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NON-MFC: Round 12

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3 minutes ago, Hopeful Demon said:

It's crazy that Grundy was once considered by many to be a better ruckman than Gawn

Yes but our club took him

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    Rachele’s dive should’ve been penalised. I can’t believe the ump fell for it

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    7 minutes ago, Hopeful Demon said:

    It's crazy that Grundy was once considered by many to be a better ruckman than Gawn

    6 years ago the Pies giving him a 10 year million dollar deal remains the worst decision i can recall

    They thought he was a top 10 player in the league!

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    craaaaazy good goal kicking

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    3 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    6 years ago the Pies giving him a 10 year million dollar deal remains the worst decision i can recall

    They thought he was a top 10 player in the league!

    He was genuinely a really good player in 2018/19 but it was pretty clear even back then that he never impacted games in the same way that Gawn did.

    He's always been a poor man's Dean Cox.

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    Have heard from 3 separate contacts this week that Sydney is not a happy club.

    The coach is on the nose.

    And the administrators too.

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    Gawd I thought Sydney are still Shell shocked from last years G.F, but it gets worse...... after the triple shell shock treatment we subjected them to last week they have DISINTEGRATED even further!!

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    5 minutes ago, Dingo said:

    Have heard from 3 separate contacts this week that Sydney is not a happy club.

    The coach is on the nose.

    And the administrators too.

    We broke the Bloods last weekend at the G.

    If we had any sort of accuracy it would have been 80+ points.

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    Crows - definitely a top 4 team

    Recruited strongly with ANB PEATLING CUMMING

    1. Lively forwards. Walker. Thilthorpe. Fogarty. Rachele. Rankine. Keays

    2. A huge batch of prototype runners. Dawson. Soligo. Peatling. ANB.

    3. Strong defence. Keane. Worrall. Murray.

    4. Backline run. Michalanney. Milera. Smith. Hinge. Curtin

    5. Star quality types. Lots of pressure. No weak links !!!

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    45 minutes ago, Dingo said:

    Have heard from 3 separate contacts this week that Sydney is not a happy club.

    The coach is on the nose.

    And the administrators too.

    Nor surprised. Cox is the worst coach in the league. He has taken a gf team to bottom four more or less with no game plan other than ' try and go thru the corridor' . Swans had just 26 less possessions for 25 less inside 50s. Total lack of system.

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    It’s way too early to scoreboard watch but it’s annoying that both GWS and Freo won on the same day. Teams in the 6th to 10th region are going to need to slip up which GWS almost did or not be causing shock upsets in the road in Freo’s case if teams below them are going to make finals.

    GWS are way too inconsistent this year to be a threat. It’s as if they needed a 3 quarter time speech by Cal Ward to dig them out of hole over lowly Richmond.

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    Swans were mentally broken in last year's GF, then lost their long term coach ( I called he would step down at the time and he did a bit later, as he knew he couldn't do more than he had at the club), then a ton of injuries to key players. Eventually something will crack and the Crows have built a good side that last year was expected to compete near the top, looks like they have got the balance right this year.

    Cox a bad coach. Who know he's been in the job for less than half a season. Players adjusting to a new coach after so long an issue, most likely. But it will take time for his players to change the way they play after so long under 1 coach an like us his season will improve Shen he starts getting his key players back into the side.


    The annoying win was Freo, bloody Gold Coast, I guess they aren't used to play in such weather?

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    4 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    It’s way too early to scoreboard watch but it’s annoying that both GWS and Freo won on the same day

    That Freo win did us no favours.

    When you're two games and percentage behind you need both to win three games while the competitor loses three.

    Not the easiest of tasks when Freo has two games against the Eagles and a decent home ground advantage.

    A long way to go.

    Hawks play the Dogs next week. A Hawks win puts the Dogs within our sights

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    15 hours ago, 640MD said:

    Adelaide making our win look insipid

    A pet hat of mine is retrospectively downgrading a victory because or the form of the beaten team the following week.

    Did the lions brilliant demolition of the hawks the week after we beat them make our won over them premiership worthy?

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    4 minutes ago, binman said:

    A pet hat of mine is retrospectively downgrading a victory because or the form of the beaten team the following week.

    Did the lions brilliant demolition of the hawks the week after we beat them make our won over them premiership worthy?

    Totally agree, Binman. And as you’ve mentioned on the poddy before, it’s a particular manifestation of MFCSS (self-loathing?) when our supporters do that kind of thing. (I’ve certainly been guilty of it before.)

    The positive framing would be: ‘we broke Sydney’, not: ‘our win was not as good as we thought’. Also, we beat the Lions who bounced back this week. Or maybe that was because Essendon is horrible. And when they beat the Hawks a week later, that’s only because the Hawks are pretenders. I mean, at some point, we have to try and cure ourselves (as a club / supported) of this consistent type of self-loathing. There’s a lot of trauma there though!

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    13 hours ago, Jjrogan said:

    Nor surprised. Cox is the worst coach in the league. He has taken a gf team to bottom four more or less with no game plan other than ' try and go thru the corridor' . Swans had just 26 less possessions for 25 less inside 50s. Total lack of system.

    Wasn't he Roos' first choice as his successor? But Sydney knocked us back?

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    5 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    It’s way too early to scoreboard watch but it’s annoying that both GWS and Freo won on the same day. Teams in the 6th to 10th region are going to need to slip up which GWS almost did or not be causing shock upsets in the road in Freo’s case if teams below them are going to make finals.

    GWS are way too inconsistent this year to be a threat. It’s as if they needed a 3 quarter time speech by Cal Ward to dig them out of hole over lowly Richmond.

    I think it’s easier to focus on is how to get to 13 wins. Do that and you are almost guaranteed to make finals. Couldn’t care less what other teams do tbh unless it’s Collingwood and it’s hoping they get thumped.

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    Absolutely devastating end to Ward’s career. Watching him sob on the sidelines was shattering.

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    15 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    Absolutely devastating end to Ward’s career. Watching him sob on the sidelines was shattering.

    Agree, but at least it came at game 327 and age 35.

    Has it been confirmed?

    He has had a great AFL career and will not be lost to footy, probably as an assistant coach, once the dust settles.

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    1 minute ago, Redleg said:

    Agree, but at least it came at game 327 and age 35.

    Has it been confirmed?

    He has had a great AFL career and will not be lost to footy, probably as an assistant coach, once the dust settles.

    Confirmed ACL yes. Apparently confirmed by the test they did at the ground. A very clear cut ACL.

    Not confirmed he’s going to retire obviously, but I heard his family has moved back to Melbourne already and this was meant to be his last year anyway.

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