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He's kicked 3 goals for the season. 16 last season from 22 games. Jed has kicked 2 goals this season, he's played 1 game less (plus got subbed out pretty early through another) He kicked 14 last season from 20 games. Switkowski is the superior player, but there's not a huge difference in goals.

Yup he looked slow and totally off even before the injury.

Can add Harley Reid to the list. Loves raising the arm.

It was a reply to your direct reference to Hinkleys comments in the training video, where he was specifically talking about one particular type of play. That's the context. Nothing more.

Amazing how people can't understand context.

As I said, Dixon rarely loses the contest. (yes, he lost it many times against Freo) I haven't seen enough of Sweet to know better, but I doubt he would have the ability to neutralise contests like Charlie does. Infact, very few players do. You only need to look at our defence and how often...

Considering he was subbed off, I don't know how that's possible.

Georgiadis a few times.

I think people don't understand his role to the team. It's simple - we are a team that typically dominates stoppages. We have great success at forward stoppages in particular. Kick high and long to Charlie. Best case, he clunks a mark. Next best case, he brings the ball to ground, where Rioli...

Believe it or not, it happens in our game more often than you think. My point is that it doesn't happen to Charlie very often.

Yup - he's what we wish McEntee could be.

MG did play in preseason and the SANFL etc. SPP only played 1 preseason game and then no SANFL - so is at least 5 recent games behind. No surprise at all. I was expecting him to be our sub.

After seeing him do that to Banfield, I was surprised to see Switkowski give it a go as well.

Charlie may not win many contests, but he rarely gets beaten. More often than not, he neutralises the contest, which is great for our forward half game. As long as the opposition defender isn't outmarking him or playing off him, it's a win for us. Against the Dockers, he got beaten and Pearce...

When we're playing well and the game is on our terms - all our good attacking play and transition comes from Houston, Burton and Farrell overlapping. When you have 3 of them with that ability, it makes it very hard to shut down. Williams isn't mobile enough to do that overlap. His ball use is...

Yes, i'm sure the coaches told him to bomb it to contest and ignore a lead up forward. :rolleyes:

The question to the post I quoted was IF Dixon wasn't playing.

Charlie rarely loses contest. That is his biggest strength. He may not win them all that often either, but how often do opposition defenders outmark him/outright win the contest? Rarely. But Pearce did, consistently - and then rebounded off him. Not suggesting we drop him, but we need to be...

Not as simple as that. Then Pearce moves to Marshall and Ryan to MG etc. Dixon is great for structure, we just need to use other options when that option is not working.

What about the dangerous tackle that wasn't? Resulted in a crucial goal didn't it

Possibly - wasn't even a smile or any reaction at all. It made me think he'd missed the ball when kicking it initially.

Did anyone notice that in the third, Finlayson soccered through that goal and had zero celebration? Just looked like something was wrong. I suspect the incident had just occurred around that time

Watch Footy Classified, Caro suggested it happens all the time, and two former players didn't deny it/correct her.

This sort of language happens all the time in the AFL, the only difference is that an umpire caught this one and on the mic. Was talked about on footy classified and it was said that these words had likely been used multiple times this season. Is it ok to do so? no. But you cannot sack...

Charlie can go into the middle, but it's a significant injury risk on him. Of course you take that risk in a final mid-game. Would you go into a final with just Soldo and Charlie as the ruck pairing? No. Either we bring Sweet in and park him forward ala Finlayson, or we play Soldo forward...

Ridiculous how long it's taking to come down with a verdict. He's admitted to it, so there's no "investigation" needed. Port need to plan for their next game.

On principal, Lloyd is spot on. But you're also right - it's one that's likely to annoy Port but not cause an appeal.

Interesting analysis

Laverde. They were butting heads early in the game about something. Rioli then took Laverde out in a marking contest and really shook him up.

I thought the word used by Finlayson was F****t In any case, they're all words that are commonly used on the football field as Caro has said. The difference is that this was caught by the umpire and his mic. Knowing all of this, it would be incredibly harsh to suspend him.