Ted Lasso

FB: Dunn Frawley Georgiou HB: Grimes McDonald Terlich C: Watts Jones Vince HF: Howe Hogan Viney FF: JKH Fitzpatrick Dawes Foll: Gawn Trengove Tyson Int: Michie, Toumpas, McKenzie, Cross S: M.jones, Barry

What i really like about the replay is you can see how dangerous Hogan, Clark and Dawes are going to be, they will love the ball in the hands of Vince, Toumpas and Watts

Have to take my hat off to George stone and Ben mathews, in one pre season we have developed a hard working, hard tackling midfield team that will be very competitive and the individual improvements are fantastic, Trengove looked alot better to me, Jones didn't have to do it all himself, Tyson looked great

Nathan Jones would be loving not being our only decent mid! JKH for rising star? next cyril rioli? getting ahead of myself?

Howe, Terlich and Dunn to become genuine guns this year

The thing i have been really impressed with is that we haven't allowed them to put more than a couple of goals on, seem to be able to stop the run on's which has been a huge problem for us

Isn't it amazing what confidence and a decent coach will do? Clark, Dawes, Hogan and Watts all to come back into this side, i bet we are better than a 2 win team now.

That actually sounds like a top plan!

Is this game televised on free to air tv?

Might sound a little bit crazy but i have a feeling Roos might work his magic on Dunn and turn him into a very good player for us, with him and greg-cant spell his name as well as mcdonald and frawley i worry the backline is too tall

Wouldn't mind seeing Dunn play forward to give us an extra target, Howe Dunn Blease King Pederson kennedy-harris

Richmond 83 def Melbourne 66 is my guess, i reckon we will be keen to showcase our defensive game, neither side has any real forward targets with jack out for them

I can't get over how much better our midfield looks on paper, i understand the war is won during games but we have so much more depth, and some real superstar potential

This is the nature of free agency, weaker sides are going to lose players chasing wins or money or both, what matters for us is that we put in 110% in trying to retain chip, if we can't we make sure our compo which i imagine would be a top 10 pick is used well, Tom Mcdonald imo will be a better player in time, but chip will be a big loss if he leaves

I think col has everything physically required to be the equal of a Mark Lecras who i consider to be an All Australian Quality player, but his best games would be that level but nowhere near often enough

Really keen to see Tyson, Toumpas and Michie, three i reckon will be guns in the middle for us for a long time.

Sorry to get off topic but how big a [censored] is barrett? never seen Tyson play... goes on a bender telling anyone who will listen how stupid we are.. i wouldn't have been upset if we swapped Tyson for pick 2, Salem looks a top 5 quality player to me as well, reckon we easily got the better of that deal but Barrett is just a bias idiot.

It will be a fairly significant drop in pay for him to return to a Melbourne based side you would imagine.

Is he a free agent?

Sylvia has amazing natural football attributes, just a horrible over entitled self absorbed attitude, Chunk isn't blessed with speed or a great leap or anything he is just an honest to got hard worker who would bleed for his club.

Col vs N.jones is a great example of how hard work trumps talent every time, N.jones isn't half as talented as Col.

Will be watching our midfield with great interest

just put talks on hold over at Freo, good chance he won't leave but i believe we should give him an offer he can't refuse, best up and coming midfield talent in the comp imo

If nothing else Jeremy howe makes a painful match up deep forward,

Oops i didn't realise that, oh well the four on my bench wouldn't change, just add Strauss and Clisby as subs