doug williams

For mine Stretch is ahead of Kent who appears fragile.

A bit like Hoges, he breaks down  and it's one thing after the other.

I'm ambivalent about keeping Jesse. He clogs up the forward line when Tommy is there so spends a lot of time keeping out of his way.

Weed doesn't.

So, can Jesse become a midfielder? He could play on the wing  as was done with Tommy often, even drifting back to take Lever's job.

He's not an inside mid and he doesn't succeed as a forward pocket/flank.

Why were our players slipping over so often?

Yes Simmo was kneed in the throat by Michael Long whose defence was that "he sees things differently".

Hard to comment on these days but the penalty he received was only 4 weeks and were counted into the pre-match series the following year.

So, he got away with it. 

It appears that the Swans are getting players back to strengthen their list but look, hey, we want to beat their best combination and any oppo team's strongest side to prove ourselves over the coming weeks.

And at this stage I now believe we can. Go Dees!

Disappointing missed set shot by the captain on Saturday night.

But, I'm sorry to say, he just doesn't convince me that he can produce something special when needed. Nothing inspirational in the way he plays. As soon as Viney is back, Jones can be 'rested'.

 If he doesn't get back, next in line for the captaincy should be T Mac as current vc. Next year, of course.

Then we'll be looking at the likes of Gus and Clarrie as the next leaders of our club.

I'm glad this topic has been raised.

I've watched him enough to recognise that he is not impacting games, not leading from the front and unable to hit the scoreboard.

He looks slow and out of sorts; a little lost out there - I believe he has reached his use by date.

Presents a small problem with no Viney to be captain though.

Picking both Spargo and Garlett is a bit of a surprise.

Suggests a change in direction by the FD.                                                                                                                                           I hope it's not an "all or nothing", "last throw of the dice" approach by us. You know the sort of thing - what we have been doing doesn't seem to be working, so let's try plan C and see if that works.

I don't believe the problem lies up forward at all and while it appears inefficient (forward entries to goals scored ratio) we have actually been kicking plenty of goals even when we lose.                                                                            Frosty won't play forward, he's there to bolster the back line.

I'm starting to see in Petracca what was predicted for Watts : a player about to have a break-out game.

He's been around for a good while now and hasn't produced much more than glimpses of possibility. What's the go Christian? Are you a gun who is just a little bit over-awed, a bit shy? Not likely, but!

Have a look at young Spargo. No glamour there but he's kicked more goals than you have recently. And he tackles hard too.

Well he's not the only under performing high drift pick to come our way (any club's truth be known).

You know the one : the one always predicted to have a break-out game. Today his name is Christian Petracca.

what point are you making here?

it's pages of negatives after this loss but we still manged to score 91 points by kicking 14 goals 7 behinds so that is a positive to take out of it.

Dieter - it was James Joyce, the Irish writer. He said “Life is in many days...”.

T. S. Eliot was a British born poet, playwright and critic who changed his nationality to become a US citizen. As a side note he also dropped the Anglican Church for Roman Catholicism.

I don,t believe he barracked for the Dees though.

I'm with Buck Nekkid re Jones.

Check him on the replay : he coughs it up quite a bit, is messy by hand and 50/50 by foot. Nice to see him snag a couple of goals last night - he doesn't kick all that many.

Which takes me on to Kent. I wouldn't be considering him. Oppo teams don't fear him because he tackles like Jack Watts and doesn't hurt them on the scoreboard. Seriously. He just does not kick goals; all he has is leg speed. I think of  Sam Blease as a comparison - lightning fast but not an asset.

It's Caro raking over the coals to heat the turds she has laid on us over the years. 

She loved re-hashing the "tanking" issue and now she has this dead, ashen story to niggle with.

She can be a fine journalist but when she's short of new material (she is out of the loop now) is equally happy to

dish the dirt. 

The Footy Department should discuss the strategies put forward at the head of this post or certainly be receptive to them.

Achievable avenues to  strive at more fund making are welcome.

At present all we seem to get from the ideas tank at HQ  is an offer to buy more flaming scarves.

Unfortunately contacting the footy department will have no impact.

I don't believe they listen to us, the members, (that includes me who remains as yet unsigned after round 23).

Last 2 years I have asked them not to send YET ANOTHER SCARF in my pack.

Made no difference because they are not listening. I want a year patch I can sew onto my scarf, not a new scarf every flaming year.

What, I'm going to find a use for them? It's landfill.

They just want my money and despite taking out my first membership in 1964 I'll be blowed if I will support them in 2018.

What's it matter - the AFL will prop us up anyhow, my cash won't make a scrap of difference in this day and age.

I'm with BTDemon on this one.

But Jaydn Hunt for Jeff White.

In reply to Ox (" Can u imagine the build up with the bald one returning for his first game.  God help us.")

Down in Cat Town he may not be God -that was his dad - but he is the messiah

In reply to CBDees - I had to twice contact the dolts at the Club website to get them to update it.

They still had Roos as coach and only Jones as captain. and this was around Round 3!

Don't know what they do there but they don't seem to be paying attention.

This is good, people seeing beyond the Hogan interpretation of our forward line.

I keep saying he's fragile. Our latest version of Kelvin Templeton (remember him?) although his non-performance was linear, Jesses's is multifold.

I love the guy, etc. but he can go of it gives us a better scoreline ATEOTD.

I don't think we need midfielders or small forwards as we much as we need a power forward like Joe Danaher, Ben Dixon or Ben Brown.

Of course an extra mid won't go astray.

I don't believe Spencil going is a good thing, not at all, at all.

It's clearly an AFL Conspiracy to get West Coast back into contention - and with the collusion of the Crows.

Sceptical?

Then ask yourself this - why did the Crows lie down against the Eagles? Because this gave them the chance to tip us out of the finals.

Forget the Swans, we are the team Adelaide fears above all and with the AFL's imprimatur they tanked! and then that free kick in the last few seconds of last night's game? All to clear a path for a West Coast v Adelaide GF.

He's fragile and misses too many games through injury.

Trade him for Dixon, Ben Brown or Daniher.

If Kirby arrives as a danger player but can be put off his game then swing Bernie on to him.

If the shearer gets reported, many posters won't mind and this will free up a spot for JV if he is suspended.

Re West Coast v Crows : WTF, won't affect us if we win and the Eagles won't anyway.

Don't be alarmed....

Seems to me the biggest problem with our back line is our forward line.

Points against are relatively low (compared with Adelaide, say) but we are just not kicking enough scores as the season progresses.

Hogan's unable to get on the paddock, T. Mac has been kicking a few and so has Jeffy but we seriously lack firepower up forward.

The back line are doing their job, no doubt in my mind.

Completely off topic : can someone tell me how to access games while I am out of the country from this Saturday please?