Moonshadow

Yes, increased midfield time for Kossie is great, but he's our best small forward. Kinda robbing Peter to pay Paul, especially watching BBB and others create multiple crumbling opportunities today

He kicked a bag against us, was it last year or '22, including the sealer He'd be a good addition to our list if we could land him. JVR and JUH together... mmmmm...

How much did the addition of BBB straighten up our forward line?!!! Meant JVR wasn't the defender's focus. Created contests for our smalls in the forward line, Chin, Kossie and Nibbler. And that sidestep, my lordie... stick him in the midfield!!!

Again, enjoy the win rather than focusing on negatives. Life is too short and fortunes can change quickly when it's still only round 1 (or 2 for us) What did you think of Billings' game? I thought his positioning and kicking were excellent. Fantastic pressure acts as well. What a great start in red n blue for him

Petty response. Enjoy the win rather than jumping to pot shot

Tmac and BBB been drinking from the fountain of youth?

The new bar set up in Betty Cuthbert area is as bad as the umpiring today

Maybe less if they throw in a meat tray

Would be extremely disappointed if we weren't going hard for him. Does he like it plonked on top of his head 25 times per game?

Surprised Cox didn't jump onto Mummy with a shoulder to the head, given Coll get the green light and all

Unless we get a replacement who is as good a ball user as Clarry is an extractor, then that theory is kaput. I'd rather work on improving Clarry's foot skills than trading him. It worked for Chunk, his kicking early on was woeful Salem, Billings, Rivers and Windsor running through the middle and delivering i50 should help too Forward strategies are more the issue. Ban the long bomb, always look at a kick to advantage, get injured/suspended players on the park. More to it than that obviously, but would certainly help

He's in a big contract with many years to go. Ball's in our court

Man alive! Can't get it, can you? Helps if you know the physique of our players: Jefferson Whatever, I'm moving on

Not sure that we are quite the destination club some consider ourselves to be. As you mention, money talks, but when was the last time we poached an A grader or a serious young star? May and Lever feel like an eternity ago. Maybe Grundy (say no more)? We were prepared to pay $600k for Grundy, when we already had the best ruck in the game, yet can't knock on the door of a power forward???

Were there none approaching the last year of their contract before FA in the last 7 years that we could've had a massive crack at? Ben Brown is the only one we've been able to poach, and blind Freddie knew his knee was rooted Personally, I don't mind if they are FA, year before FA or simply enticed by a big wad of cash mid contract. We need to go big at the end of this year. Off the top of my head, those who have re-signed or left for other clubs in the last 7 years: King x 2, Tex Walker, Tom Lynch, McStay, Koschitzki, 2m Peter, Casboult. There's probably heaps more. Not saying all of them fit our needs, but it would be interesting to find out which (if any) we had a serious play for.

Only 8,000 at ground, but a couple of hundred on the oval at the lunch break

Anyone watching the second test from NZ on tv? Lunch time day 4, Aust five down with 100 to win. You'd think curators would look after the ground surface, maybe sweep the pitch, keep people off the grass... But no, spectators permitted all over the oval during lunch, kids bowling and running on the pitch. Amazing really.

You missed the point I was making Whilst we got short term return from Hogan and Jackson, and some picks in return, their long term absence has left a big hole in that end of the ground for us. Hence why we're now pinning our hopes on an injury prone key back who has played a handful of games forward, a scrawny, hunch-backed 19 yr old barely noticeable at VFL level, and an ex basketballer that Brisbane were prepared to trade for pick 47 We have arguably the best back line and midfield in the AFL, but a bottom 6 forward line. I think it cost us the flag last year, regardless of injury excuses

It could be argued that both Hogan and Jackson were busts as key forwards, in that we couldn't keep them at the club. Whilst we did get decent picks in return for them, it has clearly left a vacuum in personnel and development in that area of our list. And before anyone claims Jackson is a ruck, he would've been a key forward and 2nd fiddle ruck to Max and currently is that to Darcy (when Darcy's not injured)

Terrible luck for a brave, selfless act

As undeniably simplistic as Dermie's thinking is, he is right that we haven't had a gun key forward in many years and we haven't adequately developed the ones we drafted (Stafford) Tmac and BBB were only ever going to be short term bandaid. BBB's knee gave us one year in 21 and Tmac has fallen in a heap quickly after the grannie. Not convinced Jeffo is the answer, nor that JVR is more than a 3rd tall. Petty is terribly injury prone and is not the white knight many think he will be. And don't get me started on Hogan or Weid Would be interesting to find out what effort we've put into recruiting a pack crashing key forward in the last 5 years Though I am reminded by an ex Land poster who claimed a couple of years ago that Tex Walker to the Dees was a done deal, lol!

Man alive, there's some crazy thinkers on Land after a loss! Imagine what it's gonna be like when we're 3/3 after 6! 🥳

Petty is incredibly injury prone and Melksham will not be back until end of year. And as tallented as Pickett is, he goes missing regularly. That's been know for 6 months or more, yet here we are still dabbling with witches hats like Schache and Spargo. Goodwin is sooooooo predictable and stubborn in his methods, it's sickening.

Schache is the fifth goal post

As bad as we played by 3/4 time, I thought we were lucky to still be in it and would run out the game on top. But alas... We simply cannot put teams away early when we have ample opportunity. Our forward line is non functional and I'm god damn sick of using absent players as an excuse. 2023 merging into 2024, only worse. The next month will be telling on Goodwin's ability to regroup a team in a hot mess. Did we re-sign him too readily?