What would have been your alternative selections ?

Pros
We have improved since we played them in March.
Charlie C will be a star TICK
Cripps is a beast TICK
Docherty and Simmo gave their allTICK
Jones was excellent. Hardly lost a contest. TICK
Young Jack gives his heart and soul - will be very goodTICK
Plowman, Marchbank, Weitering all solid.TICK
Levi - great pack parking and presence around the groundTICK
Kreuzer - a great warrior.TICK
Cons
Murphy - looking for the cheapy, not a leader by example. If he is not injured then he needs to take stock.TICK
Smedts, Boekhurst, Graham, Pickett, Thomas not up to it. Boekhurst needs to stay in the team and get a good run at it. Graham was one of our more competitive inside players. Pickett needs a run at it. If that pass from Gibbs had have been two feet lower, Pickett kicks the goal. Thomas played OK
Lack of class.TICK Our bottom six need to improve.
Poor tacklingDOUBLE TICK

We have a young side. Bolton will help them learn from that.[color=#FF0000]He needs to learn from it as well. He didn't try anything at all. Could have tried Weiterng up forward and gone with a smaller backline. Could have put an extra man in the defensive fifty to cut off some of the easy short transverse passes that ended up shots on goal. Something. Anything. [/color]

A 2nd key forward to start with. Too often we go forward and no one tall is there.

Houli - reckless, high contact, high impact = ? weeks

There is a lot to like going forward. Richmond are at least a year ahead of us and their trades last season for running mids was a great move. That's what we have to learn from as well.

Did you cut and paste my earlier post?

I sat watching it knowing we were never going to win and had we pinched it, it would have given people a false idea of where we are at. The only time I was annoyed was when we missed an easy handball to run into the F50 and they ran the length of the ground four wide and kicked an easy goal.

There is a lot to like going forward. Richmond are at least a year ahead of us and their trades last season for running mids was a great move. That's what we have to learn from as well.

no I generally scroll your posts

Until Boekhurst is prepared to commit to the contest and take the physical contact that comes with that, he will struggle. I get the decent run at it but there are basic flaws in his game that he has not addressed since he arrived.

What a shit game

Smedts, Graham, Boekhorst, Pickett not AFL standard

Lamb taken out of the game early

Murphy, SPS, Plowman well down

Fumbles and missed tackles galore

......and we still could have won

Richmond are kidding themselves.

Only bright side is even when we are dead set shit we can be competitive against decent sides. That's about the only positive.

Sums it up. Samo not great today...actually since he won r.s.n.

I haven't seen the game.

I see one poster rated Jone's game. Who did he play on and how did he fare this week?

Regards Cazzesman

Graham set himself up for ridicule when he went back for a mark one handed. He shat himself in front of 70,000 people. His attack on a number of contests was weak and his kicking forward of centre was barely VFL standard.
Today showed our lack of depth. Pickett, Graham and Boekhorst lack the courage and intensity required to succeed at AFL level.
Smedts was poor but at least he put his head over the ball.