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At this point Buss hasn’t developed enough to force his way into the AFL side - watching the VFL, he has not dominated against any significant opposition. This isn’t a criticism - he is in track to be very good but if he is complaining to his manager that he hasn’t played then his is in...

Should expect with family matters Marra would possibly not want to be so far away. Hope everything turns out OK for him. Assuming: Marra out, VDM available, Libba all clear. After a big win we don’t expect many changes. A bit will ride on today’s VFL games with eyes on the future in Clarke...

With English, Marra, Naughty, Darce - we can expect that one is injured every week statistically or by giving some a rest if not. For this season and the next he will play a lot of games if in form. He was great yesterday - I have not been a fan because he plays too many bad games and goes...

What is the view on the younger Darcy (looks a unit) and Oliver Grant?

Interesting that Essendon don’t have great talls particularly with 2MP out but what they are doing is playing a ruck forward. This isn’t really working for them but looking at our defensive height this an option for them: Ie Harrison Jones (196) and Goldstein (200) and then mediums Stringer...

Forgot Williams - so did Geelong. So JOD for Williams VDM to sub Macrae starting Controversial: - García for Bramble. Need the speed in forward line and in midfield. I like Bramble but I think with JJ and Bramble it just isn’t working and prefer JJ. I also think Duryea is a better...

Was by no means a bad effort or game. Scoreboard was probably a bit closer than the game really was Geelong had us for most of the game and then ran out of steam. The good and the bad was that a core mature group was mostly responsible for our competiveness but Geelong showed how a team only...

Am I the only one that reads a lot (ok maybe too much) into how the players sing the song? All last year and again yesterday they looked like they couldn’t care less and were completely out of breath/effort. In our better years we used to belt it out - delighted to be part of the team and...

I think many of us share mixed feelings. He is a top 10 draft pick who has had a number of games including finals where he looked every bit a star. A hard trainer and hard rubber. All reports were that prior to this year he was working very hard to get his body right for a big year// But then a...

So outs: Richards - concussion protocol Coffield - injury - was looking OK VDM - not good enough. Gallagher might have passed him already. García better - fumble too but gets the ball - if he stays fit you can not keep him out. Scott just a better player but must be injured. With Clarke and...

I do like Khamis and last week he was pretty good on a much ch taller player but a first glance it doesn’t seem we are setting our defence up to have the tools? King, Lukosius, Caboult and Walter - are all 195+ For our 195+ defenders we have….. Jones Khamis and Coffield are 190-192 - just...

Some decisions are easy (or should be) - Daniel for VDM (and promise to never play funny buggers again. Daniel got top 10 AFL points in a quarter not even close) - Macrae for Harmes (will be for suspension but in no planet is Harmes better than Macrae) - McNeil had a shocker but he did have...

So hard to watch. On what planet are VDM and McNeil better than Caleb Daniel. Or Scott- he is not flash but doesn’t constantly fumble and can play under pressure. I also get that Macrae is injured but I can’t believe how players that have never played good games get picked in front of stars...

Wings are the most uncertain role for us. For years we tried to make wingers - playing Williams, Smith*2, Macrae, Daniel, Trelor, JJ and many more - even talk of Lobb for a while - but what we all saw was a lack of outside speed and gut running ng to give width in the team. These players...

Marra is restricted and so we can match for him correct? Normally clubs work something out when someone wants to go - so still would be a big problem - except we have form. We can expect that managers leak this stuff out as part of putting pressure on the club to pay more - while players...