Great Northern Summer

If we end up agreeing to something that appears 'unders', it is clear the club see him staying around as untenable. It suggests club and teammates do not really want him around which says everything really.

At least the club is being transparent. Great start by Guerra. Gone are the days of Roffey and Pert, a collective disgrace who were just interested in themselves and their own egos (especially the former who no doubt wouldn't have stepped foot near a Dees game since departing). Also says a lot about Petracca. Demanded changes last year which were all acted on. He carries on like a spoilt brat and now demands out. Best outcome for the Brand to go. Send him wherever suits us, not him. He can learn a few lessons in life from humble people like Bont.

Who knows, but we really need to move Petracca on. Good to keep cards close to chest and not reveal anything to maximise return but make this happen. I was in the keep Petracca trade Oliver camp until recently but I'm totally the other way now after..

Finally some brilliant leadership. You don't want someone coaching that isn't fully invested or sees it as just 'another job. Putting Buckley on the spot today demanding an answer on whether he'd take it now was brilliant thinking. We have dodged a bullet big time and look to have someone invested.

Hawthorn won't be pursuing Petracca if they have Merritt (which will almost certainly happen now you'd think) based on his trade request

Well now that Merritt apparently wants to go to Hawthorn (Essendon cannot get in his way), looks like we have got Petracca for 2026...

Petracca's speech at the B&F just then accepting his 2nd place (still perplexed by that) doesn't feel me with any confidence that he wants to stay...

Come on everyone. Look at the bigger picture. We have been competitive since round 5 and are taking some learnings.

Might speed up what most of having have been calling for

Unfortunately the feeling at this time of year has been unrivalled since about 2015 in terms of the flatness and irrelevancy of the rest of our season (2019 we were raveled with injuries). At least then we were building. Now we have a super talented team who don't appear to give a stuff. Goodwin still refuses to drop underperforming veterans because he wants to clock irrelevant wins against lower sides for his own win-loss record and survival, when he should be playing other fringe players and youngsters to see whether they're up to it. This will be detrimental to our season next year and leave us with little depth.

Maybe he should go back and watch a replay of his previous games and pull his head out of the sand if this is true. It's not an entitlement to be getting senior games.

Not sure fitness is the issue. More laziness and incompetence

Saved that post in a vault sending it three years later 😄

Or hit uni or a trade. He's not going to generate an income from afl for much longer...

But weaker than Fritsch who's been in the system 6 years longer?