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He is a real enigma to me. Doesn't in any way look a marking forward, but has done the job magnificently when available. I guess a question is where does he fit in if all of Jurrah, Watts, Dunn, Green, Davey, Wona are fit and in form, and even Bate were to apply himself and realise his potential. Would be a nice dilema for selectors.

Jordie has become one of my absolute favourites. I just love his attitude and his attack on the ball, and his tackling is out of this world. Not just the number of tackles, but the quality of them - he makes them hurt.

I am surprised that there has been little if any comment on the first trade in this post. Were we to get A(nother) Davey for Maric surely we would grab it with both hands. If not IMO Maric will probably just be delisted.

He makes Michael Newton look switched on. LOL We need to move on / eschew any player who will not commit 100% all the time.

Ballarat now by 34. Third quarter halfway The orange maggots totally changed momentum in the second with an absolute clanger decision mark to NB and a clearly wrong "no goal" after Bennell kicked a nice goal.. Twomreal game changers. Now it is just a cakewalk.. pS make that 40

Bate will have to learn a few more tricks, and learn to recover and turn quicker than USS Enterprise. I am sure he does have talent, but others do as well as the other basic attribute. If he can sometime force his way into this team he will be doing very well. But back to the topic - I agree that this was Dunn's best game - he seems to relish the contest, and has learned to be fully accountable for his defender. Are there stats - indeed can there be - on who is on which rebounding defender and how they do. He has shut down a few this season - the much criticised (including by me) experiment as a tagger have given him the confidence to do this.

I would have thought that the main thought in "resting" Trengove vs Cats was the fact that they were absolutely physically drained and exhausted after the visit to the tropics the weekend before, and not the fact that they were playing against a terrific midfield. To withdraw them vs Hawks would be just plain molly coddling not due to exhaustion but due to intimidation. After all, they played vs Hawks round 1 - sure they were "beaten up" mainly mentally, but they survived and hopefully have learned from the experience. Had they been physically up to it I am sure they would have played vs Geelong to learn from it.

Did a bloody good job today. One of our best. Who will make way for Moloney next week if he is up to it??

Bogans?????

I was pleasantly surprised by Addam today - sure he didn't stand out in a pretty brilliant all round mid / forward group, but he did some pretty good things with delivery and chase - deserves another run.

Well of course percentage will not effect us, having had the draw, but may well determine the others.

Awesome. Traditional yet a bit modern too. Bring it on!

Morton looked as soft as ever and contributed little - but then when you are sent to Casey for a lesson and to harden up, and then get selected after not having set the world on fire, where is the message?? He now knows that the selectors are as tough as a limp lettuce, and that he can get away with doing what he has always done - would have been better to not have demoted him at all. IMO Bate needs a few weeks at Casey to toughen up and hopefully gain a bit of consistence - but if the selectors play true to the standards of this soft club, were he to be sent down he would probably be back in no time without having learned a thing. We are not a ruthless club - haven't been for nearly 50 years - and will not attain any real success until and unless we become so. Can we under the current coach and match committee??

Well said - give the guy a go. Some love to condemn both players and staff just for the sake of it - if you don't get instant gratification than the player must obviously be a "dud".

The missing tall forward / ruckman that we had all hoped, in vain, that PJ may become. Martin needs to be returned to defence where his ability to read the game and his athleticism held him in good stead. Martin's main problem arose after he was sent forward in 2009 on a few occasions and kicked a few goals, and when he had to pinch hit in the ruck - then the match committee thought that he may be a forward and / or a ruckman. IMO he could give Warnock a huge run for his money as a tall athletic aware defender.

Hopefully Koschitzke, with a lot more awareness!!!!!!! And a bit taller than Justin as well I believe.

Well, you were half right. But then he is now #24 not #48.

I didn't pick up on the incident? Did anyone see it happen? Was it yet another injury caused by Vlad's "perfect surface"? Interesting it was only when Chri$ Judd commented that the AFL even recognised that anyone may have been concerned. Whatever, with little to achieve the club must manage this injury very very conservatively - no point at all in rushing him back.

First big broken promise ?????

I wonder if Chri$$$$$$ Judd will suck up to her as much as he did to Rudd - remember the sickening Juddster / Ruddster exchange - more like Juddster / Fraudster. Yes, she came out with what has become almost an admission of disloyalty, swearing her allegiance to the dear departed leader with the utterance "I am more likely to play full forward for the Bulldogs than to become Proooiiiyyy Minister."

Does anyone know the dimensions of the training ground at Gosh's? Walked past on QB Monday and it looked (from a distance) a bit small. The training and medical facilities sound awesome - the players should surely be elated and hopefully this will rub off in performances.

Looksa bloody big surgical dressing - but if it was that he wouldn't be running like that so maybe some sort of cut or rash covering?

Exciting list of returnees, and a couple of potential debutants.

Strauss, when he gets a game on other merits. Meanwhile probably Davey.

My beef with the interpretation is that it doesn't seem to matter if the tackle is correct or not, they just love to pay holding the ball. Part of it is I think the frustrated Thespian in the maggots who love the "theatre" of the HTB arm actions. Prior opportunity varies from week to week, day to day, minute to minute, and player to player NB Judd and Ablett are allowed to do a 360 whereas others grab the ball and are pinged instantly. So, IF prior opportunity IS recognised, AND correct tackle is enforced than keep the rule - but current interpretation fails to protect and reward the player who does what the umpires do not have the courage to do, that is get in and under and get the ball. ANY incorrect tackle though must take priority over HTB, every time.