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Because he hurts your feelings all the time? 😅 Not surprised, doesn't take much with you.

199cm tall defender who's had some injury problems over the years. If injury hadn't impacted him the general consensus is that he could have been a top 20 pick. He's certainly got the talent. Has only played the 2 coates league game so far this year. Still think we need to add to our midfield depth.

I'm a big Kane Cornes fan but he's missed the point here. The landscape in the player trade industry has changed over the years, contracts mean nothing now. Once a player nominates a club which he did with Sydney, then realistically we've got to find the best deal possible for the club. We didn't help out a contender, we had no other choice because that's where Grundy wanted to go. Yes we could have held him ransom to his contract and all that, but doing that would have benefited no one in the long run. The Grundy Melbourne relation was never going to work so we had to trade him off. Grundy is obviously playing good footy and well on his way to success and Max is hopefully on his way to a 7th All Australian. Both came out winners in my eyes.

My point is go back and have read again, and then have another go.

You don't need an elite ruckman to win games.. You can get away with having a solid enough ruckman to fill in the position purely to compete in ruck contest and nullify his opponent in stoppage and around the ground. Max is a once in a generation talent in that department, you're never going to find anyone of similar ilk. Think back to when Cam Pederson filled in for Max when he did his hamstring in 2017 and done a fantastic job as an undersized but mobile ruckman. Competed like a lion and yet we were still able to win some big games with Max out. You cannot tell me the last two premiership ruckman in Rhys Stanley and Darcy Cameron are anywhere elite in any form lol. Paying stupid money for Grundy whilst thinking that bringing in another genuine number 1 ruck to help out was bizarre list management at the time. If they wanted a back up ruck then go the cheaper version thats out there. Grundy was never a second fiddle ruckman and never has been. We then went into panic mode and tried to turn him into a key forward at VFL level which again was strange by us. He's back playing his natural position and doing well up the Swans.

Underachievers?? Under Horse they've played in 4 grand finals and a massive amount of finals. It's bloody hard enough to win a final let alone make a grand final and they've done exceptionally well under his guidance. You say they get help from the academy yet tonight they only had 4 players in their line up. Compared to the likes of GWS and Gold Coast that's nothing. One of their best players in Chad Warner and arguably top 5 player in the comp is from WA. If you think they're underachievers then what do you make of us with the list and talent we've had on display. Elite defence, elite midfield line up led by arguably the greatest ruckman of the modern era and a sound forward line. I think I know who the underachievers are and it's certainly not Sydney here.

Jake Melksham peak 2018 could absolutely sizzle them 50m low and flat.

He played a one off game for Corowa Rutherglen the other week the nuffy fan boy in me had to go and watch obviously. He hasn't lost any of his touch and still dominated. Too some him up around his character he played the one off game with no match payments.. just wanted to help a mate out. All class.

Other clubs had their fair share injuries as well during finals. Every team are carrying banged up players through the finals. The ongoing excuses that supporters continue to trot out.. The record speaks for itself. Our september record since 2021 is 0-4, there is no sugar coating this. The immense pressure this club will have on its shoulders come september to avoid this hoodoo will huge and we don't deal with pressure and expectations well. Based on what I've seen so far I've seen nothing to suggest we've approved from 2022-2023. The stats will back that up.

Yes because that's certainly been good to us of late eh.. Since 2021 we're 0-4. The immense pressure we'll be under to win a finals game this year will be significant and we don't deal with pressure all that well.

Offer from us??

Fritsch 1 tackle, Brown 1 tackle, Petty 4 tackles. Jack Darling 12 tackles.

Because he's cooked as per his VFL performance.

Laurie? 🤣 he's genuinely a worse version of Billings.

Jordon is clearly one of the best taggers in the game. DubDee can't shake off the rosy red and blue glasses. One of my biggest gripe with Goodwin is he's refusal to tag gun players. Tim Kelly tonight was unbelievable and barely anyone went with him. It's cost us games. Goody is too arrogant to even realise that he should have at least tried Jordon as a tagger last year after the success we had with Harmes back in 2018 before trading him off.

No. He plays one good quarter every game. Sometimes it's not even a quarter, more so 15-20 minutes maybe.

Absolutely deserved what we got. Arrogance and questionable team selecting bringing in underdone players. Oh but don't you ever dare to question the team selections on here 😅 because the coaches always know right hey? I'm actually not surprised by this loss. Mids have been awful last few weeks and to see an 18 year simply just bully our senior and more experienced players around stoppages shows how much they're starting to fall off the cliff. Viney and Oliver are simply shadows of their best, Sparrow is an embarrassment, Salem can barely hit a leading forward. Defence got absolutely exposed tonight. May and McDonald were genuinely awful, Howes is just so weak in the contests, Bowey is another who's just a shadow of what he's previously produced. Rivers is a turnover merchant. Brown can retire on the spot. No more please. Forget the good citizen stuff, he simply cannot play for us anymore based on that performance. Petty can go back to defence, he was just as bad. McGovern and Barrass embarrassed both of them on the spot. Last but not least, coaching tonight was awful. Not once did we try anything to mix it up. Our mids was getting smashed and not once did we try Rivers in there or leave Pickett there for significant time after he looked dangerous earlier on. Defensive set up was completely obliterated and of course we make Darling look like Wayne Carey tonight after he hasn't had a kick in 2 years. Some serious soul searching from this performance.

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[censored] hell Ben Brown can you at least provide a wimper!?

McDonald..

If we're fair dinkum this year we win.

May and McDonald have been downright embarrassing tonight.

Lol do our defenders not want to play on a man? How does Liam Ryan just casually get off so easily.