It could be a lot worse, it could be a lot better. It's one game. There are no easy games on AFL football anymore. The competition is the most even it's ever been. Brisbane are going to be 0-2. Collingwood are 0-2. There will be wild fluctuations in fortune for most teams this year, so is getting in...

For 12 years we've been cursed by an ineffective midfield lacking in class, power, and speed. That's a long time. Our two best midfielders in that period have been Jack Steven and Jack Steele. So, who have we got coming though who could be genuine, consistent, and damaging midfielders? Not one playe...

I think the coaches hands were tied. Crouch wasn't fit, and Seb Ross is there by default at the moment. Once Dow, Clark, and Jones are fit they come into that midfield. Would have been very different if those three had played. They are all different players from the slow, vanilla mix we watched last...

Crouch looked underdone. The worst game I've seen him play for us. That's what interrupted preseasons do to you Phillipou in the midfield was something I was nervous about and he played exactly as I expected. He's got a lot to learn. He is more a Brendan Goddard type, but not quite the footy smarts ...

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Marshall
Steele
Henry
NWM
Wilkie

After half time

Crouch 5 possessions
Hill 5 possessions
Phillipou 6 possessions

To say it's not enough is an understatement

Steele was very good. We got nothing from Ross and Crouch and that really hurt us. If those two guys had just broken even with their opponents we could have won it. Phillipou is totally flat footed at stoppage and apart from the first 20 minutes was ineffective. You can't win games with the engine r...

Looks like he's last in the pecking order. Been at the club a fair while and now seeing first year players being selected and listed as emergencies. Horrible position to be in. It's going to be really interesting to see how he responds. Will this push him into overdrive and get him playing with the ...

Smith retired last year and Guthrie is injured, but those other guys are supremely fit and they'll be the freshest they'll be for the whole season. We expect them to slow down but they defy the odds every year. They'll be pumped playing inside their new stands, too. The place will be rocking with Ge...

I can only recall us winning there once in the past 40 years. I don't see that changing this Saturday. They've had one injury all preseason, Cam Guthrie. We currently have out injured or doubtful for round one due to insufficient conditioning, plus a suspended player Howard Windhager Clark Hayes But...

Stocker Cordy Wilkie
Bonner Battle Wanganeen-Milera
Wood Steele Hill
Owens Sharman Henry
Higgins King Membrey

R: Marshall Windhager Ross

Inter: Phillipou Wilson Byrnes Caminiti

Sun: Garcia

I'd put Crouch in but I'm not sure if he'll be fit to play.

I hope that money comes out of his own Pocket. Doubt it will, though.

It won't stop him, though. He can't help himself. At his core he is a nasty prick.

Before the brutal hit that shattered his face, he'd played some really impressive games at half back, a position I think suits him. Since then he's been tried more through the middle and it's been an adjustment for him, with his aerobic fitness holding him back as well as the obvious psychological i...

Richmond had a similar issue with Dylan Grimes. Kept getting injured. For three years it was one soft tissue after another. But they persisted with him because they knew he was a talent. Eventually, it turned around and he became a highly rated defender who helped them win three premierships Clark h...

Clarkson has a long history of this kind of garbage. At last, even the sycophants in the media who've been licking his arse and covering for him for two decades have finally had enough of him.

Everyone in the game knows what a nastyl tosser he is.

Yes, I'd say that suspensions handed out during Michael Christian's tenure have for the most part been hopelessly inadequate. He should have been moved on three years ago. His appalling failure with the Pickett two week suspension last year should have been the final nail in his coffin. However, it ...

I'm not upset with this penalty. I saw it as 6 weeks when I watched it live. Now.....let's see if the AFL have any balls and any hint of consistency with the next incident. I can almost guarantee that there will once again be wild inconsistencies over the season. They've had no credibility with this...

Okay Vortex. Maybe it then comes down to adjusting the actual rules of the game. It would help Ban all front on bumps immediately. The only legal bump is a shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip bump when two players are pursuing the ball running in the same direction In all other instances a player can o...

Vortex, your logic is interesting. The whole point of applying hard penalties is to make a deterrent to players who think they might want a bet each way when an opponent is in a vulnerable position. The whole point is to eliminate these reckless and opportunistic hits on players who are not in a pos...

Crouch. Free Agent Membrey. Delisted free agent Wilkie. Rookie Sharman. Mid season draft Sinclair. Rookie Bonner. Delisted free agent Marshall. Rookie Caminiti. Rookie Wood. Delisted free agent Henry. Gave a 2nd rounder then gifted one back by GWS Dow. Fourth rounder Butler. Traded for pick 53 Owens...

It has to be Cordy. Schoenmaker is a pup with a lot to learn. It's always tempting to bring in a youngster and I'm keen to see them get a chance, but I think it's best to let Arie develop at Sandy at this stage

Vortex, no one is running knives into Jimmy as a virtue signalling exercise. Remember the hit on Koschitzke by Giansiracusa? Absolutely appalling. One of worst things I've seen done to a player. And what happened? Everyone blamed the victim. And what was the impact on Kosi? Terrible. I was outraged ...

Agreed Bringbackmaddog The important thing here is to give a big penalty and then use it properly as a precedent for future incidents. If the AFL fails in that consistency from this point forward it will leave it open to future Legal action from players. I can just see it now in court. "You had...

Only two words need to be said to Clarkson...REMEMBER LONDON

The guy is one of the dirtiest stnuc to pull on a boot and he's is a seriously sh*t human being. He's proven that time and again.