What is Aaron Mullett for if he can't kick 50m set shots? Didn't we get him in because of his excellent kicking, figuring it would make up for some other less than average qualities?

What is Aaron Mullett for if he can't kick 50m set shots? Didn't we get him in because of his excellent kicking, figuring it would make up for some other less than average qualities? Boyfriend had a couple of chances for real team lifters last night and flubbed his lines again.

My reasoning on Mullett is that I was happy we got him because he would give us outside run and quality delivery. I've been pretty disappointed with what he brings.

adelaide are a very good side, with a huge amount of depth with the right age group having the right amount of game experience ... they have a few injuries as well ... if they can get their heads right (a.k.a. get over the grand final loss of last year) they should be playing in a gf this year.

lets not underestimate just how good adeliade as i side is. they could easily go 2 gf's in a row. id suggest they played their worst game in two years against the tigers in the gf too, so we could very easily be talking about this side going back to back.

their first quarter was superb. just about the perfect quarter. one of the best exectued quarters of football i have seen for sometime.

i thought our second quarter was the best quarter of football we have played this year. we play like that for four quarters and we will win more games of footy than we lose.

its there. we have it, we just dont have the consistency from quarter to quarter let alone week in week out.

soem of the moves and players from dow/fisher/cripps where outstanding, mckay shows plenty in the forward line. Weitering is going to dominate the AFL, he jsut needs to believe. Hopefully he starts to build the confidence up (getting 17+ marks in the VFL should help)

its been an interesting process this year, but for the first time in a long time i feel like we have an actualy spine that we can build around.

weitering - marchbank - cripps - curnow - mckay thats 5 names that will play footy for 10 years! and now we have to build around that and we are.

i dont think its anywhere near as bad as the 0-7 sounds, but its going to be a tough year. Losing Docherty and Gibbs as hurt more than i thought it would.

You should not be disappointed by what Mullet is showing but why we ever recruited him. Given that he was dumped after many opportunities at North ... we knew exactly what we were getting. A 'C' grade footballer who probably would be an excellent player in the Northern Blues. Still a cut above most people playing football .. but not at AFL Level.
We have quite a few of them ... Mullet, O'Shea, Graham etc.

PLEASE ... no more C Graders from other teams.

Wasn't home so haven't seen any of the game.
I saw on the AFL website the following heading for the match review.
"Depleted Crows crush Carlton."
Seriously? Depleted Crows?
Wow.

Yeah, apparently Carlton can’t use injuries as an excuse, but every other team can.

Like your work Scott.............too lazy to come up with something myself but i reckon your summary is spot on.......................except i would like to add that you could exchange Kennedy with Jack.We seem to have a fascination with big midfielders at the moment..........Jack given time could fill this void.

Goal kicking us Crippa’s kriptonite.
Simmo has been a warrior, but his constant errors are killing us. The way things stand right now, if I had to choose, I’d rather Dale Thomas play on next year rather than Simmo.

I just watched game a day later, knowing the result.
Simmo directly created 5 goals for them through poor disposal.
And then he butchered a forward 50 entry that should have been a goal to us.
Get him to 302 and hopefully Willo will be ready to take his spot.

We are not really picking a balanced team. Can't really be expected to win with these line ups but i can see we need to get games into young players.

Need to get to the stage where we are not playing a second ruck. Chuck and H forward, K in the ruck, Jacob , Marchbank and maybe Jones/Rowe in defense. The rest angry onballer /flanker types that are fast and love taking the ball off the opposition .

We are not really picking a balanced team. Can't really be expected to win with these line ups but i can see we need to get games into young players.

Need to get to the stage where we are not playing a second ruck. Chuck and H forward, K in the ruck, Jacob , Marchbank and maybe Jones/Rowe in defense. The rest angry onballer /flanker types that are fast and love taking the ball off the opposition .