Smokey

Gee I hope Tommy Sparrow is ok, he was out well before he hit the deck. Xerri should go for a long holiday, and he’s handed Max another AA. Jeffo and JVR will come good in years to come.

Not necessarily. The board can take action now if they wanted to. Will they? No. Can they? Absolutely

Petracca is the only realistic option in the timeframe Max has remaining unless we trade someone in. In years gone by I would've said Lever but he's falling off a cliff and its starting to look like his body isn't going to hold up. Petracca has recent history of spitting the dummy about how unprofessional we are, I'd be interested to see him put his money where is mouth is and take over the leadership. We know on a personal level is is highly professional. Will that translate to effective leadership as captain? Not sure, but in my view I don't see any other options in front of us.

Goody should go for sure, but I’m worried we’ll get a new coach and the fact our list just isn’t that good will be exposed I want goody gone, but the sentiment here seems to be that we have this incredibly talented list and all we need is “new ideas”, “a fresh voice” etc I think a new coach won’t improve things that much. We’ve built a list around a style of footy that died in 2022. There are glaring holes in our list (all over the park now, not just up forward) that coaching cannot solve We’re in worse shape than many realise

Well he's the closest thing to Nibbler that we have available. ANB was fantastic, but I think you are suffering from some recency bias as well - he became a great player, he wasn't always a great player. We have far bigger list management problems to solve right now, and he isn't the only player on the team responsible for delivering the ball inside 50. He's a better field kick than Clarry and Trac by a mile. And before you say it - yes, Clarry and Trac do more in other areas of the game - but they are also among our highest paid players on the list. In reality you should be more annoyed by their horrible ball use., because its deplorable for players of their standard.

You seem to be myopically focused on the wrong guy. chin has improved out of sight and still has plenty more upside. we have guys on our list on twice as much money as him for contribute less right now.

No need to threaten them with a good time

That sort of short-sightedness is par for the course here

Disco is becoming the rightful heir to Steven May down back though. I'd caution us from robbing Peter to pay Paul here. Keep disco down back and leave him there please.

9 more years of Kozzie is priceless. The kind of bloke you can build the club around on and off the field. Thank you Koz

If we continue to play 4 quarters like we did yesterday for the remainder of the season, we'll find a way to feature in September (with a bit of luck going our way in other parts of the draw)

And made zero impact when he was up forward. Totally bereft of ability to create space. Today was his chance to make some sort of impact and he failed miserably. Don’t make the same mistake I have for the last few years and give him the benefit of the doubt, he is simply a below average football player at best and I’d be happy to see him off the list.

I’ve been a JVR apologist for too long now. He’s a bust, does not know how to get himself in the game. He can’t be part of our plan moving forward. Bloke does next to nothing

He cares. We need more like him. Grow up

We should have won that game, and this isn’t an excuse - but that was incredibly suspect umpiring all day

What the hell is wrong with you, did you watch May today?

Feeling strangely good about today ...

… race to September my friend Positivity costs nothing!

Confident we’ll lift after a poor showing and be right in it.

We have off days, all teams do. I’ll hold off on writing us off for the year until I see how we go against Collingwood. For what it’s worth, our young brigade is bloody exciting and there’s no reason we can’t be hopeful next year (assuming we address our key forward issues somehow during the trade period)

Came for the game day thread hysteria. Did not disappoint Dee’s by 20+

Clarry ❤️

Because Max plays like that every week. This week we had a more even contribution across the board and that was the difference in my view. I didn't say those 5 were best on ground. Different conversation.

You could tell all day we were right on the edge of running over the top of them. Where our skills let us down at times, our intensity made up for it. We simply aren’t as bad a team as we have been this year so far. Our younger generation of players are already becoming the difference between losing and winning games. A win for the ages all things considered. Take a bow Melk, Bowey, Langdon, XL and Turner. Those 5 were the difference today. It’s a grand old flag!