Deetective Sgt. Taggert

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!)

The club should consider doing altitude training there at least, would be far cheaper than arizona! Although if my experience is anything to go by, the players might shed a few too many kilos thanks to regular bouts of food poisoning...

Probably a good thing as i might have been stuck in my house from all the road blocks with nothing to do but read demonland...

I reckon you've made two really good points here grazman. If we recall what Roos said when he first accepted the job, that the worse is sounded the more interested he became in the job, then its worth recalling how bad things really were at that point in time and he should be commended for taking on the job at all. I agree that a untried coach would be under immense pressure similar to Neeld if they didn't achieve rapid improvements, which may have resulted in short-term efforts to improve the win-loss ratio. But agree its irrelevant what another coach might have achieved, and I think you are right about Roos being afforded more time and leniency, which was necessary given how far back we were coming from. IF Roos can at least instill the basics of modern football into the club (e.g. defensive pressure and two-way running) then that gives Goodwin a foundation to work with, which hopefully he can then add more attacking flair. Echoes of the Barassi and Northey years here... I also agree we would be better served comparing ourselves to Essendon and Carlton, as both have faced some similar issues in recent years to us. Essendon has shown the same type of inconsistent form as us, with the coaching changes and supplement scandal no doubt affecting the 'culture' of the playing group in terms of their trust in the club hierarchy and the mental toll of having their immediate playing future in doubt. Carlton provides another interest comparison given their obvious 'list management' efforts to gain higher draft picks and the more recent experiment to bring in a highly credential coach which failed miserably. So as it stands, I argue we are in a much better position than those two clubs are at present (depsite our recent loss to Essendon).

I agree. He looks as good as any of the 1-2 year midfielders (barring Brayshaw) and has some smarts about him. Worth persisting with to see if he can be a bit more composed and clean with his disposal.

I was hopeful earlier this year that i would come back to watch an improved footy side on the rise. Now im pondering whether i do need to start following another code and moving overseas again as soon as possible!