Undeeterred

Still think that means he's doing his job.

Sorry, you're right re intent and I should have been clearer - I agree entirely he didn't intend to bump. But he did arrive, at speed, and bump, in my book. As I said above, it is completely ridiculous, but on all readings of the AFL tea leaves, they want to stop these types of injuries. It is sad that the game is going that way...

That's not what I said. I said that Lynch wouldn't have been injured if not for Viney's bump and it is silly to suggest I said the complete opposite.

JKH

Let's hope so!

Jake Spencer got three weeks (I think) last year for being a complete unco and crashing into McEvoy (again, IIRC). You hurt someone by bumping, you go.

Interesting - it looked to me like he was pulling up but had a fair bit of speed. It is just ridiculous, if it were someone like Jordan Lewis who smashes people all the time, we probably wouldn't even be having this discussion.

Correct. He gets his hands free and has really clean disposal in traffic. An utter steal.

He barrelled in from 20 metres away and smashed Lynch's face into Georgiou's head. In the end, that's all that matters. I HATE it, but they'll see it as completely unnecessary contact and give him a holiday.

Whatever ruckus it causes, he is going.

But we're not Port or Hawthorn and, for now, he's in our best 10 or so players.

Can't believe they didn't pick up your irony!

Let's be realistic. It doesn't matter how the injury happened, it wouldn't have happened without the bump. He's stuffed - the AFL have been super clear about this. A real shame, because I think he is perhaps the one who gave us the most drive on Saturday - he just bullocked the ball forward constantly.

I thought it was mildly refreshing for a coach to come out say that, basically, we're not even telling them what the other team is going to do until we get out own [censored] together first... Roos has cahunas, that's for sure.

No changes save for injury. You don't have a massive win like that and then kick someone in the balls during the week by dropping them unless you absolutely have to. Byrnes was fine - he isn't going anywhere without serious pressure from below.

Nup - he's far silkier than Watson.

When you think about it, we really have had some incredible drafting and trading success in the last couple of years. Discounting negatives, we've brought in Viney, Salem, Tyson, JKH, Cross, Vince and Kent, even Matt Jones, Pedersen and Terlich have been successes if you really get down to it. That is an incredibly high success rate. That's a huge hit rate and, despite the haters, does stretch back to Neeld's time. It also doesn't include guys like Michie and Hogan who aren't even on the park yet, or Toumpas, who will be fine in the end. Realistically, we probably won't finish too high this year, and another pick up like Salem around pick 3-7 (hopefully), with a decent free agent and another steal down the draft, starts to make us look pretty good.

I'm watching the replay on my lapton and actually switched over to post exactly this. He would have been a steal at three.

You could try paying attention to the people you're out for dinner with, just sayin'...

Disagree. He's been much better in recent weeks. Also, what has been missing from his game is the run - those two bounces streaming through the middle were awesome. I know he missed the goal, but you don't run like that without being interested. And it brings back the attacking side to his game, which has been missing too.

Well, I'd suggest it means something to the selection committee!

That a 2 win season with a percentage of 69.3% is just as depressing as a 2 win season with 54.1%.

Apart from being our leading goalkicker?

I actually prefer this approach - what we have seen in recent years is players being dropped for poor form, without anybody really being in better form below. This way, Roos has picked his 22 and is backing them until someone else turns out to be playing better. Rather than Casey players waiting until they are called up due to the failures of others, they are now being required to lift their own standards and demand to be included. That can only be a good thing.

In flying form tonight RTG, keep it coming.