Dodos Demons

You forgot Grundy too.

From the press conference, Green said (with Goodwin sitting next to him): “I spoke to him last night about thinking about coaching for the last three games and I respect Simon’s decision about not wanting to do that.” Disgraceful of the club /sarc

Obtain an historical title search (publicly available). Only problem is that in Victoria the title search does not reveal the capacity (eg trustee) in which the registered proprietor holds the property (exception is executor of estate can now be recorded). They could hold it beneficially (ie own it) or in a representative capacity (eg trustee). Still, it might reveal some further info or further avenues to investigate.

Did Bulldogs crash this hard after their flag? We seem to have taken it to the next level with huge salary cap on 3 ageing players until around 2030.

Any links for the live stream. They are not appearing in the landing page for the podcast chat on the forum. Thanks

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100% agree. Love how he always has a quick look around before he receives the ball to assess his next move - knows when to tackle and very good and protecting the drop of the ball (whether a handball or kick). Huge fan.

Posted a similar comment in another thread. If you look at other young forwards at other clubs, they take time to develop but generally improve year on year. Sadly I don’t think we can say that about JVR and starting to get a good number of games under his belt so it is a decent body of evidence to draw comparisons.

Don’t want to turn this into a aa JVR pile on but hard to argue that he hasn’t regressed. No idea what his KPI’s are but doesn’t seem to be offering much to the naked eye. A few times today he seemed to hesitate when ball was in dispute. He doesn’t get great delivery but when ball hits deck he seems nowhere to be seen. Defensively, he and Fritsch can be hard ti watch at times. Would love JVR ro prove me wrong but he seems to have plateaued.

Commentators did their best in the first quarter to highlight Daicos getting the same treatment Oliver has received his entire career and never called out. Just crickets. Happens to Daicos and they make sure they have zoomed in footage. Can’t tell me the broadcasters aren’t playing their part to get favourites teams on top. Meanwhile Trac and Oliver just have to cop it.

Well said. Pressers from Goodwin rarely if ever mentions it. As if the kicking is not part of all the coaches’ responsibility. Know as the worst conversion team. Says a lot.

The recent email from the club appears to have (appropriately) edited the random hand from the earlier photo 😉. Screenshot 2025-05-26 172705.jfif

To the untrained eye, the first image appears to show Clarry expressing sheer joy but if you pan down, you will see it is sheer agony. The culprit may wish he wasn't identifiable by the thumb strapping lol.

I was at the game and watched him very closely after the match and there was next to no interaction with teammates. They all huddled on the ground near the race waiting for Langford to come back from seeing fans on the other side of the ground. Fritta was just standing out the back of the players while the rest were joking and celebrating. Didn’t see any players go up to him. Very small sample size but did not seem to be a lot of love towards him from teammates.

Thanks for clarifying.

Apologies if this has been asked and answered before in this thread - do we have to pay out full contract of Goodwin if we terminate before the contracted end date or did the AFL bring in a max payout cap. If the latter, we should be on our bike in the hunt to secure the best replacement before other clubs are in the hunt (eg Carlton, if not already)?

Forwards seem to have very little body work craft. At least 3 occasions in first quarter when one of JVR and Disco had oppo player out positioned under the ball and only needed slightest body contact but zero contact. Simple stuff. How many times did we handball blindly forward. Don’t think it worked once. Look like a complete rabble.

Seems anything goes in the last minute but only if it advantages Collingwood. That was a disgraceful non-call and so obvious. Would love to hear Bevo tee off about the umpires. He must be seething. Don’t think I heard the commentators once mention the free kick count. Probably not allowed to.

By “check in” does he really mean become followers and/or comment several times a day on his numerous social media platforms. He has a point …/sarc

A certain few Australian male tennis players appeared to have very similar traits and quickly lost the media and Australian fans. Not justifying those Australian tennis players but in their defence, they were playing an individual sport. It is so bizarre that a similar attitude could bubble to the surface and be on full show in AFL football with squads of approx 44 players.

Maybe there is a stalemate and radio silence from both player and club because the issues (aka “grievances”) run very deep and touch on matters that are the subject of current or future legal proceedings and neither party wants to go there. I have no idea but I can’t for a second accept that the current strategy of Trac is the result of professional/paid advisers.

Grievance tribunal would be a pathetic Hail Mary from Trac and his team. Hard to know if this is navel gazing by those in the media or leaked by his “advisors”. If the latter they are clearly desperate and clutching at straws for any leverage. The club should (and hopefully will) hold firm like anyone holding all the cards should. “Stay on target, stay on target”….. sadly we are not at the stage where we can finish the Star Wars quote: “almost there, almost there”.

Imagine the bidding war that could eventuate (may already be happening behind closed doors)

If Trac is genuinely that unhappy with the club to cause all this drama and damage (and so far do nothing/stay silent to seek to salvage the situation), he can’t have it both ways and say I need to leave but only if I end up at a “big” club. That is where he is losing the faithful. If that is his predominant motivation (ie he wants out but only to a big club) then that is so disappointing.

"Depending on who Petracca talks to, it’s different. If he talks to the players, his issue is with the leadership of the club and when he talks to the leadership, his issue is with the players and the off-field stuff." If true, he is hardly in the right frame of mind to make significant decisions about his future!