Undeeterred

Bye, bye, Ricky Bobby. Shame.

And Richmond, on the 'G.

True - I didn't think too hard beyond those named. Honestly though, if we are comparing, I'd probably take Cloke over Fitzpatrick, Cook and Williams combined.

Tell me that's not Jako doing a sit up... A photo showing that would be as rare as hen's teeth.

I think we've established that, despite the awesomeness that is Mitch Clark, you need more than one key forward target to get anywhere near success. Of our current options that you mention: Watts is best down back. Jurrah is a good chance of not playing again. Ricky Bobby is going to GC. Garland has proven he is a defender. Howe will be a mid. Sylvia is a running flanker. Trengove can't kick a goal from 40 out. Jamar can't kick at all. You are left with Martin, Rivers, Sellar, Bate and Dunn as your key forward options. Yes, we need Cloke.

No need to hang cr@p all over him peeps.

I can sort of picture him doing the Stuart Dew thing at Hawthorn and jagging them another flag...

Let's be honest. Most of us probably thought 10 goals was about par. The betting line was 50.5 points, so that's a good indication. When we were that far behind at 3QT, did anybody expect us to kick 8 goals in the last quarter? Losing sucks, but we are moving in the right direction. We were never going to win today and anybody who says they were realistically expecting us to is kidding themselves.

Yeah, don't reckon he'd have had 8 tackles too many times before.

As so often, 4 goals to none in the first quarter,when the game is there to be won, turns out to be essentially the final margin... Actually not a bad result, given the expectations of most of us. We'll do them next year with a full team.

Good on the boys for at least playing the game out. Could easily have been done by more than 10 goals...

Part of the plan. Go with a good team for a half, to prove we can. But make sure we don't risk draft picks by playing the whole game out and maybe actually winning. Lol.

Jones, Trengove, Grimes, MacDonald, Rivers, McDonald, Blease, Strass, Jetta, Green and Bate have literally had 1-2 touches each in the third quarter. And Sylvia... Statless after I stuck up for him.

Did they put chains on their legs at half time or something? How do you go from level pegging to 6 goals down in 15 minutes??

You'd think we'd have learnt.

Didn't Beau Wilkes pop up with a few last time we played as well?

Surely they jest...

Good to see Grimes and Trenners getting a lot of it.

Sylvia has 6 tackles to half time. Get off his back.

That's actually a really good point - always good to remember that players are people and the club isn't just swapping footy cards or something.

Having said that, Mods, is there any reason my thread was deleted?

Didn't see this thread when I posted mine - sorry.

I do - wonder how he feels about it. I reckon they're probably giving him 6 weeks off his ankle, and making him lift weights and eat lots of chicken. He'll be abit more built, and his ankle will be right in October and he'll be ready to run... Makes sense, I suppose.

Fair enough. We disagree entirely. Watching our absolutely shite team in the last few years, Rivers is one of the few who (1) consistenty beats his player and (2) busts his chops, no matter what, against a constant stream of I-50s. He is a touch slow, I'll admit, but he is probably the best reader of the play in our team, and far better than a below average player who deserves to be swept out this year, as you are suggesting.

You are like that annoying kid in primary school who says 'I know you are, I said you are, but what am I' every time anybody opens their mouth.