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Not saying that McVee is the answer but until you try you never know and I think for a quarter here and there is a start, if it's not his position he stays back but people like to pigeon hole players and people should look outside the box.

Do you ever watch a game without red and blue eye patches on and never see a fault, first off Kossie does not have the tank to play midfield for long periods so let's ask this why doesn’t Goodwin play him primarily in the midfield? Second his skills around the forward line are great but his kicking skills when under pressure are not around the ground. Our backline is OK it only comes under pressure when the midfield is not working and that's where it all starts you do realise that don't you the forward line can only work when the ball gets there and the backline needs the midfield to work to get the ball forward that's why the midfield is called the engine room of the team.

Would have loved for Nick Riewoldt or Jonathan Brown down there for some lessons on forward craft.

Hard no for me and the reasons are he can kick for goal, fritta won't allow that, he can play on straight away and pass a ball at eye level and can mark so that's to many problems for us to get that out of him..... Oh it's sarcasm folks so settle down.

Had enough of project players.

Yeah a one paced midfield with a lack of outside run and carry, name our midfielder who can pass like Bont, Reid etc and under pressure?

Gee I don’t recall the Daicos boys being that strong in the contest...

We are missing run and kicking skills in the midfield.

Least i'm not the only few....... The young Demon that should be injected into the midfield mix

Stafford is the forward coach a ruckman, young players need coaching on forward craft as it is the hardest position to play we have had problems since 21 even Goodwin has admitted that.

And who's job is that to implement?

Against a side that was woeful for most of the game, we won the 4 points a percentage boost and that was what was needed.

Madden was a top class ruckman, but will add the ruck rules were a lot different then so bit hard to compare, Max has lost his leap in ruck contest and prefers to grapple which annoys me to no end should be banned. Remember Grundy was bought in to let Max rest in the forward line but that never worked out as his impact dropped.

Well at least we have one of those then...

Ammm you do remember Gawn/Grundy

We have a system?

No wonder with the way the bring it in...

Sorry no one sounds like Jordan, the only words he used F , C and other expletives...

Agree, but one can see you have no forwards present but they just kick without understanding they need to hold it up till the forwards get back it's just playing on for the sake of it, it's bad coaching full stop.

Can someone please explain why you play on from the centre at pace and then kick to 3 on one opposition and the other forwards no where near it?

Said the same thing in another post, the saints will look to switch at every opportunity across the ground and use those two so will be interested in how that will be handled but we should win.

Well you can bet on one thing the saints will look to switch the ball around and will play through Hill for the outside run, so will be interesting to see how we go about it.

One can hope that happens.

They are woeful by hand, and decision making is as bad as us.

What's ours 1 in 57 years that's not great either.