Maldonboy38

Season 2025 is fully over in terms of success, so we have to know what we have, and what we need. Kolt needs to be given a number of weeks in a row maybe in a different position. He was pick 13 for a reason and had a broken preseason. He was very very poor today, at times not even showing the intensity that he usually brings, even if it is often misplaced.

This is the seed of so many of our problems. Putting team mates under pressure, creating turnovers, killing momentum. Early in Goodwin's reign up to 2020 this was a huge problem and it has reared its ugly head again. And unfortunately, our major proponents are Langdon, Petracca, Rivers, Salem and today we added in Clarry, Sparrow, and Viney.

6 May 5 Viney 4 Melksham 3 Pickett 2 Turner 1 Rivers

I reckon Windsor will be a great wingman, but isn't he out for the rest of the season? If he is, then Langford and Lindsay on the wings. If not, Windsor onto the wing, Lindsay stays at half back.

Do we now take the risk and drop Fritsch & Langdon? Langdon got a heap of the ball but much of his disposal and decision making caused turnovers or stalled momentum. Big call, and other things are probably more important, but he epitomises our disposal woes. Play Langford & Lindsay on the wing and see how they go. Fritsch is a great player at his best, but some of his efforts were simply soft and weak, and it has been like this for too long. Unsure who we play in his place but he has been a liability for too long.

More to like than dislike, but hugely disappointed. LIKE - Our general play was good but not great. Loved seeing JVR and Jeffo together and hope to see them for the remainder of the year. Steven May, Lever, Kozzie, Melksham, getting games into Lindsay, Langford, Jeffo. DISLIKE - Our in close handball chains/patterns were horrendous. Goal kicking in the first quarter. Fumbling & slipping over. Petracca's lack of intensity and potency.

Agreed. That's why I used the word single. A pattern of errors is an indicator of something to correct but the constant player attacks from single mistakes in a game so pressured is really annoying.

Just a thought - every single skill error does not mean a player is useless, earns too much, isn't AFL standard blah blah blah. The Crows have made far more errors than us and it is a highly contested game. We are playing well, right in it, and most are having red hot go.

Great game of footy. Pressure from both teams is immense with some great goal kicking. Cover Rankine and kick straight - we win I reckon.

Well done Kozzie and thanks for kicking straight. May is giving Thilthorpe and absolute hiding. I am a Jeffo fan, but boy he looks disinterested. JVR much better working around the ground and he kicks straight.

Every sphincter in my body is clenching in rage at our goal kicking.

Our defense is right on top, our ball winners are on top, and we are killing the Crows at ground level. Strangely enough, our goal kicking is a bit off.

Really good players both, and more than accumulators, but not game changers. Petracca, DeGoey, Dusty, Fyffe, Rankine, Charlie Cameron. Players who can change the momentum of a game, or even the outcome. The Bummers need one desperately and haven't had one in years. Caddy might be one in 2 years.

Watching the last bit of the Bummers v GC, the Bummers have some good young talent and lots of injuries. What they don't have is a game changing midfielder or any team cohesion. What I hope they do have is another 2 decades in the footy wilderness. And as for GC, I love watching them and am genuinely envious. I loathed Hardwick as a the thug player he was, and it overflowed into his coaching, but he is an outstanding coach. In his 2nd year he has them humming along, tough, fast, skillful and fully united and aligned.

Yeah, I noticed it again. Kills me each time I see him with the Pies. Come home, Nev!

Roaming Brian is a total buffoon. Barging into conversations unwanted and uninvited. The way he pulled Glendinning away from his conversation with past teammates was rude and boorish. Cringing to watch.

Well for one thing he is a decent kick, which places him above many on our list. He is strong over the ball and his basic skills set is sound. Where he struggles is 1) decision making (truly horrendous) 2) being too energetic where it is not required, and 3) not getting to where the ball is/will be often enough. If he can place and time his skill and energy he could be very good. No way do we trade or delist yet.

Adding to the discussion - Gawn was a rank outsider when he took the mantle. I thought it was a mockup when I first heard it, and when it was confirmed I thought the Dees had made a huge mistake. I couldn't have been more wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if there are clear leadership development pathways internally that we know nothing about. I will stick with Rivers for captain and maybe McVee for VC.

Trac simply does not give me captain vibes, Viney's leadership season is coming to an end, Lever has the whole package but can he get his body back near its best. Trent Rivers by a mile for me. Articulate when he speaks, players lift when he does, has shown no restlessness that we know of, really good team man and club man. He might not be in great form b ut form can turn.

Great footballer with great goal sense, but the worst over-celebrator in AFL history. Annoys the carp out of me.

Very few leads or movement too often, so opposition backmen guard grass. And going back 2022 - 2024, our forward gameplan was kick to contest, and get goals from ground balls or stoppages. I think the congestion is also a flow on from then.

The kicking inside F50 in the Swans v Dogs match is insane. Brilliant to watch. Some of the field kicking is similar.

I don't understand how it can be concluded that Jeffo isn't the answer. He has played 3 games in a forward line fed by some of the worst forward entries seen at the Dees in decades. His form in the VFL is really good, where he shows he can lead AND fly into a pack. So far he is no Carey or Ox, but let's give him the same chances given to others.

I'm actually loving no AFL on Saturday afternoons. I much prefer watching Casey/Dees than Freo v Saints or Gold Coast v North or other substandard games. And right now, there are a lot of our younger listed players who are finding form which is encouraging.

Peter Walsh and Nathan Brown - good solid workhorses who, if you looked closely enough, had really good footy brains, ran all day, and had good evasive games, while neither being quick. I reckon this a "watch very closely" because the numbers suggest Archie's form is growing and he is getting nearer to being draftable. I would love to see him at the Dees.