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Mongrel Punt needs to get off the meth

Disagree with this view BM. If Scott didn't want to raise it, he could have easily shut it down (re response to Selwood comments), rather than add layers of depth to it as he did.

Agree. For whatever reason, the release of intel was strategic rather than an accident.

Re “we’re in this together” completely agree. I guess in my mind “together” includes with the players, coaches and club, rather than turning on them whenever things get tough. But understand my view is potentially idealistic and not realistic, re the typical nature of supporter groups.

BM, apparently JG was a “high level player”, maybe you need to be an “elite level player” to understand what is going on? Who knows, but either way I wouldn’t waste your time arguing with him. if he is waiting for Lewis, Riewoldt, Montagna, Hodge and Watson to provide him confirmation of what has been going on, he will probably catch on after this current group win their 3rd or 4th flag. Thanks for your recent accurate analysis of what has been happening. “Elite” level content.

Another point you have in-directly touched on. Coaching groups are aware that 4 qtr’s of high intensity effort is unlikely in most home and away games. This fact impacts strategy with regards to game style, rotations and match ups. in our 3 loading effected losses, we started strongly, and mostly had good first half’s. Potentially was some strategy of attempting to get a lead and then defend it. Last night we didn’t really hit our straps until the second qtr. Maybe this was due to the confidence that we were fresh and would be able to run out the game! either way, both sides of this argument, and other commentators really need to acknowledge that us outsiders are missing so many of the key details/elements to enable us to make strong statements about why certain things happen within a game.

Picked up on this also, and found it fascinating! Scott found an angle to shift blame to not only sports science for any short term losses, but then also his captain! Goody just wouldn’t do this, no matter what Max had said in a prior interview

Without a doubt there is always many key factors that decide the outcome of a game. For last night though, given there was a 4 day forced break, it meant we had only 5 days lead up to the game :- So it is very likely that last night we went into the game with a freshen up vs the last month of going into games fatigued. A similar freshen up to what we did against Port last year. Brisbane had an extra 2 days break over the bye, so potentially they didn’t have the same freshen up that we likely did. More than likely we will have 3-4 more loading effected games to come :- If we can win a minimum of 2 of these, then our back-back campaign is well and truly on track. whether anyone agrees with the above, I really couldn’t care. Above all else, when we went through a flat spot, I didn’t throw the toys out, like many on this site did. Some really embarrassing commentary when you look back over the past couple of weeks, in context of what we delivered last night!

In my mind it runs deeper than "lazy commentary" djr. Today more than ever, all media participants are under huge pressure to manipulate their content in a manner that generates the most interest/clicks/viewers/listeners. Typically this means exaggerating both the bad and good:- ie take a view and then go as hard as possible to push that view. Sitting on the fence, or having a rational balanced view is a sackable offense for media participants these days. When we were 10-0 there was a risk for the media that the season would get boring knowing who the premiers would be so early in the season. 1000% it suited the media agenda to have everyone thinking and doubting whether we are still the real deal. The media exploited our weak period to maximum effect, at the expense of truthful understanding for the content consumer.

Just keeping some people accountable, who decided to sh$t all over a dynasty team, the minute there was a minor point of hardship.

You know who you are! Don’t you dare jump back on!!

And that

Don’t you dare jump on you weak whinging doubters!!!!

And that!

Stick that up all you whingers.

Dis-loyal whinging bunch of $&&$& :- make sure you don’t jump on the bandwagon when it turns

Yep, complete BS all of it. Gee it makes me laugh when they ask the victims of their repetitive attacks “so how are you coping with the pressure (that us media have created)” often the answer will be some generic response such as “it has been tough, but the boys are just banding together and focusing our energy on the weekend” (You can see their minds ticking over, and thinking/wanting to say, “we don’t listen to any of your BS, and actually couldn’t give a stuff, as we know it’s all fabricated drama designed to generate greater clicks/listeners/viewers/ratings”)

Either way, point is the same. I am off to play wordle :)

Daily double right there:- defending caro & picking out typo’s on a forum = dominating life.

She is a vicious sniper

How do we “cancel” her? enough is enough.

Probably our most promising young player of the past 20-30 years (apart from Clarry):- and all most people here want to do is doubt him. Very weird.

This makes no sense. Doesn’t need to be elite for a mid. Just needs to have a ground ball advantage vs oppo ruckman, which effectively creates an out-numbering of mids (particularly for centre bounces). No chance he is “below average” as a mid either.

Maysie owes Jordy a couple of froffies! What could go wrong?! :)

100%. This has been my thoughts this week watching King, Montagna, Ross Lyon etc all fail to mention the obvious loading impact, and instead add fuel to the fire of the “are the wheels falling off” thematic. For whatever reason clearly a media agenda :- probably adds more interest to have the average punter thinking/hoping that the dominant/best team in the league has suddenly forgotten how to execute it’s very successful plan.