Moonshadow

We now have good depth. Competition for senior spots is tough. Looking forward to seeing if guys like Grimes, Dawes, Garland, JKH, Michie, Newton and Terlich can force their way back into the main game.

And there I was thinking Roosey's only a defensive coach!

Another solid game from Hunt and Warner

Percentage booster!

Jeffrey!

Fmd how many out on the full for TMac tonight!!!

Umpires trying hard to win the game for Richmond

My man Pedo! Bugger!

Was going to say Kennedy has been quiet.....

Could Jetta have tapped any better to Lloyd?

Vince and Garlett have been great inclusions this week

Still some dumb turnovers. Trying to do too much

Sam Pang is one of the more clever comedians around atm. Has good timing. Not a loud, stupid boofhead like Mick Molloy or Peter Hellier. Writes a lot of the material, I believe.

What?!! He clearly grabbed the ball to his chest making token punching actions to it well before anyone tackled him. Wstch the front on vision to Smith. His intent was to keep the ball in his hands and stall the flow of play, not to dispose of it. As Carey said, holding the ball every day of the week (except Friday night, it would appear)

Interested to hear both coaches responses to questions about decisions in the final few minutes

Yep, Vanders out for "at least a month". Great get Vineytime.

Shame the umpires choose the winner. Two in a row for the Hawks.

Now watch the umpires boss come out and say the Isaac Smith holding the ball in the final seconds should have been paid. Looking forward to the reaction when a tough decision goes the Hawks way in the dying seconds of the GF with them down by 5 points.

Wee and poo. Protected species by umpires.

After all Biff, the Greeks invented sex, but the Italians introduced women to it.

Possibly, but it's worth remembering that the info comes 3rd hand, so it's hard to assess the accuracy of what Goodwin supposedly said.

YOU replied to my post on this thread #senile

From the article you linked on the other thread: "MIDFIELDER/forward Aaron vandenBerg will miss at least the next month, due to an ankle injury." which often means about 8 weeks in Dave Misson-speak. Didn't say he had not had an op either. Just to clarify.

Quote from an Andy_Mac post on Bigfooty re his conversation with Goodwin: - Spencer is only a week away. But depth is a worry in the Ruck. King needs to put 20kg's on, they aim for 7 per year- Neeld physiologically damaged the players, particularly Watts. He needs to be constantly reassured, high 5's etc - Roo's going to Hawaii for 6 months and undecided after that. Most likely not coming back in a footy role- club went very hard after Brendan McCarthy. Goody rates him as the best in the country at what he does- Truck is arrogant, but in a good way. He thought he should have been playing since round 1. Goody said he's way to good for the VFL. He said he's like a panther out there. Said he plays like a mixture of Stringer up forward and Ebert through the middle. He'll play forward and kick goals this year. If he could choose only one of Hoges and Truck, he'd pick Hoges but only cause he hasn't seen Truck at AFL level yet. That said he did almost smirk and giggle when he said Hoges is very very good.- explained the Essendon game well. He said "all club have [censored] days at the office", especially inexperienced ones like ours. he said the difference between us and Geelong who were in the same position as us against the bombers last weekend was that their senior players know how to grit their teeth and wait, and more importantly trust that momentum will shift and when it does take you take your chances and bury the oppo. We hit the lead at the 10min mark of the last. He said he expected us to kick 2-3 more and kill the game, we got over excited and blew it, the cats didn't. That's were the 80 games comes into it- they internally really rate Wagner and Hunt. He kept saying we found one on the weekend when referring to Hunt- Had some interesting things to say on his time at Essendon and more so how removed Hirdy is now. But that's not relevant.