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Someone told me Garland played on with a bad ankle as Dunn had hurt his groin & hardly played. I heard Simon mention Dunn but not Col. Can anyone confirm or deny for me? Cheers

Tom's been doing plenty of this in the real stuff mate, I wish it was limited to just the nab cup. That Viney thread was a disgrace though, not all of us participated in that crap.

People bringing Dunn into the equation or comparing other players within our structure are idiots. All NAB we have been experimenting others doing the kicking in, Dunn played about 20 minutes last week & hardly played as he had a groin issue this week. T Mac flat out cost us goals directly. Harmes did it too, but with T Mac it's becoming the norm. No point comparing players in different roles, how bout we look at how many other CHB's around the league butcher the ball as bad as Tom has been since the collingwood game when he got torn up by cloke in last year? I watch a fair amount of footy each week as I know a lot of you guys here do to, & the frustrating thing about Tom is for every good thing he does he kills us with his kicking. Weekly. Come on, which other CHB turns it over as often & as badly as Tom. Yes he can run all day & has shown he can be very very good defensively but he's been in a ba funk with the ball in his hands for a long time now.

I agree dazzle and have a feeling it's all in between the ears for him. Even at his best kicking isn't his strong suit, I think he wants to be a star before he has become consistent. Needs to know his limitations & play accordingly, then he'll be a solid player who could become a very good one. As for rawlings, give me a break, he's been a good line coach with limited resources. A player who's been around this long needs to take responsibility for his actions.

Ben Ken very selfish there.

On the end of some very good work.

Absolutely telling. If next week is a best 22 for round one, I really can't see Frost getting a run, unless they 'rest' T. Mac & make him spend 2 weeks on his kicking.

Pedders can ruck! Those who say he can't should open your eyes.

As I said earlier, we'll win this but not pretty at all. I'll take the win, but geez, we are directly responsible for 80% of their score!!

Have all our skills sessions been indoors this pre season?!? Wtf? We have the wind coming home, I expect us to win this still but not in impressive fashion.

McDonald should be banned from kicking. Ever.

Can add jetts & Tyson to the list of blokes who need to get much cleaner.

Turnovers from really really poor skills.

I'm an unabashed Garland fan, but boy oh boy..... He'd wanna lift. Not that I see an obvious replacement, maybe white or lumumba once their fit & find form.

And then he screws a kick. I like the Vince off the other half back idea a lot!

I agree he won't play round 1, Pedo forward & others defensively are way ahead. But he should be given time given the layoff, not his fault several here are expecting more from him than he's ready to provide no?

Oliver not just an in & under!!

Sorry, all those draft permutations confused me. I like the look of him. Oh well.

That's a fair point.

T Mc & Garland have butchered it more. I don't really want to name kids, but Kennedy, Hunt & Harmes will wanna improve ball use too.

Frost looks like a lost athlete to me, not a natural footballer.

I'd be looking at several others first on today's performance.

Disposals evened up a bit that qtr, because of the wind, moving forward needs different approaches depending on which end IMO.

Watts again!! He's igniting us! Wow, after years of defending him & then doubting him this pre season, he's finally taking a game by the scruff!!

Absolutely. Maybe this really will be his year.