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There’s no way they get someone better than him this year. We’ve already won that swap.

13.6 in the second half! Unbelievable stuff, would’ve been an absolute flogging if we kicked better in the first and they didn’t get some flukey ones. We dominated them all day and should’ve been further up at the half. Max really wanted to beat Grundy today, another huge effort from the big fella but Koz gets the 3 votes. Too quick, too good all day. AJ had the fumbles but managed to create a few goals by hitting bodies, reckon he stays in. Hopefully Lever’s ankle is ok, looked like he tweaked it late. Spargo out (concussion), Viney in (concussion).

Bit surprised as most on here seem to be about TMac, thought they were resting him but he’s in the emergencies so suggests he’s dropped. With them only having 3 tallish forwards it’s probably a horses for courses situation.. If it’s an actual dropping I’m surprised they didn’t swing him forward for AJ but AJ probably gives better service in the ruck

Definitely time for another pod, Gus & Gawny was great listening. Chin & Disco my nominations.

Lever comes in, too good not to play, and I don’t think we’ll be resting anyone that doesn’t have a niggle as we try climbing the ladder. AJ stays in for mine, don’t want Disco or Petty getting hurt playing 2nd ruck. I’d say Sharp goes out for Lever and we shuffle a few around, maybe Windsor further up the ground. Wouldn’t mind seeing Culley in for Spargo, bigger body. I’d say his naming is a reward for doing the right things at Casey but he won’t come in for a few weeks.

That’s not the jumper, that’s cos Melksham absolutely pantsed him

AJ isn’t the greatest but he wants to compete which puts him ahead of some others. He was 4-5m behind that brisbane defender and made up the ground to kick an important goal, and his time in the ruck wasn’t bad. I think we keep him in.

I like that while they had us on transition (d50 to i50% 27.9% to their 41.2% - a 13% differential) they only converted those to scores 16.5% vs our 13.1% - a 3.4% differential. Big win for our back 6, whether that’s sustainable I don’t know. You’d obviously like to shut down the transition earlier in the chain..

What a win! I gave us no chance before the game (and up until 3QT if I’m honest). Thought we’d scrap it out for 3 quarters and leak a few goals in the last.. 4.8 in the last is massive compared to the season so far, should really have won by 4 goals as we missed a few easy ones but I’ll take it. Importantly we took 16 marks i50, compared to our season average of 9. Only equalled that against the eagles. Took a mark on 28% of our i50s which is our best so far this year. Melksham helps a lot with this both marking and hitting targets. Also a little underrated in the win is the defensive effort, kept the Lions to 11 marks i50 which helped limit their scoring. Hopefully we can keep Milkshake on the park for most of the year, and throw the kitchen sink at Kozz to keep him pls.

He is a shocker, half the time he doesn’t even look and just hits the spare defender on the chest 25m out from goal.

just not interested in wasting my time

Rightio guru

No one has ever yet made it clear to me why or how changing the game plan and the coach is going to make the players kick better. Unless the plan is to turn over the whole list it just seems like people are going on vibes

We kicked 9.17 against the blues in 2023 and lost by 2 points. We should’ve won by 5 goals but the players let themselves down. You don’t throw the toys out of the cot and start again after that, you do goalkicking practice.

Well you were wrong in 2022 and 2023 but you’re probably right now

I’m not telling you you were wrong I’m saying you’re hindsighting it now

Lost 2 finals in 2023 by a combined total of 9 points, we weren’t far off so Blind Freddy must’ve been watching something else

Fair, I hadn’t realised brisbane were so short, but their shorties are mostly A-grade. Their mosquito fleet has kicked 50 goals, average of 6.25 between those that have played this year, pies shortarses have kicked 43 (avg of 8.6) and ours have kicked 33 (avg of 4.7). Bris average 17.8 disposals and 4.5 marks (career avg used for McCarthy and Coleman), Pies 18.9 disposals 4.2 marks (added N Daicos 184cm). Ours 14.5 disposals, 3.1 marks (incl Viney). Fine to be short if you are good, Bowey, Chandler, Pickett & Viney are good. Spargo, Laurie, Sharp, Henderson should only play if one of the good shorties is out. Admission: at 178 I’m also a shortarse in AFL terms so no bias here

I will just add that we’re currently on an average attendance of 37,907 for our 9 games. 8th overall and ahead of Port, Swans, WC, Freo etc. 9th place on just home games with 40,002 (obviously boosted by Anzac Eve but that goes for others too). Bombers and Tigers 11th and 12th with 37k and 36k. We do ok despite the peanuts on social media talking us down when we get a low crowd against a team with no fans.

Feel real bad* for the ducks, I mean hawks… *not really

This is my biggest problem with our list, too many leprechauns. Can’t have Spargo, Laurie, Bowey, Chandler, Sharp in the same side, you just can’t compete with that many undersized players (Koz is the same size but he’s a level above)

There is just no reality where a coach 2 years after a flag with 2 subsequent top4 finishes and prelim finals gets sacked. It just would not have happened under any circumstances and people should let it go. Whether change is needed now or not it is pure fantasy to think he was ever getting the axe after ‘23.

Agree we’re not fit enough, but it’s not the whole story. I do think we need a new fitness staff.

But how hard you work depends on the game plan. A new plan means players getting caught out of position and either they have to work harder to get into position or someone else has to work harder to cover. Cumulatively everyone is doing more than they would otherwise need to and that takes a toll. We looked gassed at the end of the 3rd, Disco and McVee playing keepings off to waste the last couple of minutes was to try and save something for the last but we didn’t have it.