..Pyke is in rare form, he's had the better of almost every opponent he's come up against, including within the swans, he's their number 1 now..

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aww..I love making up.
well, much as I love evil rossy....... (I suppose it's fine if he's coaching your team.)
I guess at the end of 2014..we'll see a bit better what's ahead.
I agree re rushed decision to get MM. I hope it works out.
I wanted to wait and try for Roosy..turns out he would have come to us last minute..but too late.(I think that's true..might be another rumour)
but..I'm on board for the boys.

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Bring in Terry Wallace...

Was there a big change in the Collingwood team in the final year that Tony Shaw coached and the team that made it to the Grand Final against Brisbane under Mick Malthouse?

Our current list is going nowhere. I really hope Mick makes some big changes at the end of the year.

Its funny cause you look at Hamson and he looks like he first picked up a football at 18, whereas you look at Pyke and it appears as if hes been playing footy his whole life. I'm wondering how much of it comes down to development and each clubs ability to bring out the best of the player, or maybe Hamson just wasn't cut out for footy.

As someone on radio this morning said.....Sydney have been training in this wet weather for awhile now; and were accustomed to the conditions; and.....we forgot the No.1 Rule in wet weather.....play in front....the wild kicks and the miskicks always drop short; and the man in front virtually gets the ball fall into his lap.

They also kicked the ball off the ground towards their goal, instead of trying to pick it up as we persisted in doing......fumble fumble.....ball gone.....

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At the airport now heading for Launceston for tomorrow's game.

Agree with J&K. It's a nothing year. If we get a cheap finals win over a traditional rival. Bonus. The emphasis is largely on how well we perform in the off season. Not convinced that the culture of the club has changed enough that would allow for us to be aggressive and proactive in the trade window. I'll even settle for them to realise that delisting ten blokes won't solve anything and that we at least rationalise retaining 3-4 of them and making a go of them.

Gibbs had a good game but he's a deadset liability with his refusal to play third man up. Cost us a goal early on and should have another were it not for fortunate umpiring.

Bootsma plays every week for rest of year for mine.

Don't understand the "Lucas for (insert my favourite player here who will suddenly go from VFL shitkicker to making us a four goal better team)". Whoever your answer is doesn't play the same role, is Dylan Buckley and doing very little in the VFL or Frazer Dale of the VFL seconds. Anyone Else is an overrated hack sometimes.

I hope we're looking for a ready made replacement for Scotland. Folly to have him go on next year in this form. Can say with a straight face that Davies would have offered more.

Garlett needs to be better than that. Looked defeated by halfway thru the second quarter. Conditions don't suit me, bigger this, cue in rack...

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Gibbs was excellent, one incident of not going third man up doesn't make a game.

Waite not hand balling to running players in the 3rd and having a speculative shot was far worse.

Issue with lucas isnt his ability to get the ball - it never has been.

Rather, it iss the consistent lack of body pressure/physical presence and regular shanks (not just bad kicks but really bad ones) - for mine, I'd be quite happy to rotate through other players that might not get the ball as much but have more consistent skills (ie buckley) or even to have someone like garlett/simpson to take his role in the team and to find their on field replacements elsewhere (mcinness/menzel/buckley/yarran)

I'm not defending Lucas, rather the match committee that pick him every week.

If Buckley or Dale start performing like they deserve senior selection, by all means, see ya later Kane, GTFO. Until then, he plays a role that no one else is putting their hand up for, or are performing a more serviceable role elsewhere. At the very least, we're polishing a turd for trade week.

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This was a key moment; hungry Jarrad Waite.

They most likely would've run into an open goal.

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and missed from 15 metres out

Kicking into the man on the mark was just as bad. Under 10s stuff.
Carlton had momentum and Sydney took it up the other end and goaled.
Same old, same old....

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I had the exact same thought. Sloppy player.

We don't play as a team. We are still a bunch of individuals when it comes to a lot things.
I guess that comes with having many top picks.

sums up waite's career really.

takes a super contested mark in persistent rain and then...... brain fade

..Waite isn't a key fwd leader/general type.. ..he's a good 'touch' tall flanker, and can take good marks especially at pace.. ..but he's more likely to run to the pockets, he runs into space far more often then he leads directly at the ball carrier.. ..its why i think of him as more flanker than KPF.. ..given his age and fragility, we need not just a replacement for him, but a real KPF.. ..Hendo up fwd does have smarter running patterns, and leads at the ball carrier..

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I've said it before. When Bell came to Carlton in his first preseason he was outstanding in the run around Princes Park...2nd or 3rd after Curnow.
So lets get real about his endurance. He may have appeared slow when you saw him int he 2's 3 weeks ago, but his training load may have hindered him a bit for all we know.

He has also run out games he's played in the seniors. I think its decision making that is holding him back....he gets caught a fair bit, and his foot passing is sometimes astray....his kicking for goal is quite good and in the preseason kicked a 9 pointer and nearly got a 2nd.

He has some weapons and needs some developing. Yes his engine can improve. He's young and has a future.

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Put Pyke's form aside. We know his talent has been manufactured from intense development at the Swans Academy.
Lets not forget this guy in good form is up agaist a No 1 Draft pick who has played the game since day dot.....and it wasn't ideal conditions for talls.

So BKB tell me how you think Kreuzer went against Pyke?
And, how do you think Kreuzer play?
Anything excite you? Anything disappoint you?
Do you think he should have taken those 2 chest marks he dropped when he was on his own?

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