Pirlo

Shallow means lack of depth, rather than weak at the top. I think its a good deal, provided we pick hard players that can kick or one of those and a key forward prospect.

Goddard was pretty bad in his first few years, IIRC.

I always point to what Garland did in 2013 when Frawley went down with a pec (?) and Dunn was still a hack forward. He played a traditional CHB role and absolutely monstered a bunch of power forwards. He is a competitive animal, a good leader, and very versatile. His kicking lets him down sometimes, but only because we know he can do better than TMac does. Truth be told, and I have said this for years, he needs to be playing tall to get the most out of himself. Than again, how good is it having a guy who can comfortably take bigs and smalls with minimum fuss? Delighted he has signed, he reminds me of a slightly better Michael Firrito and he's played 250+ and counting.

I think we need some quality midfield depth at the top-end, and then you might be right. Doesn't surprise me that Howe and maybe Watts/Grimes are tradebait. Get picks, turn picks into good mature players. Maybe even get a couple of late teen/early 20 picks and trade six instead?

Only relevant point there is exonerating Dean, but even he is now seen as having been a nice bloke whose hand was forced and that narrative is fine by me.

He got 39 touches against Freo in Perth!

"Not offered a new deal by the club". Well done Roosy and co...

Cross is 100% not the problem when it comes to leadership. His body is failing him now, so hopefully he can reinvent himself one last time. The leadership shown by Jones, Vince, Garland, Garlett, Dunn etc. was deplorable, absolutely no movement off the ball and completely silent. Thought Grimes, McDonald and Dawes were the only three experiences players who moved and tried to make things happen though only the latter played particularly well. Most concerning thing for me is that the young players are picking up some of the habits. Brayshaw gave up running a lot yesterday, Hogan has a strop when things aren't going perfectly, Stretch and ANB shied away from taking responsibility when we needed them to. Its systematic and its concerning.

Which one? Think Matt has been good, Nathan terrible.

23 goals in 14 games. Not exactly much to crow about. Very middling.

That was necessary. Forget about the first 5 mins, lets get going.

Our players think its opposite day.

The week that I finally sat a game out/wanted to give up...

What on earth is happening. The intensity is the best since I think Geelong or Richmond.

Nobody is suggesting that Roos is a bad coach. I still rate him as the best in the business with the off-field stuff and his personal work with the players, but its his game day coaching that has me concerned. We're not versatile in the slightest, and don't win games unless the other team plays into our hands.

I'm beginning to wonder whether Roosy didn't want to return to coaching because he was afraid of being found out on game day.

Probably sums up his attitude. DGAF that he stuffed up too many times in the last quarter, and completely blew his chance to win us the game and make an impact. Bad weekend? You'd hope so. Honestly, don't mind players going out but they are taking the [censored] by getting plastered and putting it all over Instagram.

I'm as big a fan of his as any, but sometime you need to put your foot down and say that his attitude isn't good enough. Problem is he knows he has us by the balls, because he can leave and we need him to stay. Also, we beat Geelong without him.

It was the only good coaching decision of the game. McDonald has been defending hopelessly but was good at running in straight lines and structuring up the f50.

Tyson too. Sometimes a players attitude is just unacceptable.

Just at a guess, I'd assume we saw a huge boost with Schwab and Bailey's rebuild and all its promise, then a huge spike when it failed. That would have been followed by a small rise and small fall after the Neeld fiasco. Last season we would have gotten a fair few signing up just for Roos, and when it turned out we wouldn't just come good for nothing - it fell away again. Don't fool yourself into thinking that the NT/Casey have been ineffectual. Of the 30,000 odd who signed up nine years ago, I'd wager that very few remain. As said earlier, the fact that we have remained consistent is huge. IMO, it has to do with replenishment. FYI: We get $500k from the NT government every game we host. That partnership is in place to cover for the memberships that don't get bought.

How about that - I hate the Blues again! Lovely fans who take the time out of celebrating to boo the last kick of the game, and bronx it when it hit the post.

When 20 touches and 5 tackles becomes the expectation, as it is with all inside mids, we'll see how he stands up. I want to believe, but I've been scarred by a succession of players who look good with no expectations and then fall away. Evans, Nicholson, Terlich, MJones the recent examples.

Listen to what Patrick says and remember that the next time you feel inclined to say that Adam Goodes doesn't know what racism is.

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