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The only thing contesting that is basic math and reality. Look, Fritsch kicked 4 in a GF when the heat was on and helped us win - he is one of the best kicks in the game. But his baked in poor efforts and lazy defensive intent is beginning to overshadow because he is not winning footy in dangerous positions and regularly flubs up any ball he gets that isn’t on a platter. While we are where we are - Bayley is not in the untouchable class. In an era where we have promised our best player higher standards and accountability - he better pull his finger out quickly or we will Invest in talent that has THAT baked in.

I didn’t think 23k was bad at all… and posted that. but if you want to get angry at things that don’t matter, good for you

On a site where we regularly call players spuds and list cloggers, and other supporters filth and scum I think we can unclutch our pearls from our grip on being called pathetic.

I was wrong, happy to say it this early. I thought he was slight but he looks the goods.

I am happy to get stuck into us when we don’t show up. 5k dees supporters rocked up when they normally don’t and instead of eating ourselves alive we should note the progress and move on.

I think we are the goods. I have been wrong before - but we were cleaner than we should have been and we had a plan moving forward. My only worry is commitment to that plan. When we shared with hands and went quick we looked damaging. I would want to see more positive movement from talls and Fritsch but they were either terrible, down, a first gamer that was a competitor for 4 quarters, or a first gamer who was a broken watch - in the right twice… 73 points against that team in those conditions is a fair effort with the above.

Yeah, worked a lot better. But, again, we don’t have many natural forwards. Especially when Fritsch doesn’t exist as a player. When we didn’t move it into the middle and quickly, it stood out - that’s a good sign to me and we just have to commit - and when CP5 has a 1-1 in the 50 he gets the ball from wherever - no hesitation - but we hesitated… He is our match winner - feed him.

Don’t have time to read all this - kid about to take phone for flight home. We are good, we are trying to be more exciting - Petracca immense and the new boys good especially X Lindsay ( mea culpa) Fritsch horrible. But looking forward to the year!

I was there and considering the virgin lounge has been full of F1 fans we weren’t even on the card for sports fans in the city. 23k was good and we are way too quiet - that’s my main gripe - we are so nervous and quiet.

Well your outie likes to buy the footy record and says ‘dammit’ everytime anything happens ever…

Grow up

I think it is an irony that in the Luke Jackson thread, the word sobriquet appears… And it is interesting that the average footballers perspicacious nature explodes when they move home to WA and realise they don’t want to be there.

WHY is Josh Carr?!

Turner ill makes sense. He is ahead of Jefferson obviously. Can the Billings hate end? It’s so unbecoming. He is depth. He is not going to affect the result in any meaningful way - if we lose, you will know that our best players didn’t do what they needed to do.

Fritsch is a star forward. Just excellent forward craft and feel for where the ball will be. His lack of defensive intensity is baked into all of that. He is what he is. A forward that kicks 4 goals in a GF while it’s ‘hot’ is a star. If he moves up the ground slightly - he will immediately becoming the best kick into the forward line in the league IMO. Will it be a case of robbing one apostle to pay another? I think it will work so well that some teams will try to tag him out of existence and how we then go forward then will be that much more challenging. But looking forward to it.

Fair point. Does anyone know if he’s happy?

Once again ‘star’ is used so liberally it betrays the meaning of the light in the night sky that has travelled so far that by the time the light has reached the Earth it may have already extinguished…

Everyone is happy. So many happy people…

And we will be turned around and beaten. Dont over commit, use that great backline of ours and win 1-1s in a more open ground that allows slower ball movement and then turn it over and go.

Yes, and the game today is built around counter attacking brutally from a congested backline with a series of 1-1s and using running power to turn those 1-1s into 3-1s in seconds.

I can name a poster who used to do that for real…

The correlation is that coaches say a lot of things…

Turner’s talent won’t allow him to ever ‘rip’ any game apart. He is a third tall and if he plays his role - he can make life easier for JVR and keep defenders accountable. We have to remember this as fans or we risk setting ourselves up for ignorant disappointment.

The crux of this asinine conversation was ‘were we keen to offload’ and we just weren’t. How can I tell? Oliver is still here. The rest is the normal amount of noise that trade week brings including agents and players agitating a situation. The reporters got wind of the agitation but misread our willingness to engage in a trade - they were wrong.

Land needs no bait. We are going to click anyways. If Freo is any Warner and Pickett they are going to have to loosen some capital - I can see them allowing for Jackson to go to facilitate that. But he may have other designs - this will be the last generation of players with effective no-trade clauses.