Sydee

I may be wrong on this but thought in the old VFA comp it was 16 per side with no wings ?

looks like one of those clowns at Luna Park you shove table tennis balls into

Declase played quite well - he looked good with ball in hand my query on him would be how hard he works when he hasn't got it. Physically could play AFL and has the skills Rosman was disappointing but I think he copped a heavy knock early and didn't really recover. Having said that no way he is ready for senior games - he needs another pre-season at least and to build his strength - has potential no doubt. He needs to model his game on Isaac Smith if you ask me

In short spurts Bedford really looked great the problem with Toby is that the % of the game that he seems to be involved is quite limited. If he could somehow manage to be a consistent contributor across 4 quarters then we have something to work with. He is not in the same mold of most of our current mids IMO - he is very much an outside player and cannot be compared to Viney, Oliver, Trac, Harmes, AVB etc who are the contested ball specialists. My guess is that Toby has been told he needs to work on certain areas of his game and tick some boxes before he is invited back into the senior team Of the others mentioned Chandler - A fair way down the pecking order in that small / speed forward category Bowey - Great skills , football brain, very good at picking the best option and delivering with precision. Has a future but no idea what his final position will be. He sort of reminds me of a faster version of Spargo as both rarely waste possessions Lockhart - Solid and is very brave, injury interrupted season probably hasn't helped his case - worth persisting with IMO as a replacement small defender

Not a player but Swooper Northey used to live a few doors down the road when he was coaching the Dees and I'd occasionally chat to him - used to walk my dog with his wife and daughter at the local park as we had the same dog breed (Dobermans) Swoop wasn't much of a dog walker !

The number of blatant throws that were not paid yesterday was amazing - so much so I started to focus on where the umpires were relative to contested ball

Feeling good about a pie win - just doesn’t seem right ?

5 min to go

Pies out to 15 pt lead - Dumbwick want be happy - I like it ?

Bang - just hit the lead

Now 3 points down

He has shown enough to suggest he will be a very good player in a season or two Sydney pressure was MFC alike when we are on - not an easy debut

Agree has been v v good

He was very quiet - I think he may have taken a reasonable knock at one stage and maybe that had an impact He almost took a big mark but other than that I don't remember him really doing much at all - not sure what his game time actually was but I'd say pretty limited

great run 4 bounces from Baker then delivery to Ellison who goals and he has six - game over 116-57

Tigers goal 110-56

Another for Ellison he has 5 now 109-49

Long Bomb outside 50 to Sparrow for a goal 103-49

Tigers goal 97-49

Fairly typical - some good some not so good just fails to take some chances

Wing

Ellison another now has 4 95 - 40

Excellent run and carry from Declase then pass to Ellerson who goals 85-40

Weid hands a goal to Ellerson 79 - 40

Tigers goal 72-40