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Have won twice with them this year....last week. Just sayin' That is right. Perspective Didn't see much of the game, but I expect the armchair experts will be gloating about their knowing far more about the game than our selectors, though no doubt had we gone in with one ruckman (and the whole world knows that Dawes won't / ?cant ruck) and the ruck stats had looked as bad as they have, then they would have said 'why didn't we have two rucks'. Perhaps WCE are just a better team.

How did he play? I think the preamble said it was a bit make or break game - how did he go other than the goals?

How many marks?

Maggots have gifted the game to Toiges in Q4 Frees for nothing, nothing for GWS

I would say the mutual trust so essential to any (professional) team striving for success will have been irrevocably shattered. Expect discontent and requests for transfers. One big problem would be convincing a fringe player to be part of a trade. Pity help this year's number 1 draft contenders, who face the prospect of two years in that culture. Perhaps they will consider a bit of tanking??

Maybe another word - or just plain clear would be appropriate, unless of course it was pun intended.

Maybe he really means not enjoying getting caught cheating, and not enjoying being coached by the perpetrator of this unconscionable act of human experimentation

OMG. Puts losing (or winning) a game of footy into perspective, doesn't it. The daily tragedies of domestic violence is largely anonymous to the general public. This just re emphasizes it all

Which is just as well - or do you have an alternative option? A coup maybe? ;-))

H's foot could be 'fortuitous ' in terms of selection dilemmas. ? So we are staying tall.

Robinson.......Bennell .....drunkendly ....... multiple occasions. :-)))))

Speed of some sort or another may well have sustained Benny at Methcoast in his heyday premiership and Brownlow time and enabled him to run like the Everready man all day. Yet, apparently, that was not (then) classed as performance enhancing. Strange sets of values and double standards. All stimulants must be regarded as performance enhancing- surely.

I think you are right on there Integrity and evenhandedness are two words totally foreign to the AFL. It is all about $$$$$, and keeping their "marquee players" on the field.

Reading the last few pages is interesting - clearly the bye has lead to multiple cases of severe footy withdrawal syndrome. And that despite the glorious victory at the cattery. Mods - the auto censor has gone to ridiculous lengths to protect the sensibilities of a minority. FCS that is a quote from a classic children's book!

Recovery from physical injury, or ?

They do that pretty well themselves without our help

Could one of you kindly elaborate for those of us who couldn't watch? Many thanks

I think it is pretty bloody clear just how much they came to depend on GAJ - top 6 bound last year until he went down: downhill from there until now. No depth - even less that ours. Overdependent on one individual - a bit like CarlTank. I think someone else beat me to the punch - A vdB has been a revelation until injured.

It would be most interesting to hear just what rôle Goodwin plays in the game day box right now? Any real insights - please don't speculate.

But an injection program, under cover, unethical, uncontrolled and not properly overseen is OK??? Sweep it under the carpet - it may go away :-)) What a load of utter cr@p.

She may have 2 i s but certainly doesn't appear to have any eyes, or open ones anyway.

I would let Jamar go, with a big thank you, and keep Spencer, Gawn, Fitz and rookie King. That would leave Gawn and Spencer as the preferred rucks, with Fitz as a versatile back up (and a handy tall defender especially as some suggest if Garland goes somewhere else). King to be developed. Frost as back up. Unfortunately Dawes can't / won't ruck. What is Dawes' contractual status? And of course despite some folk's interpretation of what Roos said about Pedersen, I don't see that he will be let go. Can ruck, and a handy back up forward, and can also play tall down back. More versatile than Dawes. Need a reasonable number of talls and versatile ones who can do a decent job in defence of attack so much the better. What is the latest on interchange limitations for next year, and sub or 22 players?? Major reductions could see a return to playing two rucks on the ground, opening opportunities for a Gawn / Spencer combination.

Frankenstein - 1 week for that attack on the head! Tippett - 1 week for that attack on the head! Thought that the head was sacrosanct....not for the "special clubs" it seems. 4 for Frankenstein, with his history of attacks to the head, and 3 for Tippett would seem far more appropriate. Goodes' act was just plain low life -and he has the cheek to ask why he gets booed. And as for then AFL in effect warning Mitchell, and any who may choose to follow him - what bloody blatant hypocrisy. It seems that they regard drug experiments on a whole group of players, without records and without oversight far less significant than a simple harmless sledge. Overall, just another evening of hypocrisy by a truly compromised arm of the AFL. Nothing new really.

How I read it was that, maybe, someone like Roos could have possibly got a lot more out of these guys than did his predecessors.

Fact, or speculation on your part?