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Yeah it was. But it didn’t look perfect every game. Far from it. No one would have predicted we would do that coming into the finals either.

Great run in that area

2021 wasn’t as perfect as some remember. We struggled for a large chunk of the season. Lost to some poor sides. After the loss to gws at the g I thought we were done that year. Our last two months built beautifully but there were many hiccups. We can get back to that. There are some things we are clearly working on that may click along the way.

Yes, I do

People seem to be disappointed based on some silly idea we should win by 100. We will win by 10 goals at minimum. That’s plenty. Who cares. We did this against sides in 2021. We even lost to Adelaide then. We were a good side then. This whole good sides do this and that speak is nonsense based on fantasies and wishful thinking. But hey, we still might win by 100. The eagles will fade.

I love seeing us running out games. I love trading the weid chant for the roo chant. Went last night to see the weid and have to say I do not miss him. Grundy running through the lines and distributing was just lovely. Loved that they came hard in the middle two quarters and although it looked like they had the game in their hands for a lot of that time we did enough, sloppy as we were during those quarters at times. buddy just goes around whacking people these days and papley can go and get [censored] with his chest pumping [censored]. I would love him to play for us though. after last week my faith is restored and it made that last quarter all the sweeter. Seeing different set ups is good to watch and will only make us harder to play against. Bring kozzie back in and let’s have a few good weeks.

Not sennheiser 421s?

The Brisbane game has me spooked. They have been our bunnies and we were terrible. I hope it’s an outlier. It doesn’t make it any easier having to back up against Sydney. Sydney games are hard to watch even when we win. I just can’t escape the feeling we might be in trouble this year after seeing us against Brisbane. It is a reflexive position to take as a Melbourne supporter and I hope it’s just that. Our arrogance coming in to week two as supporters and the massive let down feels kinda familiar. Logically I think I’m wrong but emotionally I am concerned.

We gave away lots of high frees. Some of them seemed questionable. You grow the [censored] up. Complaining about people complaining about the umpires is like complaining about there being oxygen in the atmosphere.

Yeah, our deficiencies are we don’t look great without two all Australians and a future all Australian, struggle in humidity, players coming back in under done don’t make up for having other players out and we find it hard to arrest momentum when we have a bad 8 minute patch where the best player in the league is taken out of the game and the umpires are throwing a bone one way all night.

We can’t deal with the slippery conditions. We are wrong footed and fumbley as a result. They are doing fine with it. How many high tackle frees have we given away this quarter? Some kind of record

Liked bowey tonight liked the way McDonald created space in the forward line mcvee is going to be super silky

Collingwoods game style must be incredibly taxing. Let’s see how their bodies hold up for the second year playing that way. As we know a lot happens in a season

There’s many more options to consider. For example, Goodwin has had one of the great runs in modern football and after four flags in five years tells the club that he is burnt out and it is time to take a year or two out of the game. In comes daisy. The list needs a rebuild. And she’s the person for the job. all of this is highly unlikely, I just don’t like the idea of her being a cat so it’s easier to manage while imagining such a scenario.

5 years at the cats and then take goodwins spot.

Half the team couldn’t get past a jog in the semi final. We were beaten up badly.

Judging our fitness program given we know now how injured we were is silly. You can plan the perfect program and change it on the go and have the greatest sports science minds in the world but when half of your finals side is playing injured and hobbling around no amount of planning is going to change the result. Comparing to Geelong is also a waste of time. We are different sides who had different luck with injury. on the not blooding enough vfl players theory. We tried a lot of them and a lot of them showed very little. We don’t have the depth some people wish we had. It could be that the bottom six did what they could but given we had a huge decrease in output from those above them due to injury, lack of continuity, short pre season etc they weren’t able to do what they did last year. given time to reflect I think we did exceptionally well to hobble to second on the ladder and it shows just how good our top ten or so players really are that we did so despite not being anywhere near our best.

What would you propose they do differently. Who else is available? Would you not take the moneyball option to give us a few percent extra in an area we need it. It’s not like we had the pick of all key forwards in the comp and landed on Bruce. There is reality to deal with when trading unfortunately.

We beat Geelong three times last year. At the start and twice at the end of the season. They changed a lot this year directly because of us. They were in no way better than us last year.

I never said all home games

Clayton oliver we will wear red and blue we will play home games at the mcg

It’s gotta be the Collingwood jumper he’s worn clouding peoples judgement.

Well he played one afl game, looked really promising and got knocked out. Trade him. Delist him. He obviously doesn’t have it.

He missed half the year, losing much of his conditioning. If anything blame the coaches for playing him

We lack great kicks. Salem is a great kick and last year he was combative, good in the contest. He suffered the same problem a few others did this year. Never got back to full capacity. I think we need to retain and find more elite kicks.