No mate, I wasnt mixed up, I was being facetious, highlighting Watson incredible midfielder like agility below the knees

There wasn't anything official or even rumoured to have occurred. I suggested that Melbourne's second pick for Murphy was fair.

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BLUES 2010: PAV AND JUDD = FLAGS. DOING IT FOR THE LOVE OF DICK PRATT.

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Most teams will struggle with loosing 2 players so quickly. Plus Jamo with one arm against an inform Roo and Murph on one foot. When your structure gets stuffed up like this its easy to loose your composure. The key problem was that we for one half let them play their game plan and bomb it blindly. I still think it was one of these days where everything goes wrong form the first minute (Jamo's shoulder popped in the first minute).

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TC suffers from the social media illness - the death of respect and constructive discourse by keyboard.

....huh?

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Thanks Lowey - that puts it all into perspective.

Hammer time cops a lot here, however I think he plays best when he is the second big guy in the forward line. He came good when Hendo went down there. Hammertime will at least make a contest and can take a contested mark.

Until someone else steps up, Hammertime will still be in our selected side. Unfortunately CazBolt, Mitchell, Krooze, Rowe etc are not putting enough pressure on the selectors to make a change.

Possibly Waite and Hendo could be the new tall forward options however Jamo is a concern and Hendo will need to go back.

Krooze is disappointing and for a big guy lacks presence in a marking contest. He hardly smashes a pack and doesn't launch himself. He is happy to try and ruck rove a high ball contest.

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It is not as bad as you are lead to believe.......it is %$#^& worse!!!

Casboult is a million times better contested mark than Hampson, and he much more agile as well. The only things Hampson is good at is rucking and running in a straight line, and he is probably third in line as our ruck.

Did you notice how he took that mark in the last quarter? It was horrible to watch, he just stood there and stuck his arms straight in the air, all tense and rigid, the ball just happened to hit his hands. There was no anticipation of the ball being received into the hands, ie no soft hands concept, and no sense if timing his grab, this is why he is so easily spoiled and often completely misses the ball.

Couple that to the fact he also doesn't know when it where to lead to and constantly runs to the wrong position.

As much as i admire the guy for making it as far as he has I just can't see him as a key forward.

But He's a nice guy

Damn, and the Comedy Festival just ended too...

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Mistakes:

3 ruckmen - @#$%&! me dead! Have we learned yet? Finally? Perhaps also it might be understood its not just that the 3 ruckmen are useless in the one team but then the pressure that puts on all the other players to cover for them puts everything out of whack. Trade 1. Do not care which. Really do not. Just trade 1 and move on.

Yarran - @#$%&! I hope MM wanted Yazz to learn about team cos I hope Yazz declared himself fit and not the medico's. At Least then Yazz might learn to be honest in his assessment about himself. If he was tight and pretended otherwise perhaps next time he will not pretend. Otherwise its just us picking players you are not 100% and watching the horror.

Kruse - Looked as if he should not have been near a ball (or a player that might hit his thumb) last night, particularly early. And playing him forced us to give Warnock long periods off the ground and this doesn;t work for Warnock. He plays most of the time as 1st ruck or not at all in my book.

Waite - make him CHB play hendo CHF cos Waite needs to earn his place.

Then we had
Jammo pops a shoulder and plays injured because he had to ( 3 ruckmen + stupid decision on Yazz plus Ellard's injury and Murph's injury).
Murphy's foot. he is copping a pasting on her and perhaps justifiably but @#$%&! that must have hurt last night.
Ellard. Damn. Particularly with 3 ruckmen, Damn Damn Damn.

Those five things took the game away. It took away run and spread and the damage we could do to them. This was lost at the selection table. What the hell were they thinking????

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Like I said, if the above is true then Casboult needs to start proving it. Casboult was a long way off when tried at senior level.

I would love to see some pressure come from the other guys.

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It is not as bad as you are lead to believe.......it is %$#^& worse!!!

Crap work by the MC and Crap work by the coach (not surprisingly ... )

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I am as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!!!

I've been around long enough. I roll with the punches.

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Congratulations CK95

Yarran should not have played.
Kreuzer should not have played.

Early injuries hurt but the team didn't look switched on from the start and between blindly bombing it forward and the tall forwards being ineffectual it's a miracle the scores were so close at the end.


Milne is the biggest flog in the AFL bar none.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

No Lucas is not in the same street as Gibbs, we all bag him but we bloody missed him tonight.

Lucas is just a front runner who gives very little to the side, he can't hold a tackle, won't go when it is his turn, butchers the ball almost every time he gets it and to add insult to injury the only time he looks ok is when he is in space, but what does he do? He holds on to it too long or takes another couple of bounces completely @#$%&! up the leads players have made up the ground and allowing opposition players to get back to fill holes.

Like I said out the front on hard rubbish day, although they probably wouldn't take him either as it would be HARD rubbish day.

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I really don't think it was a case of the small forwards being terrible, as a team we payed no respect to the opposition and suffered for it,

St Kilda sat a spare bloke back all night, and we did nothing to even the numbers up and make that bloke accountable, poor coaching, St Kilda ran hard defensively and were able to block up space and get numbers back which as has been predicted by people on this board killed any chance the small forwards had of being creative, losing Yarran compounded the problem and have Megan Hampson in the forward line was just a waste of time, would have much preferred Rowe to play, I still don't understand why he was originally dropped before Shaun Gale.

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Yep agree was harsh. But Gibbs needs to come out and fire. That means winning his own ball. He should play forward when he is back.

St Kilda's spare man worked so well because it was lobbed directly on his head all night. I could've picked up 20 possessions and 10 marks playing for St Kilda by just plonking myself 30m out from goal. How many times was the ball bombed into a pack of three Saints without a Carlton player in the same camera shot?

Panicky, stupid forward entries not helped by key forwards who lead once then think their work is done.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

Frank I agree with you about all of the others, there are only a couple that can collect their pay for last night and say they earned it, but Lucas is copping justified stick, his willingness to do the hard things has been in question for a long time and he has had ample opportunity to work on it with no result, I would much rather play someone like Bell or Buckley in that role and at least know that they are going to crack in rather than make token efforts.

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We are the maybe blues

Eddie had the fumbles all night

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