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Yeah, if you say it enough…

Fit and happy Petracca, fit and moderately sane Oliver will help… When does a trade revolutionise or even revamp? Lever and May took a year to get going. Like another posted listed - improvement comes from within. Rivers and McVee continuing to allow CP5 more time forward, Petty being fit will give this experiment its final beta test, Pickett providing more explosiveness in the middle, AMW and Woey releasing others to do more in the backline, and continuing to commit to a game style that suits a team that has no dominant tall forward and needs to move the ball quickly, with dare, and not wait for May to kick it or for Gawn to mark it.

Obviously, the mind and application is important. What do you think helps the mind? Also, at his level, getting the body to more is literally what pre-season training is all about.

Cant replace your best players. Last year we were missing 3 of our top 6 players for half a season or more. *Oliver without a pre-season I consider missing. He is not 2024. He may never be what he was, but he can be more than 2024.

Max ‘Straight sets’ Gawn Yeah? Clear em all out, yeah?

O.M.G. You do realise both Goodwin and Pert are under contract? So let’s suppose that Pert is as ‘dead in the water’ as you seem to presume based on your interpretation of rumour and intimation from reports; we simply cannot get rid of everyone at one time, and we are spending time replacing board members, a President, a forward line coach and a senior assistant/midfield/gameplay coach, we should be also spending time looking for a tall forward to replace Neitz… Let’s swap our coach and fire our CEO though. Thats what a solid club would do…🙄 These people aren’t evil, they may be incompetent but I doubt it, they may be on borrowed time, but we can have change to our benefit too… Can we all get back to reality?

Is it? Or is that you only know the ‘truth’ burnished by PL and his hacks on here? And that you are making judgements and assumptions based on not much more than reports and court filings.

So this is who you are now? Mean spirited, reactionary, just anti-Pert bias? Life is rarely as black and white as you are reading the last few days, and clubs like ours can rarely afford to lose leadership so readily.

Pronouns these days…

The news in that being they desired board spill and the fact that there was one brewing.

Sick hat. Corduroy? Thats phat. No cap. … NO I AM YOUNG

Don’t remember the random nuffy letters from Pies fans or Tigers fans in their recent nadirs… … Yes, I am aware they can’t write. Point stands.

Why would Lyon want to do that show?

No, but a curated board empowered and installed by the AFL did give us a flag and a united club.

Again, excellent strawman you are creating for yourself and your obviously biased hawk friend. Autocracies huh? I am talking about the unnecessary descent into a purer ‘democracy’ for football boards leads to an anarchy that is not going to lead to success, not going to lead to a united club, not going to lead to the best outcome for the us as fans, but I think it will lead to what this ‘hawk’ wants…

Oh you have that confirmed do you? Have you been hacked? WTF is going on?

What is this? I expect better from who I believe was Binman’s PA yeah? As bing points out - you don’t know but you just know?? The board should be given the opportunity to balance itself and try to meet the needs of boards in this unique AFL landscape. Now you want to get rid of them and get a new ticket in? Great, then enough quality people will agree with you, the AFL will push for it, and you can vote for that or better yet create the media and pubic pressure to dissolve the board entirely. This isn’t the US sports landscape - we can do that. But until then, they are doing what we have entrusted them to do, your ‘inklings’ notwithstanding.

I can’t answer that counter factual only that it contributed to us not getting to prelims.

I agree, but both ideas can be right. We should have made prelims in 22 and 23 (that’s my measure - anything happens from there) and we didn’t, but we definitely should have cashed all chips to get a forward after 21. I love Ben Brown but he was never going to be what we needed. From a very high level - we couldn’t convert our dominance and it in part led to our failure in those years.

Oh is he? I was completely unaware…

You’re excellent at creating a straw man to argue with.

[Entering into ChatGPT] Dees fan having a stroke during a post on Demonland…

These long contracts are either a master stroke or a bane of flexibility and opportunity. I was a fan but now I am not so sure I would go past 5 years for stars of the game… Other than that, I wish we were better at finding players from other clubs. This ‘pro-scouting’ was a strength when we got Lever and May and Melksham and Hibberd. But now we are not getting those players, and one could argue it played a part in a unsuccessful last 3 years.

I am comfortable with my opinion of ‘low information group’ that some are trying to entrust with electing a balanced and capable corporate board, and I have a lower opinion of those that would utilise for their own ends the incidence of dubious court cases against certain individuals. I would not crow about the AFL’s opinion of the club leadership, any intervention from here will dramatically decrease the likelihood of your mate Lawrence getting on the board. You may continue your crusade.