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Was going to ask if he was on the ground then I saw him mark it. His spot is safe while we have no other ruckman.

We have too much height in defence. No run out of there.

We need one less tall in defence at least. If we're going to be more offensive this year then we need more run. That way we can carry it through the guts quickly into our forward 50. Right now we still get stuck out on the boundary.

The CSC Best and fairest?
No-one's voted this week but she's still won it by a country mile!

It's interesting to compare the treatment of De Goey with that dished out to Shaw and Didak; a minimum of four weeks after they both lied to the club.

At the time, Nathan Buckley advocated a harsher penalty:

The conspiracy theory doing the rounds is that Buckley knew about De Goey's involvement in the fracas and the dog story was concocted by the club to try to protect De Goey.

So far we've got the leading goal-kicker covered, I'm assuming like the AFL the final doesn't count.

The Hun have named Bri as the games resident gun.

All we need now is the Rising Star and we've done pretty well without getting the ultimate chocolates.

Once again big tick.

With Bolton, I don't have any qualms about the personality type.  He is the sort of person you would love to work for as he seems hard but fair, supportive but even measured in terms of looking at inputs vs outputs.  Will praise the good stuff, and be constructive on the poor stuff, always linking it back to the values of the organisation.

We have a great manager of people.

What we don't know about is his ability to be an AFL senior coach.  Tactically, I think it's hard to mark someone with a younger group of players, as they are still in the process of implementation of system.  There will always be teething problems, particulary when compared to mature systems (i.e. Hawthorn, West Coast, Bulldogs et al) and there are always going to be the type of players that are incompatible with said systems that lurk around footy clubs which means that in can take time to get to a point where these players are no longer in the best lineup due to their ability to perform in that system vs their peers.  The perfect example of this is Levi.  He is easily a walk up start with us, but we need someone more competant in the ground level forward pressure, and finishing of work in that role.  Until we identify one, he weakens the system.

At the end of the day, I hope that we stick with Bolton, as we have a truly competant human being here, who even if he is short tactically of being a great AFL coach has all the attributes that should see him get there by the time his career is over (unless the Carlton Football Club culture has something else to say about it).

Under no circumstances, should we think that sacking Bolton is a good idea based upon what I have seen of him as a person, and his particular skill set and methodology.

Collingwood's had a long culture of this stuff, it won't be clear of it until there is forced change at the top.

The irony of McGuire slamming De Goey in the media while apparently taking little action beyond the average recovery period for a broken hand is not lost on anyone. Only the toothless hoards swallow that story.

And when he does that, our other fwds need to work their defenders over to create opportunities, to where Rance aint, inside 50. He'll only do it once or twice before he has to pay more respect to his opponent.

Yet all you MSM soaked sheep say we'll go backwards after a few JLT blow outs.

Shame the f.... on you.

Maybe start our tall forwards up the ground away from the goals so rance has to leave he's inner sanctum and play out of he's position on a back flank and play a curnow or a SOS at full forward. Cas and weits out side the forward fifty on the flanks. Upset there team structure. Just a thought

The AFL incompetence re AFLW grand final venue is breathtaking.

Am I missing something? Any well run organisation would have known the GF location by last weekend including all contingencies/backups etc. And how long ago did Adele perform in QLD?