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    9 hours ago, CYB said:

    Anyone remember what Port we’re doing earlier this year? 4 am flights fly in fly out ring a bell? Stop making excuses for this mob. They are mentally fragile. A team that truly wants to win would have found a way.

    How many sitters did we miss? Despite being 5 goals down we had every opportunity to win the game in the last Q. [censored] weak. I’m not a Goodwin fan but this performance was utterly disgraceful by the players. 

    That's true. Port did have two early starts when they played the Giants and again they did it against the Blues. Both of them were narrow wins, however.

    I think the top teams who are well drilled cope with these inconveniences better.

     

    1 minute ago, DubDee said:

    not to mention up at 7am for the 2 hour bus ride before the flight (according to Trac).  terrible preparation

    excuses yes.  but still

    GWS played in Perth on Saturday night yet were on the Sunshine Coast 3 days ago and then just took a bus to Metricon today.

    Is this some hub protocol or did Melbourne royally [censored] up their logistics here today? Why wouldn’t they have flown to Cairns on Sunday or Monday?

    Has anyone raised the fact that the Swans have been in Cairns since Saturday (and training at Cazaly since) while we flew up this morning?

    I don’t know about you, but being on a plane flight for 2hrs and then expect to play a side that’s been there for 5 days and already training there seems a bit rough.

    The performance was inexcusable but this further highlights the inequality of this season.
     

     

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    I wonder if the players had a similar expectation to some of the posters on the Gameday thread this morning. Dees easily, Swans are rubbish, no Rampe, no Mills etc etc.

    Well, Sydney are a team that have dominated us over the last decade with a very good coach who’s also very good on game day.

    This wasn’t a surprise at all.

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    I almost felt we didn’t deserve to win given we had so many players with such little impact. BUT Trac sinking the Saints given they overlooked him at 1, and an article was written about it today in the HSun, has so much synergy to it ?

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    1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Listening to Alan Richardson on Talking Point, he mentions that we'll look at bringing in players with a bit of run and carry.

    Hunt? Baker? C Wagner?

    RE: That Richo interview, I don’t think his Saints IP is going to be much use this week. I’d say Ratten would be doing the opposite to what Richo taught the players considering how well they are going now.

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    18 minutes ago, Older demon said:

    Sparrow with a busted wing is out and we will be playing off a 5 day break so some may need to be rested  given we front up for the next game 4 days later. The Saints have a 4 day break so maybe that will help us. 

    We have a 7 day break (game is next Saturday night); Saints 6 day break. 

     

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    I get that Melksham had a poor performance, but those thinking Goody will drop him are delusional. He’s been pretty decent the last few weeks prior, plus Goody loves him (per the captain choice),

    Out: Preuss, Sparrow.

    In: Gawn, Bennell or Jones.

    Hibberd has one more chance I reckon.

    Goodwin put too much faith in our mids going head to head against their’s. 
     

    No negating on Bont. No negating on McCrae. One of our biggest strengths in 2018 was Harmes work as a tagger. Why not try something?

    Hibbo has some credits in the bank, but he was shocking today. 

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    Something to ponder; the Dogs have probably found some form after smashing the Crows, especially the mids. If Gawn plays, he’ll no doubt dominate hit outs and it’ll cause some real predictably at the stoppages. The Dogs mids will just look to shark his taps and they won’t even bother reading English’s. I still think Gawn plays if he’s fit, but I just hope the connection between him and our mids is there on Saturday.

    I’m really bummed about Gawn not being able to play tomorrow. I’ve been watching Grundy quite closely the last few weeks (as I have him as my captain in SC draft) and he looks exhausted with his mobility nothing like last year. I really feel a fit Gawn would have given him a bath.

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