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I think that 3rd tall is one the higher priorities. They are just going to persist with Gawn forward. JVR will need help if he is to make it, and we just can’t rely on TMac’s form or BBB’s health. I have been burnt on players like Jefferson; he is “two years away from being two years away.” He is a twig. So I think it’s important. As is back up for Gawn/Grundy. And the future FB. And, god forbid, a replacement for Kozzie.

I meant in terms of another tall; Gawn is the option 20m out, Fritsch is the combo medium tall that works best in the wake of another leading tall, and JVR is new commodity that will be persevered with due to his competitiveness but he might ultimately dictate what that remaining tall needs to be. If JVR prefers to get up the lines and back, then we need a deeper leading option like a Brown leading from the square to the arc to allow Fritsch less attention. Or maybe JVR is more effective close to goals and we need to get someone to help get up to the logos and be a target. King is a great talent and you can make do with that but if they want to get another few years out of Gawn - it’s as a FP/back up ruck well away from the knees and fists of CHFs behind the footy.

If our next three years are Gawn, Fritsch, and JVR in the forward line. I am trying to think what we need to compliment that. To me, Brown is perfect for this year because he is a lead up tall who can cause a contest. Move it quick and he will kick a few. Georgiades is similar to that while not being that big body (9cms shorter than BBB). Keep an iron in the fire but our options open.

Gawn and Fritsch will be in control of the forward line. JVR can play his role and do his bit. Predominantly up the ground in my opinion.

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Goodwin:

A few people who were right about our misguided decision not to rest people last year in this thread

Because it is 5 days later and it is North? Good clubs would do this to us back in the day and we deserved it. When we rested no one last year when we played WCE and NM and we’re obviously hampered I questioned it and then we lost the next three games and have been 9 and 10 since that NM game.

If he re-signs of course

I’ll happily put you on a board on a backwards incline for you to forcibly eat your humble pie? … I wish to waterboard you with pie.

The benefits of having ridiculously long contracts with your best players is that they are suddenly very invested in keeping talent around them. When there is no escape one tends to want to drag others into the doom. …. That went dark quickly.

He can play on that. It builds… RESILIENCE

How about we set JVR up to succeed and pair him with a proven fwd, yeah? Brown started the season well and allows JVR to have the second or third defender. And can you show some respect to some great Demons because you’re losing yours.

Give out $1 memberships That should do it

Welcome to fandom. The proof of the ‘players injured players’ pudding is in the eating and it was a bad mouth feel watching us unable to compete in last thirds of games from early on in the season and then unable to compete for the finals third of the season itself. All the while our untried VFL team nearly went unbeaten the whole year. They screwed it up, I and a few others saw it happen, and we get to point it out where and when we want. It’s the law.

Oh is it now? Thanks for defining the discussion we are having - you’d be fun at parties. We played half the team last year at various stages through injury that I mused at the time and has since been confirmed through the drip-drip of interviews and players saying they were struggling. We didn’t need to play them all, sore as they were, and we don’t need to risk Gawn now. We can defer to the experts that we employ but even they have pulled the pin on Lever and May this year for things, I would argue, they would have played through last year.

Locomotive Delicious kicks straight they win that game…

Cueing my Demonland as a pub narrative: There is nothing more calming than standing up and yelling sarcastically about about how the sky is falling in front of a group of people…

Someone on the internet speculating about sports ball?! Thats it! Close the site. We have jumped the shark

5 day break. Surely he plays either, not both.

He’s watched too much ESPN… PTI and First Take ruined sports commentary shows over there for different reasons - but the generated friction is the most nauseous movement in the way the media covers sports. Jabba the Hut-chison is the OG but you can ignore him. Kane is everywhere and occasionally has a cogent thought so it’s harder to avoid.

He was close to BOG against Syd and WCE and then a Dees ‘fan’ comes out of the woodwork with his ‘worries’… I would say he was a troll if it wasn’t the personification of the hand wringing Melbourne supporter to fall apart like this.

Spend 10 mins explaining what being ‘5%’ off in the contest means. Not first to the contest, lose territory. Make it harder on the backs, mids chasing tail. Not competitive in clearances, forward handballs at stoppages. Clean kicks into backline, May becomes less relevant as ball is cleaner and to advantage. There are plenty of other examples of how, in the world of 6-6-6, you can get punished if you don’t show up mentally prepared and connected against any team.