Ted Lasso

Looked fantastic, thought he was our best player last night, can see him having a very good year,

Brett Kirk is still a good chance.

the thing is people need to not consider that we lost and go back and watch us play last year and contrast the difference, we have improved out of sight, but it was always going to be hard to kick a winning score last night.

Not totally against it, Carlton were better under Ratten than they are under Malthouse.

I reckon that's because of Spencer, don't remember one really good piece of ruckwork, thought he was pretty average.

we generated 12-13 genuine goal scoring opportunities without our key forwards, smashed them in disposals, it was the injury to Tommy causing the burst from Roo and our indecision, poor decision and finishing that cost us, not a massive error in our structure, and not a lack of effort on our part which is a big step forward

Dissapointing that Trenners faded out of the game just as it was on the line

We should have cleared the entire 50 out and left him alone down there, if they outnumbered him it would have left us free numbers to set up for a longer shot at goal, if it was 1 on 1 i'd back him to beat anyone in their side at least 50% of the time

I reckon Howe Gawn and Pederson will be our targets up forward Byrnes out for Blease Viney needs to come in and we need alot more out of Cross

Out played, if we missed just the easy shots we would have beaten them by 5 goals and 100 plus touches, i hate that we lost but i am thrilled with the difference since last year, the effort for four quarters was very solid.

How that Matt Jones chase down of Gilbert wasn't holding the ball i will never know, should reward amazing efforts like that.

Bit hard on Matt Jones I reckon, he was very good in the second half.

Seriously? Salem vs Dunstan... if we had taken dunstan at pick 9 demonland would have gone into meltdown.

i'm not fussed if he signs or leaves at this point, he is a leader of our club and rather than wait for someone else to set a direction he likes he could try setting one himself, he could have read the situation in the 3rd himself and said okay, Tommy mc is struggling i better stop their only forward Roo from taking uncontested marks, he is our backline leader they need to think on their feet.

He worked very hard to provide a handball out of the stoppages, ran his guts out and showed plenty to me, but then there is demonland standards i suppose.

You're a clown, we haven't seen Salem play, i know very knowledgeable people who rate his much higher than those two, even higher than Josh kelly.

Last year we would have lost that by 10 goals, we have definitely improved.

6: Jack Watts ( everything he touched turned to gold, reckon he is about to show us why he was a pick 1.) 5: Nathan Jones ( was absolutely everywhere and busted his gut.) 4: Bernie Vince ( if he kicked straight he could have had 30 touches and four goals) 3: Dom Tyson ( made mistakes but 32 touches and a goal and we have a gem on our hands) 2: Lynden Dunn ( was super impressed, his kicking was a real highlight ) 1: Matt Jones ( that chase down of Gilbert, looked very zippy and clean )

I said early in the week i felt it was our game to lose, and after watching the game i still don't feel as though we were outplayed, we have improved so much but it's impossible to win games if you don't kick straight, skill errors can be forgiven, missing the amount of shots we did tonight is the reason we aren't singing the song right now. very happy with how a few of our boys played, Jack Watts looked like a Superstar, Vince is a huge pickup, Toumpas and Trengove were impressive, Nathan Jones looks even better if that was possible.

How hard does Toumpas work! put his head over the ball a few times too! can see this kid proving alot of people wrong!

ROOSY!?!?!?!?

Lions giving the hawks abit of a scare atm although i don't think the Hawks have gone out of first gear yet, just cruising really.

You just need to hear the way the defenders talk about Jade to know that the bloke can coach.

if we win well tonight and the boys are full of confidence i have no doubt we are capable of seriously pushing Carlton, GWS and GC, other side of the coin is if we lose tonight we could be in for a very long season

agree 100% if we go from Roos to a bad coach all the good work goes out the window, Clarkson is the one i'd chase