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Hate to sound like DeeSpencer here, I really hate it, but what are we doing? He had a year to run. He’s 33 at the end of the deal, now 35. I have said it before - Gawn will not wimper into the night in a pocket - he will go out doing a massive injury playing first ruck. He should be on year to year contracts to give us flexibility. And he should hand over the captaincy to Lever or (here we go) Petracca. Ah well, what’s done is done, but when a resigning makes more sense as a PR move than for list health - rpfc ain’t gonna like it.

Never has a waste of time revealed itself so quickly and forcefully. Well done

Don’t think so. There is no hard and fast rule but I don’t think so. Not that it matters nor do I really care either way.

‘Objective data???’ as a person in IT - the use of the above data was wholly to back up a preconceived argument or notion to pin blame on a singular individual. It’s the furtherest thing from ‘objective’ use of data.

Tank pls. No point risking Gawn, and a few others.

This seems more benign but no less impactful with the question marks over 5, 7, and 13. We are in a state.

Need to show up to games. Or be attractive for people to show up.

Lovely sentiment. I think that we couldn’t overcome the loss of 3 of our best 6 players for the bulk of the season. Brayshaw, Petracca, and God Oliver are not easily replaced. Tou have to mention the two players that have come into the Star/elite conversation - Pickett and Rivers. Both impact in fun the midfield and offer different aspects but both are elite kicks. You get Demi God Oliver back, Petracca and Pickett swapping out, and Rivers through the middle - we are going to get first use if Gawn and Viney can maintain what they have delivered. Windsor, McVee, Tholstrup, JVR, ND6, AMW are exciting and all over the ground. So we can bounce back and be strong but we may need some new ideas and some new voices. It always helps.

I think the suns will beat us and the pies are in our heads. And we should be shutting up shop if we lose against the Dogs. We should prepare for 2025.

We are a good show for top 5 pick…

16k. Sam McClure is going to bring it up and he is right to. We don’t want to watch our own team. Probably should reflect on why that is.

WERE THEY TOO QUICK TO CATCH AND THEREFORE KEEP THEM??

Things would have to be pretty bad if we pay someone to take him. He hasn’t just lost his mojo, he had a limited pre-season and he is our premier mid which means that teams can curtail him and he can’t break through tags and out run like he has done in the past. I wouldn’t be making any decisions this summer other than trying to get him fit and happy for pre-season.

Lose make my sad face. Win make more happy. Lose make me think lose all time. Win make me think win rest of time. explained?

4 more years!

Oliver is out of form and he needs to have an interrupted preseason to play good footy. That is the key. If he can do that at this club - you keep him around on that salary. If he can’t, then you have to ask the questions. To me, after that start to the year - his current form was immaterial to any trade. 2024 was always going to be a write off.

Good thing we didn’t risk Gawn… This young team was outclassed by a team that is where we were in 2018/2021 (can’t decide which) and we are not what we were. If we can escape the next 5 weeks with only one more horror day then we might call this season a success considering what we were up against, battled through, and with the issues we sustained.

Yeah, screw work, I am heading over to squiggle. Excuse me…

Looks pretty [censored] ing cinematic to me

Ok, how about this LH - let’s take the lid off if we beat Freo over there and come back and beat GWS the week after.

My main frustration with the ‘loading conversation’ was how myopic it became in the affirmative. In 2022 I was trying to point out that we have changed (ruined?) our game style to protect our mids (long bombs into the pocket) and last year that we needed to up our transition game to compete with the best. And yet this place was just having this binary fascination with a sports physiology preparation technique that most teams employ; I’m seeing ‘noise’ in the data and with my eyes because we are in a loading phase of the season.

We are now a young team that is going to have days that we simply don’t perform or perform but still lose against a superior team. My expectation is that we play 4 of the 6 in the same vein of this last 3 weeks. That may mean we win only twice and not make it. I think expectations the last few days are outside of what the team can deliver.

From reports when he signed that deal, Oliver is on a percentage of the cap. We need him to get back to being what he was. I hope he is managing his demons, because his Demons need him.

Thanks for putting the work in, Paul… Umm, he is doing great with the roles that the kids have been given. Rivers and Pickett are more expansive and they have levelled up, even McVee to an extent. But AMW, Kolt, Turner, Windsor, and JVR are just nailing the specific roles they have been given and it makes things smooth; less mistakes, less easy possessions for the oppo, better looks forward, and the whole team has been forced to trust them but they are up to it. At this point in this crazy year, I don’t know if we can make the finals - but if I can see this for 3 or 4 of the next 6 weeks this will not be a wasted year. Far from it. The last month has been really promising.