Little Richard

Adding to that, we seem to have a hell of a lot of work to do in working together as a unit - I personally don't see a lot of acts of camaraderie on the field between the midfielders. Just pulling each other up at a stoppage, putting off a tagger physically or general talk to each other in play seem to be lacking. They don't have to be elite midfielders to do this either. When our midfield can work together it will be a lot easier for young guys to come in and play well, knowing they have the support of the rest of guys through the actions above.

Here I was thinking BH and rpfc were prett much the same person

Cos we're always planning for the future man, and the future never comes... Nah but in all seriousness they drafted the guy who they believe will be the better player when it counts, not the guy who will slot right in and play well but will probably plateau fairly quickly in terms of ability. We won't know for a few years yet if we made the right choice so people need to calm down and let Toump play.

No doubt Craig will have a good chat to Jimmy this week about the game and I'd trust Craig's influence on him to be very positive and encouraging. Choco would probably work wonders with him if he ended up at the club for next season. The emotion that he showed after he had been subbed was good to an extent because it showed he cared but he can't show that emotion all the time or he'll be targeted on field (and of course on Demonland), so he has to work on that and get it right. Absolutely no doubt about the ability, just has to believe in himself and build up his confidence.

It seemed only yesterday that Khawaja was a young, up and coming gun. Now he's 26 and hopeless. Where's George Bailey at the moment?

Hopefully Siddle and Harris can start to dig us out of that hole tonight. Then we need some sort of miracle to chase down the 400 (at least) that we'll probably be chasing.

Don't start this again

Rhino again, this is a great start.

Little Joe gone! Harris bowling well which is good to see, I was worried he'd be well underdone.

He did have seven tackles against Geelong, not such a bad effort. I'll put your comment down to trolling.

At best one and that's Trengove. Scully will never be a star.

Let's not get too carried away yet, remember once upon a time it was 'Morton, Scully and Trengove who were going to be stars'. Let's not burden them with that tag yet.

I think a positive we can take out of this match is that England's reliability on Anderson has really been exposed. Once he went off last night they couldn't buy a wicket. Finn has bowled terribly, Broad been up and down and not looking very dangerous for the most part and Swann was fairly ineffective, even on the last day. Now we just need our batsmen to master Anderson and stop getting themselves out and we'll be apples.

It's amazing how the attitude towards him has changed so much in a few weeks. Just a few rounds ago people were calling him soft and some even saying he was another dudded pick. I didn't see the game Saturday but from all accounts he played very well and the stats show the same. Coming along very nicely I think.

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Australian Cricket - no batsmen, no worries! The tail enders might get it done.

Stiff, great innings!

This has been a great first couple of days, very entertaining. Hopefully it keeps up like this!

What's the highest score by an 11 ever? Agar taking the pi$$ now, this is sensational. Great anchoring innings by Hughes too.

Maybe Stark could be a left field option if he can lift his game a bit? A small midfielder who can play forward.

I'd say Saad will definitely be a required player at the Saints, considering Milne may never play again and he regardless of his off field issues he is 33. Ben Warren (ex-North) has been doing very well in the VFL but I'm not sure if he is more of a lead up forward rather than the crumber we need.

How is that comment biased? It's a pretty fair point that you can't tell 10 games into their respective careers who is going to end up the better player.

Anyway, to get back on topic, I love Jimmy T.

Scharenberg is a tall defender isn't he? Why on earth would we draft a tall back who has been nothing more than solid at the championships when we have the shitte$t midfield in the league? It's gotta be Dunstan for me, or if we manage to pick up another solid body in trade/FA Aish or Kelly.

Would it? I hear his form has been quite strong... You never know, we might end up with pick 3?