At the break of Gawn

Quite a few Freo players I heard in interviews praised the confidence in their fitness to be one of the best last qtr teams this year with many come from behind victories. I hope Melb makes some enquires.

I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of this week it's down to 2. From memory, Guerra said that the best two candidates will present to the board who will then weigh in on the selection. You'd expect then from the 15th to the 19th they interview the two and decide who's the best candidate to then announce on the 22nd.

Giants are 0-4 in their last 4 finals. At least it's not just us.

Just on C Scott, I have an extended family member who works at the Cats in their strength and conditioning department and I had a conversation with him 6 months ago about why Scott is such a good coach. He basically said he sees the game extremely well, but his best quality was his ability to delegate and trust those around him to get things done. You can tell the guy just demands a heap of respect and everyone who works for him wants to live up to his expectations. He also said that Scott doesn't even speak to the players all that much during the week and leaves that up to the assistant coaches. I guess maybe one voice is easier to listen to than multiple?

Cats v Pies GF is a nightmare matchup. Couldn't being myself to barrack for either of them.

Yep, he said that on the couch and it elicited a response from Goody in a presser who said the "boys had done the work" over the off season. Fitness has a been a problem for a couple of years now.

He left at the end of 2021. The 2022 falling in a heap was under Selwyn. Also, not sure fitness had anything to do with last night. The Crows pressed pretty hard and their pressure was up but Collingwood's defence was too organised.

Absolutely nailed it. Crows were always the best opponent for the Pies.

Nibbler has now played in 5 finals losses in a row. Poor bloke

The Crows are basically the worst side going from D50 to F50 and it showed tonight. They can't score from the back half and they lost one of their best stoppage scorer in Rankine. The Pies are also pretty poor from the back half too but it didn't really matter tonight. I also think the Crows D50 have been over celebrated. They let a dog [censored] North Melbourne side score 100pts against them in round 24. I hope the Lions win tomorrow night because I trust the Cats more than the Lions to knock over Collingwood in the Prelim.

Given Bucks is a fitness freak himself and one of the best prepared players ever, he's going to know a thing or two about fitness. If he's got doubts on their program, I reckon Selwyn will be one of the first to go.

Caro has her fingerprints all over this. What is with her vendetta against Melbourne? Is it purely to spook Buckley away to help Gale and Tassie? I hate the patronising of Melb fans too in this article.

For anyone who's been close to this, does this have much significance? "Melbourne relented on a series of demands surrounding public access to the ovals, payment of rent and control of subleasing."

Can't believe Bont is on 7x already. He'll definitely get to 9 you'd think as he's still 29 (turning 30 this year)

2 x AA for a 14th placed team. Collingwood could only manage 1. We now have 6 x AA winners in our starting 22. Probably a pretty good indicator of under performance.

How does Collingwood have a vote for who do you hope wins the flag?

Hoyney is spot on about team success impacting Langford's media favouritism. If we were top 4 he'd be the shortest price favourite.

Watched til the first ad break and sounds like this is just an update on the coaching search.

Gawn was $1.05 to make AA ruck on Sportsbet before they closed the market. He's a dead set certainty.

Considering it's probably the last team meeting for the year and he won't get to address them again until pre-season due to the strict AFLPA rules, then yes it is absolutely necessary. Do you want the boys to take their off-season running seriously or do you want them to all set record low time trials on their first day back of pre-season?

The article is purely an opinion piece with a headline that isn't a quote from a source but just Scott's article. The HS have been doing more of this since Jay Clark has replaced Robbo. I'd be happy for May to go. I'd actually rather a player than a pick though considering how deep their midfield bats.

Love it and let the clean out continue

Almost Looks like he's smirking through it. Peak immaturity.

I wonder if Peter Burge is OOC at the Hawks? Has an excellent track record and the Hawks are a great two way running side. I wouldn't look at Andrew Russell given his recent history.

Crazy to think since the 2021 GF the Dogs have had only two finals appearances and no finals wins yet they extended Bevo while we sacked the coach. I reckon their board definitely jumped the gun on the decision.