Dee Zephyr

3 goals 2 behinds to Swans in the second half. Fantastic team effort. We can finally enjoy a replay. Rest up boys and let’s get ready for next week. Well done to all fans that turned up to the SCG.

So am I almost and it’s only Round 4.

Breathe folks! You ripper, well done boys.

Where’s the trip ffs?

Let’s put Spargo on the mark again.

Preuss BOG!

42G 43B in his 15 games against us. Biggest bag was 6 in 2008. Stats provided by AFL Tables.

We can’t go into a Richmond v Sydney game the week after without the Dusty v Buddy show, can we?

In the comments section Guthrie said he couldn’t spot KK, but admits it’s hard to look out for everyone.

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Happy to go with a midweek pick fellas if everyone is good to go. Will be taking a winter spell after the Autumn carnival on ADATR, weekends are becoming too crazy around here, still happy to post a couple of Monkeys a week though. Edit: Love the NHL playoffs, Boston is my tip to win the Stanley Cup. $10 second favourite. Tampa Bay $2.80 favourites, been a while since I’ve seen a discrepancy like that in the NHL.

T Mac? Reports are he was a no show.

His biggest weapon is his dash and his long kicking from wing to the forward line. The guy makes space numerous times on the outer wing only to be ignored by our lack of switching. When the ball is eventually turned over he does a mad scramble back to the last line of defence in his usual terrier manner often finding himself out of position. He’s not the only defender struggling in what seems like disorganised chaos back there.

What options do we have available? Our main training session is on this morning. Preuss looks a likely inclusion if T Mac is indeed hurt and can’t play. Stretch would be next in line you would think due to his restricted minutes yesterday. There were two VFL games on Friday, why didn’t they schedule Casey on that day? The fixturing between VFL and AFL seems out of sync sometimes.

Did someone mention in another thread Josh Dunkley is OOC this year? I wouldn’t mind having a go at him.

Conflicting numbers with the tackles above. Earlier posts had Bedford 9 tackles and Maynard 17.

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Even if Maynard is next in line, which in my opinion he shouldn’t be, I can’t see him coming in regardless of today. Is there enough rest time for him to back up after a full game 4 days later against Sydney?

If Stretch is in serious consideration for Thursday, take him off. Pointless being out there. He’s busted a gut already.

Move it to Marvel!

Big difference in foot skills. Chandler the only one to maybe get excited about at this stage.

It might have been mentioned already and apologies if it has, but there are so many threads it’s impossible to keep up at times. An observation on our defensive set up in the 1st and 3rd quarters from Punt Rd goals. It was puzzling to see our backs line up on different ESS forwards in nearly every centre bounce in those quarters. Do we like to rotate our defenders or is the opposition simply regularly throwing a different mix down there to confuse us even further knowing there’s a lot of panic at the moment amongst the back 6? Stringer had 3 different opponents at one stage in the first and that included Fritsch. Oscar and Frost regularly swapped between McKernan and Clarke especially in the first when a lot of damage was done. Ess had Shiel, Smith, Baguley deep at different stages. Fantasia and Tippa were rarely used deep, more so high half forwards and wing so they can damage us on the rebound. We can’t afford to have Hibbo sprint 50 meters back when the ball is kicked over his head to man up the guy out the back or deepest forward. It’s happened numerous times this year and Hibbo is best used as a dasher from half back. His disposal seems to have suffered a bit from 2017, is he maybe spending too many petrol tickets this way? Is the wing a possibility for him? My confusion stems from seeing our backs gather together after we concede a goal for an encouragement knuckle touch or whatever it’s called only to be followed by a lot of head shaking and finger pointing. This is where Lewis is needed. This is purely an observation from ground level fence. Also, looking up at the interchange board, I noticed Jones and Viney were on the bench together a few times. A lot are questioning their leadership, but surely at least keep one of them out there during crucial times.

Thursday Night - One and Three

That McInerney goes alright. Has bobbed up when needed the last two weeks with some strong marking and goals.

3 preseason premiership fancies on 2 wins between them after 3 rounds.