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My two boys were playing today and I did listen to the last quarter driving home from my oldest's game, so knew the score when watching the replay which I just finished. Awesome effort loved that we weathered the early pressure and the second week of smarter and more composed ball movement. Gawn was absolutely awesome as was Trac, backline good again as a unit and the Jackson/Weid combination had me smiling with a lot of promise shown. Looks very much like Gawn, Oliver and Viney have taken the criticism after the Tigers game personally and are playing angry with points to prove. Next week will be interesting

Woewodin could be damaging at times and had far more penetration in his kick than Mitchell. Agree with you that he is a very bland footballer

DD what's your thoughts on Spargo playing a similar role to Caleb Daniel. Spargo made some very good decisions with ball in hand during 2018

The media bashing of the Hawks needs to stop, nothing worse than an opponent who has copped it from all and sundry in the week leading up to their game

Technically the Reverend. Former Bombers player and was a good result

I actually liked Brownys commentary on Weid. The excitement he showed when Weid crashed a pack of 4 Suns and brought ball to ground showed why we need special comments. None of Huddo, Gerard or Bruce would have picked up on that

I think that's when we become a good team and a tough opposition week in week out. When the players are able to adjust mid game it will be really difficult to counter quickly and shift momentum for opposition and may see a string of goals before they readjust

If he's fit enough he and the FD feel he has something to offer they will keep him on, next season but it won't be for sentiment. Love Jonesy but we are talking 13 games not a handful. I don't think he'll be gifted any games, he could still play as an inside mid, but we don't need anymore of them currently. Whatever his final game count is he is already going to be remembered as a great servant of the club.

You weren't by me, I think they are tracking nicely and have voiced my opinion on this for a few years. Really good spine put together

We know Clarkson is going to go to work on the maintaining possession/keeping off game. Let's hope we have learnt from the Geelong and West Coast games

If Tmac is out consider Tomlinson as a mobile CHF, liked the look of Tmac moving high up the ground using his engine

6. Gawn 5.Viney 4. Hibberd 3. Hannan 2. Langdon 1. Salem

It's actually called being OWNED by someone clearly older and he/she speaks to me about bedtime Once again golden rule @jnrmac don't bring a knife to a gun fight

We played 22 games and please give your carer back their phone YOU IDIOT

2019 - 22 games Sydney by 22 Freo by 14 2020 - 4 games = 26 games 2018 PF SF v Hawks more than a goal If you're going to be a smart [censored] and call fellow posters pathetic and idiots than get your facts right

Good points by both, hopefully we find the right mixture soon enough

Respectfully disagree Rjay, I'd like to see Clarrie moved forward and Viney used as our tagger, not disagreeing how good a job he did on Cripps, but with our turnovers it provides plenty of options the other way. Until we get our lateral and short range quick ball movement sorted out I'd like to see 2 of Harmes, Brayshaw and Viney in there at all times and rotate Clarrie and Trac through the other mid/forward rotation. Viney isn't going to hurt any side inside forward 50, but I think both Clarrie and Trac do. Magnets and plans B, C &D all need to be in place to make us less predictable in games/quarters to keep opposition second guessing and allow us to change things up a little when we need to shift momentum

Agree, really rate Rawlings as a coach

and 2 losses by less than a goal which you failed to acknowledge

He's said it enough times he believes we've only won 2 of our last 28 games not 7

And Kane Cornes who is calling us out on it and saying the footy department overrated the list. Well Kane my friend they weren't the only ones, you selected us as Premiers for 2019. David King said we had all the pieces in place, by sorting out our defence. He even continued the theme throughout the season when we were dropping games saying he wasn't worried about the Demons and put it down to the surgeries. Everyone is a hindsight genius

B. Jetta May Lever HB. Rivers Omac Hibberd C. Langdon Harmes Tomo HF. Oliver Weid Fritsch F. Pickett Tmac Hannan R. Gawn, Brayshaw, Trac I/C. Bennell, Salem, Viney, Jones Out. Smith, Hunt, Melksham, AVB, Lockhart Pickett is only playing for forward pressure needs to do the simple things instead of trying to create highlights

Either that or play to your players strengths. I get the Fritsch move to the backline last season out of necessity, but Goody for the sake of his head coaching career needs to stop trying to fit square pegs in round holes. Lever is a zoning off interceptor so play him as one and don't have Max floating back behind every ball as the intercept Harmes has been very damaging through the middle play him there and make Viney your principal tagger. Play Gawn, Harmes, Trac, Brayshaw as your starting centreline. Rotate Clarrie through there whilst also consider sending him forward to play Vanders role. Play forwards who will lead hard up the ground and free up space inside forward 50 to create channels for the others to lead into and if they want to play a loose defender sitting in the hole don't play on hit little 20m passes on the 45 to work into space until someone finds space. It's up to him and the players as a collective to work this out

It's not just 1 issue it's cumulative. The red zone game style is not sustainable for a full 4 quarters. It's high risk and when you turn the ball over it burns you the other way. Composure is certainly something we lack, those breakdowns of our movement are damming and you can't tell me that hasn't been picked up by the FD when reviewing and coding. It's like a hot potato no tempo and control with ball movement, surely we train and invite heat in game simulation to a point where players are accustomed to it. Confidence, composure and trust all appear to be missing

and in 2010 everyone thought we'd picked the right guy because it was down to him and Hardwick