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Had heard from inside the club it was for not meeting certain standards on field last week, not sure why he was singled out as he couldn’t have been the only one

Bad game good win, not sure how many other sides would let you back in like that, Dee’s really need to work on these first qtrs but it’s the end result that matters

If that was the case then he wouldn’t have been omitted he would have simply been rested and I don't see how he was dropped for anything on field so its just a process of elimination.

He must have broken some team rule, I hope king will elaborate and not dodge the question if asked, his form would not warrant getting dropped over other players

Rivers getting dropped certainly wasn’t on my bingo card, king must be sending some kind of message as it can’t purely be on form

I’d like to see a stat of how many goals we have conceded from clangers

Only hope is freo drops off like they did vs cats last week

Yep it’s a mystery, he seems to have the weapons to be a good player, ball in hand running into 50 you rarely see him miss, I always hoped he would become a goal scoring mid in the vein of trac, but he just never took that next step and still seems to go missing for chucks of the game and now has been replaced by Tholstrup in that defensive run with roll today. His time is running out in his 8th year still unable to lock a roll down.

I think CJ did a lot good today but I saw a few to many instances where he pulled up short rather than commit to the contest, I’m more concerned about that than if he used the ball well or the hurt factor

Gawn is going to need some help vs Jackson and Darcy, double so since he ran himself into the ground today, as exciting as Latrelles debut was he probably needs to spend some time in the 2nds building up his game. Sparrow could also be in trouble and for a player in his 8th year he needs to be doing more. Whatever the case someone needs to make way for Moose at a minimum.

One of the most satisfying wins in a while, to put the boot into saints after they thought they would be relevant again and to get revenge for last year at the same time. I couldn’t have asked for more

Just shows how bad the blues probably are, the fact the teams that play round 0 vs teams that don’t is 7 wins 0 losses over the last 2 years isn’t something to ignore

That extra week cats had in there legs certainly didn’t hurt either

Sure and as stated it was a single practice match, basically a glorified training session. As we saw this weekend the form from those games is a meaningless proxy for the real thing. We would need to see a lot more from Heath before anyone should be talking about sacrificing Max’s game. If he has the talent it will be evident without Max needing to change anything just as it was with Jackson.

You act like Max Heath and Kalani are banging the door down, before Kentfield got injured Heath wasn’t even in the side as the backup ruck. The hard truth is we haven’t had anyone since Jackson left that has put there hand up in any real way, and we saw with him it didn’t require Max to sacrifice his game to develop Jackson. While its too soon to say on Kalani, I dont see anything in Heath or Kentfields future other than as roll players, so until we either recruit or trade for the starting ruck we are going to still need Max playing full minutes. Happy to be proven wrong but we are going to need to see a lot more from any of them than a few preseason games and as stated it shouldn’t require Max to limit his game if they are good enough.

I wouldn’t say this game was all that much more than what he produced for us last year outside kicking a nice goal, his issues were never around getting the ball it’s what he did without the ball, he gets exposed for pace without the ball leaving you a man down once the ball gets out, his below average kicking limits his hurt factor and his inability to play any other position means you can’t spread the load which is needed to play high tempo football. The key these days is everyone needs to be multi positional so you can have a constant rotation of fresh players into the middle and you just run the other team off the park, you also need to be a good user of the ball and you need to be at least average pace. Oliver does not tick any of those boxes. He is a player built for a different style of football which has fallen out of favour.

Never saw him hit targets with that consistency at Dee’s, annoyed we didn’t get this from him last year but at 30 years old and where we are as a team right now now I think trading him for the picks we got back was the right call. We will hopefully have 3 top line players for the next decade or more in exchange.

Which is exactly what we need

Maybe we can sign on ah-mu id love to see what he could do as a full time player in the system

Hopefully they have a big training session : match sim next weekend, maybe they can get another club involved it not tigers again. Surely they can appeal to the AFL

New team rule cj not allowed to kick, hand balls only

Wonder if they will let heath come in given it’s just a practice

Something in bowser’s favour is he isn’t a big guy, notice bigger players take longer to recover from these sort of stress injuries

Doesn’t explain trac still been on it then, in the last 2 years he was only at the level for the first half of 2024

I’m still a little concerned for jvr, he looked more involved so hopefully the goals start to come but 1 major from the team total of 19 doesn’t fill me with confidence that the worm has turned. How is that going to translate when the real season begins and the number of scoring chances drop significantly.