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Yes, it’s like referring to my ‘failed romance’ with Sabrina Carpenter… No I didn’t know who she was 6 months ago, yes I am aware it’s a creepy thing to post, no I am not going to change my behaviour.

We were after Waterman weren’t we? I guess we came up empty again. I am somewhat comfortable with this as we are in a bit of a ‘regen on the run’ as Cal Twomey (or the other one) put it to Tim Lamb so they can finally get some reps into Petty and Turner and see if they are going to long term fits with JVR or whether they need to go and spend some capital next October as we look to win some finals in 2026.

‘Invites him onto the board?’ Well that isn’t Democracy is it now?

‘All comments are relevant’ - no they’re not. Also, dismissing people (posters) outright is not ‘free-flowing discussion’. While I agree with Ethan’s post and its sentiments - it is used by the mean spirited and malevolent to waive away pointlessly mean and cruel posts. Thats the very small percentage of posts that has made this place so abhorrent of late.

I think thinking positionally is a bit of carry over from a bygone era. We should look to ensure he is in space to receive and go at stoppage and at contest - if that means he is ‘wing’ or ‘HBF’ then whatever.

I hope not - his best attribute is his speed and that may build into midfielder-like ‘drive from stoppage’ that makes it palatable to lose CP5 or CO13. If he was ‘QB’ that puts him behind the stoppage and behind the ball with little room to run and move into. Bowey and Salem are perfectly able to do that and get the ball out of May’s ‘Hands of Molasses and Long Kicks to the Left’…

Love how that article just tags on a Bailey smith reference - write a proper bloody structured narrative article. Anyway, he makes some good points and I hope we can all move into a successful 2025 for Clayton.

But leadership is beyond performance. Max can move mountains, but he can’t inspire a group to maintain their professionalism or minimise their ego to achieve success.

I will make some assumptions that some might agree with but you will hate the conclusion I draw. If this from the review of the FD and Jones is deemed necessary from a ‘culture’ POV - then that is a damning assessment of the leadership of the playing group and their mismanagement of the expectations and standards of that group. Gawn, Viney, CP5, Lever, May. Are the limited leaders or just complacent? Unfair binary question but hardly rhetorical. Our leaders have had very little heat on them.

Ok, so, again: we will have as many ND picks as we need to fill the vacant slots in the list. ND83 ends up being like 71, ND104 ends up being 75 as clubs don’t utilise picks in the later rounds. We will not be left without the ability to take late picks should we want to. Some of you looking like sheep walking on their hind legs intimating the opposite.

This. Essendon would not agree to this trade if not for the fact THAT THEY WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO USE ND9! No team is giving a top ten pick for essentially ND 28 and a delayed recompense of a top ten pick if we miss finals again ( the other picks are chum). Also, we have as many picks in the ND as we have gaps on the list so if people were worried about ‘later’ picks, don’t be. Love that we have been on the front foot with this pick trading the last decade.

Ironically, we had a bloke from the AIS get us to finish off training with repeat 100s under a decreasing time split. Blokes hated it. So glad I was the one with the whistle.

2kms show speed and aerobic endurance. As you go further, endurance plays more of a part. As rotations have grown, clubs moved to 2km as more replicative of a rotation. Haven’t coached for 5 years but that’s why we made the move to 2km time trials/training.

Everyone has a price… but yes it’s unlikely he moves because no one wants him as much as we need to recoup from him.

Amazing aerobic capability that can transfer to roles like ANB or Langdon.

Yeah, if you say it enough…

Fit and happy Petracca, fit and moderately sane Oliver will help… When does a trade revolutionise or even revamp? Lever and May took a year to get going. Like another posted listed - improvement comes from within. Rivers and McVee continuing to allow CP5 more time forward, Petty being fit will give this experiment its final beta test, Pickett providing more explosiveness in the middle, AMW and Woey releasing others to do more in the backline, and continuing to commit to a game style that suits a team that has no dominant tall forward and needs to move the ball quickly, with dare, and not wait for May to kick it or for Gawn to mark it.

Obviously, the mind and application is important. What do you think helps the mind? Also, at his level, getting the body to more is literally what pre-season training is all about.

Cant replace your best players. Last year we were missing 3 of our top 6 players for half a season or more. *Oliver without a pre-season I consider missing. He is not 2024. He may never be what he was, but he can be more than 2024.

Max ‘Straight sets’ Gawn Yeah? Clear em all out, yeah?

O.M.G. You do realise both Goodwin and Pert are under contract? So let’s suppose that Pert is as ‘dead in the water’ as you seem to presume based on your interpretation of rumour and intimation from reports; we simply cannot get rid of everyone at one time, and we are spending time replacing board members, a President, a forward line coach and a senior assistant/midfield/gameplay coach, we should be also spending time looking for a tall forward to replace Neitz… Let’s swap our coach and fire our CEO though. Thats what a solid club would do…🙄 These people aren’t evil, they may be incompetent but I doubt it, they may be on borrowed time, but we can have change to our benefit too… Can we all get back to reality?

Is it? Or is that you only know the ‘truth’ burnished by PL and his hacks on here? And that you are making judgements and assumptions based on not much more than reports and court filings.

So this is who you are now? Mean spirited, reactionary, just anti-Pert bias? Life is rarely as black and white as you are reading the last few days, and clubs like ours can rarely afford to lose leadership so readily.