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Why should he take glib asides about access to his short term memory after a hit to the head to a broadcaster directly after a game out of his witty repertoire?

Not quite. Gawn referenced the on ground testing they do and that’s what cleared him. Max probably should take those jokes out of repertoire though.

Port are the new Melbourne Yeesh

That is so poor lol If we continue with crowds like this, we deserve what we get from Sam McLure. And before I get the nuffy out from everyone- we would 93k for a final with Geelong at the G but 48k for a top4 matchup in Autumn… Got to raise that floor…

This is the internet. I am sure they will take heed!

Yes I have a little 4 year old liar too… ah well…

This is good content! Although, Eddie lied to Clayton. He lied. He lied and that needs to be dealt with at some point. Shame really. 4 year olds these days, constantly lying…

Yeah, it’s a balance. As @binmannotes - we are always going to be defence first and contest focussed. But that is brutal, and unless you are powering it out of centre - hard to score quickly in a final if you need 3 goals in 7 mins. I think Goodwin wants to see us slingshot when the space allows it, and compress and keep territory when it’s fruitful, but we can’t do that until we are mature in the slingshot. So i hope we lean into it the next two weeks and the team can see it up against some very good teams.

Thank DD. I didn’t read the thread.

Total scores is misleading because we are not a heavily scoring team. We are defence first, so a percentage is a better indicator of progress especially when coupled with us still being competitive at 5-2.

On First Crack they talked about our ‘evolution’ as they called it to transition it better off half back. King identified a stat around score percentage from ball movement from defence that had us 17th post bye last year and 3rd this year. Progress! Also, like 4 of the last 5 premiers were 1st in this stat. Anomaly was us in ‘21. And that was when we beat Geelong (1st that year) from clearance score dominance). The Transition is happening!!

But Geelong kicked 18 and Carlton 15 the other night… Sometimes I think we place KPIs for the Dees on other teams. We like to (or have in the past) keep teams to 60 or less. That desire presupposes the kind of dead slow, brutal, contested game that we would grind out 70 and win. Geelong and Carlton use more of the field than we have and have great structures to maximise their excellent forward lines. So when they are off a little bit they give up scores or runs of goals. When we are off for a little bit we are losing 7 goals to 2 at 3 qtr time… Makes comparing trendline of form on goals scored by good teams a foolhardy endeavour.

No, just no. Al Gore - who invented the internet - just groaned from his grave…

I watched it multiple times.

Bowey is a premiership winning player. Turner has taken three impressive marks, to good kicks, and one lucky handball.

Hard to read and hard to win. We may be 5-4 with increased pressure on Goodwin and some maligned players (injured or not) - the pressure to become insular and protective of our backline will be strong and revert to our inert and boring 22-23 style. We have to put up the losses and be confident that we are on the right path. Even if it’s for the sake of 2025.

As someone fully on board Team Change The Way We Play I agree that there was always going to be regression as we did this alteration adaption. But make no mistake - there are no guarantees we hit this upside that is readily obvious and continue to be ‘in it but not win it’ - especially when the margins are so small. We did not need Salem and Bowey to miss extended periods and we can that too into a plus, but we are going to go through impotent periods in the next two weeks and I am intrigued to see what we can achieve. I can’t see us winning either this early into our Renaissance to Interesting Footy but I just want us to continue to counter and pivot and run-and-gun. One can’t ascribe our fortunes just yet…

I read this as the best Quarter that we have played this season… Anyway, Petty is not replaced by Turner after one game from the XVIII.

He is coming into the team on no pre-season and obviously important to the FD. He just isn’t going to be dropped without some reason related to his fitness base or ridiculous form of a tal at Casey. People should just get used to it.

Healthy.

You read the game day thread?

Oh right, yeah, I hate it when young players play their roles really well and we win… What effing planet am I on? We are 5 and 2 and just doubled a teams score while possibly unearthing a possible medium tall option that could answer a few questions in the short, medium and long term. And we are obviously struggling to get our new gameplan focussed on back half turnover and quick movement from there because Salem and Bowey are missing and it can expose Lever, May, TMac more than we would like. I am glad we are persisting and not succumbing to what ‘better suits’ our defensive stars because it will benefit us in the long term, even if we drop a few games getting there.

You’re all in?! You’ve liquidated your assets to put forward into the bid and eventual build?! Wow. Great work! 🙌

‘You don’t need a stadium for AFLW…’ What is this pervasive, hypercritical dichotomy we have with AFLW? It isn’t just you RIF, the AFL have literally given them quotas for attendance to expand the season that are higher than the max attendance of the grounds they are forced to play at. So while you may glibly say that the AFLW team doesn’t need a grandstand can I respectfully push back and say that I want to take my daughter and son to watch Kate, Tayla, Alyssa, and Eliza in a [censored] covered, seated area. We can’t grow the game when it’s deliberately stuck in a bottle by those that are purported to be running it.