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I think he's going quite well. He's had two or three games this year where he would look back and think he could have done a bit better, but that's being fairly picky, and considering there is a new coach to adjust to, and that many players struggle in their 2nd year at the top level, I would...

He is the best player on our list. Three consecutive 30+ disposal, 10+ tackle games. That could be a record. He averages the most tackles per game in the comp this year, and is the 4th highest in average disposals.

Looks good when he gets it but not getting it that often. Probably still a bit behind in his fitness.

Seems to be doing less tackling and more getting the ball this year. One cancels out the other to an extent, but I think he's taken another step forward in his development.

Just to elaborate I would have put him in our top 10 best players. Was having more of an impact than plenty of others.

Looked about 5kgs lighter. Perhaps at the behest of Leppa.

Looks like the defender experiment is over. Struggling up forward too, but a small positive impact is preferable to a negative one. A lot of improvement required just to become a half-decent player.

Did as well as you could reasonably expect in game one. Well done Zac.

Leppitsch to Hanley: "that's more like it"

Just trying to describe where he's at. Most young key forwards tend to find it difficult early on in their careers, so I don't really think it is that harsh to suggest Close is struggling to make the grade at this stage.

Rather than comparing him to a team full of teenagers, perhaps a better comparison would be his own standards. Was it far from his worst?

His kicking wasn't as erratic as last week, but all year his hurt factor has been well down from previous years. Just hasn't been able to break defensive structures apart with his run like he's been able to before. There's no telling possessions where he sets up goals or kicks them himself, and...

Probably overplayed it a bit. Lindsay Thomas rarely uses his right foot, so Golby was entitled to anticipate him going on to his left. There was another incident where he could have shown a bit more urgency with a second effort. Then they had a go at him for smiling at half time which is...

He's not exactly setting the world on fire. Averaging four disposals a game from his four games (from memory he was subbed twice). He's not good at contested footy and I suspect he's not good at knowing where to run. Defensively he's above average, but overall he isn't producing much to get...

Cutler looks like he may have hit a brick wall. If it wasn't for the bye next week I imagine he would have been made the sub or given a rest.

The biggest positive that I could take out of the game was that Gardiner looked steady.

At the start of the year I thought Golby was valued very differently by the new coach (ie. Voss rated him, Leppitsch doesn't), but maybe Golby is just horribly out of form and Voss would have dropped him too.

Sometimes a player plays so badly that it you just can't see them ever making it. Reminded me a bit of Collier with his ability to make errors in every facet of the game. Experiment as a defender = massive fail.

Mayes had a shocker in the first half, but list management and even week to week selection decisions are made on a much bigger time frame. Mayes' future is not in jeopardy because this was a rare occurrence. We can predict with a fairly high degree of certainty that he's going to play much...

I bow to your judgement LOTR, as you had the better vantage point. But to elaborate on my point, the Bombers were distinctly slow in getting the ball forward, so our backline was not put under much pressure. I do recall a couple of fairly costly mistakes, and he does push the boundary in terms...

You seem to have changed your argument. First you justified his poor skills due to an injury and now you seem to be arguing that his skills haven't been poor at all. After ignoring my question it seems your only intent is to criticise my opinion, rather than providing clarity on yours, so it...

You say that like it is a given that a player who has missed two weeks with an injury will come back fumbling and shanking his kicks, and that I am being unfair and/or lacking understanding for mentioning it. Was that the intent of your sarcasm?

Seems to run and then when he is about to be tackled look for an option. Would like to seem him assess his options a bit earlier.

I would say yes. Bombers haven't kicked 10 or more goals for the last six weeks. I think his game was only so-so at best. I believe this will be his last year at the club.

I think his days are probably numbered. Whereas Voss seemed to focus more on a player's effort, Leppitsch seems to be more about a player's decision making ability. And I don't think Raines has it in him to improve his nous to a level that will cement him in a Justin Leppitsch coached side.

Zorko suffering from Rich's injury. He's now the poor bugger getting tagged.

You couldn't drop him now.

I'd love to know what he said to Carlisle. A bit of the Scott brothers in the way he approaches the game. Young players in the team will feel reassured knowing he's on our side. I think he adds a lot that can't be measured with statistics.

Every time he makes a mistake I envisage him yelling 'Jackson!' in disgust.

Skills have completely deserted him.