Earl Hood

Must admit I am trembling at the thought of this game. I hate the Hawks for all the things they have done to us over the years since 1987 ( Here I am not even including the king hits from Lethal on Steven Smith and was it Peter Giles?) I think this could be a 200 point blow out because their precision kicking game will tear us to apart. Our battlers no matter their endeavour on the day will struggle big time.

Given outr track record with top 10 draft picks maybe we look at what established mid fielders there are available next year that we could trade for!

If the old adage "any publicity is good publicity" held true, in the last two years Sponsers should have been flocking to us.. What other team has had as much air time for all the wrong reasons, as us? Tanking, floggings on the field, sackings, Danks, no matter what the current controversy is you can be confident that we will be involved. This should be our marketing vision to prospective sponsors!

Is it that hard to run into the 20 meter space in front of every backman trying to find a wy out of our back line? So few times do players run to provide an option; it kills our backman trying to kick out of trouble. It is all about confidence I suppose.

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Matt Jones great game in Melbourne terms I mean. He had go and got down and dirty, nothing flashy just hard work.

The other point about Blease is that even though I have bagged his kicking he is a proactive, attacking player in contrast to our players last week who were reactive at best, witch hats at worst against the Suns. Maybe we should be playing a Kid who at least takes the game on and live with his errors?

Please, please, please give him 5-8 games in a row and let him run. Look at Tapscott now he has a few games in a row. We need outside runners - those who can break the lines and we only have him and Evans. Bail too but he s also an in-and-under player. Blease is a gun and should be let loose, not held back at Casey.

Agree we need his skill set in the team but watching Casey today what is going on with his kicking? Blease looked beautifully balanced with the ball today only to repeatedly deliver it straight onto the chest of an opposition player. His kicking action looks brilliant but his aim is appalling.

Could a first year player win the Bluey? This year any thing is possible!

He is guilty of an un disciplined act but sh#t he showed some passion and utter frustration at what was unfolding. From where I was sitting in the Ponsford there was precious little of the same from the others except the Jones's, viney and Howe and few others. At least at times he was proactive in a side full of reactive passengers who were acting like bit players in some type of Sun's training drill.

He may never live up to his potential but I don't think we have the luxury to send him packing at years end but then he is free to go if he gets an offer.

Personally I have never liked the Bombers but I am totally sick of Geelong and their father-sons and other freak players they unearth every year. And don't start me on Joel Selwood! If only he had gone to one of the struggling clubs who need his type, such as us or the doggies. No player development was involved with Joel he was A grade from day one. Go Essendon sort of! But I see their getting Bath now so forget it.

Is Hogan to be our Cantana? Minus any flying Karate kicks of course.

Good one but they missed the usual " It is my understanding that (insert name) position is now untenable.......

Reply to Robbie F

Can we just stick to the short term this year when we get some early picks. We don't have a long term future at this rate. I dread our coming matches against the top sides, it will be embarrassing. We need to parachute in at least two hard nut midfielder/leader types next season but where they would come from and why they would come here I have no idea? I don't get paid the big bucks to work this out unlike our management. As has been pointed out our players get roughly similar pay to the Hawks and Cats players, I mean does Neeld sit them down to show them a replay of a Hawks match and the frenetic intensity in every match? What do our guys think AFL is about? We all just ask for intensity, tackle, chase, harass. That doesn't take talent just a bit of heart.

We desperately need a long term injury to get Magner on the playing list. I think he is must option for the mid field for matches coming up. He and jordie are needed to stem the carnage when we face the top sides. I don't want Mitch to be the out please.

Anyone remember a game against the bulldogs in 2010 when Scully got 39 possessions and we lost by about 9 points and there were three calls on the goal umpire that cost us 3 goals. It's happened to us before.