I wouldn't play Harry anywhere near the ruck.

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O say does that star spangled banner yet wave.

funny thing is I thought Harry's best 2 games this year were the first two - when he was proving a chop out.

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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!

Who's the second ruck?

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

Does it really matter ? ...

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"Truth, for the tyrants, is the most terrible and cruel of all bindings; it is like an incandescent iron falling across their chests. And it is even more agonizing than hot iron, for that only burns the flesh, while truth burns its way into the soul"     — Lauro Aguirre

Tony Moclair has our measure. TC mentioned on the Two Tones podcast as being full of bitter middle aged men.

We didn’t lose the game at the selection table. We just didn’t play to our strength. Lost our structure in the forward line and delivered into the f50 was even worse than structure. Devastating loss.

Tony’s an old friend of mine

We had that conversation last time I saw him.

I might be his prototype...

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

Playing Casboult to permit Harry to avoid being ruck relief is poor team selection strategy. Perhaps you could justify it if we only had 2 forward KP's but to do so when we have Harry, Charlie and McGovern all playing and Lobbe in the ruck leaves us too tall and slow. Especially when the team is clearly bereft of effective smalls playing in the forward line that can respond to the spillages and/or lock it in the forward line when the ball hits the ground

Of greater benefit is to have another option in the middle and allow us to bat deeper there. Compete more and for longer in the midfield.

I'm not saying selection was the sole contributor to our loss but it was a sh!t start

We’re famous.

Hi Tony! *waves*

Loved your work on Crud.

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

I don't think he gets enough sleep...

The forward setup was a cluster!@#$

The positive is we should never see anything like that again.

Yes. If posters are going to can the MC for player selections, their views are hollow if they cant come up with credible alternatives.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

I have some credible alternatives - but Silvagni didn’t recruit them.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Hope so Rexy!

And if McGovern had been standing on the goal line with ten seconds to go, we would have won.
Then we would have won that game at the selection table.
We lost the game because the forward setup of three talls didn't work.
It didn't work because they weren't in the forward line when we needed them to be.
Three talls would work if they were in the forward line when the midfielders had the footy on the wing but as one in particular damning bit of footage shows from last week, we had the ball outside fifty and Harry was sprinting with his back to the footy, away from the ball carrier back to where he should have been.

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

That's reality Surrey.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

Who?

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

That is one of my gripes with my talented 11 yo.

Ive been telling him for years, and will continue to till the penny drops.

Make yourself an option. You can't do that if you don't look to where the ball is coming from or it will hit you in the back of the head.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

Not talking about me.
I'm well past middle age.

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

And I’m not bitter. (Twisted maybe, but not bitter )

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Our tradition demands success!