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He’s a professional athlete staying fit is his job, I think you are giving too little respect to him and in the hypothetical he did put his had up after a week or 2 who is to say he wouldn’t have been fine. Season is effectively on the line now we don’t have the luxury of waiting anymore loose this week and kiss top 4 and a chance at a flag this year goodbye

Goodwin is stubborn and won’t change a thing that his way, expect a low scoring game where every goal will count. Unless we somehow fix our goal kicking in a week to at least be passable we won’t be winning.

Fact Oliver seems to not understand is clearly an issue, if he feels right then he should be playing he’s an adult will know his body best

I’d take last year at this point, we would be so lucky

Looked exactly like a dees game as he will say, more inside 50s more shots at goal and still loosing.

Just admit we don’t have what it takes anymore, we can get all the inside 50s we want it won’t help with this fwd line

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