Deecisive

playing at geelong as usual is a big hurdle for any visiting side. We seem to always cop Geelong home games. It seems to be a bit like playing in eagleland. Crowd is onsided and the umpires bow their wishes. A lot of poor free kick decisions many going the cats way. Not that it would have changed the results it just would have made our loss a little fairer, and possibly not quite so bad.

too many players did not contribute either through effort or lack of skill May 6 disposals - 50% disposal efficiency, so essentially he probably turned it over or did nothing with half of his possessions. frost 7 disposals at a healthy 85.7% efficiency Oscar 8 possessions at 62.5% lockhart 6 possessions at 50% Kolodjashnij 5 possessions at 80% Jetta 8 possessions but was trying all night Sparrow 8 possessions at 25% Neal-Bullen 9 possessions at 44% while harmes racked up 24 possessions it was at 45.8% efficiency Salem 23 possessions at 52.2% efficiency i would be giving quite a few a rest next week with Casey to try to find some form, or guts. - frost - lockhart - Kolodjashnij - sparrow - neal bullen - petracca - Jones also tempted to leave Weiderman and Oscar out.

yes it is wet, just look at how poorly geelong is going in the same conditions. We have too many passengers, players not chasing, geelong players running around us because if we even both to try to tackle they just step around us. McDonald cannot be the player he was last year because the ball is firstly not getting down the forward line too often and when it does he is usually up the field trying to push it down to a lone petracca, who is sadly losing every contest either by being outplayers or [censored] poor skill errors. Jones and weiderman have been fumbling everything that came their way. Does not look good though we did seem to recover a little in the last half of that quarter. still all in all a woeful performance from a team that wants to play finals football, without doing the hard yards.

wow what a terrible team effort, hard to find any player i would say played well all day. total lack of running as port transitioned across the ground left player after player free for them to run the ball down the ground. Where was our game plan to address this. Where were our players? where was our defensive game? we were luckly to not lose by a lot more. can see we may be winless after the first 5 games at least on this form. how do we go into games like this with players with no form.I know its the start of the season but nothing in todays performance to suggests we will get anywhere near the 8 this year.

disappointing effort that quarter. so many players not in the game at all. need to life big time to win this against a pretty ordinary team in port.

poor first half, on the positive side we have a lot of players who have the potential to lift. disappointing in the way we let port run the ball out of defence, surely this is not our gameplan.

Disappointed with the lack of chase at times, tigers repeatedly ran it out of defence into attack with very little pressure. a flattering scoreline without a doubt, but not that bad result considering we are missing a lot of players.

another way for the big clubs to snare the players they want

field kicking was not overly great either....

i would like to see the dees go back to having two ruckman on the ground one resting in the forward pocket and one on the ball and have them rotate more regularly between these two positions. as both max and preuss can mark the ball and i think preuss may be a better kick than max.

I really like the look of this guy he holds his ground and palms to his players, one problem I have always seen with Gawn's fantastic ruck work is that he does have trouble with more physical ruckman like grundy who push him off centre. I think Prueuss is a great get. I particularly liked his highlights where he kicked a 60m goal off one step. This guy has talent.

time to walk away from the freo negotiations. leave them to chase us if they have something substantial and acceptable to the club. Talk to GCS about how we can facilitate getting May across to the dees without Freo's pick. If freo eventually come back with a decent offer we could spend that on an early draft pick. Personally i am not a great hogan fan, he has enormous potential that he is just not harnessing, he gets lazy around contests and is not a noted chaser or tackler. Yet he has kicked a big bag of goals, so his upside is huge. May is a reasonably good backman i doubt he is going to get much better. so i see we are likely to be the looser out of any deal.

What north want to give us draft picks as well?

see if tyson wants to go to the GCS and put forward next years 1st round draft pick for May and maybe another 2nd rounder. see if that floats. and if Jessie goes and we get a couple of nice early draft picks, then bonus.

I like the idea of another tall, we got towelled up by Mason Cox because we had no one tall enough to stand and compete with him. Prius may give us that option. He may also allow us to play Gawny forward a little more, either standing in the goal square or a decoy to worry the opposition's defence.

a disappointing end to a reasonably good year. I had hoped we could win to then have a show down with Collingwood for the Granny. Unfortunately the A team decided to stay at home. Our poor kicking for goal in the first half did not help. So many passengers, Eagles chipped it around all day long then went long and our guys could not keep their feet or lay proper tackles. Very disappointed that a lot of players just could not get themselves up for today. Time to talk trade, I really dont know if Tyson is worth keeping, too many mistakes and turn overs. Lewis had a mare and a half, turn over after turn over. Max was well held and our midfield in the first half was virtually unsighted. Thankfully the westcoast took their foot off the pedal so we could get a little respectability into an insipid performance.

what a lot of crap, our coach and players are saying they were ok with the free. They were just trying to be nice and not [censored] the powers to be off. the rules were wrongly interpreted and when has someones leg been more important than someones head. Angas got hit high and the umpires called it wrong. needs to clarify this to the men in white that if a player is already on the ground and opposition players trips over him it should not be a free.

i like the idea of kingy talking up the eagles, keep it up, i would rather they underestimate us, now that they have a couple of their stars back, i want them thinking they have this in the bag, home crowd, home umpires all that sort of thing. We showed we can pants them over there so when we start to hit the score board i want to see them doubt themselves. We may not win by as much as we did last time but i think we have the talent to beat them.

a great game, this teams intensity over the last 6 weeks or so has been amazing. Their tackling intensity, backing each other up has been first-rate. Angus had a hard tag on him all night, but when we got the ball into his hands he really propelled us into attack. Trac really needs to fix his kicking, has a lovely long kick but some of his passes just gave the ball back to our opponents. If he can fix that part of his game he will really move up a grade. A lot of players down on form and stats last night, it has been a long 6 weeks or so, week off or not. But we still won well. Another tough win which is great preparation for taking on the weagles next week with their very loud home crowd. Umpiring was not great last night, again good pre for what we can expect against the weagles. I hope the team keeps focused and does not ahead of themselves as we have in the past. One week at a time, and make each one count. Lastly Jetta, Viney, McDonald, Oliver and Gawndog were all truly awesome one again.

we will win this regardless of the umpires.

yes free agency favours the top clubs, it also penalises everyone else, as the suns will get another early draft pick as compensation which pushes our first pick even higher, then add in all of the other free agent compensations we continue to get pushed higher in the draft pecking order. The bottom clubs get a junior when then need more seasoned players, like the ones they are losing. So not a fan of the current solution. players are finding it too easy to break contracts, and even ordinary players can get offered ridiculous sums of money to play with north, saints, etc.. I hope lynch going to Richmond starts a few of their players thinking about how much they are getting paid and want to move to equal out the competition.

AVB is a fantastic tackler, i wonder how he would go on garryAblett for a couple of quarters.

the only concern i have with going after lever is that we will be paying him big $'s, then in the next few years we will have others throwing big $'s at Hogan and Trac, Hunt, etc. which means we have to offer them big $'s to keep them.

i thought one of the articles said that lever had been on $300k and the crows had offered him more but he still saw this as a low ball price.

we start paying big $'s to get or even try to lure kelly then we will start to see our better young player holding out for more $'s too eventually which will see them poached by other teams. We need to have a team we can afford, and we need a team that can play together, just having individuals that can play well is not as good as having a solid team.