Bobby McKenzie

Tyson was a revelation last year. just wait until the real season starts before you downgrade him. Strange that you nominate Garlett as needing to improve. He has been pretty impressive so far and Jetta has performed well too. Watts should be placed in your saviour list. He holds the key to our future.

Is he really that skinny Ralphius?

The bad things have already been mentioned many times over. My good was Jack Watts showing real aggression and physicality. That's great to see. Garlett and Lumumba too helped to cheer me up on a bleak afternoon's footy.

Strangely enough a narrow win would have met with the same criticism as the narrow loss.

It's very puzzling. I saw the Freo game and apart from one quarter we were excellent. Our teamwork was fluent and cohesive and our tackling ferocious. We were brilliant for the first half last week and then petered right out. What happened there? I still cling to the feeling that we will improve this season and improve well. How can we gain the services of HL, Jeff Garlett, VanDenberg, Frost, Newton and Hogan and NOT improve? It defies logic to think that we can't improve. Bring on the real season and see how we go.

Couldn't agree less!

Too many doom and gloom people on this forum. The Bulldogs accounted for Richmond last week while we beat the Bulldogs today.The Power were thrashed by Richmond today but I doubt there would be many Power supporters particularly concerned with this result. No slashing of wrists etc.

It's Lumumba by the way. However, you are not the only one putting an A instead of an O. Cheers mate.

Thank you very much. Of course I didn't need you to tell me I'm a STAR!!!

Thanks mate. Much appreciated.

Where did you get the game stats Samael?

Jack Watts sublime skills alone not enough for you? They don't all have to be bashers/tough guys. I respect your thoughts though mate.

A good looking line up. Maybe I would swap Dunn and Frost positions. Frost is going to be a fantastic rebound defender alongside Lumumba.

Well spoken mate. I agree with all of this. Particularly the tackles sticking and chasing speed.

I attended this game( Thanks a lot to fellow Demonlander EthanTremblay) and was very much impressed with what I saw. Fremantle oval provided a pleasant setting and the ground looked in great condition. I was mainly focussing on our new recruits performances. What did please me was the attack on the opponent and on the ball. We were relentless. Freo had to earn this win. I was thrilled with the performances of Sam Frost, Harry, Van den Berg and Hogan. Frost and Van den berg were fast, fearless and fantastic. What great pick ups. Hogan could have been awarded a couple of frees as he was being mauled by his immediate opponent. He was also fearless attacking the ball. Mention has been made of Newton and Kent and how well they played. It must have been up the other end for I did not notice them. This does not mean they did not play well however. Garlett didn't win a lot of the ball but was chasing and tackling well. He will be fine. Overall, a big improvement on last season.

The Centre clearances count of 10 to 5 was in stark contrast to previous Docker encounters where they seemed to win the centre clearance 9 times out of 10. Very encouraging indeed.

I would like to think 9 wins is our pass mark this season.

Fair enough comment. We can only wait and see with fingers crossed how we go on game day in the real season. Great to see Salem dominating. He is an exciting talent.

Why the lack of confidence DemonOX? I thought the report was very positive indeed. Maybe you read something in it that I missed.

Sadly we passed over Stevie Johnson in the draft. Would have been very useful. I love the way Ablett goes about his work and one has to admire Fyfe for his true abilities. Nick R too is a champion player and guy. I was also a great admirer of Paul Chapman at his peak playing for Geelong. Tom $cully would easily lead the field in players I don't admire. Having said that, maybe Mitch Clark could be a rival.

Do you just turn up and buy tickets at the ground?

Of course, my last sentence was tongue in cheek but the rest was serious. There are quite a lot of pessimists on the forum.

That's right! All the doomsayers lamenting the present situation will be cheering loudly when Garlett kicks a bag of goals. Talk about classic knee jerk reaction by many on this forum. Maybe, just maybe, Jeff missed the court appearance because of club training or team meeting.

You don't rate Bail despite him playing most games last season?

Very sad news. Best wishes to Nick and his family. He is one of the greats of the game and highly respected.