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And if add or subtract only one quarter - they cease to be quarters... Really makes one think.

What’s the cap? $500k isn’t what it used to be.

Interesting about Fritsch being right. Best chance to win with fit and firing players so if he and May are right then that does make sense.

The winningest player with more than 50 games? Jake. Melksham. Some of you just grated your teeth so loudly. Just stop it, it’s an awful sound.

Great player for the club and from his On The Couch and Gawn & Gus appearances - he knows this is the end and he is fighting for games and I hope he has a moment on Sat Night. I predict he will be pushed out of the team inside of a month but I am so happy that he kept going and that we treated him the way that the greats should be treated.

We didn’t recruit him to tackle. I know that is flippant but he’s there to lead to the spots that a good forward leads to and kick goals.

The ‘last thing we need’ is a woman leader who realises she is a woman? I assume that is what you mean by ‘Gender Politics’... This club has been distracted by a lot worse things than Womens Issues for decades so we should know that that is a sideshow to distract from mismanagement, infighting, poor decisions, poor list management, poor recruitment and retention, et al. So ease up on the pre-appraisal yeah, we wouldn’t want to call anyone a chauvinist... that would be just terrible.

It’s what Nathan Jones has 201 of...

Mate, I wrote that 10 days ago... I ain’t her PR person it yeah, she might want to say something but I will note that there is nothing she can say that will satisfy everyone. Shrug.

Agonising loss? To the Tigers... After starting 5-0... This is what I am talking about people!

Who are you kidding, people? You are all a 5 goal loss away from bloodletting about playing too many kids, or about our NQR players that ‘aren’t good enough for a flag winning team,’ or about the whipping boys of the past, present and future being the reason you sulk on the way to work... I’m overreacting sure but this board is insufferable this week - just as it will be after our next bad loss...

I agree with the latter and that’s why I would pick Weideman. For the 7 goals - he gets the call up on that performance.

From the AFL article: https://www.afl.com.au/news/598967 ... it will be May and Weideman in. Fritsch not right. No Brown for the fact that we cannot handle altering our setup so radically in one game. A really mature decision. I guess M Brown and Petty out.

While I usually love these threads - mainly after a win the opposition supporters didn’t see coming. However, they are right to belittle us - where were most of us at 3 qtr time last week? At different stages of the ‘here we go again’ hand wringing that has defined us and this team for a generation: we do not turn up at a consistent rate at the times good teams turn up. And just take it on the chin is my advice - and when we actually perform in these moments consistently we can push back a bit... Otherwise it’s cringeworthy performative art

I think Hibberd was brought in to get him right for Martin. Play on him and then look for hibberd on the spread. Make dusty work defensively. Thats more of a basketball tactic when you are more assured you can get the ball to the specific player but hibberd is good enough to find the ball.

He’s going well, he’s a jet. But he better start taking those grabs otherwise we are running out of people to drop and our best 22 might say Weed can back up Gawn... But I saw him in the flesh a few weeks ago and he is getting to the right spots now, and the next thing to click are those grabs.

Depends what you’re looking for; a consistent commitment to pressure and structure so we are never out of the game, or a revelation that we are as good as the Tigers and Dogs et al. We will have our extended fade outs - all teams do - even the best. I think we are a top 6 team that is consistent and should be close to a prelim.

I take your point, he was nowhere near Gawn but “complete dominance” is a bit rich.

If we play BB, TMac, SW, and Fritsch forward we will be too tall and won’t be able to keep the ball in like we have. TMac Jas to go to the wing he trained on in the summer to support Hunt and Superstar. If he doesn’t work out there - he might find himself pushed out - that’s footy. He is a tall forward in a top 4 team - he should be getting the ball - it comes in enough; but he is still clanking and not clunking and he is not a natural forward. The other two big boys are.

GFY. That bloke stuck around through 4 rebuilds and when we were a laughing stock he held his head up and lead the club. He doesn’t select the team and if picked he will be a lift to the players that get to play with him on a huge occasion for him and the club. And lastly, players only want to redeem themselves so you saying that he should ‘drop himself’ is betraying your footy knowledge. I expect this from PF so if you want to follow in foot steps, you’re tracking the wrong poster.

That may be but Melksham played his role again today and was part of our brutal last qtr.

Have you played footy before? If he is dropped this week, I reckon that will be that. He deserves to play his 300th on the biggest of stages and redeem himself - there is no ‘drop him and then bring him back a week later’ scenario here; that is just an immature way to select teams. So maybe we will do it...

It’s more that Melbourne supporters think that we should win, and that this now means we will lose badly or lose after being ahead for most of the game, and even if we do win it was not by enough and our percentage is a noose around our chances of ever having happiness.

If Andy did that for Demonland - he would save some money on the server rental...

No, Trac does what he has been doing. He is the most dominant midfielder we have had since <insert historical reference>.