Rob Mac......

Melbourne winning the clearances 8 to 3 !

Some may suspect you'd do that whether we won or not

Surely the players DID NOT KNOW there was only 41 seconds to go (& a 4 point lead)!!!??!! Why isn't there some way of quickly letting them know?? Surely ANY forward knows that in that situation they flood the defense! They shouldn't need specific instruction from a couch or leader to flood back when you're ahead with 41 seconds to play! They should already be trained to do that, please.

Okay, gett'em back out again. H ang on, Jeffffffy! put them away

we're back! Put the razor blades away

Jones & Watts keeping us in it

1 Jones 2 Vince 3 Cross 4 Brayshaw 5 Howe 6 Gawn

Watts sticks a tackle!!

Dunn standing up. Elliot great

I liked his first weeks, but Lamumba is the worst handballer in our team. Garlett goal wooh, we're back.

Hogan & Howe are winning

Fitzy to Cloke? Cloke's playing sooooooo well. Maybe Dunn?

Cloke BOG so far. Not TMacs fault.

Gooooooooooaaaaaaal

Elliott beaten Jetta twice already

Great if we could preserve an exquisite team balance like we had last Sunday. Love Jetta, but am slightly concerned that if he replaces a forward (Bail or M Jones) and Grimes stays in (who played well as back pocket on the small forward) this will force Grimes to play on a slightly bigger guy and further up the field, which are 2 things Grimes doesn't seem to do as well as playing back pocket on the smallest forward. Therefor we could be weakened because all those other defensive positions seem better played by either Garland, Dunn, TMac, Fitzpatrick, Lamumba, Frost, Salem…. IMHO, for team balance, Grimes and Jetta are or should be, playing for the same spot atm.

Spot on Hardtack! Watched him in defense for Casey recently & loved his play and relaxed confidence. Not looking like the same guy. Improving overhead, kicking & footy smarts, plus how many 200cm players are so fast or good below the knees? He was diving for marks, great game. Love to see more.

Fitzy looking good in defense. Watts lovely pass to Toump. 4 quarters needed

FB: Jetta Frost Dunn HB: Garland T Mac Salem C: VandenBerg Vince Lumumba HF: Kent Pedersen Watts FF: Howe Hogan Garlett FOLL: Jamar N. Jones Tyson Int: Viney, Brayshaw, Cross, Newton Emerg: Gawn, Dawes, Grimes

Out: Spencer, Dawes, M. Jones/Stretch, Salem (inj) In: Jamar/Gawn, Hogan, Watts, Newton

I agree that Watts will, and that's in spite of the ball being kicked to Dawes 3 times more often as it usually seems to be!

Our midfield would be so enhanced had we not recently lost Stef Martin for nothing, which I emphatically posted about just before it happened. Plus Wines of course! Starting on-ballers of Martin, Wines & Jones would cut it against any trio in the league.

I imagine so, and certainly defer to your greater knowledge of the subject Redleg. Bonds video still had me think Col kindly agreed to a deal favoring the club a bit more than expected under the circumstances however [perhaps a bit lower % of next years pay than he could have pushed for].

The AFL interview with Freo's general manager of football operations, Chris Bond, disclosed clearly enough that Col did not force them to pay him out anything like his full contract amount at all. http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/video/2015-04-28/bond-on-sylvia 2.51m Press: "Did you have to honor his original contract?" Bond: " …work through a settlement.. …it's something that's been really favorable to the club, & I think all parties have been really understanding of that.." Clearly Col could have screwed much more money out of them, but didn't. Press: "So it's not just honoring his original contract?" Bond: "No it's not…" A sign of good character. I respect him for that and wish him well. I don't know whether Col had some other health issue causing him to never reach the consistent lofty pinnacle he seemed to have the potential for? I guess he just enjoyed the party more than hard work. [edit added URL]

6 vandenBerg 5 Jones 4 Hogan 3 Vince 2 Michie 1 Jamar Apologies to McDonald, Brayshaw & most others