Gawndy the Great

It was said on couch that he would put his job on the line and it took 5 hours of discussion to reach a compromise. I highly doubt he will be there next year.

When i read this post, i noticed his comments were blocked. Real rock solid piece of reporting there. They are going full media blitz with this.

Maybe it will given its now a Friday not Thursday. I still expect to be outnumbered but itll be closer to 60:40 this time around, maybe even 55:45.

The other thing i noticed was that Collingwood had about 5-6 players sitting at the top of their D50 arc waiting for a turnover. They clearly have the fitness to continue its execution, however i dont see how they can beat the lions with this gamestyle. I agree with Goodwin in that we played the right way and that the Pies were really lucky with their conversion and ability to convert when they got out the back. If we do somehow getup against the Blues and Lions, i think we will get the Pies on GF.

Still have trauma from Thursday, wasn't going to go, but couldn't help myself. Q50 Row H.

Precisely. At some stage before he left the ground he would have known contact was inevitable and unavoidable and he did nothing to mitigate the extent of impact, in fact he did the one thing that would almost ensure a disastrous outcome by turning his shoulder.

They are indeed. You can spot them on every social media platform. They usually start their responses like “I’m not a Collingwood fan but…” I do manage to stir a fair few of them up so for brief moments of time I am moderately fulfilled.

It’s all we need right now. Wait for some reporter to put it up on Twitter in the hour.

The various quotes from Trac “footy is just one thing… brain for life..” doesn’t sound like the right things you want to hear regarding Gus’s immediate football career. I wouldn’t doubt that his family and loved ones are not telling him to give it up. If he was my son, 100% I would be having the discussion. We know he considered giving up earlier on and the severity of this knock may have just pushed him over the line. If the fact that this is being considered is to be the case, it has to be submitted to the hearing to set the tone on the significance of the impact on the player and the club. It is such a profound incident and I cannot believe how the footy world and media are not rallying behind him. It’s outright disgusting.

Think of it this way. When a players goes to spoil a mark, is late, hit the head and causes a concussion… what happens? He gets 2 weeks from the MRO ala Jack Martin. The spoil is a footy action as is the smother as is a tackle. The onus is on the opposing player to execute the footy action as safely as possible and you take full responsibility when it causes a concussion. In retrospect Maynard should have dived at his feet, jumped vertically or even jumped forward in a way that he lands 1m to the left or right of him. All of these were in his control and yet he decides to jump right at him. It’s no different to a bump IMO. And given the significance of the injury , the game and the time at which it happened in the game, I’d be pushing at least 6 weeks if I was the AFL.

We left at least 3-4 gettable goals on the table. Get those and this is a non story. Kozzy missed 1, Lingers 1, Fritta 1-2 as well.

Not in a SF.

Had a good look at Duursma in tonight’s game. Just no. I remember him being the best out of the lot of the youngsters they picked up in the 2019 draft. What happened to him.

A bit? I’d be having nightmares for the rest of my life if I was the recruitment team. Having Trac, Oliver, Gawn, Curnow, May in the same team… would be a thing of beauty.

It’ll be the sole reason we don’t win another flag. Forward connection and turnover transition is what they need to work on preseason drill after drill after drill. No more excuses. Lions are ordinary bar a few decent players but they play their system and use their advantages so well.

I wonder if Kingy says we should get 75% of tickets against the Blues as the home team.

This is almost game over. Port will not beat GWS either with this footy.

Chance of a free to Jones there? Cameron goes up for a screamer doesn’t even touch it.

Hearing that a certain AFL tribunal member who will unlikely participate in the hearing itself saying it’s a straight forward 3+ weeker.

It’s very premature (I know) but what would losing Gus to retirement do to our list - I cannot even begin to fathom. Would we get some form of compensation if this did happen? Is there any avenue for such a thing? Losing a player in his prime years, through a cowardly act of thuggery is not bad luck.

Carlton will be battered and bruised. No McKay, Martin Crippa Ribs - looks sore Acres - shoulder.

It’s a complete mind-boggling out-of-this-world load of [censored]. Default is a goal, overrule by evidence. It’s the simplest rule tweak possible and yet nothing.

Having Wayne Carey wouldn’t solve our problem. It’s ball movement and forward connection that is the issue., Isolate the forward line and they kick bags. Need better ball users plain and simple.

Doesn’t his old man work for Melbourne? Maybe skip work today.

Is it possible that the smother was an unrealistic attempt? - it looked very late and the follow through was completely unnecessary - it looks very accentuated - almost searching for contact. A smother in desperation is usually a dive at the players feet, not into the players head, which makes this IMO a non football action. It was unorthodox, executed carelessly (or intentionally but we’ll never be able to prove that) so he has to be rubbed out. Double demerit points (for finals) too.