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He’s a kid in his 2nd year, he’ll be fine. Tom Hawkins kicked 25 goals in 19 games in his first 2 years (1.32 gpg). Tom Lynch 27 goals in 30 (0.9 gpg). JVR’s just played his 30th game and is averaging 1.37. Hawkins didn’t get there til year 3, Lynch year 4 (i think he was injured year 3).

I think this is it really, we’ve tried Schache, selectors don’t think Fullerton is ready yet, Jefferson and Sestan aren’t there yet and we don’t have anyone else so Petty stays.

Nibbla 27 @ 74%, 12 contested and 2 goal assists, 11 centre bounce attendances, he’s above a role player now 👏🏻 would’ve been nice to win by 50 instead of 38 but we’d put the cue in the rack and benched Max and a couple of others. Did what we needed to do and comfortably beat a weak opponent. Am I convinced we’re back? No but it’s better than last week.

When have we been in any other place?

It also doesn’t even make sense, if Gus was never coming back then what? We delist him? He had a contract.

He kicked 16 goals in 2021, Spargo kicked 18. It’d be nice to have him but he was never gonna stay.

[censored] was definitely one of the words I used watching the game last week

Would have to be an improvement

With you on Viney and Fullarton, if Sparrow is in the you’d have to include Sestan. Brown is definitely a mullet

Caleb Daniel, such a good kick and only 27yo. If only he wasn’t 5’7” he'd be worth chasing given Bevo doesn’t rate him but imo we’re already overweight in sub-6 footers

I like it. Better than another half dozen “here’s why X can’t win the flag” or “every team in the league is vying to sign 32yo cooked player on long term deal, sources (his agent) say” articles..

Painful result for them if it keeps going like this, looked like beating the top team, cop a bunch of injuries including maybe a knee to a bloke you’re paying over a mil for the next 8 years and now it looks like they could get blown away

https://theshinboner.com/2024/05/22/the-unique-part-of-james-jordons-role-tag-on-sam-walsh-from-the-notebook-round-10-2024/?amp=1 This might trigger some people but interesting piece here on JJ tagging from half forward. Not something we do to the same degree but we do get a half forward up to stoppage to free up Trac. Ricky’s blog has some good stuff, though as the name will tell you it’s pretty Norf focused

If Perty does happen to be reading I prefer the jumper without the little MFC badge under the Zurich ad so if we can get rid of it that would be good. Seems like our win/loss ratio is worse since we put it on there too. No issues being narrm for a couple of weeks..

He wasn’t cooked in 2022, he started 2023 with two bags of 4 goals, then had 1 goal against the swans when he got hurt

This is best kick into 50, as measured by % retention - Nibbla’s had 20 kicks into the 50, 65% were retained by us (not turned over).

This is almost a bigger frustration for me than the lack of a second flag (ok it’s not almost but it is a big frustration). I really feel like I should’ve enjoyed the past 3 years more than I did. I’m sure Hawks fans in the early 2010s, Geelong fans over the past far too long, Tigers fans up to 2020 must’ve had a more fun time than we have over our period of dominance. I can’t work out if it’s the game style stifling a talented list or the game style is keeping a so-so list at the top of the ladder but I would’ve expected if we had 3 years in the top 4 that I could roll up to the G and see us dismantle teams and stomp on their bleeding bodies but it hasn’t felt like that at any point really, except the finals which I saw on TV - the ones I saw live felt like I was having my body stomped.

Point out whatever you like, I don’t even know what your second sentence means tbh

It’s nice in theory, but we’ve held similar theories the past 2 years when things have looked wobbly mid-year. We’re scoring less than the last three years, taking less marks i50, opponents are scoring about the same but taking more marks i50 (which will get worse over the next month without Lever) and for the first time in 4 years we’re losing i50s which with our forward line conversion isn’t great. Now trying the same thing over and over and getting the same result is not recommended so I acknowledge Goody and co are trying some different things, that might have us flying by September but I’m really only going to believe that when I see it. On the plus side we’re 6-4, we were 7-4 last year and turned that into 16-7 so all is not lost but we need to start winning imminently. 2-1 from the next 3 is required, no single game is a litmus test as you point out on the pod but 7-6 puts the double chance out of reach I would think.

Fair point

Smith not guilty of face to elbow contact, it was a head clash

He didn’t do that, it was a clash of heads that caused the damage. It was a regulation hip & shoulder except the guy didn’t see it coming and got ragdolled because he wasn’t ready for contact. Parker’s evidence was in line with how I saw it, and the tribunal didn’t disagree, but as he’s caused damage he gets a long holiday. That’s fine I guess but apply that interpretation consistently. I seem to remember an incident in the finals last year where causing damage didn’t matter if you didn’t mean to do it, all of a sudden it does again. Swans also tried the good guy discount of only 1 suspension in over 200 games but the tribunal noted he’d been fined 9 times so threw that out too. Fines didn’t count when Cameron tipped Lever on his head so who knows what the rule is there. Overall he was always going to go, I tipped 4-5, he got 6 so be it but some consistency would be nice.

His performance in one game where the whole team stank it up was 6% below his 2023 average while being 15% above the next best so agree it’s obvious the problem isn’t him

I was going off DD’s table in the stats file..

Wanting to drop our leading possession getter from Sunday, who also had 8 tackles, 4 score involvements, had 23 pressure acts for 52 pressure points and was our number 1 ranked player? You’d need to be a bit nuts yes..