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I don't think there's an organisation issue in the fwd line, I think it's more an expecting the ball on a platter issue - which by the way we are probably the best in the comp when it comes to that transition and finding forwards in space when we're on. Our problem is when it's not coming easy...

I agree partly that your method is set out to Curnow and Mckays strengths which is not a completely bad thing, but i also think that is an easy out. You can still make life easier for them with better efficiency because the second they are blanketed it's game over. Better ball use will not only...

I don't doubt your scores from turnover would still be on the higher end, but I think that comes from your sheer individual talent and contested ability - weight of those numbers are still going to get you winning scores on the board regardless of how bad your method can be at times. My point...

I've always been a curious Carlton watcher and want them to do well, but they're just not it let's be real. Top end talent is great, but they just can't string it together. Their game plan is poor, if there is one at all. In an era of run and gun footy they're just way too disorganized, and...

Sam Reid had a solid frame, expert timing and sticky mits. Logan unfortunately does not possess those traits. He has to try and become more than just a string bean lead up link up player - Hayward does that role to an extent already and is better at it because he has mongrel in him. Logan...

Round 0 and Round 1 absolutely we looked fierce, but i think beyond those two games we were a pretty average contested side and were winning games without it as a focus - maybe it was the energy of the beginning of a new season? Concerning part for me is when we started to slump Horse knew it...

I think what makes players dip in grand finals is veering away from basic footy. The magnitude of the game makes you do things you wouldn't normally do - and as counter intuitive as it sounds, one of those things is players being too tense and wasting energy in the contest in an effort to not...

This list is coming into its prime so I expect nothing but another granny. Question is whether the players can adjust to a new game plan. Sometimes style of play can be a bit embedded into players, so my concern is that adjustments may create inconsistency and potentially make us worse. At the...

I can imagine him scrapping for his life down there, and would be dirty as heck if he gets beaten. He's the most mongrel player we have, and I rate him highly unlike many. We need to find a way to get him into the 22 and firing.

I disagree re the above, Goodes could literally do everything. I would say the only thing stopping Goodes from doing the things Buddy could do was not playing him as a full time forward - despite that we still saw glimpses of it when he did play forward. Physically and athletically he had buddy...

In terms of pure football i am yet to see a more complete player than Adam Goodes. There's lots of nostalgia bias re players like Matthews and Carey, but imo Goodes is best footballer to ever grace the field - strong, athletic, tall, quick, imposing, efficient, multi positional, extremely strong...

Here we go. Just about every new swans recruit suffers a stress fracture in their first year. Swans say 4 months so that'll be him done for the next 12.

Whatever happens, this season will make or break Sheldrick. I honestly have no idea what to expect

To my eye it seems more like mental application rather than injury issues. It literally wavers qtr to qtr let alone game to game. He gets high off confidence when things are going his way or if he manages to take a couple of good grabs etc, but as a game meanders he just looks plain...

We'll be forced into playing another small to plug the hole left by Parker. If not Wicks then it has to be Campbell or Cleary until dattoli and Bowman are ready. Out of those 3 I think Wicks agility and tenacity definitely suits the role best. I don't really get him training with the backs...

Just my thoughts on this whole 3 tall forwards thing that keeps cropping up - I've never really subscribed to this 3 talls thing. Does it really exist? How often does all 3 of Logan, McLean and Amartey play in the same forward line? And to top it I don't think Logan really plays like a tall. I...

He's got a point to prove. I think we'll see vintage Taylor Adams next season

It's not what we do in the H&A, it's how we do it. Our season ended in round 15, we looked absolutely putrid from that point on.

The problem is we have players who 'can' play in other positions, rather we should have players that play in 'specific' positions. I'm sick to death of seeing positional musical chairs. It's something that has almost killed Campbell's career thus far. If i.e florent or Blakey is injured - I...

Unpopular opinion but i'm tipping the forgotten guys in Pete Ladhams and Wicks to make a big impact next season. Grundy's second half of the year was underwhelming and seemed like something was off even in his presence. Easy to forget Ladhams is only 26 i rekn he's going to unleash and take his...

Will be too late. There should be teams pulling the trigger right now. If i were Carlton i'd be asking him to name his price beyond next year and put Voss on the first plane home after round 23. I'd be doing the same if I were Freo, Port, Adelaide, North, Richmond, Melbourne, Tassie, Dogs, essendon

We had no depth to drop anyone. There were calls to drop Lloyd, Florent, Hayward etc all throughout the year but there was no one to bring in. Corey Warner was literally the only replacement for any of these guys and every time he played it was just an ok performance, got us no where...

The chicken will come home to roost with those that hold this opinion i think (although i hope not obviously). It's much easier being a mediocre club going through a merry go round of coaches, than a solid club. Law of averages says there will come a point where we will no longer be better for...

Feels weird, albeit very good timing in terms of our immediate future - i think the group would've felt a stale daunting vibe starting another pre-season on the back of that GF loss. And i rekn Horse felt that too. I am scared though, very scared. There is absolutely no doubt Horse has been the...

I didn't even know that. Never heard of him lol

The Parker era was over. We had to move on. And we did until him and Mills came back in as panic inclusions reverting us back to the same dour style that we thought we had moved on from.

Would it have turned the result probably not, but I'd be very very confident that Adams playing would've turned the game into a more even contest. Keep in mind it was only a couple of odd games that Adams wasn't overly effective in before being dropped - and he was the common denominator out...

I think it was more circumstantial than anything, the broken arm and heavy suspension had a lot to do with it. He probably would've been best 22 form the get go had those two incidents not occurred. And I still think Adam's contribution as the midfield in and under distributor played a huge...

Are they boosting his salary for next year too, or just the years after? Because if it's only for the extension portion of the contract then that's none of our business. NM are probably happy to pay exactly what they've offered him and nothing more, our portion is extra ontop of that which is...

Yeah I can't believe Parker came into a side that was humming, at which that point onwards we turned to shit. He got a game in the end purely based on reputation. Look Parker had clear and obvious attributes as a marking forward, but he was done as mid and his mobility has fallen off a cliff...