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Frothy wrote:

There is a big gap between our good players and the rest. Hopefully they will develop over the rest of the year. The forwards seem to have no frigging idea what they or the midfielders are doing. How many times were the inside 50’s easily intercepted by EP marks by players on their own?
Apparently Subi lead the comp for inside 50’s, what a damming statistic!

We are 4+ good vfl/sa recruits away from getting back up there Frothy, as Whinnen said re swans in another post 

We lost this one in the time on period of the 3rd where we fell asleep for a bit

Spot on DG, those 2 goals just before 3/4 time and the first in the last were the killers. The boys played it right out to the siren so thats a positive. how much are we missing a fit Lockyer and Gus, plus that extra tall forward in kentfield

I get it that all teams have their injury problems during a season, but how much are we missing the stability and cool heads of Locks and Gus down back and the pace and vigour of Giro, Hayden and Braut through the middle? With any or all of those guys fit and firing, I think we'd be sitting a lot better than we are now.

BC the problem is how many of them are we going to see again at all. I'm confident of Giro but not sure about the others

Hate to sound like a broken record,  but we desperately need a ruckman who can compete with the monsters like Scott Jones . Kody Eaton tries his guts out but is severely outsized and therefore we are behind the eight ball from each bounce down. 

We can only hope that they are on the hunt for one Jjim

DG wrote:

BC the problem is how many of them are we going to see again at all. I'm confident of Giro but not sure about the others

Good question DG.  If I were a betting man, I'd say probably only Hayden and Giro.

As an aside and not on topic, given Simpsons been given the flick from the Toasters, wonder if Schoey will get the gig, or if he even wants it??

I reckon a straight swap with The Eagles would be the go. They take Wardman and we take Simmo.