48 Year Now

Agree

Spot on. Need to go and watch a basketball player practice shooting, cricket player perfecting a stroke. And get rid of the bloody soccer ball.

Time to have a real talk about Viney. Calmly look at all his disposals and rethink his role.

Id keep Campbell if we can’t find a ruck forward . Billing’s yes delist I’d have a look at Culley? Trade Spargo Laurie, yes but don’t think we’d get much Be open to trade JVR. Be open to trade Salem

For mine, the most pressing need is to find support for Max to extend the career of the greatest ruckman the game has seen. Campbell was good recruiting as an injury back up but we need a ruck forward .

Well he can only run in a straight line at any speed- just a fact, so you would think the backline but May Turner Lever is working well.

I would keep Th I’ve thought the same for a long time . Is he contracted?

Shine the back of your shoes too, son.

Thanks Biff Part of our best interstate raid ever. Spalding and Viney

Nate caddy type for sure. I’ll go back a long way and say a bloke we had around 87. Forgot first name , Dean. What I was trying to say with JVR is he can become one of those four or so players we are short and we already have him.

Hate Collingwood but they are a bloody good side. We lost by one point . I feel we are just a couple of players short. Either a key forward or a tall half forward and a mid with good kicking. Doesn’t have to be one who gets 30 kicks a game Very buoyed with Bowey and Turner this year and the promise show from the young guys. JVR can become a long term player if tried In backline. A junior backs who got big responsibility forward at a young age and then pushed into the ruck has damaged his development. It’s over to the recruiters to find 2-3 new players to vie for senior spots next year.

Today was the day. Hard to get enthusiasm now. Is Salem giving us anything? Langford needs rest Laurie in for 4 weeks

Agree on Jeffo if he’s fully committed to getting stronger.

I could be totally wrong but it looks like our players just do not value the opportunity to kick a goal. I think it’s something in you from a young age. I recall having plenty of ordinary junior games but if I got the chance to kick a goal I mostly kicked them even it it was with a soft and ugly punt kick on a windy day. It doesn’t matter what kick you use or how it looks. How often do our players get perfect drop punt backspin and the ball goes straight but misses. Check out Peter Hudson’s style. The game has changed but nothing has changed when you have the ball in hand 40 metres out.

That’s a better team.

My thought exactly. Can anyone name one player who’s hands you wanted the ball in in the last quarter.

The only thing missing yesterdays was the commentators saying if you font come to play , anyone can beat you. I’ve been pretty calm with Oliver situation but currently would have him outside top 100 players.

Fair enough. Just think commentators are talking him up a bit. Langford is likely tired.

Give away the soccer balls at training. Is this the only sport in the world where some professional [censored] limits time spent of the most important aspect of winning. Forwards practicing goal kicking.

Type of player I disliked playing with. Lot of possessions but never found a man. Plenty like that in Junior footy. They win all the awards and get drafted without any one caring or noticing they can’t kick or take an overhead mark. Happy to be proven wrong but again today he had an opportunity to make a valuable kick and he couldn’t do it.

Agree he’s not a problem, just not convinced he’s as good as commentators talk. Think Windsor better but destroying him at half back.

Lindsay, I’m not convinced Laurie, just as predicted Lever, what about McDonald Kozzie, in another headspace Johnson, Victoria Football League Oliver, not top 100

Spit on,

Interesting and yes disability amongst younger people is in the rise, that said I can point to a number of guys from school who in hindsight, clearly had a undiagnosed disability, Dipper being one of them but he turned it to his advantage with a single minded approach . Could have easily been all over for him before he got going though.