I spoke about this last week but I am going to keep saying it. Max Gawn absolutely deserves his 8th All Australian jacket. He’s been one of our few constants this season, consistently delivering elite performances and dominating opponents across the ground.

He racked up 23 disposals (14 contested), 5 marks (3 contested), 42 hitouts, 8 score involvements, and even slotted another beautiful snap goal.

I just hope the selectors don’t fall into the trap of recency bias and let a short burst of form from Grundy outweigh Max’s sustained brilliance across the year.

14 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Spirit - I find your comments on hating Buckley as a player interesting. I did find him seemingly arrogant and I hated it when he took us apart, but I did admire his skills and determination to succeed.

Sorry yes the hatred was because he was an excellent A grade star and wore the “black and white jumper” and beat us time and time again.

Do you think we can play Turner and Lever together? Feels like similar roles, but whilst Lever brings leadership attributes, Turner is better one on one and quicker.

To add to that, where does Petty fit? Should he return to the backline, or remain forward where he's been excellent recently

48 minutes ago, Master Chief said:

I spoke about this last week but I am going to keep saying it. Max Gawn absolutely deserves his 8th All Australian jacket. He’s been one of our few constants this season, consistently delivering elite performances and dominating opponents across the ground.

He racked up 23 disposals (14 contested), 5 marks (3 contested), 42 hitouts, 8 score involvements, and even slotted another beautiful snap goal.

I just hope the selectors don’t fall into the trap of recency bias and let a short burst of form from Grundy outweigh Max’s sustained brilliance across the year.

Id be more worried about L Jackson,great 2nd half of the year,teams winning and has kicked big goals

Does the panel think if Buckley is appointed as senior coach would Petracca, Oliver and others be more likely to stay at the Dees and attract other players with the likes of Mihocek?

I was petrified that our young inexperienced defence sans May and Lever would get slaughtered by the Dogs who have piled on some big scores and thrashed a lot of team but I thought that our guys held up pretty well. Was impressed with a couple of things that Adams did and hope that he gets to play in the last few games but I fear he will be the one to go out for May this week. At least he will get a taste of finals at Casey.

Howes too did a few nice things in the limited game time that he had and that goal was a ripper under pressure from a decent way out.

1 hour ago, Master Chief said:

I spoke about this last week but I am going to keep saying it. Max Gawn absolutely deserves his 8th All Australian jacket. He’s been one of our few constants this season, consistently delivering elite performances and dominating opponents across the ground.

He racked up 23 disposals (14 contested), 5 marks (3 contested), 42 hitouts, 8 score involvements, and even slotted another beautiful snap goal.

I just hope the selectors don’t fall into the trap of recency bias and let a short burst of form from Grundy outweigh Max’s sustained brilliance across the year.

Grundy into concussion protocols - will miss this week. Might help a little.

40 minutes ago, Forgotten Old Acquaintance said:

Do you think we can play Turner and Lever together? Feels like similar roles, but whilst Lever brings leadership attributes, Turner is better one on one and quicker.

To add to that, where does Petty fit? Should he return to the backline, or remain forward where he's been excellent recently

Surely Petty’s future role will depend on what happens with May, Lever, TMac in terms of injury recovery and maybe even retirement. I would like to think of him in medium term as May’s successor

4 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

@binman

“Who Will Be Our Next Coach?”

Can we have a few minutes discussion on possibility of Nathan Buckley as our new coach for 2026 and beyond.

From your post yesterday in the other thread , I agree with many of your thought on misgivings but also the many many positives. Perhaps talk us through your post.

I’d also add that whilst Buckley never has tasted AFL premiership glory, I think it makes him driven to succeed. He still has the hunger to drive himself. I think he sits amongst others in the media and would like to taste that premiership glory. Whilst I hated him as a player, he has really great insights on SEN and on the commentary. He has my vote.

Further more.

The harder question is. Who will be our next Captain? My mail is outside of Gawn internally the club is filthy at it’s leaders.

Special shout out to the Bison. The rundown on Naughton and contested mark then goal in the last were fantastic.

1 hour ago, Doug Reemer said:

Further more.

The harder question is. Who will be our next Captain? My mail is outside of Gawn internally the club is filthy at it’s leaders.

Who actually is in the leadership group? Presume Viney, May, Lever, Gawn...curious to know the others?

