binman

It is not possible for me to disagree with this post any more than i do. Scratch that. On reflection I disagree with this post even more than i originally thought.

I hvave one question. Can he kick? Very well that is.

Looking forward to Spring fellas, particularly as footy in Spring is a write off. What day do people feel the spring kicks off (not the carnival, just the day where the spring horses start coming back)

Agree on all counts DS. His kicking is a worry but he reads the play beautifully. I'd like to see him put on some muscle and get a bit stronger, but that will a happen naturally as he is stil youngish and will fill out a bit more. Important he gets some games with May i reckon - they should compliment each other really well

And thank (insert preferred deity) for that. The way he came off i was sure it was a knee. Jut looked like the classic not much in it sort of incident where acls are done. I felt sick for him and to a lesser extent the club. After he came back on i stopped caring about the result. That was win enough.

Dazzled my point is they have other options. If they thought he was as bad a player as you do they simply would not pick him full stop. So it stands to logical reason they don't share your assessment of him. They have another option to the ones I have already noted. Put keilty back there. I'm guessing you might say that's not an option as he is not up to it. The club seemingly share that assessment. And guess what they have not picked him. Just as they wouldn't pick omac if they didn't think he was up to it. But they do and so pick him. Much to the chagrin of some. I watched his AFL pro video last night and it was revealing. 10 reality good spoils - way more than lever. Two set up scoring chains.he laid strong tackles and hit some good kicks under pressure. That's what the club look at. As i said he played his role He has his limitations and has not been in great form this year. As I have said he will go out when m is back as frost is ahead of him atm

No other tall? What about our other kpd tbat you want in the side to develop. You know petty? He is no forward and needs time down back and playing on reiwoldt would be great for his development. But sure no other t walls if it suits your narrative.

This perfectly sums up how ridiculous much of the criticism of Omac is on this site. You are bagging him for 'letting Josh Bruce run amok' whilst conceding you don't even know if he was on him! And sure he made a disposal error that cost us a goal. But maybe you missed the memo that said we conceded 87 points from turnovers. In case you did miss that memo a heads up that Omac contributed 6 of those 87 points (that 'pathetic' handball). And everyone's new golden boy Frosty coughed up 2-3 goals and our highest paid player 4 goals and at least one more because he couldn't make a basic spoil. But sure let's pile on Omac and give the other two a free pass. Demonland at its analytical best.

I don't. Quite the opposite. We don't need to overhaul our game. So boringly simplistic to think we need to make major changes to our game to be competitive.

I'm not sold on Petty i have to say. Particularly as a forward.

I'm feeling a very strong sense of déjà vu

Are anderson's kicking skills elite?

Talk about a billy stretch....

Lazarus like.

Yes, maybe but Smith was not switched on at all.

Give me a spell. Agree if may was fit he would have gone out (and said as much in my post) but you can't pin Bruce's goals on omac. One maybe but he got lace out delivery for at least one goal (after a woeful turnover), omac was not on him all game and at least one was a result of lever not spoiling and if iirc another was from a throw in when Smith was clueless and Bruce grabbed it from the air and snapped the easiest of goals. If he was as poor as you think dazzler he would not have been picked this week. They had hore they could bring in and petty (who by the way is no forward) who could go back. But they have stuck with omac. Obviously you and many others disagree with goody but without trying to be disingenuous or dismissive he is an AFL coach, would have analysed his performance so is better placed than us to objectively assess omac's performance last week. And has picked him to go up against lynch or reiwoldt (i suspect lynch). Believe it or not not every thing is OMac's fault.

Really? Why do you think then they didn't drop omac, bring in hore to play the intercept role and play lever on reiwoldt or lynch?

He'll play his role. As he did last week. He stays until may comes back as neither lever or hore can play on the big forwards and lever, and to a lesser extent hore, are poor one on one.

I'm no good at the drafting, trading macinations. But fir a number of reasons we need to go to the draft with pick 2. Firstly we simply must draft in a player with elite foot skills. Secondly we have to take this opportunity to get young high end talent to the club. I'm hopeful this will be the last draft for some time where we'll get a top 10 pick. Thirdly, getting pick 2 would be some small consolation for the pain the club has suffered this year. All that said we still need hill (or martin) And it sounds as if we have Langdon. I leave it up to the dl's resident draft and trading gurus to work out how we manage keeping pick 2 and getting hill or martin and Langdon. Oh and Greenwood too if possible please.

Not much mystery. Broke his collarbone. Came back via twos. Given he didn't miss much footy it is surprising he is not in given his form rgis season. I assume it is because lever has the intercept marking role.

You're point that he is has been anything but conservative tacticaly is spot on.

They flood back into he backline as soon the ball is bounced. So teams have about 5 seconds, less maybe, to get an uninterrupted clearance into a on one forward line. And statistically very few such entries. Which is exactly why it has not achieved the AFL reason for introducing it - to increase scoring.

He stopped running players off the back of the square half way though last season. Goodwin noted this in an interview when asked if his use of players off the back of the square would make the 666 rule a challenge for us (his answer was that basically wouldn't impact us much). I maintain the 666 rule has made almost no difference to us or other clubs. The biggest non event since AFLX

Me thinks you might be new around these parts... In cop speak MB has form. And lots of of it. An like many with form any number of aliases. The fact that his very first line after yet another suspension (it weren't me guvna, i've been fitted up) was 'Possibly the most deluded post I've ever read' should give a bit of insight into a poster who is a serial baiter. A master baiter if you will. What's weird is i have him ignore and that first post bypassed it but thankfully is now back in place. Can i take this opportunity to remind people of a previous health warning i read here: Please do not quote MB, or if you must do so delete text. Research shows his posts can cause lasting cognitive damage.

You see things in such excruciatingly simple, black and white terms.