Ted Lasso

Must admit i am very suprised ANB hasn't cracked a senior game yet, he seems to get to the top of the cue and someone else gets picked over him, must be incredibly frustrating.

I do think there are certain moves that have been made that probably don't give us the best chance of winning games now but may help in the future. Roosy loves playing guys like Brayshaw, Oliver and Petracca on absolute jets, let them learn first hand. wouldn't be surprised if Clayton plays a good bit of game time on gaz this weekend

Interesting listening to Drew Petrie saying he thinks we have the best clearance midfield in the AFL at the moment and that's where we're going to have a huge advantage this week. hard to believe coming up against a midfield with Gary Ablett and Dion prestia in it

Really interested to see how the Suns respond, 120 point smashing, 2 hour honesty sessions where everyone had serious questions asked of them, even guys who probably thought they were untouchable. I personally think they'll sook and we'll give them a touch up by 10 goals. i think it's as simple as if we stop Tom Lynch, we win. Tom Mcdonald is good enough to do it, [censored] the zone, just get him to shadow him all day.

I don't think we're in a position where we have any players who aren't tradable if the right offer comes along, It would have to be a bloody good deal before i'd even entertain thinking about it, He makes mistakes but he's an absolute jet of a defender who still has a heap of development in him and i firmly believe that by as early as next season he will be the best CHB in the league. It is also a non issue because he's deep into contract talks with the club so he won't be going anywhere.

So many of these deals happen long before they are announced, the clubs use them as a marketing tool, especially with big name players like Vince and Tommy Mac.

Well, that's curtains on his season.

It certainly seems that way, i'm just not sure why, these blokes are missing a year of their career on the back of this club letting them down. I'd walk first chance i got.

Must be good for guys like Rance who have just signed long term contracts to hear the club itself doesn't actually think they can win a flag with this list, no doubt they were telling him the opposite last year when they were desperate for him to re-sign. Imagine Roosy, Goody and PJ sitting down with Jesse Hogan and saying they were going to take short cuts that would make us very unlikely to win a flag because they didn't think the supporters would be willing to wait for a re-build

There were definitely moments of frustration in that period but to my knowledge, what was done was done poorly but with the right intentions, this Richmond situation is different, tanking to get draft picks to build a premiership list imo is much better than building a list that they don't think can get them any higher than 8th.

Well... a team that's list management stratergy wasn't to give them the best chance of winning a premiership, sounds like everyone involved should be sacked, i'd be fuming if i contributed money to a club with that attitude and lack of respect for it's members.

Would you re-sign with Essendon after what they did? I'd refuse on that alone, even before you consider the state of the list and so on.

I felt yesterday was as much a result of our lack of speed and ability to stick with opponents as anything else, we didn't get back in numbers so the zone was awful. One thing with Clarko is people talk about how good they are in attack, and rightfully so, but they're also a brilliant defensive team. we've heard Goody talk about how much he values contest and defense, the contested side i think we're fine, we're going to compete with every side in that area right now and we are going to improve a lot there when guys like Petracca, Brayshaw, Oliver and Trengove get into form and into the side. right now we're not getting the balance right, our attack is infinitely better than he has been in a long time and we are kicking 100 plus points without relying on Hogan which is a huge improvement and allowing us to be more enjoyable to watch, but we are also leaking goals pretty heavily to do so.

I wonder if we still had Martin would Gawn have had the opportunity to develop the way he has? it would be handy to have Stef back now, but extremely happy with Gawn who i'd consider to be the second best ruckman going around, only just behind Goldy

i wouldn't mind seeing Hunt go out for Trengove, and him playing off half back, we lose a little run but he's a beautiful kick of the ball, a fantastic endurance hard runner and has some footy smarts, i think he could play the role Cross did last year and be a steadying influence off half back Oliver is clearly super important as a clearance player and i'd bring him back in and the other is Stretch, he brings effort and run! one of him or ANB needs to play this week. Outs: Harmes Hunt and maybe Kennedy?

compared to the 100% of games the Dockers have been [censored] in, plus they have to spend hours on a plane just to get belted.

Would be wanting serious coin. I'd be nearly as tempted by Dyson Heppell.

The skills in this game are soooooo bad! it's like Essendon has put Mark Neeld in charge and Carlton are just being carlton

We haven't found the balance, which i suspect comes on the back of the players being confused as much as anything else. Our offensive ball movement and ability to score is now at an acceptable level and that's great, but we're neglecting defense to do it, we only see to be able to get one of offense and defense right which is why we can now kick big scores and win games, but we aren't smashing them, we keep leaking easy goals.

I agree to a point that the coaches didn't do enough, but it's really hard for them when the players just aren't running hard enough, the Saints totally outworked us, they killed us on transition with speed and skills and we didn't work hard enough to put pressure on, just gave up and let them move it easily.

They wouldn't beat a few of the VFL sides at the minute. they're disgusting

I thought Petracca showed signs, especially considering how badly the side played. I'd definitely keep him in the side, though i 100% agree Oliver should never have missed this game, he's already very important to our setup

Tigers are in a world of hurt and i think they're going to have to make a move on Dimma sooner rather than later, they expected to be competing for a premiership this year and they'll be fortunate if they aren't bottom four the way things are looking at the moment. I think they should Sack Dimma and get a whole new coaching panel in, begin a full re-build Trade guys like Lids, Maric and co to get some first round draft picks. they still have Rance, Cotchin and Rewoldt who they can build a young team around. Lids would be a fantastic get for a team in contention and probably worth a decent pick. Maric would be handy at the MFC to give us some ruck depth

He's playing a role, he's pretty accountable, hard at the contest, leading our side for tackles and he's getting under the oppositions skin, his role last week was huge in the win

Having calmed down a little i don't think there will be any huge amount of changes. Harmes and Frost orPederson out Oliver and ANB in I still think we're playing with one to many tall forwards, Hogan, Frost/Pederson and Watts is fine Might seem extreme but i think Kent should be on notice, some weeks he's great and provides a lot, today he was nothing but a passanger, we aren't good enough to carry anyone.