I guess there will some discussion on the end of Goodwin. My question is the debate of where should we look, experienced i.e. Buckley (Almost last previous coach standing) or a highly rated assistant with new ideas.

From the Bulldogs game, the players seem to have more freedom to run and attack and it bought different players into the game. I also liked the Presser by Chaplin (He's smart as he knows caretakers dont end up long term coaches). and he spoke really well, nice to hear a different voice. Maybe Goodwin should have mixed it up with different coaches presenting at different times.

How much of a difference to meeting to game plan was the new mix of players and their positioning on the field. From my Kayo broadcast there seems to be some notable changes in where players were positioned/started providing a fast movement and better targets forward.

On the flip side, skills still not get enough by even our best skilled players.

Although I was annoyed about the result with our midfield playing poorly and Windsor getting injured is a pain, there were definitely positives yesterday.

I thought we looked different and better without Goodwin. (Please don't use the Eagles game as a comparison because I was there and they looked like a young VFL level side.)

Players yesterday were actually leading and getting rewarded, taking marks or grabbing the crumbs.

Goal kicking was sharper.

The second half was genuinely exciting, and we actually looked competitive.

Changes were being made on the fly.

Young lads like Culley and Adams showed they might be decent players.

The standout difference was how enjoyable that game was as a spectacle. The fans were getting into it and we came close to winning that game. There were smiles on the players’ faces and they restored a bit of pride in the jumper.

It all felt like a step in the right direction and a relief from the constrained, overwrought defence-first mindset of Goodwin. I'm excited again about the prospect of us playing positive football under what I hope will be a competent new coach that rejuvenates the team.

Going to have to cut off the questions here. See you tonight at 8pm or download the show later tonight or tomorrow.

Bugger. I was desperate to hear what Binman is going to wear to his first board meeting

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Thanks Andy and bin for another fantastic pod. I particularly loved the discussion about our coaching situation.

There will be burning interest surrounding things MFC over the coming months. It was brilliant to learn that Andy has such profound influence over such things ……… 😄😄

❤️💙

23 hours ago, The Jackson FIX said:

Bugger. I was desperate to hear what Binman is going to wear to his first board meeting

Loafers, chinos, open neck crisp pale pink shirt (new), suit jacket (expensive but looks gritty), no tie and MFC pin.

Just now, binman said:

Loafers, chinos, open neck crisp pale pink shirt (new), suit jacket (expensive but looks gritty), no tie and MFC pin.

8 hours ago, binman said:

Loafers, chinos, open neck crisp pale pink shirt (new), suit jacket (expensive but looks gritty), no tie and MFC pin.

Sock-less too, surely.

8 hours ago, binman said:

Screams governance up top, Garry Lyon below the collar

Sorry for being late to this - where is George?

15 minutes ago, D Rev said:

Sorry for being late to this - where is George?

George will be back. He is just taking a break for personal reasons.

I was a little surprised at Binman's catch all response to the people who were impressed with how how we played and thought

I can't speak for the others but I stand by my opinion that this was one of the first games thia year where we looked fully committed to the gameplan. This isn't to say that we haven't played or tried to play that way this year, I'm usually one of the first people to point out the fact that Goodwin was trying to implement this style all season, but I dont think there was another game this year were we looked 100% dialed in and committed to doing what the gameplan asked of us.

Stats can be pulled and arguments can be made that we've been playing this way all season but the reality is that it's only taken shape in the second half of the season, I'm not fussed about being 4th in ball movement since the bye, whatever that even means. I'm also not taking any proof out of the first 5 games, the first Saints game, or second Gold Coast game because the effort levels were largely inept. I'm not looking to the Port game or similar ones because these games we looked confused and caught in two minds bombing long and reverting to old habits. I'm not looking to the Collingwood game because this wasn't a good display of the new style but more the old territory game that kept us in it and lastly I'm not looking to the West Coast game because to call that a measuring stick is a joke.

Im not re-writing history and I don't think some others are either. However it was plain to see that we had bought into this way of moving the ball more in this game than nearly everyone other game this year and I think that statement is legit. I've said it all year that I was undecided on Goodwin right up until last Tuesday and one of the reasons was because I did think the style was starting to take shape. If it had been working a treat all year of the players had the buy in and confidemce then we'd sure as hell have more wins on the board.

Edited Wednesday at 14:342 days by layzie