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Love that Koz finally landed a speccie in a game where he (correctly) decided to stay down a handful of times....picked his moment to fly

Kade Chandler copped 2 weeks vs the Weagles for similar

Since round 10 2022 we are something like 29 W 23 L. Maybe we've just been mediocre for a long time and now have Steven May with broken ribs, Viney with a shoulder, Clayton with issues, Brayshaw retired and Lever injured.

Why haven't we managed to attract one good foot soldier from another club? List management have had a lot of praise, but have we managed to add anyone of use since Langdon? Bbb for flag year? We've lost plenty....

Disgraceful. Frustrated being in the 2s no doubt.

Joke corrupt system. Cornes sets the agenda with "no case to answer" immediately and thats how it plays out.

Sorry @Garbo - for clarity I was using this as a rebuttal to the claims of "sniper", "dog", "dirtiest player in the game" accusations rather than disputing the MRO charge.

100%. Soligo was a sitting duck and Koz could have levelled him and caused serious damage. But he didnt.

Do they have wifi so we can trade half the list in the Gameday Thread?

What an outstanding professional Jake Melksham is.

Sounds a lot like "my mate Shannon worked at the Dees so i liked them - now he doesn't they're done". Slow news day.

The AFL will change the Father/Son points system so Kalani, Noah and Marley cost us 3 first rounders. Meanwhile pick 40 and 42 Nick Daicos will be collecting the Brownlow.

Luke Jackson for Jefferson and Windsor? Hope he's good!

Weird how "theres a clear top 8 and then a big gap" and "i cant see any changes to the top end of this draft" has been the narrative for a month and now every club is into Leake having got whisper we like him. I'd guess this chap was our target/reason for trading for pick 11 and now possibly have to use 6 on him? Who knows. But funny how every club is obsessed at who JT likes.

We gave them pick 10 and future pick 10 for Lever. Turned it into Petty. Will take pick 10 and Pick 14 and received Lever for free. And if they don't want to pay we just keep Petty until RFA. We hold all the cards here.

Maysie speaking his heart and mind. 😍 Judd McVee top 10 BnF - what a 🌟 Trent Rivers calling the backline the "mens department" 🫣

Ross Lyon thought it was unacceptable and Chris Scott thought it was unacceptable. Very experienced footy men with no skin in the outcome. Whole thing stinks.

Hugely frustrating but the only reason we lost that was missing gilt edge opportunities. Some of the misses were inexcusable. Langdon playing on, Picket with time and space 15m out etc etc. The "method" created more than enough to win the game, as shown by the expected score.

Sorry - slow to reply and others have got there first. Other options available. Turn in left shoulder and avoid contact altogether. Land with arms straight and push off him. Land in cuddling motion. If it was entirely unavoidable why is this the first case we've seen all season? I assume noone has ever left the ground for a front of smother this year then? Or they have but theyve chosen all the other optuons available and not tried to level their opponent.

Hard disagree. Plenty of other options available. Took the opportunity to level someone out because it was there under the protection that your kind of analysis provides. I do agree he will definitely get off. Channel 7 set the agenda immediately. You could tell at half time Dangerfield felt it was unacceptable but didn't want to upset the apple cart

The club would surely ask Burgo off the record for his opinion....nothing to worry about there IMO

"We weren't the better side?" Pretty sure we were for 2.5 quarters. Equalled up nearly all stats after giving them a huge start - i50s ended up 53-48. More scoring shots and left plenty short as well. Close game. Let them have their day, it happens. Very confident we reverse that result in September.

Seems obvious we have two styles of play. A) Slow, long down the line, bomb into fwd 50 pockets to create a stoppage. Trap it in, high time in fwd half %, control the tempo = 2 rucks on ground, 1 resting fwd, scoring from stoppage B) fast, counter attack through the corridor off intercept marks/turnover or created from overlap runs. = 1 ruck on the ground, 1 on the bench, scores from turnover. My guess is the FD think we need a mixture of A and B to take out the prize. Perhaps they feel B isnt sustainable for 4 quarters. Collingwood are only doing B and bombed out in finals dont forget. Brodie will be in our best 22 come finals.

Thanks for reading my Question Andy @Demonland and thanks for your answer @binman . Just wanted to clarify I'm not an anti-loader and wholeheartedly agree with your answer. I agree it would be dangerous for us to drink our own bathwater after this result. (and already eyeing up a punt on GWS in the NT - GAMBLE RESPONSIBLY). Pies in September will be a very close game.

In rd 13 2022 the 10-2 demons played the 7-5 pies who ran over the top of us. @binman analysis of that fixture is that was to be expected as we were loading and more heavily than Collingwood due to our 10-0 start and so therefore it was predictable that would happen. Do you therefore think that we should temper our excitement over this win? Do you think it is more of a routine win than a statement win given Collingwood are probably loading more heavily than us around the bye given our 7-4 start vs their 11-1. Was plenty of talk from Goody and others inside the walls that we were targetting this match and probably more so than Collingwood? Or is the lid off and should i be booking flights back from London for the Granny?