Straight Sets Simon

I swear I remember seeing him in a press conference wearing a Melbourne polo or something of that kind but then he decided to stay at West Coast.

I wrote this in 2011: There is one thing that is stopping Trengove from becoming elite and he needs to address it now. His acceleration is shocking, the first three steps are the most important, and this is the one thing that his hindering his development. Now, the status quo on here will dismiss this and ignore the fact that I do rate him highly. But, we need elite players and he won't reach elite status if this isn't addressed. He will be a very good player, possibly even a club great but we need players like him to tear games open. Trengove's Achilles Heel

Rightly so, we were so bad in that round one game. I don't care if it was meaningless or any other excuses people have thrown around, it simply highlighted that we have not improved or worked on what made us so bad in 2018.

Reduced lists won’t help with the diluted talent (which is a huge issue) only less teams will fix this.

I wouldn’t have picked him up in the Rookie Draft the year he was recruited.

I totally agree, but only because of what we saw round one, before that I was excited for footy.

I’m not not missing the AFL because of our disgusting round one performance.

Looking forward to the next article about why we never should have sacked Norm Smith.

It was only a bit over a week ago we saw him play in a game, I doubt he would have changed too much since then.

Grim.

Aaron vandenFyfe Sam Weidemiller Ed Clangdon

Still furious we delisted Shane Valenti.

I like the ads:

The one good thing to come out of last season was I switched off pretty much all AFL media and replaced with podcasts. Best decision I’ve made for a long time.

I just don’t see how it would help in the current situation. It works in US sports because the owners are all billionaires.

Simon Goodwin.

I bought a 3 game membership for someone in my family basically as a donation. Every little bit helps.

Give Gold Coast the flick, move North Melbourne to Tasmania and merge St Kilda with GWS and play them out of Canberra.

The peak of my Melbourne supporting experience were those two Friday nights. Just a week later we were brought back to hell and haven't looked like getting close to getting back out since. I love this club.

I do like Langdon but his kicks are up and under, no good trying to hit a forward on the lead.

My thoughts about the game which in the scheme of things means very little: Forward line structure, balance and movement is non-existent as per 2019 The kicking into the forward line was deplorable but the forwards weren't helped by the structure and constantly being outnumbered I almost died of laughter when West Coast at one stage had two players all on their own in their forward line 2018 Tom McDonald isn't coming back Despite dropping a handpass from 2 metres away early in the game Oscar McDonald was solid Spargo and ANB should never play senior football again in the same team Hibberd is cooked I love Langdon's hair but already sick of his up-and-under kicks Tomlinson peaked in the Marsh series I was all for Brown but he didn't do enough to suggest he's worth persisting with Our centre clearances were woeful for a team who supposedly is good at it How often did West Coast win the hit out to a player on his own and all of our midfielders would just run away allowing an easy forward entry? Pickett will be the pick of the draft, what a star The way West Coast move the ball is effortless (much like Richmond) I've been saying this for a long time but for us to score is such hard work, even in 2018 when we were good the scoring came about through sheer grit and hard work which is great but not sustainable

The score line flattered us, we were never in it. All our scores were through hard work and no system while West Coast were effortless, much like how Richmond are.

All of this.

A competent coach.

Somehow West Coast always have forwards free in their forward line yet we never have free players in our forward line. Where are our extra players?