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Yeh it’s over

That’s the real reason they should be made to throw it up, they now just call it back when it goes outside the circle but that one was basically a clearance to collingwood - peanuts

Surely after his last couple to forget against us he isn’t thinking about getting another bath from S. May as a farewell?

Spotify is telling me Rivers and Van Rooyen are both new today, although I definitely listened to Rivers 2-3 weeks ago. Wheels have fallen off the whole shebang since Gibby got shipped out

Weird assumption. I’d say it’s more to do with the team being pretty [censored] good, with some of the best players in the world.

Grass roots? You mean APS footy right? /s

Geez he’s a dunce. Never had a thought he didn’t read somewhere else first

Does anyone at HQ have any idea about running things or do they just put on their clown shoes each morning and make up some new way to turn the game into a circus? How could you have an active player on the commission? I see there’s 2 spots, let’s put Chris Scott in the other one and see how they go as a tag team act.. absolute farce.

At a time when we desperately needed the next goal, it bobbled out of Smith’s perfectly for Harmes to grab it without breaking stride, 3-4 steps and weighted the pass so Fritta could just about walk onto the end of it. If he never plays another game he’s done enough.

I think it’s Gawndy time, didn’t like it earlier in the year as we had 2 talls plus a ruck and it was getting congested. Hopefully with just JVR and a ruck we can create enough space for Trac, Melksham and the rest to get on leads. Key will be having the resting ruck on the move rather than just parking 25m out calling for the ball. Otherwise I think Smith goes back to sub, just don’t think he’s got 4 quarters of concentration in him (5 of his 7 touches came in Q2 this week, 0 in Q3). Hibberd into the 22. Clarry hopefully locked in and not further delayed, out goes Harmes or JJ. I’d prefer Harmes out, looks like it’s gone past him. We’ll always have that pass to Fritta in the GF..

Realistically we sank our chance of a percentage booster in the first quarter, time to avoid injury now and hopefully extend the lead by a goal or two. 2nd spot won’t be won or lost today, still got 3 games to win.

Nice to see Kozzie re-retire Ziebell there after the rest of us have been hand feeding him disposals

Does some impressive things but hoo boy, not a real smart kid

Tend to agree that Charleston is not looking best 22 at the moment. My read up until the last few weeks was that he was rusted-on, best 22 in Goody’s mind but it looks now like he’s slipped down the list a bit. All 25 games in flag year, all 24 last year but only 13/20 this year - 3 to go but it would look like he’s running out of time to get back in before finals. We’re still working on the forward line but I’d think if he was in he’d be in by now and the experiments can happen around him. That he hasn’t been in the mix seems to indicate he needs someone else to drop form or get injured.

In Hibberd’s defence he had a busted kidney from the first quarter

Yes, as often there’s a lot of scrabbling around in the pack with no clear disposals they don’t count losing the ball in there as a turnover, it’s only once the ball is on the outside team they count turnovers. Clearance is the first disposal to clear the stoppage area, can be effective or ineffective. Clangers include disposal clangers (i.e. turnovers) as well as the other categories so you’re always likely to have more clangers than t/overs. And clangers shouldn’t be counted as a % of disposals (you might have a dropped mark clanger and 0 possessions) but with t/overs you can.

Slightly misleading in that it looks like he didn’t do much damage against the Lions but he got those 63 goals in 16 games for an average of 3.9 pg. Someone at Essendon seriously [censored] him off though cos he smashed them all the way through his career at 3.8 pg.

12 days from today is 11 Aug so they’ll still be back by their next game on the 13th imo. Club doctor will probably have more time to focus on his private practice going forward though

Feel free to read my last 2 posts on the matter, unless you’re hard of braining it should be pretty clear why I think this is the week to rest him. I also said I don’t think the club is going to do it because that’s not the performance philosophy but your big brain might’ve skipped that bit.

“Jeopardise his form”? Please, he’s the best ruckman in the comp. What’s he going to get out of playing potatoes in freezing Hobart that he can’t get running around at Casey. Admittedly Goldy isn’t a spud but let the mids earn their kicks for a week and bring him back for the last 3 into finals. We need him firing for a month from the QF onwards, we don’t need him firing against Norf in August. What absolutely must be avoided is a repeat of 2022 when he couldn’t run or get off the ground and we got rolled in straight sets.

I think this is the week to rest Max and Viney, but I get it probably won’t happen. The Burgess/Griffith method appears to be to manage players via training loads primarily and have them play as many games as they’re not actually injured for. I’d still think sticking Max on a return flight to Hobart to play one of the worst 2 teams in the comp is unnecessary. Viney I think should still have a week, he’s had to come to the bench for attention to his right shoulder in multiple games and I wouldn’t want to see it get worse, admittedly I don’t know what the damage is so maybe there’s nothing for it and he might as well play. Would be good week to give Smith a full game, imo for Tomlinson who wasn’t great in the second half of the Crows game and not good for much of the Tiges game either. See if Smith has 4 quarters of concentration in him.

Have they ever seen Dylan Grimes play? Manages to be a flopper and also a sniper, impressive. Gets away with a fair bit cos his natural facial expression looks like a bloke who’d lose at checkers to a chook

Calls for him to be dropped every week but it’s never going to happen. Harmes, Woey or Jordan in line for the axe before they even think about ANB. Coaches clearly love what he does.

Never saw Petty kicking 6, and Maxy what an effort. Picked the boys up and carried them in the second half. Put the big fella on ice for a week, no need to fly him to tassie and play spuds. Grundy can take the load for a week

That was one of the most decrepit efforts by Howe on the wing, stood and watched Martin take a mark one on one, then after the mark is taken leaves curnow and goes to wave at someone running past while curnow takes the next mark. He’s lucky the blues stuffed it up inside 50