Diamond_Jim

You may be right but Dogs have Port and Hawthorn to come. Neither is an easy game. On probability alone... Essendon and ourselves are the favourites but we all know what can happen to favourites Going to be another long week

Hannan... 5 kicks... 4 hand balls One tackle As I said the two goals in the last saved his game Weid and Wagner were woeful

Gus...yes The others....Nope Keeping Pederson in was a good move and Hannan saved his game with those two goals but otherwise was ineffective

Well we now have some tarmac on this track. Two more "season defining" games to go. Looking forward to all the ladder predictors. Go Dees

My two big measures for success this year were beating the Saints and North. One out of two ain't bad but .... well you know what I mean

I like Jake

one more quick one......... so I can enjoy the last 10 mins please

lucky they did not kick straight or it would be all over: 4goals 7 behinds to the Saints

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm not looking as good as it was why can't we ever win easy

Our hit out and clearance numbers are seriously down This was supposed to be one of our strengths

Perhaps that should be on the banner tomorrow... it has a certain resonance

Lovely term ..."spiritual sequel" but surely that title must be reserved for losing to the Bears after we have beaten the Saints and is Collingwood where we meet our virtual Waterloo (appropriate seeing Collingwood was the 2iC Admiral to Nelson at Trafalgar).

getting better

not really .... the teams performance in recent weeks has been well below par

Adelaide doing the right thing so far .... keep it up A cool day in Berlin which is a change from the heatwave of last week which they christened the Lucifer Heatwave Somehow appropriate for a Dees supporter

my sense of deja vu is returning Win tomorrow...get beaten in the "easy one" by the Lions and then get pummeled by Collingwood in the irrelevant game Shades of the end to our 2016 campaign

Would love to see the business case for a Gold Coast team. The only plus that I can see is weekly live TV match and media coverage in Qld. It will never be cash flow positive but then again there are probably only 6-8 teams that are. As each week goes by the more convinced I am that this money would be better spent in Tasmania. A 35k indoor stadium funded by the Feds (a la Geelong) would be packed.... not to mention a vote winner

what's that song too much, too little, too late..............

35k... maybe a few k more The last few weeks have derailed the bandwagon somewhat

Agree... let's see him back on the park before we get excited

Strangest selections of the whole year. None of the ins are screaming for a spot and the outs are notional best 22 except for another one game experiment in Maynard. Pederson over Watts ???... Weid has played a few good quarters at VFL level ...note I said quarters not games Brayshaw.... two games after how many weeks out... around 10

This week's selections have certainly seen a change in the direction of our path. Fingers crossed it does not lead us to a cul de sac

Fascinating discussion ...keep it up. Traditionally the quick kick out of the centre to the leading forward was the most effective play. Is this plan really any more effective? I suppose you get better controlled delivery but it seems to come at the cost of a more crowded forward line.

Our accurate kicking last week against GWS hid to some extent what was a woeful scoring performance. As you say it has been the norm for several weeks. Perhaps our structures need to change

Other than Hannan name me one player from regular VFL team who has retained his place?