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This comment doesn’t make sense. ”he was good last year” considering he has been better this year than last year, that also means he has been good this year

It’s never as bad as media/supporters think during the bad times, and vice versa. Same theory will apply for tommorow’s game re the reaction to a win or loss.

It’s a bloody tough world isn’t it :- As a 19 year old, you are a key cog in turning a grand final. Backed in to play ruck in the most critical time of the game, ahead of a multi year All Australian ruckman. Fast forward to the next year, and one small mid year form slump, and suddenly you are not valuable anymore. very very strange thinking.

This is severely off the mark. He was a critical component of the momentum swing that got us back in the lead. We were 1 or 2 goals away from losing the game in the third quarter.

Any chance Petty forward, Turner back? Or we thinking Turner in for an injured Petty, or Lever (or a dropped Tomlinson)?

Ok so we have landed on Ginnivan, Henry, and a Daicos preferably 2. Jack V. gets first crack, and gets a license to cop a 50 metre penalty and goal, or up to 2 weeks suspension if he can’t be subtle enough. Then Hibbo, Harmes, Pickett to finish off whoever is left.

Agree, he nailed it! I reckon he was having to work pretty hard to prevent himself from laughing at some of the stupid questions!

All the events of this week are absolutely perfect. Media exaggerating and enjoying dragging us through the mud, everyone over-stating cultural problems and the like. All absolutely perfect. Our biggest threat to not winning the flag is ourselves, and more specifically complacency. All this week will do, is put some fire in the belly and switch the players on for the traditionally “hard slog” part of the season. And then ensure we don’t get complacent when we start playing at our best again. Onwards and upwards. And Thankyou media for switching from the “Dees won’t lose a game” angle to the “have the wheels fallen off” theme.

Was just listening live on SEN

He nailed it. As good as Max. gave the journo’s a clip too “any questions on the game, it’s a big game this week?”

Yep, back in the brain that you were gifted with :- clearly made up fake rumour.

Do they have a young player we can attack, as they did to Jack Watts all those years ago?

Fourth, the restaurant will probably gain revenue out of this. May/melky should ask for a cut

At the expense of MND fund raising and Neale Daniher’s legacy :- Not that I expected them to care about that

No swearing please. You could get “cancelled” for that.

Another salty Geelong supporter

Yep, and when the button was likely pushed on a high training phase, need to remember we did not look like losing, and media talk at the time was “will the Dees lose a game all year” ie it’s not hard to see that the logic behind the loading would have got strong support from various parts of the football department.

Exactly. Gerard yet to get over the cats prelim Deemolition!

Good points in here. But Syd is not the first team to apply this. In the past, this method has created a struggle, but our work rate and willingness to continue running breaks things open. the last 2 weeks it has been clear from about the 2nd quarter that our usual run, pressure, effort is just not there. maybe they have all been having too many froffies, rather than loading. Either way, we are probably at least a month away from knowing the answer.

Well explained Binman. And the waves of defensive running, that quickly transitions to attack has mysteriously gone missing in the last 2 weeks (especially the 2nd half’s). Unlikely that the coaching group have changed such a successful game plan, or that the players have suddenly forgotten how to implement it :- so it does appear pretty obvious to me what is going on, but everyone is free to have their own opinions :)

back when life was a bit more fun, before the current “woke apology” era we live in

Joining you here Nev on the facepalm 🤦‍♂️ movement

Gerard Whateley:- what a $&@& who is in love with his own voice and opinions.

Never said he does. Just said that the "Gus and Gawny" podcast regularly has little digs at players albeit mostly friendly ones.

This is accurate. As a weekly listener to Gus & Gawny I have always found the "no put downs" story hypocritical. Him and Gus have cheap shots at players weekly :- sometimes subtle, sometimes direct.