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37 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Petracca's possessions in my opinion can be cut in half quite easily if Dangerfield had have been playing.

How so?

9 hours ago, Pennant St Dee said:

I disagree Daz, I reckon he was very important inside and unlike us of the last few years the Giants have plenty of outside power runners who fed off him.

Just MO

I saw it completely the opposite.

He's getting positive reviews because the media want a feel good story out of him on top of the Petracca performance.

It was all the Fox commentators were talking about and hoping for on the pre game telecast.

It was stock standard Oliver game in terms of racking up a heap of handballs in close and leave it to the rest. Other then that I saw nothing to suggest that his performance any different to what he dished up last year.

Metres gain is a stat that coaches froth over in today's game in terms of ability to win the footy and then driving your legs to carry the footy as well or gain territory. Oliver's was low and it was noticeable. His performance was very Tom Mitchell like in that regardless, he is will always rack up 25 each game but have no hurt factor. I never once saw the Oliver of old in terms of bursting out of stoppages or driving his legs around stoppages.

Footy is going to about transitioning and gaining as much territory as you can

I look at Jai Newcombe game yesterday and both he and Oliver are exactly the same players and yet had such a significant influence because he was trying to burst through and link up in transitioning snd territory. Newcombes 574 metres gain was certainly more noticeable just like it was for Petracca the other night.

For another comparison, Patrick Cripps was another who had low metres gain (186) because they're very in and under and struggle with transition.

To finish off, I thought Stringer, Callaghan, and Riccardi were far more influential then Oliver.

I thought it was one of Stringers best games in a long time as he rose to the occasion when they were challenged and to have 9 scoring shots in itself is pretty impressive. Kicking 5.4 is a great return for him. He looked fit and dynamic. Him and Hogan this year is going to be scary.

But of course the media would prefer the feel good story of Oliver's performance and them rating his 17 handball and 9 kicks performance as BOG ahead of Stringers proves exactly that point.

3 hours ago, Redleg said:

Well it’s not irrelevant as he nominated us last year and they wanted Petracca.

He is still a Sun.

No, he didnt "nominate us" Red..

People on here got sucked in by a random poster during trade period that was leading everyone in this forum to believe so.

Funny how he hasnt posted since then.. #troll

19 minutes ago, BDA said:

why are posters so fixated on the media. who cares what they say

Well there is a 29 page 'Media Madness' Thread still floating around on here from last year..

So yes, I would suggest there are many folks on here who are still pretty sensitive to what gets said in the media going off that thread.

44 minutes ago, bluey said:

Did anybody notice Guerra, Smith or a bored member there representing our club, no too busy at the track I guess.

What a joke.

When you say represent, is that just you wanting them literally standing there witn their hands in their pockets watching a meaningless practise game with no MFC listed players??

Is that really what you're whinging about?

23 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Oliver BOG Thats Tracc and Clarry 2 BOG ex dees JUST SAYING FOR ALL YOU SLEDGFESTERS!

Haha yeah nah Pickett..

You have got your bias lense on with this one once again.

He played the stock standard 2024-2025 Oliver game of 17 handballs and just the 9 kicks to go along with just the 274 metres gain meaning he he barely drove his legs to burst out of stoppages or get on the outside for transition.

According to AFL ratings was the 5th rated Giants so not even close to BOG.

The game has moved past contest and all about transitioning and ball movement. Saw none of that. The long bombs to contest was still there so nothing has changed.

At least we saw a completely different Petracca the other night being so dynamic where as Oliver just did his normal thing which in all honesty he didnt hurt the opposition that much.

47 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

To all the posters who went to town on Bruhn, it’s probably a good time to raise your hand and apologise; there’s a reason why the system is innocent until proven guilty - people (witnesses) and ‘victims’ lie.

The posters

1 hour ago, KC from Casey said:

There are no team sheets at the ground either as the team runs out on the field. Judging by the numbers there don’t seem to be many AFL listed players out there.

Box Hill have a few Hawthorn listed players playing today.

