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Someone tell the Board we've got a 14th Cup to accommodate somewhere!

Daisy: "They invited the wrong team to their housewarming." 🤣

YYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fantastic effort Dees that was a hell of a fight. What a season! What a way to see Daisy off - a pioneering champion of the game.

Officially have no fingernails left.

Good. Walk away and leave them paying a million a year for him.

JVR - surely will play seniors next yr - happy for him to slot in place of melksham from semi final side. Laurie - not sure - dev hampered by a lot of injuries in 2020 Howes - apparently v close to senior selection this yr but injured in vfl - may be spots in the jordon or hunt areas? AMW - not sure Turner - surely gets more games with Tomlinson maybe being traded, Hibbert longer in the tooth and Hunt traded. Chandler - got some clearer air between him and seniors now with Bedford off to wherever. Really needs to seize any selection opportunity in a way that doesn't see him getting suspended for weeks for a concussing tackle.

Our fwd line might need to trade in some of those walking frames from the Cats' mad Monday too.

Kicking myself. I picked one up a couple of weeks ago fearing the gold logo could be gone any moment.

It's got to be Oliver, surely. I'm also hoping Petty polls well.

Anyone remember Cerra being impressed with our presentation but we were never really in the frame because we didn't have the trade currency. Ugh.

We need to milk multiple flags out of our current team. I'm [censored] over teams like Geelong nabbing a quarter of the flags contested over the last 16 seasons.

Yep

Absolutely atrocious. Last year's was far better. The sonic equivalent of a butcher's bin.

Absolute disgrace that you can't get the GF on either Kayo or Channel 7's own frigging app.

Good game for our percentage.

Agreed - Oliver's year this year was miles ahead of Trac's - certainly moreso than their Brownlow polling this year suggests.

Munro is emotional - great interview - what a legend.

Regression to the mean.

Concussed last week

So there's Naughton to see here?

But had he stayed then every ladder position, trade and draft pick we'd have chosen since then would be different. It's not like we can look at our current team and just swap a fringe player with Jurrah and declare we'd be that much better. That path would be completely different. We could have not quite bottomed out then not gone through the transformation that led to the '21 flag.

This. 100% this.

At the start of the year the curious stat went around that no premiership line-up ever played together in full thereafter. I recall chatter on this site about how we could be the first, which was dashed by injury prior to round 1. Then later in the year it was mentioned that we were almost back to our best 22 (being the flag 22). Here's hoping going forward we embrace the evolutionary philosophy required to remain at the tip of the AFL spear.

Lever, May, Langdon, Ben Brown, Dunstan. 4 were vital elements of our premiership team.

My worry with this is the Cargo Cult Science issue. There's no point duplicating a program outputs if the inputs have changed - player conditioning, injuries, schedule, etc. I hope the 2021 program wasn't being followed blindly, but rather the methodology for its construction was being followed, allowing for evidence-based evolution. The talk earlier in the year that we were being flogged even harder on the training track and that we'd be even fitter than 2021 worried me. We looked knackered as this year wore on. Sparking out of the blocks, getting leads mid-game, and being steadily reeled in and overrun. Week after week with few exceptions.