The Jackson FIX

I can already feel the Carlton supporter outrage and look forward to reading their supporters’ counter offers of Owies + a future Rd 3 pick

Humphrey had 8 touches at 50% yesterday. He looked very ordinary.

Relax everyone. He’ll post soon. He’s just trying to build suspense so his sous vide unicorn rump video can go viral

Appears his poor-decision making isn’t an isolated incident.

Happy to deal him to a club he doesn’t want to go to.

Jack: “dad, Timmy Lamb is low-balling me on a new deal… can you tell Clarko I’m interested in bashing some heads in the midfield for you guys…. A bit of media coverage should add a few bucks and another year onto my deal at the Dees”

First Fly comments on trading in Petracca and now Clarko on trading in Viney…. Since when was it ok for opposition coaches to comment on recruiting contacted players from other clubs mid season?

I agree they don’t do those things, but the plan is NOT to do those things…. I don’t agree with that as a plan but he is coaching to plan is my argument. I’m not close enough to it to understand if he is capable of coaching to a different plan but the fact he is one of few out of contract will probably mean he is sacrificed year-end regardless.

Not sure that is Stafford’s fault - Goodwin’s game plan is to create repeat contest deep-ish in F50, not attempt to create space.

Mini is contracted but gee whiz I’d be scratching away and what he added to the mix this year. Gus retiring and Oliver’s issues massive headwinds but we went backwards in the middle part of the ground this year (even before KBD game)

That explains it. I was genuinely surprised kids in the schoolyard had come up with that!

My son (8) came home from school yesterday and confidently confirmed that the word in the schoolyard is “Christian Petracca spelled ‘TRADE ME’ in noodles in one of the recipes he was making for his cooking channel”… The signs have been there all along, apparently.

We’re missing quality (and volume) in that 25-ish age bracket… particularly ones who use the ball well and move it quickly. I believe we can get back into contention with some savvy recruiting so I would be trading away draft capital to do this (assuming we can actually attract the players we would like, that is).

I used to like him - and occasionally defend him - but he has become increasingly radical in his pursuit for attention/ratings/differentiation and, as a result, has lost any balance in his reporting. The Kossie comment was actually ‘is there anyone more talented that delivers less than Kossie Pickett?’. It was ridiculous rhetoric. Very difficult to argue people are harsh on him when he says stuff like that.

Fair? “Has there ever been a player with as much talent giving so little output as Kossie Pickett?” That’ comment is as far away from ‘fair’ as I can imagine.

Fascinated to understand who leaked the ‘Trac is unhappy’ story. If it was Trac trying to force a trade it was naive because he was never going to be traded with 5 years left. If it was Trac trying to force the club’s hand to make change for the better it was also naive because now it makes us look like a basket case and we’re already suffering with the Dan Houston decision. If it was some coterie type because they’d had a gutful of watching us lose games from their leather armchair in the long room then that decision in its own right may have actually set fire to any remaining hope we can acquire the players that might help us get out of this mess.

Not sure we’ll get much in return for him sadly. Love Nibbler

First area for the club to sack is whoever is looking after the long-term-injury players… that program has eaten up Clarry and Trac in the space of 12 months!

How long before Kane links this Petracca story with his ‘Kossie’s dismal output’ story?

Pretty much the face of the club through one of the more complex and difficult seasons in memory. He deserves that captaincy until he doesn’t want it anymore.

Should be stripped of the captaincy for letting his son sing Good Old Collingwood Forever without immediately being sent to his room

I’d be surprised if we take our first pick to the draft. Assuming the goal is still to win a flag in the short term, the balance of our list shows we need more in that 24-28 age bracket - we had the highest number of players under the age of 22 playing last week, which is exciting for the future but a concern for the short term. Whilst Houston isn’t the most exciting prospect to chase, he is an experienced AA who is consistent and makes smart decisions moving it forward, and still has 5+ years of footy left in him.

a bit from column A, a bit from column B

Agreed it will happen. Ticks boxes for the league on the ratings front and integrity/tanking front but as a regular nba-watcher the play-in tournament is a bit of a fizzer…. A weekend of games is better than a weekend of nothing though I suppose

He’s definitely got a disproportionately bad haircut