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Make it a top 10, and have 7 v 10 and 8 v 9 in the bye week before finals. Solved. You're welcome.

That may be the best option. Petty may be the best tall forward bridge to a longer term option.

Would love to know what the Footy Dept thinks of Van Rooyen and his prospects; the tall forward situation is the biggest need we have into 2023 and beyond. If we don’t have the long term solution we can always do what we did with Brown and what GC did with Casboult and fill the need short term to buy time and not commit to the NQR option (ie McStay).

Well, that makes things easier. Or harder. Petty ok to come back? Was he mentioned?

It’s quite excellent now and money will continue to be spent there.

Do you reckon we can get Dwayne fired for this hypothetical oblique future racist reference? THIS IS WHAT CANCEL CULTURE IS FOR, PEOPLE!

Interesting conversation. Our sustained success will be at the feet of Petracca, Oliver, Lever, Viney, Langdon and whatever stars firms with them past Gawn, May, and the two big boys up forward.

My response was to Geelong. They shouldn’t be here saying hello. Who do they think they are?

Oh, ummm, well… [censored] off?

Where is he playing? He’s not playing midfield with our stars. So HFF? Expensive mid sized forward? Another Fritsch? It’s just not good list management and balance.

TMac played 3rd tall last year so no. Weideman hasn’t been able to replicate the role that TMac played so we look to be going smaller. It may be our best bet and Melksham might be the best medium tall option beside Fritsch. He plays taller than he is, he competes, and he can play a negating role if necessary.

Love all the permutations and possibilities but we are a really good team a game clear in the top 2 with 5 rounds to go. We should be aiming for a home QF.

Perhaps. But their best and worst are polar opposites. Lost to Essendon recently too.

Fritsch is our medium forward with little defensive effort. Can’t afford another one.

Yes, it was hard not to go to that ‘reserves player’ comment a couple times yesterday. Good on Melksham for keeping the fight up. So to speak…

I do wonder what he wants to be. Does he want to move into the midfield? He can do whatever. If he is happy ‘being Cyril’ then he is someone to build around and complement - he is that good.

So I will pencil you in for a vomit emoji for my post?

The sling shot goals were promising in that our movement was instinctive and aggressive. We were still tight for long periods but we did look to switch more. We still need to step up the forward pressure game if we are to get back to what we were. And breaking even in the stoppages would help that… So promising but ways to go.

Yes, he does. He is kicking like someone with a sore knee. I think he needs to stop getting hands out the back while he has no penetration in his kicking however.

He played forward for GWS for mainly tepid results.

Brave match committee to drop Fritsch. I don’t see it happening but I get the frustration with him - getting back to bad habits.

They’re the fundamentals of how we play, so that shouldn’t surprise.

Petty can turn into a swing man but you’re setting him up for failure with the way we are haphazardly moving the footy. He would just be there for another long target on dump kicks at this point.

Thanks Binman. We disagree and that’s ok. Gaslight was not the right word and we agree on most things with emphasis on different things. Look forward to the podcast, and my worries remain about our pressure and ball movement with a really crucial game coming up for a home QF chance. My biggest worry is the players mindset in contests is not instinctive and immediate and the same for their positioning and run. We just don’t turn it over where we do when we are at our best. It can come back to us but the players that drove us to a flag were not the stars - they got us in the conversation - the players that made us dominant were the role players that are really struggling right now (Spargo, Fritsch, Sparrow, Harmes, et al).

Good win. We weren’t great but the slingshot goals were promising. We are still really tight with our ball movement so I wonder how we will go against the slick Dogs. But we needed that and thanks to the backline, Kozzi, Viney, Track and Langdon. And Brown was better and so was Tommo.