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GWS have made inroads up here - lots of orange about. When we played them early last year, the crowd was obnoxious. Always a good sign.

Looking at the evenness of the top 12 teams and ESS, GWS and WCE threatening to beat better teams - we could see 13 wins necessary for getting in the 8 but 14 wins might get you top 4… Then the pre-finals bye makes it even more even.

Even Oliver, Gawn and May shouldn’t ‘break the bank’… The fact Petracca mid way last year signed an 8 year extension that will take him through his prime and doesn’t average more than $900k is testament to what our best players have agreed to to keep the list together. I have heard both Gawn and Petracca talk about this. Jackson would be no different, especially with Oliver OOC at the end of 2023.

You know a thread has no hope when picket fence has the most cogent and sensible contribution.

It is not a basket case of a club. This was going to take decades. As I am constantly reminded; low crowds have a myriad of excuses that we are comfortable with trotting out. And as for the talent pool - what a ‘training load’ - our ‘talent pool’ from the first half of 2020 is not much different to now but confidence, health, and proper coaching does wonders. There are blokes like Martin, Durdin, et al that are jumping in and playing roles well.

Hang on a second, there are some wildebeests on here who hate the Friday night fixture as they can’t make it from work or take their kids. There is no pleasing people.

That too. I feel for Hunt, he was exposed at the time we had an injured-yet-playing Lever and Petty, Salem coming back from injury, and May missing through concussion and idiocy. Our backline is getting there I hope. If we get close to top 2 it is on the back line’s coattails.

He has an injured foot. His 1-1 numbers are good but the fact that he has had so many 1-1s is a problem. Teams have figured us out a bit and keeping Jake ‘honest’ and it is leaving others exposed.

Setting up to fail. If you want to do it - commit to it for two months. I wouldn’t do this btw. Our mids are winning it, our forwards are the problem with their lack of pressure and connection. Dare off the backline would be handy too. I think this is robbing Peter to pay Paul, and Paul is pretty well off.

The Straw lobby disowns this nonsense and wants nothing to do with this farcical notion.

Pert should just go to WA, find Luke’s mum at her favourite cafe, get out the 5 year contract and just say: ”Sorry, Ms Jackson? I am for real.”

It ain’t proper… Also, an ellipsis provides the reader with the pause of a open ended sentence or thought, to then hit the reader with a exclaimed finish to that is just jarring. I got whiplash. I am just thinking of the children…

Ok so no. Here are the scenarios - the only scenarios; - Re-sign - Traded for ND2 + change. - Goes into Pre-Season Draft for nothing There endeth the lesson.

No idea. Both my view and a summation of the contributions in this thread.

What is a good investment if not Northern markets? What is a good way to keep eyeballs on footy if not for the womens product? Like I say, if you’re going to out your [censored], why not pull some alternatives from there too…

Fair enough.

The real thing to point out here is that in no way is an ellipsis into an exclamation mark proper grammar.

Do you have to yell?

If we can reverse our form we can win enough games for top 4 and we can beat anyone, anywhere.

Max being imperious didn’t mean we won the Sydney game. Similarly, his injury does not mean doom. Daw can play a role or Weideman can come in. Jackson will provide a competitive ruck in there for the mids to work off.

Most Dees fans watch on the TV anyway so I don’t think it matters that it was in Perth. Also, try not to be so indulgent in your self pity - it’s not helpful.

As I said last week, you don’t go back so quickly without a change in direction from Goodwin and co. They way we played with the suffocating forward half turnover game is taxing and I said a month ago - you can’t just flick a switch and it is back. I think that they have flirted with their form so to speak and now need to concentrate on this basic and the rest can come along after. As for why they did this - our dominant backline and structure provides the allure of comfortability - most teams were waves crashing on the rocks and now the rocks are overrun (or drunkenly concussed and complacent). But this has now let bad habits further up the ground to seed and we are turning it over to far away from goal and with our forwards too high. Honestly, the better option to ‘save legs’ would be to rest players but due to ‘standards in hubris’ we don’t do that…

Yes, the players don’t trust themselves or their teammates as much as they did to run and to be there when they run.