There are some important factors that you have totally overlooked: Ross Lyon. In Lyon we have a top coach with excellent tactical and strategic skills. The game plan will be tweaked and improved. Stability. The majority of the players know their roles and know their team-mates. The major changes wil...

Couldn't make GF1 but can get down for GF2.
Considering myself very lucky.

Going to use reverse swing.
Collingwood by 36 points.

Don't be ridiculous Joffaboy.
Free kicks and 50m penalties can cost a game.
If Bakes does play he will play tight and hard and fair.

I'll be happy to be even at half-time and up the tempo in the 2nd half - same as last week.

where are my lucky socks .....aaargh !!!!

the mighty Sainters.......of course.....

Geelong

Baker was always a risk. Hopefully Lyon is a good chess player.

Collingwood

Modern terminology really confuses me!
What does it actually mean if a player "has the ability to roll off his opponent"?

Barry Breen

So often there is this belief that we can make “bad boysâ€

Melbourne must take him at 18. They will have picked up 3 quality kids by then. Luke will settle down once he knows where he is going, will take the $500,000/year, will get a regular game, will start in the centre square, will be captain in 2 years and will never play in a Premiership. Its not rocke...

Dear Luke, I am sure you will like playing at Melbourne. They are a proud club with the tradition and values that a private school chap like you would appreciate. They have a wonderful President and the coach appears to be pretty decent. You will be getting an excellent salary - probably more than y...

Our keeness to get Andrejs Everitt would suggest to me that the list management people think we need another key position tall - probably a CHB. With this in mind we would love to get Butcher, Morabito, Talia or Carlisle but they will all be gone. Then we look at Craig, Reid, Donaldson, Luff, Hartig...

If Melbourne can’t get Ball to sign then they really are hopeless. They can offer him: 1. Money 2. A leadership position (captaincy in a couple of years?) 3. Guaranteed game time They will roll out Jack Watts and Liam Jurrah and Jim Stynes will play the emotion card. “Premiership coming soon - g...

The fact that we have such fine, loyal and committed players such as Roo, Kossie, Ball, Dal Santo, Montagna, Maguire, Goddard etc. is largely due to GT and his “man management and people skillsâ€

But wouldn’t every player be trying their utmost to keep their place in the side? With the exception of a few definites nobody’s place is secure with Max, Ball, Geary, McEvoy etc. breathing down their necks. Can’t see that they could be complacent or just waiting for the finals. Forward line i...

Bump.
How I am enjoying the tackling and committment to making those tackles stick.
Well done guys.

I’m doing a guest spot on a community radio show in NSW previewing the St Kilda v Geelong game and I’m trying to accurately remember the incidents which have led to a rivalry between the clubs this decade. Did it start with GT’s comment after we lost to Geelong that we had the better players a...

Lighten up #1GILL.
The "real world" can be fun and is to be enjoyed.

If our Defenders had to pick up our Forwards how would you match up? On the side picked for this weekend I would have to go: Milne - Baker……..what a battle! Koschitzke - Dawson (Kossie too tall for Hudghton) Bit worried about being able to hold Kossie. Hayes - Hudghton….. Hudghton should be ab...

As someone who can’t get to see many live games these days and has to rely on TV, can anyone shed any light on how we handle midfield rotations? Do certain players swap with others? Or do say 3 players rotate with 2 on the ground and one resting? (eg, Hayes, Ball & Jones, or Dal Santo, Montagn...

Anyway,
getting back to the point I was trying to make before this topic was completely kidnapped and changed to the Maxwell incident, how many of you hope that we can show some some aggresive tackling (rather than charging) or is that just a thing of the past ?