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Kane cornes rates him less highly than others in the league. Andrew russell at the blues for example. Not a wrist slashing event possibly?

The blunder isn't letting him go. Its the clubs inability to develop and improve raw talent. (Oliver, Brayshaw, Viney, are the best examples) Petracca being the exception but likey down to Burgess.

Agree on the issues and I wonder would any decent coaches actually want to come and work under Goodwin now, given the likes of McCartney and jennings have moved on, and rawlings as well. I know I wouldn't. It could be a career killer and may not help assistants with their ow development.?

But its not a team. Its just a group of players considreed the best 22 and then name slotted in somewhere. This exercise makes no sense. Some are obvious, like Trac, Gawn, Moore, Andrews, - rest are slot fillers. Hugely dissrespectful to the rest of the hard working players who "own" their positions. e.g. Papley, Langdon,

Forget any of the Bombers players. Caracella is the one I want at the Dees.

I'm always amazd that a player with the surname Daniher would even contemplate leaving the Bombers given the family history. Given that, nothing else would surprise me coming out of that club re transfers. All the old stars, like lLoyd and Watson, will always mount a defence for the status quo. Daniher leaving , or even thinking about it, suggests otherwise.

For Harris Andrews, the media's love child, goals kicked on him as follows: Kennedy 1 Hawkins 3 Lynch 3 Dixon 0 Naughton 1 Max King 0 Total 8 , for an av of 1 goal 2 behinds a game

Kennedy kicked 7 on Moore, On May he had 4 disposals for no goals, Weitering had 2 on him by Lynch, Andrews had also 3 kicked on him by Lynch. Lynch kicked 3 on Moore, and 3 on may also. if you take the best full forwards this year, ( Kennedy, Hawkins, Lynch, Hipwood, Dixon, Naughton Max King)they kicked a total of 7 , yes 7 goals on May. For an avaerage of a goal per game.

Harsh language but spot on. This error was compounded last year and will define the resolve of the Board/Club to improve. The sporting field is littered with players who never know when to quit. But being on a 6 figure salary who can blame Nathan for wanting to stay. Very few of us get to retire fully satisfied and on our own terms.

Brilliant insight. Hilarious if it wasn't so probable.

yes, and a coach that can match Beveridge.

They don't look happy. More questions than answers re Goodwin.

Once again trent rivers saves the game with a killer tackle.

Agree. And worry about hurley forward.

Goal saved by vdb. Great tackle

Live ladder has us in the 8. But fritsch wastes a gimme. Again

Saints winning was the best outcome for us IMO. It removed the issue of sweating the % - did we kick enough goal?., avoids the 2017 heartache., etc Simple - Dees win and dockers win, both by a point, and finals are reality. GWS have imploded and the Dockers winning was always going to be a better option for success.

As night follows day.

I was at that last match. We beat the pies at vicpark but other games didn't go our way to make finals. The upside was it resulted in the Pies winning their first evet wooden spoon. Not much consolation though. Monday’s Herald Sun headline after the game wad "Demons spoon feed Magpies". The great Laurie Fowler was knocked out cold in the first quarter.

Tonights game has 1 team with massive finals experience (GWS) vs a team with none (Saints) - with Zak Jones out. Thats what I'm hanging my hopes on why GWS get.

Good call. Jackson/Weideman is the future. Lets see how they go in a crunch game.

I'm not sure what a [censored] is, I guess it sounds bad. A good term when you don't have a thesaurus. He played 90 games under master coach John Longmire, and got 21 possessions in a Grand Final as a 21 year old. Better than I could do for sure

Not garry lyon. He was disgusted at mummy's approach and said last night in On the Couch that he's just an ex boxer and the game has no room for that behaviour

I would have loved zak Jones at the dees. I see him as the main change to the saints style with his toughness and running. Big loss for them. The only player in that team with finals and serious big game experience

Good summary. Bottom line is we need to probably win by 6 goals unless the saints lose by heaps. Thus we need a team that can score quickly in short quarters and has good accuracy, not wasting chances . A narrow win serves no purpose. The team needs the talent accordingly and that includes jackson if fit. And i would punt with Bennell also