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I'm not sure you're accurately representing Goodwin's thoughts on McDonald: From 18/6: "The pressure's building and we're looking for our talls to really compete and start bringing the ball to ground and start having an influence on the game," Goodwin said. "That's the reality of the game – we need some forwards, and some key forwards, to start to influence games of footy." Source Edit - Added date for context.

Standard media practice these days it seems.

You realize that person caught it at a shopping centre and not the rally yeah? (In fact, you also realize none of those cases so far were people who caught it at the rally?)

IN: Brown OUT: Hannan

Oh ok, you're right, the AFL would never go for teams in hubs...

Couldn't see us moving back to a public park. Casey is at least a little enclosed. Could we see a 'hub-like' training situation where a few teams use one facility? ie - Melbourne, Saints and Bulldogs all share Whitten Oval, which I think is a bit less publicly available than Gosch's and RSEA.

OR... sounds like our key defenders are starting to hit their straps... ?‍♂️

Yeah and he/you wasn't that far off. He was at the club Saturday morning.

No more injury reports then?

Had been out of the hotel for 18 days when he tested positive. Had 5 negative results inbetween. So, no.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 17 Tested for COVID-19. FRIDAY JUNE 18 (MORNING) Returns a negative result and completes main contact training with teammates. It was his fifth negative test since returning from Ireland. FRIDAY JUNE 18 (AFTERNOON) Tested for COVID-19. SATURDAY JUNE 19 (MORNING) No more than 20 minutes after arriving at the club McKenna is told his Friday test returned a low grade irregularity. As a result, he is tested again and told not to train. SATURDAY JUNE 19 (AFTERNOON) Essendon and the AFL are informed of McKenna’s positive COVID-19 result. He had shown no symptoms. Full timeline: The 24 hours that flipped Essendon’s season – and what happens next @Satyriconhome @Sir Why You Little

How long do we give him? Until the end of the season when we use our apparent cap space to chase a gun key forward free agent. Clearly has become our most pressing need now.

They misdirected their inensity I reckon. Doggies focused more on pressure and running intensity whereas GWS were too sucked into the faux tough stuff.

It's called run and pressure. Can understand if a Dees fan isn't familiar with it.

Just reckon intensity is one of the key elements we're lacking so far, which is disappointing given all the talk about the 'hurt' and 'fire in the belly' all offseason. Start bringing that consistently and it goes a long way towards smashing teams IMO.

This is the level of intensity I expected of the Dees this year after all the "Hell And Back" stuff and offseason talk. Let's hope we bring it this week for the first time this year.

Is it though? He's gone a long time now without consistently performing but is still under the radar as far as pressure goes IMO.

Or a weight apparently.... ?

Hopefully not including himself...

Mate, I agree. Personally I would rather have Tomlinson do backup ruck, bit like when we had Watts and Pedersen doing it, which gives us a different look and a bit more mobility and also means we still have 2 genuine targets forward. Also, I think TMac is escaping a fair bit of attention in all this too. If he had form then we wouldn't be quite so worried about what's happening with the 2nd key forward role.

I think the whole underlying current behind all this is the lack of trust in team selection, which is often backed up by what ends up happening on the field, along with the inconsistency of how we implement culture with certain players getting way more chances than others despite non-performance. When you're a club that has had a poor culture leading to no success, those things can become magnified, and, I believe, rightly so at the moment.

Because, as Chaplin has talked about, they're trying to develop the ruck part of his game specifically for the role of forward/ruck. Gawn didn't play in that game so they gave the majority of the ruck work to Weid to develop his ruck work. As mentioned in a few of my posts already, Troy Chaplin has spoken about how this offseason they set Weid the forward/ruck role and started to get him to focus on that. Because he hasn't played many games yet due to no VFL and non-selection at AFL level we don't have a lot of in-game examples to choose from. There's the preseason game where he rucked and the scratch match where he kicked 5 goals. Seems pretty self-explanatory then what's going on even if you choose to ignore one of our assistant coaches. As for your 'example' of me 'dismissing' others, I'm assuming you're alluding to where I said to another poster that judging Weid's game off the Carlton video highlights was maybe not the most accurate way to do so. I still stand by that. It's hard enough to judge a game purely off TV, let alone an opposition club's short highlights of their own team. Perhaps if you put as much work into watching and listening as you do into posts trying to have a crack at me you'd pick up on more of what is going on.

Exactly

No, because the role they've set for him is as forward/ruck. I never said his role was just as ruck.