Looks like we've got the toys out of the pram brigade on here. Maybe an early night from PRE makes sense as I'm sure there's going to be enough BS thrown around here over the next week and a bit.
Defence - 2nd quarter we were rubbish here, and Young was rubbish for most of the game. I'll cut Miller a bit of slack, reckon he's played some good games and was a bit down defensively today but was having to cover and there was so much ball coming in. Miller I think is the least of our worries, his good ball use by foot was on show today, but he was left exposed by a very poor midfield performance. Young was rubbish. Brown I'd love to hear from people at the ground, not sure why he couldn't get near the footy today with the amount of ball that was going in there so interested to know what the go was from people that might have watched him at the ground. Rioli I thought was very good, but with Short out of the game had to drive all of the rebound himself. Broad and Vlastuin were ok.
Midfield - I thought Graham and Baker were quite good bearing in mind they were up against 3 very good starting mids, and they are 2nd string mids. Dow proved he's not up to it again IMO. McAuliffe did ok for essentially his 1st game, when Shai went in there we looked far different and able to win clearances, but ultimately our very inexperienced midfield group were frankly beaten up on by a more seasoned group and 1 of the most hyped mids ever drafted (he's going to be a very good player btw).
Forward - Its a bit hard to mark the forward line. I thought Kosi was ok around the ground, but rubbish as a forward. If we are expecting this position to be best in the ruck than Ryan has to play instead. Lefau - breakout game. I thought Mansell, MRJ and Campbell at times were good, but having such little ball in the forward line particularly after quarter time, they didn't have much of a chance to show what they could do.
