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Wonder if it's a Dean Cox at Sydney situation?

If this is true Rankine should have gotten 8 weeks. Ridiculous he wasn't suspended the first time round.

How many examples have we got under Goodwin of certain players being given a longer leash than others?

Was originally posted on Reddit.

A day late but called it.

I suppose, but it still seemed like an unnecessary signing when we were still unsure of how he'd come back from injury. Especially odd when you consider we waited until the end of the season to lock in our other veterans.

Two of the debutants were Langford and Lindsay who we hoped would be contributors in our rise back up the ladder this year. Lamb mentioned our high draft picks in his interview after the trade period last year and Green said it in his letters. Another two of the debutants were mature age VFL depth recruits that barely played for the rest of the year. The other was Jefferson who was also pushed out of the side a few weeks later. The final debutant was Sharp who was already on an AFL list at Brisbane so not really a debutant at all. We had a lot of debutants in round 1 mostly because we had a number of injuries early on. Only Langford and Lindsay became mainstays in the side. If the club truly believed that this was actually a development year and went out and publicly told the members that we were expecting to go deep in finals then they deserve even more criticism than they've copped. The real truth is we set our expectations high and failed to live up to them.

No, my opinion is based on our media teams noted attention to detail:

Our media team absolutely didn't see it.

Completely agree. Go back and listen to Tim Lamb speak after the trade period last year. Go back and read Green's letter after the review. The whole club was of the belief that we would bounce back this year. No one was ever sold the idea that 2025 was a development year.

May is not worth anything at the trade table. He's a 3rd round pick at absolute best at his age. We would be moving him on so we could focus on bringing youth into the squad and the club that takes him would just be taking a punt on squeezing the last bit of footy out of his career. Would be like when Hawks moved on Lewis and Mitchell.

JUH is done. Bloke won't even turn up to training. Wouldn't be going anywhere near him.

The real headscratcher is why we felt the need to give him a one year extension before he'd even played a game this year.

So is this based on anything or just what the author reckons the dogs should do?

Haha looking forward to seeing this do the rounds on tv tonight. May is cooked and should be moved on. If he wants to tune out, fine, but distracting a young player in a team meeting is cultural cancer.

Been better but not worth the money we're paying him. Also taking up a midfield spot that needs to start going to the younger players. Next year Langford needs to be in the middle. His ball use is way too good to waste him on the wing.

Think you're reading too much into it.

This guy has cult hero written all over him.

He went on a Tassie Devils podcast and they specifically asked him if he'd make a good coach for them.

This guy will be our best player in 3 years time.

I mean, that’s literally all we’ve got to judge him on right now. Obviously he will be ultimately judged on the outcomes he actually delivers, that goes without saying. Pretty clear that the reactions here are just people happy with the first impression they’re getting. Don’t need to read much into it beyond that.

Didn't mind it. Prefer a bloke who can be honest over someone who tries to appease everyone with bs.

So flat after that. The third quarter was about as exciting football as we've played in years and we just went to pieces in the last as usual.

Buckley said he already has a relationship with Guerra on fox footy which surprised me.

Poor take OP.