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Have to agree with your summation DG , we looked off the pace all day, but don’t take a lot out of scratch match results , however would have liked to see a little more system than I did. Thought I saw Foley early but maybe picked up something and went off? Wagenknect also went off and didn’t return so maybe Edward’s was left to do majority of the rucking and ran out of puff? Thought Archer May showed something ( only played second half) and Mullane was probably our best over four quarters. Definitely not our best team or performance, but South were too good and lucky they didn’t kick straight! 
As with BC a couple of us also mentioned it could be a long year and the fact I have booked an overseas holiday for September this year means I would be surprised if we are in the finals! 

Yes not much system out there Jjim. I think Foley was out there for a little bit, I must have missed him.
Wagen limped off just before half time and Mayo took his place in the ruck for a short time before finishing up at half time. After that it was left to Edwards for the second half, but James rucked all day and killed us.
A bit of a concern May kicked half our score, one from a strong pack grab and good long kick and the other from a nothing into something snap. We should do better with May and Mayo out there at the same time plus Borchet back

Wasn’t a great day to be a forward. Hate to see the stats for forward 50 entries, would have been plenty to not many. We will at least have some height in the forward line with Borchet, May and Mayo all there.

All starts in the midfield tho and we were smashed there, hopefully Greg Clark back soon to provide some drive. 

Good to see Braut and Clark named but no Lockyer or Savigni and looking very thin in the midfield rotations.

FF 10 Jack MAYO 14 Ryan BORCHET 9 Archer MAY
HF 18 Jordan FARAONE 3 Taj SCHOFIELD 16 Joshua ROBBINS
C 5 Jordan SNADDEN 1 Greg CLARK 23 Judd KELMAN
HB 28 Connor FARAONE 25 Michael BRAUT 7 Noah ASH
FB 26 Regan MOTT 31 Henry BERENGER 30 Patrick MULLANE

FOLLOWERS
20 Jedd EDWARDS
6 Stefan GIRO
4 Jack COOLEY

INTERCHANGE
44 Corey BELLOUARD
8 Lachlan HENDERSON
27 Campbell HENDERSON
15 Wil HICKMOTT
13 Liam HICKMOTT
19 Rory MURISON
54 Lachlan O'KEEFE
36 Jarrod RICHARDS
58 Hudson WALKER
56 Wesley WALLEY

Thanks BC. I might pop over to Claremont oval. Think we had our season launch last night.

Can you give us a bit of a report JL? I can't get down there tomorrow cheers

We'll, what to say? Taj looks to be moving nicely. That was probably the best thing. Generally they looked pretty fit. Claremont just looked bigger and stronger. 

Our new Ruckman is a big boy. He makes space around the drop of the ball. Mayo did some rucking and stood up in the forward line. 
Number 58, possibly O'Keefe or Walker, showed something. Ditto number 26, possibly Mott. Giro moved well but turned it over. Definitely an addition, though. Henderson needs to get some pants that don't fall down. Seriously, the elastic was broken or something.

​​​​​We're going to need some natural improvement in some of our honest fringe players . May looked physically impressive but didn't do a hell of a lot. Cooley didn't set the world on fire but looked neat enough. Our kicking is still suspect. 

Hopefully we're competitive. By the way, our futures were destroyed by Claremont on Friday night. That's not promising.

Cheers JL. I thought we might have done a bit better than that looking at the teams on paper, and to think they had hunter in the magoos bagging a lazy 6.4.
They destroyed us in the magoos too, by almost 100, hopefully our colts fare a bit better tomorrow

Thanks for the summary JL , looks like a more competitive effort on paper than last week. How did Michael Braut go after being out for a year? 

I didn't notice Braut at all. Apparently he was out there at some stage. Hopefully not injured again.