Garbo

Dees don’t have enough money spent it all on points

When do giants put us out of our misery

Haines a all Australian back that’s no knock on smith

Can we finally stop pretending we are a genuine contender this year, we are simply making up the numbers

Bad kicking bad footy, giants will get on a run at some point make us pay

Based on the latest Oliver time line it will be at minimum a 7 week Hamstring if he comes back next week. Given he was allowed to play out the game that is pure negligence by our fitness and team doctors to risk our best player like that, it may well end up costing us top 4 and a chance at a flag this year.

Just illustrating that even more talls than we went into the game with wouldn’t help on last night in that weather. As for Stewart if the goal is to stop him perhaps we shouldn’t have had 2 inexperienced talls in smith and vanrooyen play together, sure bring petty fwd and keep Tomlinson in the team but you need to drop smith or vanrooyen then

More talls wouldn’t help tonight, our players just didn’t adapt for conditions where marking is going to be hard. Lowering the eyes or moving the ball more directly so our smalls can get it out the back without the other teaming having time to setup

We need to be smarter going fwd our key fwds are barely capable of halving a contest let alone wining it. Giving our smalls no chance to crumb a goal. No way do we run the table, top 2 is now out of the question and top 4 is really on the line, we can probably only afford to loose 2 more from here if we want to hold onto the double chance

So it that the excuse next week of a 9 day break again if we loose

Disappointing how far can we go with a fwd line this inefficient, find it hard to think we can win a flag this way

Once again we can’t handle wet conditions, to many players running fwd of the ball assuming it won’t come to ground

Or more serious than they let on

Sure as you extend it out the numbers look better, but we clearly do have a backlog of untried or barely tried players from the last 3 drafts let alone more for this year coming up, as only 2 of those 8 picks (7 of which were under pick 40) taken in the national draft have found a regular spot in the 22 we would have been better off trading up for a single pick in each of those years and gone after generational talent.

At our stage we only need one player, it’s going to be hard enough to get games into one let alone three more. We have barely seen anyone from our last 3 drafts as is, no need to add more to the pile up

Hopefully Goodwin recognises that either Tomlinson or Petty if he isn’t fwd has to play down back for us to get the most from May and Lever. It’s was like been transported back to 2021 watching the backline today. If the forward line can just be more effective with there shots on goal we will be in great shape come finals.

He often has a punt both ways, did see him say that pies were due for a loss earlier in the week as well

How does James Jordan continue to not make the team, whoever is coming out for Oliver in a week.

To all the people the player this down initially remember what happened with Michael Hurley at Essendon who also got an infection from a blister which ended his career

Got to be unlikely to play now must be quite sever to need an IV, don’t understand how a fit young guy can’t fight off a simple infection from a blister naturally.

Any kids drafted now will only be the cherry on top, by the time they can fix holes in our list half the premiership side will be gone. If we want to fix deficiencies regardless of where they are we have to goto the trade table. First stop is a Key Forward and another Key back, Petty isn’t the answer forward if we are aiming for a flag and May is showing his age and needs some help as he can’t go with the taller fwds of the competition.

Time for everyone to lower their expectations down from a flag to just making finals, sooner you do that the sooner you will enjoy the games and we can be pleasantly surprised if we do better.

All his fault we haven’t gone undefeated and the vic government can’t balance the budget

Most players I don’t but if you leave after only a few years and we can only deal with one team for a trade you bet I will

The counter argument is they then won 13 in a row in large part due to a huge home ground advantage on the way to a flag. Even if we improve in the 2nd half we are not likely to repeat that making top 4 unlikely and top 2 impossible. Making a Flag unlikely. As greedy as it sounds I think most agree this team needs to win more than one flag to be called a success and top 4 finishes or a grand final appearance won’t cut it and the clock is ticking. How many years at peak do May and Gawn have left.