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Untradeable: Gawn, Koz, Langford, Lindsay. Everyone else is on the block as far as I’m concerned. Oliver doesn’t look like coming good so if we can get a deal that’s not too painful then cop it. Trac, only he and the club would know if he’s still feeling the effects of last year’s injury. If he is then maybe we keep him and hope another preseason gets him right. If he’s 100% now then he’s not trying and can go too. The send him forward plan is a myth, terrible ball drop when kicking for goal, kicking one is a fluke.

Let it be known that when I email the club the president responds in under 24 hours 💪🏻 (kidding, I’m sure they got a few thousand emails today..) Not quite the full explanation of what’s happened that I was after but at least an acknowledgment that things are bad and the team isn’t performing to the level expected or required, and an acknowledgment that the members and supporters are right to be [censored] off.

“Excited” pretty sure I heard him say he was excited after another flogging a few weeks ago. I’d prefer him to be pretty bored with us winning.

I thought Paxy was looking a bit past it at times last year but not the case based on that highlight package 💪🏻

When I’m paying for something and I don’t get what I expect I reach out and let them know they won’t get anymore money until they sort it out. I’ve had enough and I’m letting the club know. They can ignore the email and probably will but I’ve done what I can.

“So, we'll learn from it, clearly, and grow from it. But it's unacceptable at the same time." I get it, he has to spin it but [censored] me dead I’m over it. Why do we have so many learnings to do when we were the best team in the comp in 2021? What did we forget ?

Tuned out of most footy after the Port game when it finally sank in for me that the players (bar Gawn, Koz and a couple of others) don’t actually give a [censored]. Still think this year is on the players but tonight ends Goody’s time with us, no coach survives that. Emailing the club tomorrow to pause the renewal on my 5 memberships. Telling them I’m not renewing til we get some honesty from the club about what has gone so wrong and why, and see some change. Every week we hear about learning and working to get better, how did we get so bad? We still have most of the flag team? What do they need to [censored] learn?

He might get out of tigerland by 2030 for good behaviour

From the afl.com story: Signed until 2032 Noah Balta (Rich) Luke Davies-Uniacke (NM) Connor Idun (GWS) Max King (StK) Aaron Naughton (WB) Connor Rozee (PA) Sam Taylor (GWS) Signed until 2033 Hayden Young (Frem) Signed until 2034 Kysaiah Pickett (Melb) I’d take Kozz over just about all them, maybe Rozee but he’s a downhill skier for mine.. apparently Mac Andrew can extend out to 2034 if he plays enough games but I’d have Kozz over him too.

That’s not how averages work, they include the wins and the losses. And the media can get stuffed, most of them don’t know [censored].

He’s averaging 2.1 gpg this year which is rated elite, also elite for tackles i50, marks i50, centre clearances, one percenters and score involvements.

It’s not that bad, Viney now has 3 years to go, Trac and JVR 4 and Clarry 5. Kozz is getting a long deal and a big wedge but the cap is going up so there’s plenty of room for others. Had to do whatever it took to keep Kozz, absolute freak.

Just heard Lindsay got fined for legging Bobby Hill, but I can’t seem to find any fine for some Hawthorn [censored] for legging Kozz when we played them.. absolute bull [censored] from the AFL as usual..

Gonna have nightmares about Gawn trying to pick out Bowey amongst 3 pies and turning it over for a goal. Ditto Howes letting Long (I think) turn inside and set up a goal instead of pushing him to the boundary. Melksham missing some he would ordinarily kick. Petty trying a drop punt from a 90° angle instead of a banana and putting it out on tbe full. Should’ve won that. Kozzie one of the best goals you’ll see. Frittata was good today apart from the play on. Lever also good. Trac and Oliver were disappointing, Trac may have had too much on his mind on the anniversary of nearly losing a spleen but he did some really sloppy things. Umpiring terrible.

Zero confidence, hopefully we at least play up to the occasion and don’t get pumped. Having said that I thought we were certainties last week and had no chance against the lions so what do I know? Go dees

Round 1 v Giants was torrential at times. Rain won’t hurt our already atrocious goal kicking, but it won’t help either

He started his career a bit rough, 59% 56% & 48%, then went on a tear for 2 years, 71% & 71% over 2021 & 2022. I thought the foot injury in 2023 hurt his kicking, but he was a bit off that year before the foot - 60% for the year, then 64% last year. This year has been his worst so far at 44%. Career average 62%. I get the impression the practice kicks are pretty much pressure free. All I see on socials is kicking over the cardboard cutout on the mark, or inside out banana trick shots from the pocket. I’d like to see some actual noise from a person or people on the mark to simulate game conditions. But frankly I just think we have a lot of bad kicks in the team.

[censored] me, it’s taken me til today to stomach coming on here and thinking about footy, last week was just so so disappointing. Should’ve been a lock for a win and we didn’t turn up. Can’t see this week being much better, Pies are going well and based on last week we aren’t. Had some hope after the run of wins but that’s gone now. (Interesting timing for the club to send me an email titled “HOPE” on tuesday, but it was just about drink bottles not actual hope for the season). AJ out, I think it has to be JVR in. Jeffo kicked 5 yes but they were VFL goals, leads into space with no pressure etc, don’t get those chances at AFL level. He can’t go in the ruck either. Will suck it up and go along but what used to be an exciting day (and meaningful as Dad got taken down by MND) is becoming a bit painful with arrogant, annoying pies fans and our losses.

If it’s 93 to 88 Ross will kick the glass out of the coaches box - he’ll be aiming for 50-60points each

They’ll have multiple screens running but it’s still not the same as watching live

Maybe he’s closer than Bill then?

If Viney doesn’t come up best guess would be Laurie comes in (despite my view he’s too small for AFL). He and Culley were the emergencies last week with TMac which in my view makes them next in, Culley didn’t get near it against Preston from the stat sheet so that puts Laurie in the box seat. Wouldn’t be shocked if Billings gets the call up out of the blue but I think it’s Bill. No other changes imo. Should beat them, they’re going terribly. As others have pointed out Ross the Boss will make it the worst game of the round to watch but we should have enough quality to win it.

This is an underrated point, he wasn’t having a day out against the swans but he stayed up and about and stayed in the game and did some good things late where he could’ve been kicking grass in the goal square. I don’t think anyone on here is kidding themselves that he’s gonna morph into Wayne Carey 2.0 but he’s doing his job, staying on the move and bringing teammates into the game. Long term I think JVR has his job but for now it’s his..

That one Hopper was complaining about was a goal assist, shocking throw

That’s good news, but as we saw with Viney it’s not always the end of the story. Looked a solid bump, would expect 2-3 for Mills