Earl Hood

You might be right but I would point out that Nick Daicos is the same height and only a few kgs heavier. Not sure if there is a power differential. Nicks doesn’t bullock his way through stoppages, like a Cripps or Viney but is still highly effective, maybe Judd has a little of what Nick has.

I think it was Garry Lyon who said he thought we should be rotating McVee through the middle. I agree it might be worth a try, he has most of the attributes. I too don’t like seeing JVR in the ruck, I thought Disco looked ok when he had a go in the centre bounces.

I haven’t seen it but on AFL form I am expecting the worst.

Bedford BOG and Hogan second best?

Yes true and maybe he left because we preferenced a couple of other small forwards ahead of him.

Gee that Hogan bloke, a tall forward who can take a mark, would be handy in our forward line too!

Gee wouldn’t mind Bedford’s smarts, tagging capabilities and leg speed on our list. Where did the Giants find him 😉?

Hey Schache was the 23rd best player on the list if we go by selection in the last and most important game we played last season, remember 😀!

Good to see the Bummers coming back, up to now Collingwood have been reminding me of the Harlem Globetrotters.

Have another look at the replay of the Petracca injury and Moore’s actions to cause the damage and his behaviour immediately after the impact. Sorry I am not convinced it was entirely an accident. If I caused that injury genuinely by accident I am sure I would at least inquire how the player was feeling and apologise. I didn’t see any of that.

As I have said before the AFL is demanding that players have a duty of care to other players when tackling, when bumping, we have eradicated the coat hangers and gut punches but we accept a player coming from behind, flexing his knee and driving it into a player sitting under a high ball. I agree it’s difficult to outlaw it as it’s such a great part of our game when players use their knee to gain height for a mark or spoil. iMO Darcy Moore wasn’t doing that in the Petracca case, he wasn’t using the knee to gain height or for protection. Given the severity of the injury inflicted, surely the AFL has a duty of care to protect players by putting Clubs on notice that this behaviour will be scrutinised in the future. The MRO could review any similar incident that results in an injury and make a call on whether it was careless, intentional, low or high impact use of the knee and decide the appropriate penalty. No doubt they will get things wrong but it would force players to change the way they jump into a pack.

Well Ben Long has copped a $3k fine for “the hit on Maynard” as AFL.com describes it! The Match Review Committee had an opportunity to make a statement with this one. It could have fined Maynard’ for staging or just stated that nothing to see here which would be code for Maynard took a dive. Epic fail!

Yes interesting that everyone has a duty of care these days. If you choose to bump and get them high you are in trouble, if you tackle you have a duty to the welfare of the player you tackle. But if you drive your flexed knee into the stationary, unsuspecting player in front of you on their blind side and smash their ribs and worse that’s OK it’s just part of footy apparently! I just hope Moore gets some reciprocal treatment from someone. Surely the AFL key forward fraternity would be noting this reckless behaviour and be thinking I better get him before he gets me?

First time I have ever noticed a player being on -4 AFL Fantasy Points about 20 minutes into a game. That was how well Oliver was going early on. Should be given a spell, perhaps a block of solid fitness training for 4 weeks like Geelong did with Danger!

Thoughts post match: why did the AFL change the ruck dual rules? They have gone full circle in 35 years. They brought in the dividing line to stop ruckman wrestling each other. Then the limiting circle to limit the run up ( which curtailed Jeff White’s dominance) and now we have reverted to wrestling again that allows big muscle bound brutes negate probably the best tap ruckman the game has seen. Please explain AFL! I thought the free kick for a faked handball to get the player on the mark to move was removed last year, but it’s back it seems. Regarding Oliver time for a spell at Casey. He is a liability. Let’s run the kids through there for the rest of the season. Let’s play Fritta up the ground for a few games. He has mobility and skills and needs to get involved in the play. continue playing the kids, the season is shot I think. Let’s work out who is part of future, now. Fitness - I have serious doubts about our stamina, ability to run out games.

That’s 2 goals to the umpires

Needs time at Casey. Goodwin has to make the call. We are playing more than a man short because he is a liability.

Umpiring is absolutely diabolical! I mean I thought if you take possession and take on a tackler and get stripped of the ball its incorrect disposal. Not tonight.

Agree he is one of our better skilled players!

Oliver having a blinder, zero possessions, given away 2 frees and a 70m penalty.

70m penalty?

The cupboard is bare, that’s why.

Moore’s was no accident!

Forget footy. He needs the rest of the year to recover and get his body right. My worry is the injury, the operation and painful recovery have been so traumatic that we may not see the same player again. Injuries of this severity can have lasting effects. And my despair at this catastrophe might be somewhat alleviated if I thought for a moment there would be some likelihood of revenge in the last round. But it wouldn’t even register with our coaching team. If it was up to me , next game, Moore would be fair game if he happened to find himself, oddly for him sitting under a high ball. Free license to drive your knee straight into his back or side just as he did so blatantly and with zero repercussions!

The umpires seem determined to cause a hometown riot. They seem hellbent on finding every minuscule holding/ blocking free for Sydney they can conjure up.