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Was fascinating Goodwin said he wanted to play an entertaining brand of footy. I'll hold you to that Simon!

I thought it was a rocky iv reference as Jamar had peroxide blond hair when he arrived.

Looks like he's forgotten the words to Happy Birthday.

Luke Jackson

~$1m per year. Depends how good his 2025 is.

Yeah if Callaghan is attracting $17m offers I can only imagine what clubs will be prepared to pay for Reid.

Would be nice if our players flew the flag for Gawn when he get's targeted. Where's Bernie Vince when you need him.

Went back and watched the GWS Collingwood game, never seen a game more decided by fitness. Both teams looked pretty evenly matched at the early part of each quarter but Collingwood kept running out of gas the longer the quarters went on and that's when the Giants took control and scored heavily. Will be interesting to see if our fitness is up to the same level as GWS.

Dropped a lot of easy marks, didn't they? You'd expect them to clean that up. Had incredible delivery.

Imo I don't see many other ways that trade gets done.

I'm saying that we shouldn't play three tall forwards against the Giants in the wet and I think Johnson and JVR are ahead of him.

Turner really shouldn't play considering his performance in the practice match and the conditions.

Will be nice to get away to the tropics.

The thing about the Oliver trade scenario that raises an eyebrow for me is that teams also have a salary floor. You can't afford to not pay the cap. So having a $1m+ deal falling flat puts you in a bit of a precarious situation. The Bowes deal was also very weird. I remember the claim basically being that they spread his two year deal over four years. So this guy effectively agreed to work two years for free? And no other club could present a better deal than that?

A push in the back is illegal. You are allowed to place hands on the back of you're opponent without a pushing motion.

Hands in the back has not been a rule for years.

That article is literally rage bait. I have no idea why people keep getting sucked in to read it.

Yeah because a club has never had a public message contrary to what's actually being said behind the scenes. Trade period is a poker match, with bluffs and gambits aplenty and clubs will leak info to the media as part of the game. Both sides are hoping the other one folds. Oliver wasn't traded but it was certainly on the cards. It's fine, it's a professional sport, this sort of thing happens every year. If you're over the conversation you don't have to respond.

Play him midfield and Viney as a defensive forward. We have very little defensive pressure in our forwardline and it's something Viney could really add there.

Fantastic write up. It's like I'm there!

Roos was working with a list that had been decimated by Neeld. He was basically working as a trauma surgeon during those years. It was less about game style and more about staying in games for as long as possible. By the time Goodwin came in the bulk of the list had been overturned and we were ready to actually implement a gameplan to have a crack at finals. I don't doubt that we can change only how much we're willing to.

He is not saying he would be traded only that it was still on the table. Bit of weasel words to be sure but I'd hardly say this constitutes getting it wrong. Where did Barrett say it would definitely happen?

Harsh on Roos

Goodness.

We play safe football and have for a while. The high press is all about locking the ball in with the philosophy being if it's in your 50 you both get a chance to kick for goal and the opposition can't score themselves. At it's best even if the opposition get's the ball they essentially want to get it out of the forwardline as quickly as possible, so you see a lot of long up and under kicks out of defence which are easy to intercept. However as you mentioned, if you can break the lines you are basically left with a paddock to run the ball easily to goal. Transition games like this have become more popular in recent years, which is all about defending deep and slingshotting forward. Probably best executed by Collingwood in recent years. It's why (apart from last year) our games against them have been such arm wrestles, because both teams are kind of playing into each others hands. I think one of the reasons more attacking gamestyles are working more than they have historically is the stand rule. It's a lot easier to move the ball now that you can't defend the angles off a mark. It's also worth noting that you can play a high press and be more attacking. It's how we set up in 2017 and 2018 where we cheated forward out of stoppage and left our defenders on an island. I also think there's something to be said about how our gamestyle affects the team psychologically. I think it would be mentally exhausting to kick the ball inside 50 ten times for no goals only to see the opposition get out the back once and walk it in for an easy goal against the flow. I know I get exhausted watching it! I have no idea what Goodwin's ultimate plans are for how we go inside 50, from the two praccy matches it does feel like we are keen to move the ball by hand a lot more out of stoppage to potentially get better delivery inside 50 as opposed to just booting the ball out to win territory. It will certainly be interesting now that Chaplin has been given the forwardline to coach. What will he bring to the table and how much freedom Goodwin will give him? I found it incredibly frustrating last year where even when we got out the back had an open forwardline all our forwards ran to the pocket rather than presenting a lead and what should have been easy goals or at least decent set shots were easily defended by the opposition.