Nascent

Can't see us in with a shot now that freo are improving. They may yet make finals and we could end up with two picks between 10 - 18. Giants are pretty much certain to gave 2 x top 10 picks. Gold Coast might be the better bet for a trading partner.

Can't imagine this being the case but would certainly add another layer to the freo death ride.

How I long for the day when Geelong are West Coast levels of bad.

We don't bat that deep in our midfield stocks unfortunately. Dunstan injured, Harmes nqr, Sparrow limited, Laurie unproven. With Bowey possibly out with a cald, we probably need Brayshaw down back. I think Harmes and Sparrow come in and hope they provide more defensive midfield pressure. Petracca is going to have to spend most of the game in the midfield along with Viney. I like Laurie's skill set so maybe he gets an opportunity?

I didn't get to watch the full game but the quarter and a bit I saw he looked really strong and took 3 intercept marks in the space of 10 minutes or so. Is coming along nicely after a limited preseason.

A positive for the game is we only played 1 quarter and only lost by 4 points. Negatives are the other 3 quarters.

And finished with 22 disposals, 1 goal 2 and our second most clearances. Probably the main driver of our comeback in the third and the only one that looked like he could carry the team to victory. I'll concede Gawn didn't play a great game. I just fail to see who played any better. Most of our team was rubbish tonight, I don't know why I'm bothering arguing semantics about who was slightly less poor than the others.

Perhaps, though he was our 3rd highest for clearances behing trac and Oliver as our other mids weren't getting it done. Was a huge part of our momentum in the 3rd in my view. Got smashed all night and still provided a better target for us down the flank and wings than our other talls. He's not going to clunk contested marks in these conditions. Most of our players were poor tonight to be honest, perhaps an argument could be made for Hunter to be in there.

Was the worst I've seen him

Not wanting to scapegoat these players but think Chandler, McVee and JvR could all do with a spell.

Kenny dancing like he's won the flag. Winners are grinners I guess. Hope we get a shot at them again.

6. Petracca (wasn't his best game but we only looked competent when he was around the ball) 5. Rivers 4. May 3. Oliver 2. Gawn 1. Not sure, Hibberd or Salem I guess.

Front on to Gawn! Fmd

Keep trac around the ball please

How is this real

Fumbles are back

Butters has irritated me tonight with his nerdy and punchable face. Would love him in red and blue, kid can play.

Love him.

Would love for someone to stand up for Max. Butters, and just about every other port player, bumps into him at every opportunity. Hell even a 4 gamer in Lord had the nerve to put a dirty elbow into his back. Stand up for your captain ffs.

One more before half time dees and put doubt in their minds

Love Oliver but he does some dumb things.

That's a suspension to fritsch. It's joke guys, relax on the spew.

So many people not willing to tackle.

Turn over game is not going to work if we dont apply enough pressure. Going down the line is also going to kill us. We need to take this game on with run and carry and switch plays. Games already lost though.

Wtf are we dumping clearing kicks into the middle of the ground