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This is how Max wants it, he feels he can grind the other ruck down by playing 85%+ time on ground and running all day. That’s why they couldn’t get Grundy to work as Max wouldn't give up tog and Grundy isn’t a permanent forward. Personally I think Max should’ve been told to make it work..

I prefer if we have our downhill skiers in the MCC only, not on the field

Part of the slowness comes from a change in game plan. Players need to know where to be and when things change it takes longer to get to the right spots and longer to realise you’ve got to move. But even allowing for that we don't look fit. I’m well and truly off Selwyn..

We get better with the expected ins this week, the cats aren’t flying (although they’re better on their own soccer pitch), you’d expect some sort of bounce after the heat we’re copping. Need the mids to at least breakeven, and find a way to hit a forward with the football. Goals are coming almost by accident at the moment. I don’t see a win here but I’m all for the positive thinking.

Kept talking about fun and excitement but did not at all look like he was having fun or excited.

100%. We don’t have the kicking skills to play that game. It’s been really weird, it hasn't helped us control the tempo of games, it hasn't stopped the oppo scoring and it hasn't helped us find targets i50 - so wtf are we doing it for?

Sickens me to see the Hawks back at the top. Turned a rebuild around in record time, and fight back from a goalless first quarter to beat the giants. When we start like that you might as well get on the tram cos you know we’re done.

Rebuild time, senior players are cooked mentally and/or physically. Bottom end of the list has been stripped away while we tried to keep the top end intact. Hasn't worked. Selwyn can go, whatever Burgess taught him he didn't get the good stuff and we’ve either started the year unfit or run out of gas every year since ‘21. I think part of the problem this year is slow movement to save the legs, but its failed and we’re cooked. I’ve been a Goody defender but if it’s rehuild time then he probably goes too. Gonna be a long couple of years.

Terrible handballs from Max and Rivers. Plus the shizen goalkicking its our skills killing us.

[censored] me 2 soft 50s. Give us a couple of those you peanuts. Shame about Lindsay. We’re gonna get cooked though, mids still not touching the ball.

Its modern footy, your good players don’t play 2s. May is straight back in as well. The expectation is that the fitness staff have them ready to hit the ground running.

At @Tony Tea would say “footy is lies”. No one is out there telling the truth about everything going on at their club.

We played them on their home turf. Worried about Max, early doors but he’s averaged ~5 marks a game, this year its 2.5 so far. I’d like to see Campbell but Max doesn’t want a second ruck apparently, wants to play 85%+ game time on ball. AJ in should help a little. Team gets better this week with May and Melk back. Langford if he can get going should be an improvement on Spargo or Taj. Bigger body even though it’s game 2.

Not sure I agree with the premise of this thread. Home v GWS where they get 8 fans and don’t play often, Norf at Marvel then Suns at the G, if we were flying we should win 2 of those or all 3 and we’d be riding high going into the Cats and we’d be drawing 40-50k against the Bombers. The team has let us down not the AFL.

I think this is an underrated point. I don’t know how we can keep playing Bowey, Spargo, Henderson, Sharp in the same team, you can’t have that many little blokes in one team in today’s footy. Throw in Langdon and that’s 5 out of 22 who aren’t gonna take an overhead mark..

I can. They haven’t.

Can you read? “They haven’t. They may get there.”

Well if we keep playing like today we’re 0-5 (and 0-23 cos today was literally uncompetitive). We can play better and should take it up to the Suns, but will we? Hopefully May back at least.

This season was always about whether Trac and Oliver could get back to prime form and they haven’t. They may get there. We’ll see what we get against GC. Mids got smashed today, as did everyone else. We’re also missing 4 of our best 22. We can still play finals but need to win next week and beat the Bombers or we’ll be out of the running. 2-3 has us alive, 0-5 or 1-4 and we’re cooked.

Flat as a tack. North might be better than we thought, but clearly we’re worse. Just a really strange performance where no one was any good. We get better when we get May and Kozz back, plus Windsor, but it clearly won’t fix today’s problems. Can’t kick it high into a stationary forward line for the 4th year running. Seasons not over, it’s only round 2. Coach isn’t getting sacked so don’t waste your time on that yet. But we need to lift and soon. Max needs to learn or accept playing with a second ruck. Wasted a year with Grundy but he needs help against the big boys.

That play has done me in, turning off and going to weed the garden. Dismal

Norf errors keeping us in this, they should be 4 goals up. Really testing the optimism I had after last week.

Any danger of a clearance ffs? Mids getting absolutely smashed

1 goal from insufficient intent, one from a bad norf turnover and one from a 50m penalty. Would be nice to see one from us hitting a target i50

This has bad vibes. Very bad vibes..