demoncat

On the face of it this seems to be very unprofessional by the club To conduct what essentially amounts to a welfare check without any HR or legal representatives present raises serious questions about the club’s practices and judgment, particularly given the topic of the meeting Richardson also has a poor record as Football Manager of managing sensitive situations at the club (see the Petracca situation in 2024), so it doesn’t inspire much confidence that he’s handling these matters Having said that, and as others have pointed out, we can only go on what Morris has reported, which clearly has a degree of bias given it’s been leaked almost two months after the fact and without any indication the leaker attempted to resolved this via the club first I’ll reserve judgement until if/when more details come out, although the club’s statement seems to suggest they aren’t too worried, so perhaps there’s been a bit of mayo added to Morris report…

Appreciate people sharing what they know, but can we please try getting our stories straight before posting? Sam Edmund has already confirmed that there‘s no break following scans, so hopefully it’s only a minor issue Regardless, rest him this week and get him right

Agree with your points @whatwhat say what , but Bont is already a left footed version of Bont!

I think Langford will be a gun inside midfielder for us for a decade plus, but we have to remember he’s only in his second year and is still developing his tank and understanding of role I actually think he’s a similar player to Callaghan, albeit not as quick but with (potentially) a stronger contested and fwd game, plus both have great running patterns and a beautiful left foot If Langford could follow Callaghan’s trajectory we’ll be very well set

We are just putrid at the basics at the moment

Fumbles becoming a serious issue for this team now

Rivers got dropped because he hasn’t been very good to start the year - it really is that simple And while a few others have also started poorly (Sparrow and Lever come to mind) I think it’s Rivers’ lack of defensive intent that has seen him dropped first Can’t be missing tackles and not contributing to scoring chains

I get that Redleg and I hope we’re using whatever leverage we have with Gosch’s, but I reckon we’re over egging just how much leverage Gosch’s will give us in relation to government and AFL support for Caulfield (unless you’ve heard different?)

But why Redleg? It just seems obtuse to link the two when it seems they would have no bearing on one another?

Going to be a few players of his quality available from Brisbane and Suns over the next few years (Jed Walter and Jake Rodgers are couple of names that come to mind) Hopefully we can be the beneficiary of them being on the periphery of the QLD super teams!

On another note, I really feel the club owes the members an update soon Obviously they can’t make an announcement around Caulfield if negotiations are still ongoing, but there’s been enough noise about us committing (and then not committing) to Waverley, as well as the supposed troubled state of Caulfield, to warrant some kind of statement

I don’t understand why the club is linking Waverley to Caulfield, as surely where we’re based over the next few years has no bearings on negotiations? I mean if the club doesn’t want to go to Waverley that’s one thing, but I really hope we’re not fumbling the bag here and end up with neither Waverley OR Caulfield because of some misguided attempt at using Gosch’s as leverage

Not being a smart [censored] but what in your opinion have we been lacking? Whether it was last week or across the preseason we’ve been consistent with the trends of the modern game - turnover, transition and speed of ball movement have all been improved from last year Unfortunately we fell back into bad habits tonight but that was as much about Fremantle being a level above as it was us struggling under pressure I still think the intent was there, but we either fumbled at critical moments or Freo were strong enough defensively to stifle our ball movement We need to improve our defence and get more experience into the kids, but I don’t think the regime don’t understand our issues - quite the opposite in fact

That kick to Trelly that enabled him to mark without breaking stride was sublime

Every chance he injures himself before the first ball up anyway…