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    1 hour ago, VoiceOfReason said:

    Goody will see his contract out. We haven't had a competent board in place, and our administration has been a mess. Be interesting to see who replaces him when the time does come.

    Rubbish, he’ll see his contract out because unless we totally drop the bucket he’s doing a reasonable job transitioning the game plan. Today hurts, no doubt about it, one of the more frustrating days at the footy but I’m putting today fairly at the feet of the players. I reckon they thought it was going to just happen and then they shti the bed kicking for goal.

    1 hour ago, Jaded No More said:

    Agreed, and we never will be able to judge him properly without giving him a proper run in the seniors.

    How many people here wanted Chin gone because he was always a sub and struggled to get into the game?! Bedford exactly the same. Both are very good players now.

    Being the perennial sub is the hardest job in football if you’re trying to cement a role.

    I don’t personally think Laurie will make it, but likewise how would I know from the 15 minutes I’ve seen him play in 24 months?

    If you continue to play him as the sub then you’re setting him up to fail.

    I thought today was an opportunity to give him a full match. Sharp is a sub, not much more.

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    4 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

    He's a decent sub role player.

    I think we pulled the wrong rein today with Laurie as sub and Spark as a starter. I thought that before the game too.

    That said, Laurie was horrible when he came on.

    I’m not sure we can pass judgement fairly on Laurie today.

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    Just now, Jaded No More said:

    Ross is a very astute coach. He’s shut down Langdon and Bowey and we’ve lost all our drive and spread.

    You can add that he’s taken Windsor back to the square and Butler, who’s a smart forward, has kicked 3 from the goal square.

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    Just now, Stiff Arm said:

    Saints forward line is not tall. Tmac, like May, is slow to react and useless below his knees. IMO we could only play one of them today

    At least Keeler was quiet in the 2nd qtr

    May was good in the second

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    1 minute ago, GS_1905 said:

    If Windsors role was to play off HB, he is failing miserably. We don’t use his pace nor does he have the HB running patterns to break lines.

    Windsor’s getting pulled back and out of the play and the Saints have capitalised on it.

    On 28/05/2025 at 15:58, cam.noble1 said:

    Over the past 5 years maybe even decade, Melbourne have been exceptional at drafting our future stars. There's been a slight pattern in the Dees picks leaning towards more mids and even a few pickups for our defence. Kalani White, son of Jeff White, who is playing in the Gold Coast Suns academy does have the farther son opportunity to be taken by the Dees. He's 199 CM tall, agile and can take an amazing mark (shades of rookie Max Gawn). Also helps that Jeff has hinted to us that he'd love to see his kid in the colours he played for on social media.

    Also mentions of Noah Hibbins-Hargreaves a wing/forward player has the same skill set to Caleb Windsor who could potentially be a massive pick up.

    Is Noah linked to us?

    Bit disappointed Laurie’s the sub. Think he deserves a full game.

    On Liam Jurrah, still hold some blame to Mark Neeld, he really failed to see the kind of player Jurrah was and if my memory serves me there was some murmuring’s of racism at the club at the time. I may be wrong on this but it’s how I felt at the time.

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    He’s a project player and as such it really falls on his desire to make it. It takes an incredible amount of unrewarded hours to become an elite footballer. On top of that he’s away from family adding another layer of difficulty. I’d imagine Matty Whelan would be supporting his efforts. I’d love to see him blossom into an AFL small forward for us.

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    12 minutes ago, binman said:

    Front half game is dependent on contest and defence.

    I don't think we are setting our D further back - we're certainly pushing up when we have the ball in our forward line (key to creating front half turnovers).

    Absolutely, I may of got my golf analogy a little off.

    Our repeat forward entries appear less contested but I may be imagining that. It’s why I thought perhaps we’ve pulled our defence back to the defensive side of the wings. I also noted May and Salem took some marks back there when Sydney came out of our F 50. Just stretching the ground out so as to draw the swans out of our D50. It also seems we’re hitting the top of the goal square a lot more and with Kozz running around why not. Anyhoo I’ll take a closer look at KB as it’s harder to gauge on tv. I’m also someone who’s still getting into the subtler side of tactics and how we play. Our 21 style was really clear.

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    1 hour ago, binman said:

    It's funny you should mention the 'terrority game'.

    Like the pies, we are still playing it in so far there us a clear emphasis on winning the territory, inside 50 battle this season.

    The difference is the focus on, as you suggest, not always bombing it in (though we are still doing plenty of that) and bei g much less straight line.

    It's interesting because the pies in 2024, on the back of the pies 2023 flag win, it was all about scores from the back half and spring boarding from half half.

    In 2025, whilst transition from.the back half is still important, the pendulum has swung back a bit to territory, get it inside 50 and trap there, forward half turnover footy.

    It's a shift that suits us.

    The red and blue print.

    It’s this that gives me confidence. Our one wood might be contest and defence but our putter and most important club appears to be playing a front half territory game. One question I have is do we set up our defence further back to allow an exiting ball to also clear our F50 of the opposition?

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    4 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    Sydney losing by 87 points and have 3 of the top 4 goal scorers on the park

    Pretty sure that would have never happened before

    Also they kicked 9 goals with only 3 scorers. never seen that either

    Literally a trivial post

    It’s not the first trivial post on this site but it is one of the most informative trivial posts. Whereas this post is simply trivial!

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    1 minute ago, chook fowler said:

    So many missed marks and unforced errors. A lot of lazy football. TMac having a mare. Kolton has pretty ordinary skills. Jeff’o and Roo the main positives

    How’s Culley’s disposal?

    JVR is the one we really need to find form, Sounds like Jefferson isn’t miles off. Remember these guys are chasing AJ’s spot.

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