Chook

Sounds like a no true scotsman supporter to me.

I'm a supporter. It's not my responsibility to run the club. It's not even my responsibility to financially support the club. They play well, I buy in. That's where the relationship ends.

This will be an easy listen on a Monday night: https://x.com/1116sen/status/1947178476747837859 David King reckons it's May's responsibility to pull out of the contest when he thinks he'll get there second. Lovely. Imagine all the contests players would pull out of if they had to be sure they'd get there first.

The issue is I don't think Oliver has any real trade value. He's much more valuable to us than any other club would give for him (specially Geelong). Petracca can go forward, and if we played him as a forward more that might be ok. But we play him too often as a midfielder, and that just kills us. Viney will be retiring soon, so I wouldn't think we'd get anything for him. I also really want to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, trading out Viney like we got rid of James McDonald.

I've thought about this for a while, and I reckon we trade Trac and keep Oliver. Petracca has a lot of value still, but he is a prime offender in poor disposal inside 50. I think Oliver has other strengths (in and under, contested disposal, etc). We can use Oliver as an inside mid, but Petracca's class comes from his explosiveness, but unfortunately in our side with so few good ball users we can't carry his rainmaker kicks inside 50.

Yeah it's pretty bad...

It's like Salem and Bowey are TRYING to find bad options. Just take a breath fellas.

Just gonna focus on you figuring out how to use the new thread button.

Demonland is my business. I've been here a while.

Oh cool! That's Jordie McKenzie's old number!

So make a thread about it.

This guy seems to have a great head for footy. Has someone tapped him to become a coach at all or no?

Exactly, hence us being miles off. Saying we're not as bad as you might think is all well and good. I'd rather look at where we want to be and talk about how we get there than look at where we don't want to be and talk about how we're "not quite as bad as all that." One lens gives you a goal to aspire to and the other breeds mediocrity.

I'm not comparing us to other sides. I'm comparing us to ourselves c.2021 We're miles off.