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But is always greener somewhere else.

I'd love Keilty to get a run DZ

One change from the team that comprehensively beat North Melbourne VFL last week - JKH promoted to the AFL. Likely replacement - Angus Scott

Surely avb would have to play more than 3 vfl games before a call up after so long off? It is worth noting that he only played 3 qs on sat.

Has his form been that good in the VFL? I watched the second half last week and was excellent i thought. Skills in the conditions were top shelf and his 3 golas were match winning. looks fit and strong i wouldn't mind seeing him get a crack

To paraphrase one of the great modern thinkers - Maxwell Smart - i got everything up to Part one:

Add hannebery and it will be a tough midfield to break into

No he's not

Umpire said "umpires call is a goal', meaning the review had to be 100% clear it hit the post (on the disposal BEFORE the goal, which is weird). I was alert to it because i backed Jeffy to kick most goals and that would have given him 2

Seem an ok bloke but embarrassing as a commentator. Makes up words and phrases and mangles the English language in what sounds an attempt to sound intelligent. Any number of examples last night. One being his description of a 50 metre penalty as something like and 'on field territory penalty' . The comment about TMac's mark attempt was plain weird because Tmac should have marked it as in Dermie like words 'tom enginered a clean, unchallenged run at the oval leather transference in such a way that he was unimpeded by the defensive player giving him free access to the ball and statistically a very high chance of stopping the forward motion of the ball long enough to be awarded the mark by the officiating official'

Have to agree with the last paragraph.

Careful. You might get labelled a nuffy by an elite talent spotter

Im picturing bbo on a 100% polyester safari suit with huge sweat pathes under each armpit

You do realise it is 2018 don't you? The modern era? The last time the blues won a flag was nearly a quarter of a century ago. By the by do you still believe that Channel 7 have used their 'influence' to get Blues plum free to air games this year. Because, you know the blues are so successful and all in the modern era that its total winner for a free to air broadcaster to have lots of their games on the tele.

Curnow looks the goods doesn't he. I still have faith weed will be good for us but whilst big blokes take time you would hope he would be pretty close to being a permanent member of our side by the end of this year givwn next year is his fourth at afl level

Good post. The tigers just suffocate teams don't they. In addition to getting back hard when required they are terrific at running to the next player in the opposition tic tac chain and slowing their progress forward. Which in turn allows more players to get back and help their defenders out.

True, but Jeffy has been poor in those conditions

i also hope he has a blinder and returns to form from there on in. We really miss his sparkle up forward. But you make a good point. It is long time since he played well week in, week out.

I think this is a really good point. We have a pretty tough run home, but only 4 games against top 8 sides (actually 3 - cats, swans and wc, but for the sake of argument lets include crows in Adelaide). If we are a serious finals side then we win two of those sides at a minimum. If we can't, well were not up to finals standard pure and simple.

I am assuming the nuffs you so eloquently refer to are posters questioning the logic of Jeffy being picked. Which of course includes me. Not sure why me and my fellow nuffs should read a post from a fella who saw one quarter of football and noted that Jeffy applied a bit of pressure. Is that supposed to be evidence his recall is justified? That might satisfy your level of analysis STMJ but not mine. This nuff will take on board the feedback from of regular VFL watchers whose opinion i respect (eg Drunkn167), the stats as listed above and what i ave seen of Jeffys VFL form (as limited as it is). I for one am happy Jeffy is back. I was unhappy he was dropped (but it did give Spargo a run). And obviously i have no idea what the internal KPIs were he had to meet to get a game again - maybe x number of games with more than 5 tackles, better application at training, skin folds - who knows? But i maintain on performance alone it is hard to understand why he gets a call up. By the by there is a certain irony in you having pot shot at nuffs implying you have greater footy knowledge than said nuffs.

That's good to hear. I only watched the second half of that game and was really disappointed in Jeffy's effort and application. At one point he chose not to not to go to a contest and Bugg came from behind him to jump on the ball and force a ball up. There was at least one other contest he totally squibed. When the game was there to be won, from the senior dees players it was Vince who stood up. Jeffy was ineffectual. For context here are his stats for his VFL games since being dropped. 7 tackles is pretty good last week - no doubt that was KPI for him, so perhaps i am being a bit unfair on his effort in that game but really they are not a particularly compelling set of numbers. 7 goals in seven games , one of which we won by 100 odd points games - is a pass mark at best for player who averaged 2 goals a game at AFL level last year. An interesting stat is that in his very first game after being dropped he laid 7 tackles in the games against the cats (and as it turns out had his most disposals and VFL dream team points) and didn't get a recall. 1 goal 2 behinds 7 kicks 2 handballs 9 disposals 1 mark 7 tackles 65 dream team points 1 goal 7 kicks 5 handballs 12 disposals 1 marks 4 tackles 56 dream team points 2 goals 2 behinds 9 kicks 8 handballs 17 disposals 2 marks 5 tackles 84 dream team points 1 goal 1 behind 9 kicks 7 handballs 16 disposals 2 marks 1 tackles 59 dream team points 1 goal 1 behind 7 kicks 11 handballs 18 disposals 4 tackles 63 dream team points 1 goal 2 behinds 12 kicks 7 handballs 19 disposals 1 mark 4 tackles 84 dream team points 12 kicks 7 handballs 19 disposals 3 marks 7 tackles 87 dream team points (v cats)

And in any case he wasn't the one needing protection in that contest. He was running at the ball and the other fella back with the flight. That was a shocking hit.

As it should be. Terrible to think some of the brain injuries footballers must have received from king hits. I reckon Cameron was lucky to escape with just 5 weeks for his recent hit on Harrison? who had bleeding on the brain days afterwards.

Sure it was a cowardly action. The distinction i'd make is as far as i am aware it is the only time he has he has hit someone like that. If he does it gain i'll be the first to agree he is coward Leigh Matthews was a coward.

Agree with that. Also he is the sort of player who plays better in the seniors than in lower levels. Which makes it strange why they dropped him in the first place. I guess there could have been other issues at play that lead to him being dropped