No Crouch or Clark? Collard before Crouch n Clark and the coaches have more hope in a teen? The two Cs must be underdone, still proppy ? They must be, otherwise I don't see how at least one doesn't come in. I would assume Collard, Sharman and Patton don't make the bench and Jones is the sub.

All he is saying is that our good performance last year (which surprised everyone, noting the year of experimentation and the injuries we had particularly early) resulted in the bar being set too high for this year. He is under the pump because he isn't living up to last year when in reality with ou...

Vindication- from Daniel Hoyne Haha 😝 We are ranked last because of the connection forward Because as Ross says - the midfield is spluttering Should I feel vindicated be Marshall was Sainter of the round? Who did you vote as StKs best player last two games? How do you rate our mids in the last two ...

The current dinky kick to the pocket and then back across to the other pocket and then short to the boundary (still inside 50) and then long down the line .... all at turtle pace ..... isn't working .... wake up coaches!!! For the love of God .... try something else ... anything else As much as I w...

SEN has just put out a story ( a coupla hours ago ) about RoMa's influence, saying his numbers look good but make him look better than they should, and are misleading. Hey, listen, I don't work for SEN, I actually live in Perth. I wonder if they get on here and Bigfooty, read our stuff to get ideas...

The answer to this is because the opposition isn't giving us the kicks we want. Our better kicks are taking them because a good team set up well isnt going to give us a huge window to hit our target so you want your best kicks on it. The issue is when the opposing team isn't giving us option 1, then...

Nice stat for those who think we haven't been doing enough to develop our draftees. The most matches played from draftees in the past three years has West Coast on top with 199 games, from St Kilda (186), Hawthorn (177), North Melbourne (168) and Adelaide (122). Where are you getting these figures ...

Owens was a pretty highly rated contested ball player as a forward moving up to stoppages around the ground last year, so I think it is just disappointing that it seems he is playing more as a permanent forward and working in contests in the forwards 50. The more I think about it, maybe this is a sy...

This is very interesting data Scollop, thanks for gathering the data. I had also thought that Owens was blazing away a bit last year, so good to know it wasn't really any worse than other players. I agree, we should be giving time in the middle to our young players to develop them, especially while ...

B.M must be trolling. You can't be seriously arguing that our mids need to work harder and bring up their low possession numbers (I don't have ruck contest attendance to hand, but disposals for Steele 18, Windhager 17 and Dow 15 are clearly low), when the point we are discussing is Marshall grabbing...

I would rather Ro get 30 and we win But that would mean a few others would need to play well with him and not leave it to one player trying to dominate It’s a silly argument It’s like saying Gary Ablett is responsible for losing the 89 GF because he only kicked 9. Or you’d prefer he didn’t kick 9 a...

This is interesting, though I would prefer we were still developing the capability of some of our young kids by giving them opportunity, maybe it being a deliberate strategy is the real explanation. Hopefully with players coming back and some more trust in Dow we can share the load more. I had that ...

Are you saying Marshall only plays well in losses and when he doesn’t play well we win Obviously that’s wrong, and would take little research to prove it’s not the case Ro is a great player. That simple I will assume you are replying to me and not just talking to no one, though you didn't answer my...

Shut it down skeptic. As funny as it is to see all poor souls with brain worms come out to try to make up reasons for how it might impact on field performance or how it offends the heart of the club or whatever, the reality is it is a nice way to show some respect to indigenous players that also mig...

It could also mean Other players actually played better So what is your theory for why others played better when Marshall got less disposals? Personally I think it has something to do with those other players disposals being more effective because they were facing their targets when they kicked, bu...

Bit hard to get score assists when we don’t score Yeah, that's the point B.M. If a clearance isn't very effective it is hard to score from it. Appreciate this is only anecdotal, but in our best scoring game Rowan only had 19 disposals with 9 contested and had 2 goal assists and 7 score involvements...

I'm concerned that opposition defenders who play against Marshall 1-2 times a year are anticipating what's happening better than our forwards who play with him every week. To defend a hack kick all the defenders need to do is what they would want to do anyway, sit on their man and make it a 50/50. ...

Despite being one of our best players, this I think is the nexus of issues holding us back as a team. It wouldn't matter if we had the best midfield in the league if the ruck is not giving them the ball and instead just taking the ball themselves. While Rowan beat Jackson on headline stats, Jackson ...

Speaking of the youth, I'm a big fan of Nas as he is one of our very few players with the talent to make things happen. He is arguably the most skillful player on our list. My observations of him over the past season and a half is that he's not a defender's bootlace, yet because Corey said so they'...

Might be a bit of a hot take, but what would we take in terms of draft picks for Marshall? Appreciate we don't really have a replacement, but while he gets alot of positions and clearances, I think they might actually make us a worse team. Too many disposals are snatched out of the ruck hack kicks t...

In Dow, Henry, Jones (sub) Out Phillipou, Hastie, Garcia Emergencies Sharman, Paton, Phillipou B:Wilkie - Howard - Webster HB:NWM - Battle - Bonner C: Wood - Sinclair - Wilson HF: Hill - Owens - Henry F: Membrey - King - Hayes Foll: Marshall - Steele - Windhager Int: Ross - Byrnes - Stocker - Dow S...

Hastie unlucky to be subbed, only a couple of touches but some great efforts and a couple of taps to advantage that don't count on the stat sheet. As much as I want to see him given plenty of opportunities, Phillipou has been basically invisible.

When someone beats their partner because they're in a foul mood after their team loses, I think that means sport has already been brought into it. Not everyone has the luxury of 'escapism' or to 'forget life's troubles' Anyone from the 'stick to sport' side going to engage with this key point? As f...

I am pretty happy for sport to play a role in social education generally, but given there is a known correlation between a team losing and their supporters engaging in a domestic violence incident (eg this was the first study I found on google which finds a 10% increase in incidents after a loss whe...