Sydee

The Grundy / Gawn combination is not the answer to our F50 big man deficiency IMO If LJ does decide to leave and I still hope he doesn't I really hope we don't waste whatever picks we get to secure Grundy - we must use that to get a genuine KPF even one that may take a couple of years to develop - such as Aaron Cadman Next season we must find a better combination of marking talls inside F50

The AFL are a complete and utter farce I really hope we [censored] these upstarts

I’d be asking our playing group their thoughts before I did anything

Bye rounds in the VFL aren't helping any of these guys earn a call up - same applies to JVR too FWIW I thought Jake played very well in his last VFL game but that was 2 weeks ago Don't mind the idea of including him in the team because his disposal is usually good but not sure who he replaces (love what ANB brings but he has been a little out of sorts lately - a couple of other small forwards are also under scrutiny)

I think you need to ask why things didn't work out at Freo - I have no idea and I am not going to speculate but clearly there is more to the JH story than meets the eye

I thought we were happy to let Jessie go - for reasons I am not sure However, if we were keen to let him fly why would we now want him back ?

Yes we would it’s called understanding what all our options are to optimise the outcome whether he stays or goes A meeting with Grundy doesn’t confirm anything at this stage

Gone to who and for what ?

The doors aren't high enough for LJ to step through ?

Not sure of posted elsewhere but interesting article on Fritta Melbourne Demons forward Bayley Fritsch is two games away from joining exclusive club of kicking a goal in every game of an AFL season

Lets be fair - they are doing a hell of a lot right - its an issue they need to address but being embarrassed to get paid - C'mon

Which to me suggests it is largely a mental problem - either way I hope he gets on top of this asap His mate Clarry is worse - it is the clear weakness in both their games

Just hate to be critical of Trac but geez when you are having 58 shots at goal and your going at <30% it hurts the team - hopefully he can straighten up and quick

Dogs are weak in defence and I personally can't see them really challenging until they sort that out They have plenty in reserve at the front end it seems so maybe a Naughton move if they can get a key defender in is not so impossible to contemplate He would be the perfect fit for us

Yes it was Ed Your fans are just unbelievable - never had duck for dinner

We seem to be getting hurt with quick transition. Usually our players elect to stand on the mark rather than pushing back outside 5 metres. The latter allows the player on the mark to move sideways to counter opposition players being the handball receive to break the lines. Should we be considering getting outside 5 more often to negate this ? I don't really rate the WB's but they tend to get outside 5 quickly so they don't get locked standing on the mark which pretty much renders that player useless because by the time the umpires call play on the ball has usually gone passed them

Cripps should have simply tackled Ahh Chee - his decision was to bump. It was made a lot worse by jumping off the ground and making contact with the head - no attempt to actually win the ball Has to be suspended - but we all know how flawed this system is

According to Leigh Mathews - “I suspect that’s incidental contact” LMAO 🤣

I think most of us are a bit raw still for sharing that

Think you belong in the why the Dees can’t win the flag thread

Have a look at the second half of last years GF and then tell me we are not capable of offence

I’d say he is looking at tweaks because every other team in the comp has done their homework on our strengths and a few have found a way to beat us (Collingwood being one) Normally a team will win that game with the dominance we had - we are incredibly wasteful given the number of F50 entries we have (it’s not just this game) and atm if teams are prepared to run and take risks to move the ball quickly our much lauded back six frankly look pretty [censored]