Diamond_Jim

He wont. It's not what Casey is designed for.

Wonder if the Saints will get their million plus ??

Agree but he can break lines and the zone. The coaches need to do the rest or he is gone. The obvious solution is to have a player running to space on the 70 metre line where Hunt can kick into. Think Heath Shaw... the rest of the team know what he will do from his runs and position accordingly. Does this work in the modern game.... not sure but as I said if he can't do that his use is limited

Smith ??

Wonderful story but the durian is not native to India. Let us talk further about similar fruits.... perhaps the bitter star fruit aka Carambola

I'm sure they don't. Our relevancy is probably the lowest in Victoria. We can't even play the working class underdog card available to the other also rans that make up the ten Melbourne teams.

Agree but he's the type of player we need. One who can break the zone

In a perfect world the replacement for Frost is Hunt. Backmen such as Lever mark the ball give off to Hunt who breaks the zone by running 15-20 metres and delivers to players running onto the ball. Fast and damaging transition. Pity Hunt seems to have lost his mojo

Out of interest where do Collingwood go for closed sessions? Thanks

As others have said he may be on the cusp of delivering but so far not there. On the other hand the salary cap has to be paid and the three of Oliver Brayshaw and Petracca are what we are relying on. Getting him signed for another 3 years post 2020 makes sense.

how lovely is our press... "doing a Melbourne" and the "worst team ever" in one day. Our sponsors must be over the moon.

must admit I thought the same but it has another meaning. What a wonderful learning resource DL is !!

Yes... I understand that but saying it in away designed to be publicised is just dumb (imo). It is also disrespectful to the players of that era. (Even if it's true)

Talk about trashing the brand. Might be arguable but now it will be quoted back to us for years. There's six mediocre teams and we're one of them

wow love it.... my new word........ Antinomy (Greek ἀντί, antí, "against, in opposition to", and νόμος, nómos, "law") refers to a real or apparent mutual incompatibility of two laws. It is a term used in logic and epistemology, particularly in the philosophy of Kant.

lucky you didn't see the first quarter !!

Would be interested to hear from the experts on the gameplan. Seemed that we played a more open forward line in the third quarter compared to the first. Perhaps we just went more direct. Lot of fumbled handballs going forward. If we can get the skill level up there it would be great. I noticed O Mac in the last few minutes. Was he on the ground for much of the game?

The airfares to the Alice are often the highest in Australia. I'd self book air and hotel ... the sooner the better. Often via Adelaide is a cheaper fare if the direct flights are heavily booked. For example the cheapest direct flight on Friday before the Sunday match is$400 on way.No direct flights Thursday but on Wednesday the direct flight is around $260 one way.

Before the anti Spargo brigade get going I thought that while he suffered three glaring skill errors that I can recall he was in the right place at the right time.Correct those skill errors and the Spargo we used to know is back. Langdon looks likely but his hairstyle makes him easy to spot.

Forwardline much more open in that third quarter

Seems to me that Jones is one of our better players at present.

another coaching master class exhibited so far by our brains trust

Players may be a little better this year particularly Petracca but our gameplan still stinks

Indian police are pretty good on the very few occasions I have interacted. Have been here several times and pretty well across all the scams. Made Cairo look tame.

Hi from the Pink city of Jaipur Traffic has stopped here and the local population awaits with bated breath the commencement of this epic game. According to google translate there are many words for demons in Hindi but let us say they will all soon be chanting..... GO APADUTA !!