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If West Coast get pick are they better of trading it for 2 top 10 picks and drafting home grown talent again.

Quick ball movement, use of the corridor, smalls finding themselves at the drop of the ball. Are we watching?

Embarrassing.

I don’t agree with that, he’s shrugged out of tackles.

The Kosi missed mark again…. Langdon, surely a player knows their range.

Adding to that we’ve still got Carlton twice plus Richmond, North and the Hawks again. Games against Port, Pies, Cats and Lions crucial to our top 2 hopes. No excuses not to finish top 4, top 2 very desirable.

Another game on the way to a blow out. How quickly can we get 20 teams….

Last year in numerous games they played better including some of the games they lost.

Good win for them but I wouldn’t go as far as that.

Great call, I watched the tigers the last 2 weeks and didn’t see this coming. They haven’t been great but they came in with a plan and are executing it well. Still time for Geelong but unlikely based on how they’re playing.

I think if there’s going to be an upset @Bring-Back-Powell had already called it and it may be Freo.

Tigers dropped Cumberland who’s actually been kicking a few. The last 2 weeks they’ve been woeful. Last week early in the 3/4 the Eagles were up by 3. Yes Geelong’s mids look weakened but surely too much up fwd and down back.

Cats Suns Swans Port Dees Lions Dogs Crows Pies I’ve put in some multis taking Swans v Freo Blues v Dogs Pies v Giants Each way, just in case.

Facebook, I tried up loading the photo but it won’t let me on my phone.

Just saw it on FB. Just said “Got what he deserved”.

Petracca’s response is priceless.

A few years back I think before the 2004 GF, Jonathan Brown was charged with rough play after putting someone in a headlock than swinging them to the ground and landing on them with his body, ultimately a stupid, dangerous and thug act. A Lions member who was also a lawyer contacted the club and told them to argue he couldn’t be charge with rough play as play had technically stopped because it was 3/4 time. He was free to play, this is a prime example why sport’s tribunals need to be run differently from courts of law.

Has this happened?

Ah, I see you know your judo well.

You never miss a trick DS.

If you think that a Tasmanian team won’t face player retention issues stemming from lack of team success and players not wanting to live there then I don’t think you’re being honest with yourself. I’m happy that Tasmania is getting a team but not as a 19th team, the competition can’t sustain 19 or 20 teams at the moment. The AFL thinks the revenue from the broadcast deals is the answer to everything. We currently have the last two expansion clubs struggling on and off the field as well as North, Hawthorn and the Eagles struggling on field. The Suns should fold allowing Tassie to become the 18th team, GWS stay for now only because they’re playing some home games In Canberra. Depending on what plays out in the future the AFL could also fold GWS and look to put an extra team in either in S.A or W.A. You’re not the only person to live / have lived in Tassie, I get that you’re passionate but that doesn’t automatically make you right.

In some ways we’ve had the luxury of experimenting with our line up but I think we’re a better side defensively with Petty down back. The synergy between our defenders makes us difficult to score against. Lever has developed his game to become a better one on one defender but when on, his intercept game is massive for us. We are still yet to play Geelong, both Cameron (33 goals) and Hawkins (23 goals) are in good form so far this season, we will most likely need to beat them in the finals if we are to win it. I think we will struggle to contain them with Petty fwd. I agree with your comments regarding scoring differential. We were slow to come to the party of quick ball movement and lacked avenues to goal. Moving Kosi into the midfield for stints on ball and Chandler up fwd not only mixes things up it makes us less predictable.

After 8 rounds we are currently 2nd for PF (points for) 862 Geelong currently 6th) 859 Melbourne (currently 2nd) 809 Lions (currently 4th) 766 Bombers (currently 9th) 721 Crows (currently 10th) 702 Pies (currently 1st) In 6 games Petty has only kicked 2.1, as we know our accuracy has greatly improved as well as the emergence of Chandler 13.2 from 7 games and JVR 10.2 from 5 games. How much has Petty playing fwd has contributed to our attack? Not nearly as much as his absence in defence. 4th for PA (points against) 474 Saints (currently 3rd) 579 Pies (currently 1st) 619 Dogs (currently 7th) 621 Melbourne (currently 2nd) Sitting 4th for PA doesn’t sound so bad at face value but when you go further down the list you have number of teams not far of the pace. 632 Carlton 634 Richmond 635 Geelong 663 Lions 667 Crows 676 Port 677 Suns 689 Freo 690 Swans Over the last 2 seasons we’ve been the no.1 defensive team, whilst it’s only rd 9 the rest of the competition in catching us. When we play the likes of Geelong and Carlton we can’t rely on just playing May & Lever or bring in Tomlinson / Turner for a cameo. Petty needs to return to the backline to bring stability back, as an example had that been the case against the Suns the game wouldn’t of been as close as it was (yes I’m aware we were smashed at clearances)

With our list anything but top 4 would be not be good.

Brisbane’s weakest link is their back line yet the so called twin towers could only manage 2 goal’s between them. Suddenly 9 against the Eagles doesn’t sound so good.