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If people watched the vision, you can see he gets these easy goals because: a) he impacts further up the ground and gets the reward b) works over his defender who can't keep up c) reads the play superbly to the point that he knows where to be

Wouldn't mind throwing him in a forward pocket, either. Has a boot and leap on him. Nice burst of pace, too.

Good delivery and look what happens.

All we ask for it genuine effort and desire.

Would be nice if we had forward 50 entires like in Q1 for more than just one quarter. Give our forwards a chance instead of bombing it to a 2/3 v 1 or dropping it at their toes.

Typical. Play one good quarter and think that's enough.

That 2022 draft is looking grim. After Pick 18 (Weddle), there isn't a whole lot of talent. Noah Long at 58 was a steal for West Coast. Easy with hindsight to say, but a baffling decision to trade back into the draft to take a small forward who hasn't really shown much apart from an appetite...

Not many other captains in the AFL publicly comment on a teams "fake toughness", only to back it up with back-to-back stinkers, including 9 clangers from 10 disposals against, arguably, the worst AFL team of the century. Don't get it mistaken. I love watching him when he's up and about, but if...

Ginnivan? The 21 year old small forward with a 40 goal season and a premiership under his belt already? He would be handy in our forward line. All we ask of players is to give 100% effort. And at times yesterday, Papley was certainly one of some who looked like they'd rather be anywhere else...

Needs to learn how to apply pressure and stick tackles consistently. All the best small forwards in the game (Cameron, Weightman, Pickett) are averaging 3.5-4 tackles a game and their pressure is relentless. Then you have Papley averaging under 2 tackles a game and only applying pressure when...

Unless you're not one of his favourites like Michael Talia or Wicks.

Worst captain's game of all-time just about from Papley. Offered nothing, throws his arms up when the ball doesn't get kicked to him. For a small forward, his ability to defend and tackle would have to be close to the worst in the AFL.

F**k Papley off to the reserves. Our supposed star forward and "captain"...offered absolutely nothing this season.

Zero Plan B once teams start shutting off the corridor. Just revert to bombing it long, as per.

Embarrassing, led by our "captain" for today who twice can't even tackle an 18 year old in his fourth game.

In: Adams, Wicks Out: Co. Warner, Mitchell No one else really banging the door down for selection tbh.

Not so much about the physicality but more about getting loud and chirpy after a decent win and then following it up with a stinker.

If our players are going to say things like this, they better back it up the next week.

2 talls + 2 mediums + 2 smalls has to be the way to go for us now. Need Konstanty to have a ripper couple of VFL games now.

Adams will be a handy inclusion next week. Felt like we lost 8/10 centre clearances.

Amazing what happens when a team has a forward line capable of laying tackles and applying pressure. A forward line of the three talls + Hayward + Papley does not know how to keep the ball inside 50. Zero desire from anyone to defend and apply any sort of pressure on transition. I feel bad for...

Should be illegal for Jack Riewoldt to be on Richmond games.

Zero pressure, zero desire to defend. Again, the lack of pressure forwards is telling. When we get the ball down there, we can't keep it in and they can go from end-to-end in no time.

I think that was more because Essendon threw Cox forward around halfway through the last quarter. We didn't have a tall enough matchup for him with McCartin, Melican and Rampe already occupied with other talls.

Watching the game back, was interesting to see Jye Caldwell's reaction to Draper running through the back of Lloyd. Clearly wasn't impressed at all. There's a different between hard and tough footy and "hard and tough footy". You think of Hawthorn in 2013-2015...they were uncompromising and...

3-4 seems about right. First home game, first home derby, final home game and any home final?

Watching live at the ground, Hayward's work rate was incredible. One minute he was deep forward, then the next he was running back with the ball to spoil it deep in Melbourne's attack. He and Fox as hard-running flankers who are threats up forward in the air and on the ground are great weapons...

Funny to see the Giants laud their latest debutant as an "academy" player. Grew up in the Riverina and played for the Oakleigh Chargers last year. It is the exact opposite of what the academies should/intended to do. 10 or so years running their academy and the only proper AFL-listed prospect...

Fox has to be in. Modern day LRT...can play multiple roles and do them well.