Just a few points about Dow.

1. Dow has consistently been our best reserves player over the last year and a half and you would expect he would get a run of games when our midfield has under performed.

2. Dow adds burst speed around the ball ... something we don't have much of.

3. Dow not getting a game sends the wrong message to the entire playing group. Players need to be rewarded for performance and it smacks of Voss playing favourites. This can really white-ant a team. Other players have done a lot less to be promoted.

The team needs to be less predictable. Dow add another flavour and I wish he was playing today. I am not saying he will be a success but he deserves a decent chance.


I am hopeful our last half against the Dogs has educated the team and we play much better today.

Go Blues!

Just a few points about Dow.

1. Dow has consistently been our best reserves player over the last year and a half and you would expect he would get a run of games when our midfield has under performed.

2. Dow adds burst speed around the ball ... something we don't have much of.

3. Dow not getting a game sends the wrong message to the entire playing group. Players need to be rewarded for performance and it smacks of Voss playing favourites. This can really white-ant a team. Other players have done a lot less to be promoted.

The team needs to be less predictable. Dow add another flavour and I wish he was playing today. I am not saying he will be a success but he deserves a decent chance.


I am hopeful our last half against the Dogs has educated the team and we play much better today.

Go Blues!

I have that day game optimism again. Foolishly so.
We will win this game because Voss will tell the players to take the game on and run and Coll won't be prepared for this new style of play. Blues have been training this for a few weeks.

More chance of Oscar McDonald coming back to bite us than Dow.

The absolute fantasy of bedwetters in here thinking Dow will be the reason Voss is or isn't coach is ridiculous. Like speculating over David Parkin's future because we let Jacob Anstey walk to the Saints.

2. Dow adds burst speed around the ball ... something we don't have much of.

Agree esp Point 3

Hardly unifying

Just a few points about Dow.

1. Dow has consistently been our best reserves player over the last year and a half and you would expect he would get a run of games when our midfield has under performed.

2. Dow adds burst speed around the ball ... something we don't have much of.

3. Dow not getting a game sends the wrong message to the entire playing group. Players need to be rewarded for performance and it smacks of Voss playing favourites. This can really white-ant a team. Other players have done a lot less to be promoted.

The team needs to be less predictable. Dow add another flavour and I wish he was playing today. I am not saying he will be a success but he deserves a decent chance.


I am hopeful our last half against the Dogs has educated the team and we play much better today.

Go Blues!

Just a few points about Dow.

1. Dow has consistently been our best reserves player over the last year and a half and you would expect he would get a run of games when our midfield has under performed.

2. Dow adds burst speed around the ball ... something we don't have much of.

3. Dow not getting a game sends the wrong message to the entire playing group. Players need to be rewarded for performance and it smacks of Voss playing favourites. This can really white-ant a team. Other players have done a lot less to be promoted.

The team needs to be less predictable. Dow add another flavour and I wish he was playing today. I am not saying he will be a success but he deserves a decent chance.


I am hopeful our last half against the Dogs has educated the team and we play much better today.

Go Blues!

I hear you BBW, and you state the obvious possibilities, but lets be mindful, you state the reasons for Dow, and to me that's one sided. There's another side to the story.

Voss said from the outset, players will train and play for positions, and Dow happens to be low on the pecking order for his inadequacies.

Sure there's players who have shown less than Dow, eg Honey, but Honey is no threat to Dow for a role in the midfield and Dow is certainly no threat for a HF.

As for point 3 ... can't blame the non selection of dow for our form this year, and I seriously doubt it is because of disunity.

Dow accumulates, but doesnt distribute, and he doesnt run hard. He jogs. If he played in the AFL like his VFL form as a mid we would want his head....and after the Swans praccy game, with his pitiful half hearted efforts, it was his head. H

Like I said earlier, he had form for the first 3 games, and that's when he shouldve been picked but we were undefeated at the time. He had a chance against the Swans to polay round 1.