Deetective Sgt. Taggert

Yeah its a bit odd to be talking like that, fuels a lot of unnecessary speculation you would have thought

Well, we will have two best mates in Petracca and Brayshaw instead, not to mention Stretch and ANB...the first two arguably have the potential to be even better than the Wines/Viney combo...

Yawn. At least last year we had lots of riddles to keep us entertained!

From memory he was held in very high regard by his peers at other clubs and seen as the next Bartel prior to injury. Abosolute natural footballer. There is a reason why Richmond came knocking...

Its been 3 days since the Grand final GNF. Surely you must be sober enough now to give us the goss...

More riddles please. This is getting boring...

So sick of [censored] hawthorn

Glad i wasnt the only one thinking that. Buddy franklin has gifted everyone with that right now it seems...

Yeah, 2 goal turnaround. Brutal

Yep, and I'd be confidently backing West Coast against anyone else other than Hawthorn (only because they will lose the home ground factor and hawks have the experience)

Isn't that why we got Mr Roos?

Fantastic effort by both Bernie and Viney. I think its the best result. Durability is an important part of the game and I want Viney to be hungry enough to go one better next year!

Didnt they beat freo at home last time? I feel for Richmond. They would be wishing they were facing the hawks next week...

No. I see it as inspiration for what can happen when a team clicks. Hope our boys think the same.

But yes, great man and great career. Really hope to see a few people get down to send him off. Like what Roos said about transcending clubs and how Boy and Murphs would love ot be playing along with him. I wish they could too!

If only we'd made the finals!

Hilarious. Jones was injured so he loses the captaincy? We are lucky to have had Cross but we will be luckier still to get another 22 games out of him next year. No point putting our young kids under the pump and make the same mistake we did with Trengove....

[censored] it, Go Dees!

Well said!

Wow. Suddenly the premiership race seems much more open

Its worse than i was expecting, but i aint slitting my wrists just yet. At the point in time the past counts for nothing. We are coming up against a finals bound team on a roll and brimming with confidence. In contrast we have been inconsistent all year and have been vulnerable to teams with quick ball movement. But i expect us to show a lot more in the second half is Roos is worth his said pay package.

Wow. You'd think we were playing hawthorn

Fair enough if true. We still took a punt on him at pick 33, although from memory Collingwood was also interested at the time forcing us to take him higher that we might otherwise have. Would be a shame to lose a home-grown talent, but based on his last couple of years we can survive without him and have enough young talents to get people through the gates methinks. Hate the thought of him at the filth though!

Your prediction was in the back of my mind heading into Saturdays game WJ. Glad you got it right!

I take some consolation in this fact. I think it shows our gameplan stands up against some final contenders, the problem is sustaining it for 4 quarters (and learning how to kick straight!)