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Watched him closely in person the last two weeks and he has confirmed what I thought - he is a promising tall with good hands and a great propensity to leap aggressively at the footy in his marking routine. What he doesn’t have is great forward craft in terms of leading patterns and ability to read space and get into that space. That can come but it needs to be nurtured and protected. Nurtured through game style; keep allowing that movement and educating and getting confidence in both sides of the kick to him that he can get to where he needs to be, and protected in terms of who is getting the task of the target of slow play up the wing, and descended upon by the excellent third man up generation we have right now in the AFL. Really promising but I would be keen to invest in a Lewis/Larkey/King while we have our window open.

Especially with our proclivity to kick to the boundary line - what’s he going to do - rove it in the third row?

THIS PRESS CONFERENCE IS OVER

For the last time, Jaded; yes, you’re old! 🙄

Enlighten us with your take then.

Has The Oracle returned? Has he breathed new life into our season?

He really didn’t. He said we train with a high load all the time. It’s not loading if you did it all the time… Extra training around the bye week is not a loading regime. It’s extra training around a bye week. Loading is not an excuse or a reason for anything anymore.

59 I50s. 61 points. Yep

Possibly. Or maybe they will be so far off it he calls it quits a few rounds early.

Well Polly wants a cracker because this is either a ‘BBB is done’ situation or ‘he can only play 10 AFL games a year’ situation. I don’t understand it and I am worried more for JVR who is running about trying to play to where they are kicking it and looks so lost from time to time. Gawn and Grundy play like they ‘chip in’ to the forwards as a favour and we don’t have someone to the tough work now that TMac is out. Unless we suddenly move the ball better - get ready for more frustration and as many I50s as points…

Logical

Oh FCS, I did something similar to Fat Tony last year and was howled down; we would have very little cap space with the list we have and the fact that we absorbed Grundy and have resigned Pickett. Unless we move players a few middling first teamers or a star - we aren’t getting big names.

Get 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 31, and 36 to a prelim and see what happens. Thats my motto. Rolls off the mother [censored] tongue…

Good thing it’s an even year.

You know what he bb is saying. As an aside, it is the very thing that will stunt JVR’s development - the way we move the footy and kick to packs in slow play. There’s no forward craft there, there is no lessons in movement and finding space, he will have to go defensive side of wing to get footy and no one gives a [censored] when your CHF is doing that.

We should win in Mordor in front of those people - so that should be fun. We are playing ok, we are just sloppy and forever waiting for someone else to ignite us. The disease of ‘why me?’ is a thing in bball teams with star laden teams, maybe there is a bit of that. Hard to say.

Yeah, saw the same. Looked pretty unencumbered with some ‘ball use run throughs’ so basically, ball kicked in front, pick it up at pace, then pick it up to the left, then right, then pick it up in square, u turn and hit a target - he did that as well as most humans. But he is a bit more than that now isn’t he

HOW DARE YOU

Ridiculous comment 68er and not even amusing. Queanbeyan is not a part of Canberra and never has been. Memberships for NSW dogs would be re-routed if sent to Canberra! Re-routed!

What was the cheering about? It’s not like it was James McDonald returning after being treated like a Stark in kings landing. Jackson got his plaudits and has his own set of cashed up nuffies out west to cheer him on for sitting the right way on the toilet seat. Just ridiculous.

It’s not great… But, and it is an important but, the way we move the footy gives the forwards very little opportunity. We go slow, we go short, we go flanks/pockets - it is a real shame because JVR won’t develop in that, TMac or BBB won’t excel in that, Kozzie won’t showcase in that, and we won’t win with that. We play boring footy. Where inspiration goes to die and hope turns to ashes - that is how we move the footy.

With Oliver out - this now becomes a ‘system’ driven team as everyone has said we are at our best. I think we rely on our stars far too much and our system ramps up intermittently when we feel like engaging in some run and dare and forward half intensity when we don’t have the ball. Well no easy outs for the next month - you have to commit to playing connected footy for 100 mins or we will just make up the numbers.

I have had my critiques of the handling of things but I am well aware how many amazing players we have and the health of the list and the club. I have structured my rare holidays around getting down to the next three games at the G to see this amazing team. I will try to stay in the moment and enjoy it. Not hard with this city and that ground. IM HIGH ON THE HILL LOOKING OVER THE BRIDGE To you know where…

PUT IT ON THE ‘EMBARRASSING RECORDS’ LIST Two words. Chris. Scott.

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