Bizarre situation that Hawks can have AFL listed players play in this practice match but we cant?

Just now, Lucifers Hero said:

Not bad given he played only 77% game time!

Thoroughly deserved BOG.

Yeah wasn't aware of his game time.

That is indeed very impressive

19 minutes ago, KozzyCan said:

It was easily a top 5 career performance from Petracca and probably the best team performance from the suns ever. Of course they were getting praised.

Pretty sure it was Fox Footy that had a stated that eead that it was either his 3rd or 4th best ever rated performance of his career.

The praise was absolutely deserved. Looked a completely different player.

1 hour ago, Billy said:

I’m the ultimate Dees tragic & l hated every minute of Petraccas performance

I still rate loyalty & honouring contracts

Hopefully the Karma bus will run him over

So what you're saying is that we should have kept the likes of Weideman, Harmes, Oliver, Hogan who were still contracted at the time, not explore a trade last year for Steven May and not bother going after Bailey Humphrey who is contracted until 2028??

Contracts mean nothing now days.

8 hours ago, ANG13 said:

Another one who was sacked / retired. Shocking decision to bring him to the club.

Especially when our leaders were consulted and against the decision but still went ahead of it.

51 minutes ago, BoBo said:

If Red isn’t wrong then Clayton is beyond criticism because he’s basically too stupid. Redleg is saying ‘if Clayton is not astute enough to know he should thank the club’ then he won’t criticise him. Which is fine.

I do not believe he is that dumb but others can if they want.

Be careful though @picket fence will be really angry with you.

Miss read that, my apologies.

4 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

Yeah, would suck swanning around on a million dollars a year.
Just got abit too comfortable and lazy knowing he had 7yrs up his sleeve.

4 minutes ago, DeeZone said:

He has played competitive basketball at College level Roost it far, his old man is a High Performance Manager and both brothers are involved in sport at a reasonable level in the US. He’s probably the most competitive Cat B that we have taken on board, we will soon find out and I wouldn’t write of Jed Adam's, 196cm running back who has good disposal skills.

Adams will get delisted by end of the year.

He isnt much chop DZ. Got torn apart by an 18 year old VFL player only a few weeks back.

If Adams is playing it means we are injury depleted down back.

In fairness Geelong are playing like a genuinely bottom 3 team.

This is the softest performance i have seen from them in a very long time.

This is ehat life after Dangerfield and Cameron looks like..

Heck of a performance hes putting in show tonight

Petracca killing it

34 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

Yep.

You complete most of the pre season and you decide to retire, doesn’t make any sense.

He wouldn't have received a payout either?

No press confrence to announce his retirement either that's a red flag that this decision wasn't mutual.

He would have received a payout of his remaining contract which finished up at the end of the year.

10 minutes ago, Dannyz said:

Not from me.

I posted that Kozzy asked to be traded to Fremantle. The club said no. He did some soul searching before he re-signed. His partner is very happy in Melbourne and very close with her sister.

Yep, definitely remember you saying this at the time mate.

Absolute good riddance to what was a cancer to this footy club.

Took the absolute [censored] out of the footy club and it finally took someone as strong as Steven King to finally call him out and get rid of this germ.

26 minutes ago, Supermercado said:

Sounds like joining Moe is a risky decision.

I get a sense there is some brown paper bags stuff happening at that footy club with some of the players they have been able to recruit..

I see Harmesy has linked up with Benny Crocker as well through the footy.. another questionable character to say at least.

15 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Was listening to SEN this morning with Tom Morris.

According to Morris, Harmes was desperately keen to play on and pleaded with the Dogs for one last chance.

However, apparently the Dogs said to him that he'd lost trust with the playing group and the club overall and demanded he retire. Too many stuff ups they reckon.

Morris also mentioned that Steve May was going to spend the entire season at Casey, at all costs, should he have refused the offer of retirement/pay out.

Harmes issues were the exact reason the club also moved him on. Some of his off field antics and activities were getting out of control.

Source: Current Melbourne player