red and blue forever

green goal

how was the Howe mark?

then he is useless.

comentators are struggling to watch this boring crap

damn it howe kick a fekken goal

if we did that we would not be able to field 22 players

it is going to be fun to try and do the votes this week

Agree, not point keeping playing the old dead wood, the untried kids could hardly do worse, and get some experience in them for next year. and who knows, one or two of them may be good, and give us something to watch which is actually enjoyable

insipid

one goal to half time

wooo ma goal by jonesy

PLayers should be switched to incentive based pay, if they work hard tackle give effort all the way through the game the get their full wage, if they do it for 3/4, they get 3/4 their wage this week they get no pay so far

Would prefer a top midfielder here, Hodge, Stanton are free agents, and stanton is having the year of his life. but a top midfielder whoever it is is what we need, therefore my team would look something like this... Bartram Frawley Grimes Garland Rivers Gysberts Trengove Moloney ??????? Howe Jurrah Tapscott Clark Watts Cook Jamar Jones Mckenzie Interchange: Viney, Magner, Blease, (Taggert or Couch) Just miss: Petterd, Martin, Green Sylvia Davey Davis Sellar Tynan and the rookies who knows.

wish I was as optimistic, but in sydney I am not confident, if it was down here it would be a different matter.

Prefer a midfielder, with Clark, Watts (when he comes good) and Jurrah, we dont really need another forward. so that rules out cloke. Stanton is free agent apparently, Having a great year in the mid and would fit well i think, but essendon will do everything in their power not to loose him Luke Hodge is also free agent this year, bit more mature, but would be great on field leader in midfield.

I truly do not think the club is in as bad a position as some people fear. ok, it is obvious we are in another rebuilding phase, which like many of us here, pisses me off. 2008 - 209, we were meant to be in rebuild under bailey, by 2010 we were pushing finals and by 2011-12 we were meant to be celebrating a grandfinal win. but it did not go like that. we apparently had an aweful gameplan, and evedently we have not recurited the best. BUT our recruting has not been so poor, well, not as far as we can accuratley tell so far. we have lots of unexperienced kids, who when we recruited them were all skinny bean poles. we knew at that time, in a few years when they bulk up they will be high class players. they just need to get the chance to do that. Blease, Cook, Gysberts, Mckenzie, Watts, Trengove, Morton all fit into this category. Also the game plan, whilst leaving us 0-7 needs time to develop. First thing Neeld is doing, is teaching them a defensive gameplan. the basis of footy. if you get that working well, it makes it hard to loose games, the opposition struggles scoring and you can prevent them getting a run on and massing on quarters(like 2nd quarter the hawks game friday) once that is 100% then you go onto other gameplans, and whilst they are teething problems learning them you switch back to the defencive plan and claw your way back, then switch back again you cant expect the kind to learn multiple gameplans at once, they need to do it one at a time, which takes time. the ball handeling it partly down to panic, low confidence. once we get on our game that will improve naturally. we had a reasonable attacking gameplan last year, just no defence. we get this defencive plan down, then the ease we will then incorporate a attacking plan will be brilliant.. at that point our rise will be meteroic. but that is 2 to 3 years away Neeld himslef said they were putting the attacking plans from last year to the side for the moment, not throwing them away fully. with good recruting at the end of the year, and some more good off seasons to bulk and speed up the players, a gameplan which is understood by the players and executed properly, and some self confidence and we will be back. All we have seen so far is step one in the plan, and it is taking a little time for that to be implimented fully, but rest assured by the time step 3 and 4 come around the football will be much more pleasent to watch and talk about.

5. clark 4. bartram 3. howe 2. jones 1. grimes

the kids are loosing the plot

touched

lucky goal by mckenzie

this is about to get very ugly

oooh petterd nearly touched the ball

franklin in starting to carve frawley up, get someone else on him

bloody hell 100 more desposals to half time

need to kick those goals captain Trengove