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And Sumner yesterday went back a slotted a nice one under pressure tucked on the boundary line. And the pressure was from his team mates as he failed to give it off or centre it when he had an option and time. He went back and duly slotted it. I think he and Lamb have been reasonably good in front of goal.

u know when we go the long bomb into f50 CAN we please have our smalls front and centre to either kick goals or pressure the saints defenders .We need to stop there running game which begins from our fwd turnovers.

Similar angle to Kreuzer's goal . . . and the one he missed.  I'm not sure what he was thinking with that first attempt 

i disagree. Whether it's Bolton, the players making a collective decision to try, the injection of new players or whatever, a few things seem clear:

1. our best is better than in recent years eg the win over the Cats without Murphy
2. Our worst is considerably better than our worst in recent years
3. Less of our troops drop their bundles when the heat is on
4. it appears, touch wood, we are starting to be able to stem those run ons that teams have which used to bury us eg against the Swans and the Hawks in the 3rd terms - we kept in touch.....
5. The average gap between our best and worst seems to be shrinking - though granted much room for improvement.

2017 - key goals

1.Trading for two established mids with established skill at senior AFL level (not O'Meara or Prestia); one, at least, a big body;
2. Some smart draft picks and trading as per 2016 Draft - you'd assume Tomlinson is a done deal, for example. I'd like Stewart too (son of....)
3. Plenty of gym time for the younger blokes - Charlie, SOJ, Harry......
4. Kicking practice galore for the likes of Levi, Kerridge....

Tomlinson and Marchbank from GWS would be a good start. Add James Stewart to that too.

As far as good mids go - look to Jack Steele from the Giants and some Crows mids.

The Crows mids in order of preference for me are Brad and Matt Crouch (Matt contracted next year), Mitch Grigg, Cam Ellis-Yolmen and to a lesser extent Harrison Wigg.

Grigg and Ellis-Yolmen we'd get much cheaper than the likes of Tom Mitchell, Prestia, O'Meara and the like. Even Brad Crouch but IMO he's very gettable and still wouldn't cost the earth. Jack Steele is gettable as far as trade goes IMO and $$ wise.

Steele and Brad Crouch/Grigg added to Cripps, Murphy, Gibbs, Ed Curnow, Kerridge, Wright, Cuningham and some draftees, hopefully some early picks to secure two gun young mids.

Depends on who's going out, what trade bait we use, how much we get for them, how many draft picks we want/get, etc.

Agree on all of that....one Crouch Brother will probably mean the other either now or later.....

Jack Steele will probably come at some cost as other teams are keen especially Stkilda so I would view him as a separate deal to say Tomlinson, Marchbank/Stewart who you
might be able to package up either as 2or 3 player deal.

I like Mitch Grigg out of the cheaper options...nice kicking left footer who would help our delivery up forward.....Curnow and Kerridge are great workhorses but we need an onballer who can give
us some Pendlebury/Burgoyne like silky disposal.....Ellis Yolmen is more your bigger Blue Collar mid  and would be my backup if any deal for Steele fell through.

We need more depth with our midfield and I remain unconvinced about Graham, Boekhorst and Buckley...

Walker, Thomas, Whiley into 25.

Interchange from: 23. Jacob Weitering 39. Dale Thomas 1. Andrew Walker 32. Nick Graham 19. Liam Sumner 24. Mark Whiley 33. Andrejs Everitt

Two rucks and just one key forward again. Our usual match losing, non-scoring structure. Zero from 10 with that one. Tough gig for Casboult those circumstances.