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Plenty of first year players aren’t quite ready. The pace of the game is high and he’s nowhere near his physical peak, which might be 5-6 years away. You get the odd breakout player most years from the first round but plenty of players who, like Sanders, have cameos but basically battle through...

They would have looked at the stats sheet, seen he kicked two goals, and moved on.

I think Sanders is a little bit more nimble than Wallis. I can see the potential. He can win his own ball and I’ve seen him use it well. There are plenty of players in that mould (Libba, M Boyd, Viney, Jordan Lewis etc) who have had outstanding careers, and Wallis probably would have too if...

I think English fought back a bit when the damage was done.

Could totally tell Freijah was going to do that.

No, the whole side is just playing awful footy.

Bont has made some shocking, uncharacteristic mistakes as well. Bad handballs etc. Easy to focus on the lesser lights but not many can hold their heads high.

Turning into a cursed match

Gallagher needs a spell

If this continues and we’re getting rolled just pull English. Lobb and Darcy can take over and at least put up some resistance. Really wonder what has happened to him. He’s never been super competitive but he just gets bashed by hacks regularly.

Pathetic opening. Naughton, VDM, JUH and Darcy all torched very gettable opportunities. They’ve made every post a winner.

It’s beyond bad. He must do a lot of practice on it. How can he just consistently miss the unmissable.

The talk about player discontent has been media driven horseshit, mostly because they thought there was blood in the water with Bevo. Club knew these re-signings were coming quite a while back.

Bevo is looking pretty fit again too. I saw him at the 2022 B&F and he just looked tired and a bit unfit. Here he looks like he’s ready to hunt down Barrett and flush his head in the Crown toilets all over again.

Expected score against Essendon had us win by a point but we played terrible football that night so I don’t see that as one that got away.

On current form, yes.

Patrick Wiggins slotting a dribble kick on the run from the boundary in his star performance against Melbourne was one for the ages.

Was at the McGuinness game. Looked very smart as a leading forward when we really needed one and never looked like it again.

Quite shocked by Libba. Worked hard but looked well off his best.

Kicked six in his second game but we won so it didn’t sting as bad as usual. Tutt debuted with four goals and 26 disposals too. Port fans used to call Butcher the Futcher.

Oh I hadn’t forgotten. And the article raised Anthony Morabito (desperately unlucky with injury but I guess that’s the point). Bont and Oliver seemed to buck the trend but Oliver now seems hellbent on restoring its status.

Pick four used to the be cursed pick. Bont has gone a long way to curing that. Previously Tim Walsh, Ryan Fitzgerald, Luke Livingston, Graham Polak, Tambling etc. Was a major outlier.

They should be replaced.

I actually have a bit of time for Clarko but in the heat of the moment he is often a sore loser. Straight after the 2016 semi he launched straight into the umps. It’s his one wood.

Well he incredibly didn’t take a single mark today, when it’s usually a strength, so it’s only upside there. He doesn’t have to become Dicko as far as set shot kicking goes, but Naughton has shown how much wayward key forwards can improve. If he puts the kicking and the marking together...

I suspect he tries hard and fitness might be a factor but look at his second efforts and defensive pressure compared to Naughton’s. He’s just not very intense. I’ve seen plenty of non-indigenous players called lazy or disinterested on this board before. Long bow to draw.

Watched him closely and he worked is backside off. Has had more games recently where he’s actually been ok offensively to match the work ethic. Have to give a bit of credit to Bramble too. The first half of the season was heart in mouth stuff any time he got the ball but he’s been a good ball...