Coaches did well today Swung battle forward , Wood forward, Payton into middle all good moves We have the weakest , dumbest players in the comp THE worst midfield- nit by a little but a long way 12 years of recruiting HBF/HFF crap like Billing’s and co has set us back 10 years Sorry, mate. This sor...

Standard Ross Lyon football. It takes until the last quarter to decide to try to win the game rather than to try to purely negate the opposition. Bassett needs to make a hard call. Give him till the end of the season to change his anti-football approach and if he won't or can't then fire him tomorr...

I think the best description of how we are going was made by our current President some time back: "it's not a linear progression."

This is incredibly sad from my POV. I'm old and I want to see us get better.

WTF was that by Wanganeen-Milera?

Can someone remind me what was wrong with Ratten’s style of coaching?

It must have been worse that what we’re seeing today but I can’t remember why.

bobmurray wrote: ↑Sat 11 May 2024 3:30pm Hawksthorn scrub another goal.

Another push in the back on the player trying to mark the ball.

One thing I've noticed today is that it appears that you are now allowed to push your opponent in the back when they are attempting to mark the ball. The Hawks benefited from this "new rule" several times and we also did once or twice.

I think we can do a lot better in the remaining three quarters. But we're definitely struggling.

Well done Bonner and Membrey

Watson is cutting us to pieces.

We're in trouble.

If our game is about moving the ball forward quickly, then the Hawks are much better at it than us.

Whatever our game plan is, it isn't working so far. But Marshall has been terrific.

Bruce G McAbee wrote: ↑Sat 11 May 2024 2:52pm Whose the sub?

Paton

And then we get the fluke bounce of the year and goal.

Not a great start. We don't seem to be able to get into our 50, and then Mason makes a rare error and gifts them a goal.

We should have this covered.

The_Dud wrote: ↑Sat 11 May 2024 1:36pm lol, some only know how to play the victim.

Melbourne bloke is lucky he didn’t get a fine for staging.

You've said it more succinctly than me. I'm not certain that there was any contact at all.

Still a stupid act by Newman: it could easily have all gone horribly wrong.

I don’t get it. What could you hope to get from Paton late in the game other than for him to come on and possibly blanket a staring Hawk mid. I’d have had him top 22 or nothing Spot on. The only sense I can make of it is that perhaps the club doesn't feel that Paton is quite ready to run out a full...

In my view of the world, Newman's act didn't warrant a suspension: the force of his contact seemed to be very light indeed.

I certainly agree that, in the context of the other suspensions handed out lately, he has been treated extremely leniently. Perhaps he is also a "nice bloke."

We have an 8-9 record in Tasmania. 6-6 at York Park in Launceston. 2-2 vs Hawthorn in Launceston. It is meant to be 19° and sunny in Launceston on Saturday. 9/9 - we beat Fitzroy at North Hobart Oval in a match in Hobart in 1991. Lockett kicked a bag! Was RTB playing for the Lions that day?

I assume those calling for Schoenmaker to come in against the Hawks haven't watched any of the Zebras games he's played. To put it simply: he doesn't go hard at the ball in the way that one would expect an AFL player to do. He's a great kick, and has a lot of potential, but he is clearly a work in p...

Dow didn't look quite ready for mine. Henry would surely come in for Garcia, who was more or less invisible on Saturday. For mine, Phillipou stays. But I understand why some want him to be dropped. I agree with Jones coming in as sub, but I'd drop Byrnes and keep Hastie. That's enough changes IMO.

In order to develop, young players need to feel confident in themselves and their teammates. Perpetually tanking for the possibility of doing a little better in the draft lottery works against those goals. I know that praising GT only risks fuelling the unquenchable wrath of Teflon, but GT’s greates...

5 Hill
4 Sinclair
3 Wilson
2 Windhager
1 Dougal