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Totally incorerct assumption here PaulRB. - although undertsandable. The issue this season is that once the Dees beat you, you stay beaten for at least another few weeks. Seriously, the saints would have pencilled in the game last week as a win - Rude shock .

Well Posted there Rollinson 65! I'm with you on the great Swoopwer. My Northey take away is of teams that were never prepared to lie down or be beaten till the end. Last week I saw the team challenged twice and deal with it professioanlly. Small sample size as they say but I felt the saints game would be some sort of marker for this season. I expect the same today at Canberra and be 3 - 0 by 8.30 AEST.

* goals 8 BEHINDS too.

To Eddie's credit at the end of the breathless spiel by Caro, Eddie noted that personal reasons were behind the move and Burgess needs to have some privacy. Of course he was always going to leave, and credit to him he stayed the course for 2012.He didn't have to. But gee his efforts are showing in how the team performs fitness wise

No - Langdon IS funny

The Age this morning used the words"..cleverness and pressure..." to describe Spargo's performance. That sums it up for me. Sure he has downsides, but I never doubt his decsion making ability and courage which is essential in a team.

I'm not a Hunt fan but I suspect his pace off half back complimets the execllent trio of May Lever and Tomlinson . He provides a different option also to Salem. I think he deserves some time given the - so far - overall defence performance.

Conversely thosr teams late in season might be dreading fronting the Dees.

Hunt had 6 tackles and kept the saints Talisman quiet. Butler IMO was always the key danger and Hunt completed his task and compliments the other defenders with his speed. I wasn't a fan but he's winning me over so far this season.

Timely post . A decoy that had 11 marks and 100% TOG.. Was he wearing a saints jumper, or just also a good reader of the play?

Hill doesn't have langdons engine. I expect him to do well as our link player. And as usual about 10m in the clear

On Footy Classifed this week Matthew Loyd noted the stat that teams that start the season 0 - 2 have only a 1 in 10 chance of playing finals. Thus blues are gone-ish. Cats in trouble if they go down tonight. Dees are so far so good

Thanks CHF . Great read. I agree with the above on midfield. But why would it be fixed in a week when the stats have highlighted for 2 years there is a problem. My hope is the Yze factor is working on it. And Goody is listening and acting. So on the last point, I too am a glass half full type like you.

spot on Lord Nev. Eliminates the need to download data across systems, and we know how that goes when Govt. (State and Federal) systems attempt to talk to each other. Only the ATO has this figured out. Most others are a raffle. . Teams can commence contract tracing immediately

Well said. Langdons wing performances last year and last week show just what top class wing play is about and Gus doesn't have it. Its another example like trying to turn Nathan into a winger, or finding him a spot. Sitting on Gus's wing I thought he was very ordinary on the role last week and just watched from afar Langdon's exposition. Inlcuding his 96% TOG.

This must be photoshopped. I live down the coast and have seen him surfing a lot. He's very, very average. Hates large waves too.

No you're spot on. $ 38000 was the correct figure. My mistake. A 7 figure sum in todays money.

Correct. I said Dollars. But 30K was huge then. 1971, Round 12 was debut when the club got permission to play him.

Thanks for the backup for my opinion. And your post is a straight out work of art.

Very good question. But I have 100% memory of the great Jim Cardwell sitting with Tilly on World of Sport and introdcuing him , being interviewed on the recrutiment process. At the time we paid an unbelievable transfer fee of $30,000.

John tillbrook. Just being smart. Cardwell and smith sure were the masters.

A very good point. I fear the saints small forwards and their coach Brett Ratten to really test the Dees this week.

May took a mark in front of me on the HFF in the first 1/4. With Lever talking the back half by himself as cover. Another question could be: " Who are the AFL's best defensive duo?" Lever/May wins by a street

He's important , but, he's not a match winner - albeit a great contributor. Once again yesterday he was goaless. i.e he's not Dusty, Buddy, Josh Kennedy, Danger, Selwood, Bont, But guess who is? - Petracca. Christian this year will become the club's talisman and be the difference in making finals.

Time of ground is an interesting stat these days and more important now to manage given fewer interchanges. Today, the inestimable duo of May and Lever played 100% and 98% time respectively, and thankfully they held up. But interestingly Langdon and Tomlinson also had 96% and 94% respectively, providing the bench with more options to rotate the midfield and small forwards in the now longer games. Very advantegeous. Freo had only one player, Meek, in the 90's at 93% and given their ruck stocks he had no choice. (Gawn matched him on 92%, presumably he may have been under instructions to only rest when Max did).