Higgins and Butler, why are they constantly being played in the same side? In fact why is Butler best 22 he did NOTHING last year.

The_Dud wrote: ↑Fri 18 Mar 2022 9:53pm Higgins had literally cost us 4 goals

Swap for Sharman

All AFL predictions just pick the ladder from the year before. If they don't they get ridiculed for being ridiculous. No one believes anything until they see it.

So trade the best KPP we've had in 10 years, who hasn't missed a game since debut, because we have loads of other players who play in that position?

For a draft pick?

Midfields win premierships. Even Lockett or Abblett Sr couldn't find a way of winning a flag. Abblett Jr on the other hand... If we pass on Petracca it will be a mistake. After this year how can we not see it's more important that your midfield can pass the ball as opposed to your forwards being ab...

Not like they were bad/weak tackles either. That 2nd quarter was complete domination for nothing.

Was Membrey any better?

I like his intensity especially in the last minute of the game. I would keep him for next week and if DMac is to come in I wouldn't play him in defence, I like him further up the ground or not at all.

What the **** was that? Was literally struggeling to stand up and because he was injured he lifted his leg and that means a 50 metre penalty because of the man-on-the-mark rule. Do we seriously want this in our game?

What's funny is reading ridiculous comments like OP and hearing the likes of Wayne Carey right off a season on the back of 2 losses and a win.

Well zone defending isn't going to work that well when nobody runs. But I noticed it too for the whole game I was wondering when we were going to man up and stop giving Essendon so much space and the easy overlap handball.

That's just the new AFL rules screwing with the game. Now they're telling umpires that if a player walks off their line they should call play on AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

I always rated Hickey. He was a young ruckman who did some nice things, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the only reason we traded him was because he was one of the few players we had who actually had any value.

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Not sure how posters are so confident in Roberton. Played round 1 and didn't exactly get noticed. If he was anywhere near his peak form that everyone remembers he would have played again this year.

> Important for the group to develop belief in tight situations. Except it wasn't working whatever they were doing. Sure we won, but how lucky we were the dogs missed a few in the last. Same thing happened against Freo and North where we tried to chew up time. Long down the line hardly ever comes o...

There's nothing wrong with staying in position. If all of our players dropped back every time we lost possession there's no one up the ground to go fast on the rebound. Worked smarter not harder.

> Important for the group to develop belief in tight situations. Except it wasn't working whatever they were doing. Sure we won, but how lucky we were the dogs missed a few in the last. Same thing happened against Freo and North where we tried to chew up time. Long down the line hardly ever comes of...

Man that 2014 draft was a disaster

It's painful to see my uninformed opinion on this draft from 2014 come true. I mean I was a naive 23 year old from Adelaide who knew it was the wrong choice.

But let's not forget that McCartin was an excellent player and could have been something.

I'm pretty sure every single player was beaten by their opponent in this game.

We should have lost this game. All the stats say so and I think this was one of our worst performances of the year and GC performed at their best. Without that freak Butler we would have been smashed.

I'm not so sure Hunter Clark has a non-preferred.

Ken Hinkley the next coach to bitch about the umpires. Watch his press conference. I agree with most of what he said because the rules shouldnt change week to week, but what specifically was he talking about when he said this was a 'strange' game?

At the game and extremely frustrated with how we refuse to switch the ball. Constantly kicking long down the line, but on the other side of the ground is miles of space and loose St Kilda players. We will be 10 goals down against a decent side.