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Reckon he might come in for Charlie and play down forward with McGovern and Harry.
Other choice I guess would be Kerr but I'd see Jack ahead of him in the pecking order....

Gee, Levi has been forgotten quickly!!

I'm reluctant to hit the keyboard after a loss, but I marked this down as "gone" days ago. 

We're just too easy to "pick off" and slow to react, have zero idea how to protect a lead or change the plan to ensure we do. 

Too many passengers ... and being blunt, sub standard senior level coaching.

Gee, Levi has been forgotten quickly!!

Bolton has lost me.

Fails to make changes when required, even to change things up, seemingly can't motivate the troops.

Let's be honest  - we were insipid tonight. Lots to play for, few turned up.

re: Murphy....my main gripe is his disposal......turns it over by foot with dinky up and under kicks in the middle of the ground and needs less midfield time and could spend more time forward...

I think the issue for young Cam Polson is that we tend to judge him on a black or white basis.
If we're not convinced about his value we tend to look for the bad.
If we like the things he does we look for the good.
I watched him pretty closely today, trying pretty much to be unbiased
He had a good first quarter.
It was significant that the  commentators mentioned in the second that the 'small forwards' pressure had dropped off, possibly one of the reasons we struggled in that quarter.

As the game progressed there were some Polson blues.....The goal attempt after the Walsh free kick (had it gone through perhaps a different story)....a couple of other misdirected kicks. Costly errors
On the positive side.... He kicked a goal and by my reckoning was in the chain that resulted in three others.

Now watching on the television doesn't give you the same perspective as watching live so maybe this isn't as significant as I believe it to be....but what I noticed is that he is a good judge of shutting down options. He has the speed to do it. He'll run to cover players while the opposition kicker is looking for targets causing a slow down in play and a rethink of where to send the ball. He'll run and chase and maybe not necessarily target the ball carrier (If that player is being covered) but the player that the ball is likely to go to, once again cutting off an option. He's never out of the contest...some may argue he gets in the way sometimes.

Look he's a fringe player....and arguably he will have to improve considerably as the rest of the squad progresses or he'll fall by the wayside. But just for now I kind of understand the reason he's being played.

It is always interesting to read the various media reports on the games we lose and compare them to some of the comments here.  The scribes were full of praise for our endeavor, lamented how the team balance was thrown through CC’s injury, Bolton’s positive move of moving Setterfield onto Rockliff in the second half and the effectiveness and development of our younger brigade such as SPS, Weitering, Dow, Walsh.

Every report has been positive about our effort and ongoing development.

Everyone sees things differently

It is always interesting to read the various media reports on the games we lose and compare them to some of the comments here.  The scribes were full of praise for our endeavor, lamented how the team balance was thrown through CC’s injury, Bolton’s positive move of moving Setterfield onto Rockliff in the second half and the effectiveness and development of our younger brigade such as SPS, Weitering, Dow, Walsh.

Every report has been positive about our effort and ongoing development.

Everyone sees things differently

I think the issue for young Cam Polson is that we tend to judge him on a black or white basis.
If we're not convinced about his value we tend to look for the bad.
If we like the things he does we look for the good.
I watched him pretty closely today, trying pretty much to be unbiased
He had a good first quarter.
It was significant that the  commentators mentioned in the second that the 'small forwards' pressure had dropped off, possibly one of the reasons we struggled in that quarter.

As the game progressed there were some Polson blues.....The goal attempt after the Walsh free kick (had it gone through perhaps a different story)....a couple of other misdirected kicks. Costly errors
On the positive side.... He kicked a goal and by my reckoning was in the chain that resulted in three others.

Now watching on the television doesn't give you the same perspective as watching live so maybe this isn't as significant as I believe it to be....but what I noticed is that he is a good judge of shutting down options. He has the speed to do it. He'll run to cover players while the opposition kicker is looking for targets causing a slow down in play and a rethink of where to send the ball. He'll run and chase and maybe not necessarily target the ball carrier (If that player is being covered) but the player that the ball is likely to go to, once again cutting off an option. He's never out of the contest...some may argue he gets in the way sometimes.

Look he's a fringe player....and arguably he will have to improve considerably as the rest of the squad progresses or he'll fall by the wayside. But just for now I kind of understand the reason he's being played.

Still talking about 99(where we lost a GF), wowee how low we have sunk.