Clayton van Oliver

Not a great start for the 2025 tilt, but plenty of time to get into it.

'Supposedly' according to whom? Whatever standard or expectation you set in your head is your own chalice to bear. I thought we were gonna win 5 in a row. I'm not gonna blame anyone because we didnt because, really, what the [censored] would I know? You could also just try going with the ups and down of following footy.

You had lions on the top of your head??

Yea me too. I was young but remember him getting dragged after little to no touches to half time and then came back on to bang in a massive haul. What a memory

Our 21 season was set up in the final weeks of 2020 and I imagine much would be the mindset going on inside the club at the moment. Probably need one or two new assistant coaches in the off season, to keep refining the new method and gameplay being developed, proper pre seasons into the likes of Clarrie and maybe be looking at Verrall and Jefferson to find their spots mid to end of next year. With the youth in our team, I'm watching each game as a part of long term development with zero expectations, and am already seeing far more positive signs in that space than anything we saw from 2011-16. That's cool, cos we won a [censored] flag a couple of years ago. Looks like I'm following a properly good footy club to me. Selection this week to be based on that. For me, Tholstrup and Woey J worth persevering with. Gawn to be rested and Petty/Turner/Roo combo continued. Edit: Not to mention we are still in the finals race and who knows what damage we could do. Exciting stuff!

Here come the Henny Pennies. How do you burn the credit of winning a flag? Absolutely pathetic mindset and waiting til a loss the week after to get into it is even weaker

Loved it 👏

'Get in the bin', surely

BUT HOW ABOUT IF HE WRITES IT IN ALL CAPS!!!???

Binman Unleashed is my new favourite podcast

Not sure if this has been put up and wasn't sure where to put it so just thought I'd make a thread. This is a great little video breakdown of the last two mins Vs North, how both teams went about trying to win/save game.

Mick Malthouse finds glory in war and nationalism. His idea of good culture is straight outta the 1950s. Therefore, he can stick it.

First of all thanks for all the work you do on the site and the podcast. If at this point we are on the hypothetical trajectory of worse case scenario and are about to collapse once more into the footy doldrums, what is the team's best approach for the rest of the year to try to allay or avoid that? Should we hope for a low ladder position this year to go to the draft again? Does this team, who have played high end footy into finals for 3 seasons in a row, just need a longer break? Adversely, if we are on the hypothetical trajectory of Swans/Cats style long-term pointy-end-of-ladderness, how should the team approach the rest of this season? I don't think we would be wavering from the team and coaching structures based on one [censored] season. Having 1 cooked year in 4 actually seems pretty normal. See Hawthorn 2017, Tigers 2021, Cats 2023 and Swans 2023. Lastly, my thoughts on Dees fans' general negativity throughout these remarkable years are that we exhibit three generations of supporters not having any clue about what following a good footy club looks or feels like. My Hawthorn mate knows his team will come good, we expect us to become useless again. Can we change this? How?

Oops my bad

What are you on about? Bloke's had us in top 4 for 3.5 years. You obviously weren't around for the bad years. Judd, Kerr and Cousins also only got one flag, were they also wasted careers? Entitled Melbourne supporters will get us back to dark ages, not Simon Goodwin

I once had to use it to get over a French girl

So... we get Mac Andrew back in a couple of years, yea?

Yep, and many supporters will be thinking "why didn't I enjoy it while we were good?"

I can't understand training reports unless framed by some obscure 1950s TV reference

Great insight, such a well spoken fella. Thanks Andy

Jakey Wever! Great interview 👏

This one...

A lip reader on reddit reckoned he said "[censored] me he looks about 12" and pointed at Windsor 😂

This is the sort of whisper I've been waiting for since we picked him up. Same here ie feeling. Allen Jakovich vibes

Hoping not to transgress the rules around what we can discuss... A big question last week was why we played Clarrie. I wonder if they are conscious of what resting him will do to his mental health, given how his injury last year seemed to trigger the tumult that came his way. I really want him to get his finger right, but can imagine that those consideration were weighed into the decision to play him.