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Agree Baker was the catalyst. Looking at the Barass trade in isolation, WC were asking for 14 plus a 2nd rounder. The deal ended up being a future first (less valuable than 14) plus a 2nd and a late pick. The hawks walked away with an additional 2nd round pick than they would have if they...

Can’t see the Roos trading back from pick 2. The only suitable trading partner is Richmond, and the Roos will be spooked that the Dees might grab Tauru at 5. Early top 5 prediction is: 1. Lalor 2. Tauru 3. FOS 4. Draper 5. Smith Regardless at pick 3, we’ll have a few high quality players on...

Great trade by Austin. Will be interesting to see what happens next. “Worst case scenario” we hit the draft and pick up some quality players. Doubt it will happen but I wonder whether Melbourne would bite at 12 + 14 + Cerra or Kennedy for Petracca. They won’t ever have a better chance to cash...

Houston is a decent player but we don’t really need another half back on big coin. We already have Saad Doc Williams Newman Boyd to play across half back, & half backs are relatively easy to find as opposed to other positions on the field. Port won’t settle for less than a top 15 pick in a good...

Great win! Hopefully the cavalry return next week to help us book a top 4 spot. Our wingers today also proved we don’t need Amon.

Some ridiculous calls last night, wasn’t the reason we lost but it certainly didn’t help. Just off the top of my head: -Lynch poking Saad in the lead up to the first goal, should at least be a high free kick -Ridiculous “holding” call on Lynch in Q1 -Paid the sliding rules against Newnes but...

Umpires killed us from the first minute to the last. Some genuinely mind-boggling calls. Zero consistency. Prior opportunity in a wet game was thrown right out the window for our guys. We’re a better side than Richmond even with half our side out but we just took too long to adapt to wet...

IMO Cottrell deserves a spot in the best 22. LOB to make way (maybe sub). If Cerra doesn’t pull up then I’d be bringing in Dow, or alternatively give Stocker a crack in the midfield.

Thrilled to ruin the celebrations of the doping scum! They really are a rabble from top to bottom. As for us, just a massive appreciation for Marchbank to come back in and do well. Happy with the result but a fair bit to work on through the middle of the ground, we should have walloped them in...

We’re a far better team than the filth, just too many injuries eventually took their toll. No Weiters McKay Martin Williams Kennedy McGovern Pittonet OMac Marchbank Cuningham. Too many KPPs down. Frustrating that the filth got us at the perfect time. Proud of the boys for fighting it out. If...

If Martin is right to go, we have to bring him in IMO. He’s another marking target which we’ll need against Moore/Howe/Roughead and he plays well in congestion (the pies game plan is based on pressure). He also matches up well against this mob. Would imagine Motlop would be the unlucky one to...

It’s an early call but LOB and Cottrell seem to be developing into capable wingers at AFL level. If they continue improving in the back half of the year, does that offset the desire to go and poach a known commodity like Karl Amon or Angus Brayshaw for example? I think it does. Maybe Sholl on...

Another confidence building win. Team effort with every player lifting after a 5 day break. Voss is instilling a real belief. Weitering- immense to destroy Buddy the way he did TDK- wow There is currently no more bottom 6, everyone is now pulling their weight. The most pleasing part of the...

Huge character-building win. GWS and the umps threw everything at us. We responded to every challenge and put them away in the last quarter. Haven’t felt this proud of the team in years. Normally if we lose a couple of players or if any pressure/adversity is applied, we would fold every time...

GWS have brought their own umpires. Charlie is being molested at every contest yet a free kick to them every time a finger is laid.

Very true. They seem to turn against the “outsiders” brought into the club rather than the Essendon born and bred types. In that case long may Dodo reign. Surely he has a few more trade week premierships left in him.

I liked the moment in the last quarter with 3 Sydney players were running unopposed into an open goalsquare. They really are a broken, front-running club. Rutten and Dodo better start watching their backs. * sure do love to blame everything on a scapegoat: Knights, the Weapon, Dank, Mark Neeld...

Judd’s fourth quarter goal in the 2013 EF vs Richmond. Special mention to Jack Newnes after the siren vs Freo.

Good to see we are targeting that sort of player. Personally I’d prefer one of the cheaper options, putting aside plenty of money to re-sign Harry and Charlie who are free agents next year.

Massive loss. But hope we get Harry right shortly after the bye for a big second half of the season. Reckon we rotate JSOS and TDK forward in Harry’s absence playing more of a traditional CHF role. Considering we have GWS Sydney Pies and Dons upcoming, none have elite key backs so Charlie can...

Funny how last year Robbo and Gerard were slamming us for conducting a review mid season. Crying out for months about how undue pressure was placed on the coach and players by the review. Now the same hypocrites are calling for a similar whole footy department review at round 7 when it’s a club...

Good to finally beat up on a team, even if they are dog****, we hardly ever to cruise to wins. Cripps, Saad and McKay were unbelievably good. We are seriously lucky to have them and all three should be in the AA team. Carroll was amazing on debut. Showed great composure and generally made good...

We had a terrible bottom 6-8 tonight. Setters too slow and zero presence. Fisher can’t stick a tackle. Don’t see what the coaches see in Boyd, looks a trier but that’s about it. Parks and Young get outmarked too easily (although Young did some good things). Newnes had a mare. Small forwards had...

King and Montagna are backpedaling hard after having been praising the bombers non-stop over the last 5 years. I still remember King called them the “Tullamarine Globetrotters” a few years back. They really are the PR footy club, have to win every trade, disgruntled players labelled as sulks...

A wins a win along with * getting pantsed have made my Easter. But gee squandering a 50 point lead is disgraceful. How many teams have actually won from 50 points down? I can only recall one in my lifetime (North v *). It would not surprise me if we played Port back into form over that second...

We’re still pretenders unfortunately until we back up our performance week after week. We just made the Suns look like a good side. Embarrassing to say the least. Our system and lack of urgency completely let us down. Huge pressure now on next week as this undid much of our good work this...

Reckon Stocker will almost certainly stay and he is the one we should be most keen to sign up. Kennedy, Dow and Setters will be very interesting watches. Hopefully we can keep all but we have depth and guys like Carroll and Kemp coming through. Then there’s Owies to come onto the senior list...

If Dow keeps performing well enough and consistently enough in the VFL then there’s no doubt he’ll get a chance in the seniors. Let’s hold off on the list management assessments/contract talks until Dow’s had a chance to prove himself under Voss’ game plan. He’s only 22 or 23 and once he builds...

Amazing game from Weiters. Glad he gets his moment of recognition with that game saving mark. Young was also fantastic considering it was his first game with us. Special mention to Durdin who gave us a spark when required and forced two red time behinds through sheer desperation. I’m taking...

Our mids and forwards should have hawthorn covered however we need avoid the same mistakes Port made last week. Port played with a lack of pressure and gave the hawks far too much room on the counter attack. We know Gunston and Breust don’t need many chances to make an impact. Lewis also looked...