Demon Jack

For those interested, Maxy (alongside Jordan Dawson) is currently leading the AFL's Brownlow predictor with 14 votes... He's put together an unreal 5-6 weeks of footy after a patchy start.

6. Melksham 5. Gawn 4. Oliver 3. Bowey 2. Pickett 1. Petracca

I continue to be impressed with Bowey's rapid rise this season. Many could argue that he gets a lot of easy ball with his role but there were several occasions where he put his body on the line. Went at 86% DE as well.

I think he took Fort by surprise several times with his aggression and strength in the ruck. Loved his goal as well! He'll never be an out and out star but I can see him being a handy player for us.

Lindsay's second half was huge.

We probably should've won that by 4-5 goals with how dominant we played in that finally quarter. We kicked 4.8 for the quarter.

Fritsch needs to bring that effort consistently. That's the standard now. Great cameo as sub. Melksham was unreal. Gawn's late clunks were huge.

🚨 🚨 Kingsley Alert 🚨 🚨 Darcy Gardiner with four goals having only kicked 9 in his career which started in 2014.

Why is a 33 year old, injury prone Jake Melksham our only forward who actually launches at the ball when going for a mark? Everyone else tentatively stands there waiting for the ball to come to them? Nice goal Riv

I think Laurie has been unfairly judged at AFL so far. It's hard to get a good read on a player at the top level when they've played more than half of their games as the sub.

Unfortunately, with the lack of a first round pick this year, the only way I see this getting done is through the loss of one of Pickett/Oliver/Petracca. Hopefully our trading team have a few creative solutions in mind that don't involve the loss of any of the above.

Future cult hero alert with a name like that.

Happy if this comes to fruition. Not so happy if we have to give up Pickett as part of the deal.

He's putting out ok numbers at Casey. Had 25 touches and 10 tackles last weekend.

I would dearly love Jesse Hogan back in our forward line. However, Jesse has publicly spoken about how he's struggled with the pressure of living in an AFL dominated state. I don't think he'd be playing the football he is now if he was still at Melbourne or to a lesser extent Freo. Sydney seems to be a nice fit for him.

I'm not giving up on Matty J, not by a long shot, but it's clear like with many of our other key forwards choices over the last decade (Watts, Weideman, Schache, Fullerton), he lacks aggression and the want and desire to crash packs. I think his strength is similar to Fritsch's ('21-'23 Fritsch that is) in that he can find separation from his opponent and lead into space. This of course goes against our nonsensical game plan of 'bombing it long' and praying that someone can take a strong contested mark. Sadly, it seems like aggression is one of those traits that you can't really teach...

It's a bit of an indictment on our front half when a 19 year old first year midfielder is our most dangerous forward option. Keep on keeping on young Harvey.

I think it's a big enough sample size now (9 rounds) to suggest that fitness is clearly an issue. After 9 games, we've kicked a whopping 14 goals in our final quarters this year. 6 of those came last week against the Eagles where we still conceded five goals.

6. Langford - Did his Rising Star chances no harm 5. Gawn - Did his AA chances no harm 4. Pickett - Only player who looked consistently dangerous 3. Bowey - Continued his consistent season 2. Windsor - Starting to find his feet in '25 over the last couple of weeks 1. Petracca - Looked ok but disposal continues to frustrate

Our inability to develop a key forward post Neitz needs to be studied.

Strangely optimistic about this game which is odd because I thought we were going to get jumped by WC last weekend.

Fresh from 7News In: OIiver, JVR, Jefferson Out: Viney, Petty, Melksham Unsure why Viney and Melksham are out.

Another stunning collection! This is a gargantuan sized project. I can't imagine the work that goes into organising and editing these! Loved the inclusion of Lever's first goal with us. Not the most flashy of the bunch but extremely memorable nonetheless!

Easily the best game of Daniel Turner's career to date. 19 touches (career high) at 84% 7 marks (3 inside 50) 6 intercepts 3 goals in the 2nd half

Lindsay was quieter tonight but barely put a foot wrong. Langford is a jet. That left boot of his is class. Ashcroft aside, both are real chances for the Rising Star this year.