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Great club, even greater culture- GO DEES

Agree that TMac was very much missed. Fingers crossed that he will be fit to go but I would also like to see a ‘fit to play’ BBB and perhaps a fired up and raring to go JVR as well in the mix. Not to mention getting a better connectivity with and delivery from the mids. The recruiting of Lachie Hunter I feel may be a important inclusion that helps address this issue. Fingers crossed

Whoops, totally forgot about TMac!! (my bad)

I’d like to see Petty remain in the back half of the ground. Our backline is our strength. If it’s not broken, don’t stuff around with it. Rather see (hope) that JVR is part of the solution for the forward line along with a well ‘player managed’ BBB. …..and better delivery / connectivity coming from / with the mids

If Yze goes then definitely consider getting Ratten back. As much as I would like Yze to stay he definitely wants to move up in the world of coaching. Unfortunately, this must have some sort of destabilising impact on the players / coaching team.

The only upside I can see if Lyon gets the job is that he no longer would be part of the Footy Classified show. Geez, he used to [censored] on at times.

How does Neal Daniher’s famous quote go? After all is said…..

The ‘one is enough Saints’ take yet another decisive step to ensure that they certainly won’t be contenders in 2023. Their supporters are just about guaranteed to know what it’s going to feel like barracking for a football club that hasn’t won a flag in 57 years. Something that not even we have had to experience. (Phew).

Agree. Backline has been very solid so don’t rob it to fix issues with the forwards. Mids also very solid when not plagued by injuries. Just need to avoid getting injured (luck plays a big part) remain fit, and rediscover their killer / domination instincts. Win the contested footy and deliver it to our forwards quickly. Our forward line was our Achilles heel last year but not totally their fault. The delivery of the footy to them was not great. Appeared to be very one dimensional and slow. Fingers crossed for TMac and BBB to overcome injuries and play out year. Time for JVR to strut his stuff on the big stage. I believe Lachie Hunter is a blessing in disguise. Someone who has smarts and can deliver to the forwards. Schache hopefully gets a new lease on life and becomes another forward option (or at worst a backup). And then lock it in there! I think I’m an exception but I always liked big Max filling holes in the defence rather than playing forward. I would even keep Grundy out of the forward line. Just imagine our two big ruckmen either getting intercept marks or bringing the ball down to our advantage from the half back to half forward line. Can we bring home the bacon? Bloody oath we can! Bring on 2023, I can hardly wait.

They don’t deserve Yze as a coach

And when he faces up against the ferals I want to see him looking very angry

I’m not bitter Hope we smash Freo when we play them whenever and wherever. Hope they don’t make the finals and we snag a flag in 23. Ahh, I feel better now

Football is a tribal sport to me. Put simply, Luke Jackson is now an enemy to me. GO DEES!

The way I see it Tomlinson appeared more likely than not to continue in the two’s. So if he is moved on and replaced by JB who also plays in the two’s, it at worst is a net neutral outcome. (Aside from a back being replaced by a forward). However, if he comes good in the two’s, there could be some real upside, if and when we may need some ‘forward power’ options. Chances of this occurring? Pretty high. Aside from JVR being a cleanskin with plenty of potential, both BBB and McDonald who were quite banged up last year appear to be no guarantee that they will make it all the way through next year. We then have another option to consider. If it happens that JB comes our way for 2023, am I excited? No, but I would get it.

As mentioned in a earlier post by Jaded No More that he lives / lived with both Jackson and Bedford (one gone and the other looking to go) wouldn’t help one iota! Hope this gets sorted sooner rather than later for two reasons. a) team stability for 2023. b) I don’t think I could handle another year of ‘will he, wont he’ like what happened with Jackson this year!

Hmmm, be a nice kind of irony if the next time we play the Ferals, we win with Grundy playing for us🤞

Just listening to the Neal Daniher audio book where he mentioned the importance of the club, that being the board, football department and players all being aligned, plus an element of good luck to have any chance of success. To me (as an outsider) it appears that they are, therefore I live in hope that we once again will be serious contenders in 2023. Getting the fans on board would be an absolute bonus, but I am painfully aware of just how prevalent and imbedded the MFCSS is……but I still live in hope.

I love it. Right now at the very least, we are contenders. For the best part of the past 6 decades I could not put my hand on my heart and say that we were a realistic chance. Right now I can! As the season progresses I hope I can up the ante (like in 2021) and with hand on heart say that we are ‘serious contenders’. 🤞

Gearing up to learn to like Grundy. To be honest, it won’t be that hard to do. But please, never ever do I want Ginnivan’s name associated with us. Ps- I’m not trying to start a new rumour or anything like that, he just really irks me, that all.

Hope Hird gets the Essendrug gig. Good for two reasons, first being it makes it easier to love to hate them that much more and…we get to keep Yze

Yep, select a fact that can when taken in isolation can be used to distort the truth. This then ends up as being an alternative persuasive point of view or truth. He is an absolute expert at doing this. Worse still, people believe! Makes me wonder about Geoff Kennet’s clothing choice comments- when isolated can easily be excused for something you would expect from the older generation, nothing more, nothing less. No offence intended at all. When taken in context of what this thread is all about, as I said above, makes me wonder.

When I saw the headline in eff head Bolt’s column in the Feral Hun I made a point not to read any of his comments. He specialises in distorting information. At best, I used to go to the back pages and read the sports section. Don’t even do that anymore. It is not a newspaper, it is a Murdoch tabloid that is full of extremist views, positions and full of misinformation (Trump, politics, climate change denial etc etc). And finally….we’ll done Daisy

Exactly

I’m pretty sure nobody has ever won (the GF) outside the top 8 before! 😉- … but I do like your sentiments about the Ferals.

Totally agree. It’s football and it’s tribal. So… thanks Jacko for being part of it in 2021. Hope you enjoy going home and I hope you don’t snag another flag and we of course do. Pretty simple, you are now the enemy.