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If you’re a homebody I can understand it but to travel around and live your life as you may cause the delay of others is, I’m sorry to say, selfish and ignorant. Im sure their excuses flowed freely - the height of hubris in humans is when we are rightly accused of something terrible.

It’s also a financial decision of at least $80k a pick and that is just base salary and state league compensation. I would spend it to get an extra half back and whatever talent we would like to bring in - but the finances are not nothing.

We have a history of selling home games to Brisbane. We literally used to do that.

Dill taking the ultimatum: credit @Superunknown

I thought I would bring everyone’s attention to the situation at Lygon St. In this episode of Whately - the newscaster discusses with renowned expert Chris Fagan the troubling news of one of his compares being held against his will in some sort of sponsored dungeon: We all hope he’s returned safely.

Matthew Collins?

That’s some rose coloured bath water you’re drinking...

He’s a point of difference with his skills and forward IQ and is benefitting from being the 3rd or 4th tall and from our high pressure game providing turnovers around our forward 50. As a ‘hater’ - he has to buy in to that game and play his role on the defensive and offensive side. Yes he gets the weakest defender from time to time but on the flip side he gets targeted and his opponent drives off half back as they can get away with having a smaller player on him. Love how we have a system defence that is getting us to where we are but anyone criticising deviation from that system is labelled by some as ‘deluded’ or a ‘hater’. When Fritsch and others don’t do the things that are within that system - it gets noticed and the integrity of selection is what keeps players bought in. If you are not following - you don’t play.

Same thing happened to Jeremy Renner in the Mission: Impossible movies post Ghost Protocol. Cruise did a massive TMac. Replay is on Stan or Prime or something.

Riewoldt gave Brayshaw a big pump up tonight and basically said that if a player of his calibre is playing a role like that - it is indicative of a team that is at its zenith. I agree, he wants to get on the footy but he can’t do that in a contending team - he is not quick enough and his close in skills are sketchy (that’s my opinion) but he is smart and selfless and courageous and that takes you a long way on a defensive wing. So impressive.

More likely that we don’t play in Melbourne than Alice. Lions would have to be kept away to keep the integrity of the schedule. Surreal times. Hope NT lets us in.

Can I just say that Harmes ‘played on’ Libba and was great getting him out of the slot at stoppages but that was not a hard tag. He had 23 touches. You can’t carry a tagger these days. Harmes was fantastic and showed why he came back into the side quickly.

I would not change The Trio. Baker can have a run out there.

He was better but he was drowning in his own bath water since the NM game and we all saw it. He is a point of difference but IMO, the 3 Pressure forwards and McDonald are more important than Fritsch and he needs to fit into that system and not disrupt it. So no pie is eaten this night.

For Dees fans - supporting a good side is foreign territory so I will forgive those that lambast the honest critiques of our form. We have been down for a few weeks and we paid for it on the weekend - it is not ‘the end of the world’. Of course it isn’t, and nor are Fritsch being dropped, Gawn being told to lift, and the forwards given some home truths - Armageddon style events. The team can take some criticism that isn’t simply [censored] ing on Melksham. So take a deep breath everyone and stop being so bloody precious about everything you read on here.

I’m sure Max would want to lift - he even said in his podcast that he has been having a dip in form. Oddly enough he attributed maturity to not going up for marks that he competes for with Lever/TMac etc. I think he needs to listen to his own advice. He also has been ball watching in contests in the middle.

Fritsch being omitted is ‘fanciful and ridiculous’? Ignores first options, doesn’t get involved defensively, and he goes missing when the heat is up of late. He has been worked out, I think he is on the bubble and it’s hardly Lord of the Rings...

We are playing with four talls. Fritsch is the fourth tall. He doesn’t chase enough, he doesn’t compete on the ground - and it’s actually worse because his opponent is invariably a player who can rebound and get involved in transition - whereas a Weid or a Brown would have a taller opponent more unlikely to do that. I am a system coach - everyone has to buy in and no one gets to avoid the tenets just because they ‘are good for 2/3 goals...’ He needs to lift or find himself continue to be a liability.

The meltdown on here to a 1 point loss is fairly impressive. 15000 roentgens I would say. This is a flare up of the Syndrome; the worry that we are seeing the false dawn revealed. A portends of the two challenges next up in miniature. Demonland holds its breath, as Doom approaches. To next week, and the inevitable.

Well I was right about Brown being one of the many on the bubble. I think this tells you how highly they rate Weideman. Sure he can do near as good a job as Brown but they want him to re-sign... I still think BBB out of the square in a tight final is hard to beat but I applaud the MC sticking to their guns. Speaking of... Are people really going to get the [censored] over Chandler being dropped? Why exert so much energy over which of the 20th to 27th best player is playing? Especially when they didn’t sit anything alight last weekend.