Grr-owl

Beat ya to it... see earlier post ?

I'm the Woo-who mystery man, and so is my wife....

...and all against the bottom side. Needs to do it against the top teams.

Some very bad moments, but okay in the end. Brayshaw even did something..Yeah, against the worst team in the comp, but credit where credit’s due....

Played as if he's entitled these past 2 seasons.

Have they looked behind the couch?

Logic suggests it, just as long as outscoring them also means our points add up to a higher number than theirs.

I think, maybe, we're getting to the roots of the problem. Is it Brayshaw? He appears to me to think he doesn't have to try. And maybe, with coach's reluctance to drop him, it's a matter of relationships. Can anyone close to the club tell me, without giving away too much, how Gus gets along with Goodwin, and the group more widely? I did read somewhere else on Demonland that Hogan, Watts and Brayshaw are similar personalities... illustrative???

Jordan Lewis was kicking coach until COVID. I reckon he’s average in the media, but has assistant coach written all over him. Get him full time for midfield and skills?

Learnings...? Uh-oh...?‍♂️

Saad.....?

Was about to write the same thing....Is Tomlinson supposed to drift back into a tall defensive role?

Get Saad if possible.

I just wanna add my observation that we ran hard against Hawthorn, and last night we plodded around like trees. And trees don't plod.

Agreed. The difference in the running between last night and the Whorethorn game was unbelievable....

I truly believed we’d bottomed our a few weeks back. Surely the noise can’t be ignored any more. You have to try your guts out week after week to win in this competition. Is that noise?

I’ve got some advice I know he’ll take: ignore the noise.

No energy. No skill. No hope.... Where the f#@k is the desire to win?

There was an interview with Burgess shortly after he joined the club, maybe on SEN, where he discussed this very issue. As I recall, he said the soccer players do 11 times more accelerations than footy players, but otherwise the games were roughly equivalent in terms of the demand on the body, apart from the length of the game, which doesn’t count this season... Anyone interested might be able to find it. With Garry L and Tim Watson if I remember correctly.

After I left Aus I paid zero attention to footy for fourteen years. Then I discovered the watch AFL app at the time of the final series of 2015 and thought I’d give the kids some Aussie culture. Well, I was blown away by the change in game style. It felt as if at some point, while my back was turned, a team of scientists had been brought in to work out how to play the game.

Get 'em in. One forward, one back?

We need Oscar in there. Balances the team.

With the talk about outside run and wings and all, what happens to Tomlinson?

He’s the quick one on the last line..

Cheers. The answer probably couldn’t be better than that....