

Jones out is quite a statement but I don’t mind the changes from what was on offer. Mainly excited to see Vanders back in to hurt people.

I dunno rjay, I reckon we should play him as a defender... (jokes) I agree to an extent. Fritz is a natural forward but kicking it on top of his head when it’s a 2 or sometimes 3 v 1 in the goalsquare isn’t doing him any favours. He also seems to have lost his shooting boots but I’m sure that will get rectified. Otherwise I agree we need to play him to his strengths.

Brown’s career goals need to be placed in the context of his role at Essendon which was often as a link man. His best performance last season against Brisbane was 3 goals, 25 disposals, 11 marks and 10 score involvements. The bloke can play. And he can impact the scoreboard. He will never be the contested crash n bash forward that many are rightly crying out for, but given our obvious struggles down forward I’d have thought either he or Weid were a sure thing to come in. We saw what Brown can do in the pre season. He stunk it up in Round 1 but who didn’t? I’m guessing the insistence on playing Jacko in the senior side may have something to do with them not seeing great developmental benefit in him playing scratch matches where we beat up on a bunch of Carlton no namers by 10 goals with 14 men a side. If true that has some merit. But winning needs to come first. Let’s just hope the forward line resembles something functional this week. It feels like a long time since we’ve seen that..

It’s an indictment on the entire league that this mob has won two of the last three premierships.