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I might be a bit late, but… I ban on chairs? I won’t stand for it!

I said ‘no worries’… Also, stop yelling my name, it’s weird

I guess they are closer to the Equator

If I am so clever why am I still your PA? WHY WONT YOU LET ME ADVANCE?

Yeah, the sun came up. But it spraying it’s rays all over the place. So much wasted energy. And you just know that the Carlton Sun is going to pop up and just nail the solar panel…uh, yep, there it is, great… We did win on Expected Sun tho.

Yeah, no worries.

I think there’s a bit of noise in that elite transition. Long bombs to shallow entries is a successful transition to an Inside 50 and the bloke at Chanpion Data puts down his binary answer. But whatever, I think I am going get what I want; New Forwards coach, possibly new coach to replace Yze with ball movement mandate, Chaplin diminished or gone. New counterattack-focussed defence Recruit a tall forward, a medium forward, and a small forward who are actual forwards. Bring in wing competition with elite kicking skills Bring in HBF in mould of McVee and Rivers To allow Rivers more into midfield Bring in at least one elite kid into squad of 26, and allow more opportunities for Howes, Laurie, Turner, Adams, and Woewodin. Look to Trade/Delist/allow to leave: Grundy, Harmes, Spargo, Hibberd, Melksham, Jordan, Brown, Dunstan, Tomlinson and TMac. I don’t think the above is too radical for the failure of the last two years.

Is that what the stats say? How can you have that opinion? We move it sideways before corridor. We move it slow by foot as opposed to quick by hands. You’re right about our disrupted forward personnel but I think changes are on the horizon.

Quality of use but also how we use it - rebuild ourselves around McVee and Rivers and the way they bounce off the line and also want to counterattack. Some are saying ‘new forwards coach’ but it’s more than that. Their used to be a ‘ball movement coach’ in the AFL a decade ago at the clubs that could afford that luxury but someone needs to own this for Goodwin; such talent across the lines (except one and we will get to that) but we play like Ross Lyon’s teams of years back when he had 6 stars and battlers everywhere else. Forwards, my life for a forward, or where art thou actual forwards in their prime? The forward line as a concept has been disrespected by this club entirely under Goodwin. The way we move the ball last year into the forward line was a protection racket for cooked mids and backs. We have repurposed players in there battling away. McAdam is a start, but we need to value their forward craft first, and then look at the extracurricular work they do up the ground or to free up mids in stoppages etc. We just can’t carry so many forwards that are repurposed mids, on their last legs, developing, or out of form.

I think that’s a trap. We are never going to be ‘out’ of a final with our personnel and their strength in the contest. But what is the point of that if you can’t maximise dominance in territory? Can’t maximise dominance in forward entries. The game is becoming more about doing well with the time that is given to you. And we are not built for that in how we move the ball from defence, and also who is there to maximise in the forward line.

Yea, the actual defence made the defence better… Maybe we can get the sherrins out and be positive with the footy next year. We have been so effing boring to watch this year. Really since half way through 2022 when we starting protecting our mids and backs by sacrificing our forward play.

Yeah, if I hear we are a ‘defence first’ team again, my eyeballs will be stuck looking inward. We have shown very little dare and run and while our press is good and are defenders elite - if you don’t take advantage and you poke the pressure on yourself you let the opposition have a chance to bottle you and beat you. New assistants around Goodwin. If Chaplin wants to stay he can but diminished unless he is comfortable augmenting our defensive philosophy into one built to counterattack, not just stifle.

We have a forward line built around maximising our defence. What is the point of having a Jaguar of a backline and Rolls Royce of a midfield if you have to almost sacrifice a third of the game (when you have the ball) to protect the Jag? We leave ourselves open to good teams getting us on the break as our entries are shallow, to non-forwards, and/or delayed so in traffic. If one of you brings up expected score without using a lamenting tone - I am going to unfollow - don’t tell me me ‘should have won’ and ‘not too much is wrong’. Just isn’t true.

I don’t know what you’re so upset about; we won expected score again This time 85-66. See all you at the Expected Prelim and our entry into Expected Grand Final. We need to bring in some forwards. We have too many pretending to be good forwards in their prime.

So Tom Morris is calling the game and you want me to listen to him?

These changes are fine, from this we can draw a few conclusions; we want midfield production from a goer in JJ, and smarts and more box to box running from 50 to 50 in Spargo, the Tomlinson pick is for the resting ruck. They are very safe picks for a club that has to win this game. They are fine, and they will not be the reason we win or lose. How we erupt from defence when we turn it over will. How quickly we move it and whether we can get some looks in the corridor will. Whether we get it in the 50 quickly or delay and get bottled up will.

Well, yes, because they play different positions.

Well, maybe, but the ‘idea’ of that is better the ‘reality’ of that.

That’s pretty much what the FD I saying to the team… Because if they blaze away, Weitering will be BOG.

Well now we’re hexed. Now I have to do a good deed. Give my neighbour some help with his ikea kitchen or ‘try to smother’ a Collingwood supporter at woolies... I will see you guys later, gotta go up the shops.

He’s a star mate. A tough, premiership player. Literally had the norm smith until CP5 went platinum in the last 40 mins.

Bump.

The football gods will take care of this hopefully, we have a footy game to play and hopefully a career to continue in 2024 if Gus wants to keep playing.

This isn’t instruction, it’s execution but it’s the kind of execution you get when it is seemingly meaningless what you do with the footy inside 50. ’Defence first, defence first’ should be a quiet reminder, not a slogan. We essentially burnt our entries inside 50 last year to protect our mids and backs we were so banged up; long and to the pocket. I really think we are still dealing with the impact of that hubris and contempt for the game; ‘we can’t get anything near to our best with fit VFL players instead of first timers so let’s try to game the system hanging on to leads and ruining the natural instinct of creativity and boldness going past centre.’ I don’t see it being sorted out in the next three weeks and it’s so disappointing - we are the best team in my view in 2/3 of the game - defence and ‘in dispute’ - but bottom 4 offensively…