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Jake made a difference this season but keeping him on with a significant injury smells a bit of desperation and a shortage of options in the marketplace

He is a must to stay unless we trade a replacement in. Personally, we know he can play back. l get him doing ruck craft so he can replace or relieve Max in a break glass situation. Was rucking at GWS

Deakyn has not had his contact renewed

Senior AFL coaching opportunities are very rare. He has applied and if he gets offered the job will rightly go to the tigers who are well managed, resourced and back their staff in. The current list isn't great but that's about making sure expectations are aligned

He also played some ruck at GWS which might be handy now Grundy is gone

We just didn't kick straight and bombed away ... no more no less ... now we have quite a fresh injuries and reports ... 1 week is a longer time in football

He is good friends with Brayshaws which is the main problem

Part of the issue is Oliver bombs and lacks creativity and we become predictable ... when he was out this didn't happen as much

Its the vibe of it

Didn't say l was expecting anything, just making the point it would be good to trial. As for his exit, not sure we want him gone, l think he wants out is more the point, unless we have a classy player coming in with that cash that you know of?

One out of the box strategy that hasn't been tried. For teams with 2 rucks (e.g. Cox, Darcy) what if Grundy trails their 2nd ruck into their back line or the bench and plays on the opposition giraffe? Our forward line remains in tact.

At the start of the year the afl said they listened to supporters and wouldn't schedule past 7.20 ... slowly, slowly they mislead us as the crowds have come back

No coincidence the forward line started to function the moment he returned

Hope he is back, missed the 1st flag, would be terrible if it happened again when he has been so influential

I remember then saying similar things about JHF, and look what happened

If he leaves mfc make a net draft profit and we don't pay anyone extra cash. Media have lost it. Makes interesting story to suggest he will be paid by 3 clubs at once because it would be a first is all

Our forward line has worked best over longer periods when we have played 3 talls ... that means the 3rd defender picks up our resting rucks and we get goals out of Grundy the same way Jacko did. So Tomlinson stays put, and we bring in Petty as a forward and consider whether we swap Grundy/Schache for Brown this week or next week

And what if that doesn't work? We could launch a protest at the head office, only problem is we don't really have one.

Comparing year on year doesn't really work. l would like to see if his most recent weeks have been on par with other years which l suspect it isn't. They need to put him in the middle at the start of each quarter for 5 min to provide a spark.

But the post you refer to also speculates ....🤔

Would love to, like most of us that played the game at some sort of senior level for the love the game - no incident mitigating video review for reports playing diamond Valley footy back in the day

They had a 3 to 4 day break after the blues game, and have a few more of those. Having too long a break wouldn't be in anyone interests. Most weeks l get a 2 day break from work and only 4 weeks leave not a whole summer, l think they will be ok. Unrelated, BBB hasn't been the same since the haircut, can we get him a wig?

Anythng viney does is great but loved this tackle on Maynard after what happened to Langdon last year

Max's podcast might he interesting this week, given he witnessed trac's likely retaliation and will have heard what Cox had to say today

So Petracca may have apologised for remonstrating after the game, it doesn't mean Cox didn't cross the line during the game. I doubt trac would complain just for the sake of it unless something 'next level' happened earlier