Yeah Doc made a couple of rushed errors but he was great all day and put himself in great positions to win the ball when it counted before rushing his disposals. I am super happy to have him back.

We did manage to win games in the 2nd half of last year after poor starts but the same poor starts cost us against Melbourne and the Dogs too, where we lost both by 3pts. Even against Richmond last year we were down 6 goals to nil and were within 16pts very late. Melbourne and Richmond games were de javu from last year. Enough now of poor starts and comebacks, no praising them for a long time as we see it too often.

Am I the only person that thought betts added something to the team?

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The team is below average in ability
Simple as that
As I said many times the trading out of 5 players and picks for Setterfield and Mc Govern was ridiculous particularly given the team’s performance in 2018 was dumb list management
Both have been ordinary
Throw in Kennedy O’Brien and Dow who were recruited around this time.
How Lang gets a game who was also recruited around this time
ahead of half a dozen others is mind boggling

What to do in 2020
Play as many players as possible. I want to see Philip Honey Ramsay get some games. I want to see Teague show some balls and drop blokes who play ordinary
Start with SPS and Cuningham
Both are soft and were crap today
SPS I think has never been dropped he has had a charmed ride
How Cuningham got a 3 year contract is mysterious
His output has been ordinary he lacks mongrel l

Play guys in different positions
Play McKay up the ground
Martin in the middle
Try different things
What’s there to lose other than finding something

Look to the future without sentiment
Give a youngster some time and drop Simmo
Bring him back the last couple of games. He deserves that

Bringing Betts back to the club makes no sense in terms of playing
He is stopping a youngsters development
He looks past it to me. He was on the way out last year

Keep playing Murphy unless his form drops off but if he want to play on 2021 say no

Largely agree, we are below average with talent, and that’s shown by having Newnes, Lang, Cuningham and a cooked betts being close to automatic selections.

We need to think in different ways and be creative to acquire talent. We seem to copy strategies of elsewhere rather than finding our own way and pouts of difference.

We have begun a path which at least gives us a way forward hit we have an awfully long way to go, it’s possible we don’t even leave the bottom 6 with this group of players unless we improve on and off the field in a big way.