DistrACTION Jackson

Fair enough. Is he playing back still or moving to a forward/ruck role?

The AFL want strong Queensland teams so they will love that. Will create opportunities of players potentially moving back to VIC…. Need to be ready

100%. We don’t want him getting too much on the outside as it isn’t his go. We need him winning at the coalface and then shovelling out to the good ball users. Same with Clarry.

Oh right. Any word on how he looked?

Will play for the allies in the U18 champs I’d assume

Yep. I reckon it would be 50/50 they could even take him at this stage given their key position depth. Much smarter that he chooses the Dees at this point given the ages of our key backs and rucks.

100%. I’d give our 2 future firsts happily for Butters. Prototype mid for the modern game.

They head out with Stengle I believe. Provides great protection if anything happens

I'm not concerned anyway.... Xavier Lindsay is an absolute gun and you would be happy to get a player of his calibre with a top 5 pick, let alone pick 11.

Mcvee was a rookie, but get your point.

3 of them are rookies so tbh it doesn't faze me much. If you are right about the Fullarton/Goodwin issue, which is a rumour so not confirmed, then Goody needs to pull his head out his a$$ and worry about playing players in form.

What are you talking about? Fullarton maybe. Kentfield is still recovering from pneumonia and is back soon. Sestan beating trialled down back, could be gone maybe.

If they drop Sharp before Fritsch I'll spew up....

I'm hoping for the following changes: Ins: Pickett, Windsor, Lever, Spargo & Turner Outs: Lindsay, Fritsch, Johnson, Billings & Howes B: Bowey May Salem HB: Windsor Petty Lever C: Langdon Oliver Sharp HF: Henderson JVR Chandler F: Langford Turner Petracca R: Gawn Rivers Pickett Int: McDonald Spargo Viney Sparrow Sub: Melksham

Haha yep nothing sneaky about it. He has been pathetic

I wouldn't have even bothered responding to that...

Agreed. However the Hawks looked as bad as us early last year and then suddenly became world beaters. Personally I'm giving it until half way through the year before writing off Goody or anything like that.

Full slash rebuilds are not the way. We've already been rejuvenating the list so it isn't needed. Just have to keep picking the right players to compliment the youngsters we already have.

100% agree. Could say the same thing about the 2023 finals series, kick 9.17 against the Blues you can't really blame Goodwin for that when you generate that many shots. I guess the one blame is the gameplan wasn't conducive to generating high quality shots, but still should've won by 3-4 goals.

Doesn't seem to bother the Bont

I'd say it would be similar to sides like Hawthorn and Giants. Looking to score more points from the defensive half, which is what the best sides are doing and why us and Carlton are both struggling.

It's actually a lot of our senior players who are letting us down atm. Trac I will give some grace to given he is coming back from a life threatening injury, so it may take some time before he is fully confident in his abilities again. Viney has been atrocious and genuienly should be up to be dropped atm. Maxy is struggling to impact games. Fritsch we know about. Langdon is a bit lost in his new role it seems. May can no longer kick so why he still takes kick outs is beyond me.

Goody did also say in an interview that it will take time, especially early season. So he was definitely upfront and honest with that assessment. Whether he is the right person to take us forward I’m not sure, but at least the club is working on changing the list so we can compete again. Look at the players we brought in who have actually been in our top handful players so far, Lindsay and Langford. Both are elite runners and kicks, which we lacked up until the last few years. It’s blindingly obvious our main issues atm are a lack of personnel to execute the gameplan but also I think because it isn’t ingrained, players are second guessing themselves a lot which leads to skill errors. We need to move forward with the times though so no going back now, full steam ahead with the modern gameplan and seeya to players who get left behind.

I just dropped to my knees in Woolworths and cried

Who cares if a side does ‘steal’ a flag, it’s irrelevant. All that matters is one side wins the grand final each year and we did it in 2021. Do we think the dogs care that their 2016 flag was from 7th, had a good run with umpires and got helped by the first year of pre finale bye. I bet their fans Couldn’t give a toss