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You have to wonder why Lyon would let a player like Steele go? (so easily) Doesn't make sense Anyway, their loss is our gain and without Viney's dogged style and relentless attack on the ball, we'd fall well short without Steele as well (Kozzie & Gawn aside) As well as developing our young mids, King needs to find a way for Steele & Viney to work together as mids

Oliver played quite well against the Pies but the players that he is dishing the handballs off to, aren't doing much with it (the footy) He'll be more impactful when they get their better players back However, the best thing for him and the MFC was to part company. It's heading for a win/win

Seems the obvious target for 'The Nullifier' (Negates Anderson) Maybe Touk? Or perhaps he just takes CJ's spot (although did King mention that Rivers could be shifted back on return)

Yep "It was the worst of times, it was the best of times"

Apparently the Saints are paying a percentage of Steele's salary as well 4 quarter player and 15 tackles is outrageously good. He's a brick

6 Kozzie (Dynamic) 5 Gawn (Warrior) 4 Steele (Solid) 3 Sparrow (Standout) 2 Lever (Influential) 1 Kolt (Negated well) Others who played well (or stepped it up when needed) ... Fritsch, T-Mac, Windsor, Langford, Chandler & Lindsay

He did a job on Cripps, so much so that Cripps has no real influence That's 3 nullifying performances in a row by the lad Reducing a star to 'ok only' is an achievement

Freak show!!

The spoon = #1 draft pick so there isn't the stigma attached these days, DZ. But for those who can't stand Essendon, it is still a thing Bombers went close in 2006 ... but the Bryce Gibbs cup resulted in a draw (?) #TheTankingYears

We didn't realise it at the time but 2021 really was the perfect storm Hardly any injuries with a stack of players having their best year in footy. +6 in the free kick count in the GF when many were expecting a deficit of at least -6 And who would have thought that we'd handle the hubs better than most Long bombs to the pocket worked a treat. Selfless footy a standout It's been downhill ever since highlighted by a 6 & 8 finishing record in 2022 after starting the season 10 & 0. We lost our way sometime in 2022 And now we're starting all over again

If the Bulldogs bring their best they will obliterate Essendon. The Bombers don't have any game-breakers Mind you, whether the Demons can beat Essendon in gather round remains to be seen. We failed to show up in our last 2 encounters against the Bombers (in gather round)

Good teams don't need to tag but bad teams do have to tag (or they are basically conceding defeat) It's all very well backing your own players in, but what if they aren't much chop? It means that a tagger has to be interchanged at the same time as the tag-ee but that's do-able King might be tempted to tag both Jagga & Walsh tomorrow. After that, what else have the Blues got? (Apart from Cripps) So who is our 2nd tagger if we go down that path? Sparrow?

Cowboys/Storm game is good entertainment

I could care less about Carlton & Voss, DJ We need wins when we can get 'em

To win games against top quality opponents, we'd need nearly everything to go our way For the rest (Carlton included) we need about 10-12 players to have a really solid output ... 7/10 up to 9/10 But the mis-match is the Blues midfield vs our midfield. As stated by a few others here on this thread, we need to find a way to go close to breaking even on the day (in the midfield) There's no point chatting about who we haven't got anymore, we need our midfield to find a way