Ted Lasso

I was told Salem and Kelly were clearly the two best mids in the draft last year, said Salem could have 20 touches and seriously impact a game he is that damaging and Kelly just runs his opponents off their legs.

How good is that contest between Kent and Ellard! i really think kent will develop into a hard inside/outside onballer.

I think for the moment Frawley playing forward is the best thing for everyone, it's giving us a chance to see what a defence without frawley would look like should he leave and based on yesterday i'd say he has the capacity to be a more than capable CHF for us, his speed is a real asset, between he, Dawes and Hogan we have three very different and dangerous talls, throw Watts and Howe down there and it's a nightmare for defensive sides.

Okay yeah if terlich is out i'd bring clisby in and let Garland get some touch in the 2's for a week or 2

I really can't understand how/why Watts is copping so much, he is only 4 games into being a midfielder and he looks fantastic with ball in hand which is what he is there for, he also had 4 tackles yesterday which i'm not sure what he normally does but i feel is perfectly acceptable. he is only going to get better.

No changes from me, i can't see any inclusion besides Garland that's good enough to demand a spot right off, consistant VFL form and hoping someone plays a couple of shockers at AFL level to get dropped

The Carlton fans reminded me a lot of some of our supporters last year, Booing the players and coach, i reckon Mick is going to come under serious review as hard as that is to believe when you consider the calibre of coach.

Might have been the first goal we kicked i was very close at the ground and he had a massive smile from ear to ear, really seemed to be enjoying his footy

Shame he didn't play today, might have had an unfortunate run in with Jack (the bulldozer) Viney.

when the ball was within 10 meters of Marc Murphy he seemed to get a free kick, protected species and a half that bloke and he still got absolutely embarrassed by Chunk Jones

to be fair both Watt's shots today were very easy, but i agree he is a good kick

I think this is a big part of it, we needed another tall target up forward, but normally you'd move Tom Mcdonald and leave your best defender down back, but i think helping Chip enjoy his footy is also part of the ploy to get him to stick around

I reckon we turned a corner against the Tigers, pushed the cats finishing cost us against the saints when i think we were the better side, West Coast touched us up but look a seriously good offensive team probably beat GWS besides a concentration lapse in the last quarter, put Dawes in that side and i reckon we fall over the line and win tonight, could easily have been 3 and one and we play, Gold Coast, Adelaide, Swans and the dogs, potentially a couple of wins out of that lot i reckon.

After playing in our last win before tonight.

Pick 18 mate.

Nathan Jones ranked 109 in the AFL player rankings absolutely destroys Marc murphey ranked 28 as well as collecting BOG honours again, shows just how underrated our skipper is

6. N.Jones ( simply inspirational 5. Frawley ( created plenty of opportunities, could easily have nailed 4-5 ) 4.Dawes ( not statistically, but man did he make a difference ) 3. Grimes ( lead well, always gives 100% 2. Mcdonald ( lead the backline well ) 1. Bail. ( worked his ass off.)

The most pleasing thing is this was an effort based win, very well done lads!

Mick is going to kill someone in his presser!!!

Big call but i reckon Nathan Jones would have a few brownlow votes up at this point, inc 3 for today which he is battling chip for.

Probably would have been Scharenberg for abit of height

that's true, Stone did say we would go with Chip and Dunn forward again.

I am fully aware of how bad we have been but Carlton haven't been much better, they only game they even got close in was against Richmond who don't look any better than GWS and Stkilda to me, i'm not sure us sitting at $6 to win is fair i reckon we should be more $3

Nathan Jones to dominate out of the middle, James Frawley to keep his opponent goalless and provide good run, Dawesy to take a couple go good contested marks and show the team how to kick straight and Howe to take a speaky at some stage.

It's also important to consider that Dunstan is not the other person in this trade, he went pick 18 if we took Kelly would would have missed out on him anyway, It's Tyson/Salem vs Kelly/Leslie