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We have played one very good game, and two good games. It’s not a case of ‘one week at a time’ it is more ‘ask me how we look in one weeks time’…

Yeah, but he’s our hot head…

Nah, if he isn’t up to it because he has had a baby - he can play VFL. Otherwise, he is up for criticism and deserves it.

In this team, shots at goal should not be a determining factor in selection - it’s just not how the rewards settle from when we play our best. Chandlers manic pressure at one point led to a Petracca goal that CP5 pointed at Gawn for a competent handball - but it was Chandler - and the pressure applied by our other forwards - that brought about that goal. A goal that reads out to Petracca with a goal assist from a ruckman.

He is playing his what 5th game? 1st night game at the G? He is in the top 5 best 18 year olds I have seen at the club.

3rd was pretty good yeah? Super pressure and great commitment to the handball territory game that gets us going. Last 10 mins in games like that are for teams like Richmond to save face. I remember those days…

The unctuous pod bros are hardly a doyen of journalistic integrity Might want to wait for the teams to be released mate

Remember, the best speeches are the ones you don’t make.

This is in the wrong thread apologies.

Said it before - I would make Petracca the next skipper. We all question our loyalties from time to time and challenge those around us and ourselves to justify continuing on. I am glad he seems to be throwing himself back in love with the club and what it is trying to achieve

Said it before - I would make Petracca the next skipper. We all question our loyalties from time to time and challenge those around us and ourselves to justify continuing on. I am glad he seems to be throwing himself back in love with the club and what it is trying to achieve.

May to come back in… no one plays within their shells more than May. Get. The. Ball. Out. Of. His. Hands.

Lindsay is making me feel a lot better about not having our top pick this year. They all look like very good players that you can structure your team around.

The post you are quoting says I did see what you see. The reality of the situation is that we are behind a number of teams with how the game is played and Goodwin has only a few months to ensure he can see this evolution through. I have been calling for it since before the end of the 2022 season and I am glad we have some momentum but what do they say about Swallows and Summer? Long way to go before we sleep…

People don’t like it when I say it - but JVR doesn’t have natural tall forward tendencies to exploit space and understand how the ball can be attracted to space. We all know Fritsch’s shortcomings… 27 tackles in the forward half and the way we move it with the setup we had today may portent something for this club that is different to the two that were dropped. Long way to go but when you are drastically changing how you play - things happen quickly and some guys are just left behind…

Mentally reassuring and steeling stuff I hope. Really good perspective that I hope is shared by Howes and the rest of the backs.

I can see what you see, but I am also unsure if Goodwin is the person to bring it about. They are not antithetical concepts.

Not a fan of the inclusion of Presidents in that list. CEO, Coaching, admin roles - that is where you want the best of the best and develop in-house under those merited experts. Board members, by definition almost, need to be supporters of the club and have the interests of the club above their professional aspirations in the game. The fact that he played games is immaterial to why Steven Smith is the next President. So Jamar, Jones, etc - they make me nervous but not the Board. And as an aside - Beveridge has done enough in the game to evolve past ‘former Dees player’ to predominate his CV…

It’s both but a % of 22 in 4 qtrs is beyond staggering. A prognosis of multiple cancers.

Closest thing I have read on here to my thoughts. We are so uninspired and the senior players seem inert and incapable of inspiring any attention of the younger players to a display a consistent commitment to how Goodwin and Chaplin wants them to play. Who’s fault it is immaterial - this is leading in only one direction… And the fitness aspect (last qtrs) is just maddening and a shock. We should be one of the fitter sides after last year.

In three words? Not many lately…

Oh boy

Love dark mode. Well done to all. And @Nasher - IT FTW - well done.

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