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Faulty, Luci is the lovely person who rounds up the spilled conscious of opposition fans for our benefit every week. Not wanting to read more odious takes on the faces we see on the TV is not an agenda.

Essendon are in a horrible place, according to Rohan Connolly (huge bombers man) the flag winning VFLW coaching staff all resigned prior to the first AFLW season due to the toxic culture at the club. ! Careful where you rest your head Clarko… They need a clean out similar to us 9 years ago.

Brave coach and FD to pull the trigger on TMac in first week of finals… Not sure who would go out either. My hope is that the sun rule is tweaked for finals and becomes just another sub.

I agree we would have wasted that start, but weren’t that good tbh. The losing/loading period does need to be reviewed but selection doesnt need shaking up. They need to go in with what we have and get our confidence and trust going and pressure and move the ball accordingly.

It may be Leading Patterns 101 but perhaps they go back to uni on this one… And it doesn’t have to be too lateral - it can be at the footy. The lateral kick is there to mids and Spargo/ANB when we move the footy on quick plays - it’s safer too because we have the numbers from what I can see. Im talking about creation on slow plays to get our best forward to do his thing.

Welcome and you might think that but then we have those that are happiest trolling fans and themselves and then sign off with a saccharine bloviation:

One small wrinkle I would like to see them make is Fritsch being used more to come at the footy or at least come up the middle of the 50. If Melksham/Brown can draw players to the pocket then Bayley should have some room to target. Still allows the safer option but would catch the eye to see Bayley hitting good spots. I am sure many would say ‘of course they would want this’ but I mean actively engineer it with blocking and instruction to get ANB and Spargo and mids from setting up shop there. They clog when we have repeat entries.

Wouldn’t have happened without Jake’s deliberate kick to a 3 on 1 in the corridor…

Treloar was best on for WB in last years GF. Grundy WAS a top 5 ruck. Who is just gone under the knife again, who they are desperate to trade out. I don’t see what you see.

Treloar is an excellent mid. Grundy has been usurped as no 1 ruck and is arguably behind Cox as 2nd ruck. Don’t care what the AFL say; don’t get him then. Let Coll pay him $1m to play VFL. The AFL would probably want to avoid that tbh…

The cap is rumoured to go up $600k next year.

Yet they want to move him on and will pay a third of his wage to do so… This is a dump, Melbourne (or Geelong) should not be providing anything of value to allow Collingwood to get off $700k of what they see as ‘dead money.’

Play his role with the other 21 so we don’t have to win it at the death?

What’s laughable is dropping him after he actually showed elite defensive intent. He is going to have games where he gets smothered. Having Melksham takes pressure of Fritsch. He chased and tackled and if we can slow down and hit him up, Bayley will kick his 3 or 4.

Can I have more ladders from magical fairy lands please? Ooh, one with us on top based on first quarters? Or perhaps one with which team has the most smiles during the game?! Oh I hope we are in contention in that one…

Yeah, but he was high when he said it.

Membrey maybe fills a need. They will keep Gresham. They have a lot of meh players

Me too. He’s always telling me the reason for something or that something is about to happen. Very helpful.

Maybe do these ratings with the last 8 weeks or something. Don’t know how valuable the first half of the season is…

One would assume that. Unless told otherwise, perhaps [censored] spiders may be the best way to recover from not winning the flag…

I think the thing that has contributed to both of the above is the de-emphasis on forward pressure for much of the season. That has then allowed teams to kick through our Web, putting pressure on our banged up backline.

And for the spiders…

He came into play park where he marked it, meaning he played on outside the line. Umps got it right. Frustrating and not called sometimes but right.

You don’t seem to understand - the Carlton players on Hunt and May and another player were down the line (as instructed I am sure in that ‘save game scenario’) so that kind of opportunity in the corridor wouldn’t be there normally. Our ball movement is a real shame and Hunt is a breath of fresh air. I hope he can spark some overlap run and corridor switches but the FD is obviously concerned with how our defence holds up against turnover so we will play it safe predominately.

Agree to disagree. I am not going to in-depth analysis of that list as that is what unleashes unholy spirits. I just like Laverde and Redman in the backline with their midfield being as talented as StK’s. And I am of the opinion that unless you are Melbourne 2013 or NM currently; you are a good coach away (or a committed team) from 8th.