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Not watching, but could hear the game through the speakers at the bar, but I stand with Rankine and the Crows. What’s said on the field should stay on the field. Quaynor and Maynard were the ones crying to Collingwood, hence Collingwood crying to the media and the AFL. Games lost. Heat of the moment is now gone sadly.

After watching Djokovic just beat Taylor Fritz, in yet another hostile environment as he isn’t as loved as past champions, rose to the challenge again and won against absolute quality through all the heckling from the crowd. Reaches yet another Slam final. Whoever the coach is, I really hope they work on the mindset and the psychology. Should be the first port of call. At this level of Aussie Rules, everyone has talent and the top echelon of talent will always have elite skill sets. What sets apart a good and great team is the mindset. A lot of wallowing and even self loathing from our players over the past few years and wouldn’t it be nice to channel the mindset of Djokovic in 2026. As he himself said, a strong mindset is worked on, it isn’t a natural gift. The mental side of sport is so underrated as we only get to see the physical and tangible aspect and I hope the new coach can come in and change the mindset of the entire club. I hope this is part of the criteria when selecting the next coach.

Don’t understand the the “fairytale” nonsense surrounding Gold Coast. 15 years to reach their first finals series and only propped up by the AFL throughout the years. It is literally akin to that soulless club called Man City. Without the corrupt Arab oil money pre 2008, they were nothing but yearly relegation fodder. Even if they didn’t get relegated, their ceiling was mid table. The “rivalry” with Manchester United wasn’t even a thing pre the oil invasion. Gold Coast making the finals is no achievement. It was long over due and should have happened 10 years ago. Hopefully Fremantle will do the job and knock them out.

I liken the GOAT debate to extend well beyond statistical means, although it is the greatest and most heavily favored aspect of the debate of any athlete in a given sport. The “GOAT” should be seen as an ambassador of the sport with clear and tangible change to the way the game is played and handled. By this measure, this is why I still believe Federer as an example is still the GOAT of tennis even though Djokovic has literally all boxes ticked in the overall statistical sense (ATP finals trophies, grand slams, Masters, Olympics, 428 weeks as world number 1..) Federer also had insanely good numbers and did most of the heavy lifting to transform the sport of tennis and got millions of people interested in the sport. I say all this as a Nadal and Del Potro fan. With that in mind, the equivalent of this measure would have to go to Gawn as the amount of work he had done as captain onfield is just incredible. To be able to back up year after year would have taken more mental toll than the physical. His overall playing record speaks for themselves. Likewise, from all The stories I heard about Flower and the loyalty he had shown to the club on top of his playing record, I would think only he could rival Gawn without disrespecting Neitz and the 50 and 60’s generation of players.

Malthouse essentially gave Melbourne Mark Neeld on a silver platter. His endorsement of Neeld basically pushed him over the line. As highly regarded Daly is, he’s no certainty to succeed in the coaching position.

Ironically, Collingwood blew this way out of proportion by dobbing in Rankine. If Quaynor gets targeted by the crowd, that’s on them. Have they even rung up the Crows first to mediate before taking the issue directly to the media/AFL? Again, heat of the moment, I highly doubt he was saying “fagoat” with homophobia in mind. I agree with Stephen Rowe. Collingwood deliberately tried to rile him up, got offended by words when they pushed Rankine to the brink and then ran home crying. To have Maynard of all people to front up to the media the following week to whinge about harmless words is just laughable. Maynard, as in the violent scrub had the audacity to support the Rankine suspension.… 🤡🤦‍♂️

Don’t care who wins it as long as it isn’t Hawks, Pies, Brisbane and Geelong, although would be nice to see Hogan and Bedford win a flag Just also want to add, thank god the Dogs didn’t make finals. Can’t stand em. Gerard Whately going on about “poor them” because they had to attend traininh pre Gold Coast/Essendon? Not our fault they are [censored]. The ladder is the true indication of where sides are at. We have beaten more top 8 sides than the Dogs. Can’t stand the glazing of the Dogs and to be frank, seeing them waste away prime Bontempelli makes me extremely happy as he is approaching 30 years of age.

If Gawn gets number 8 = indisputable GOAT. Was born in ‘93 so can’t speak about the likes of Simon Madden, but I did see Cox for the majority of his career and in terms of impact on games and being influential, there has never been another like Gawn. Max tackles, underrated endurance runner and one of the better 2 way runners in the comp in how he gets back to protect the often under-siege defense, contested ball winner… Yeah, his goal kicking leaves a lot out there to be desired, but is Novak Djokovic the best server or volleyer? Seeing how people try and downplay his greatness due to his goal kicking issues is absolute [censored].

Solid and reliable player across 2 clubs. Probably was wasted a lot during his time with us being played primarily as a back pocket towards the latter end with the club, but bought a lot of excitement during 2017 and would have been extremely handy in 2018 falling short of the top 4 due to injury.

No coincidence Adelaide have been building with Burgess over the last 3 years on top of bringing in 2 elite endurance runners in Cumming and ANB with Peatling, who is now one of the best and hard working defensive players in the comp and comfortably finishing top 2. North are mediocre, but to run out the game in the fashion they did after a grueling match against the Pies the week before was impressive. Professional win. Whether we have the players or not or whether it is the lack of fitness is hopefully something I hope the new coach can figure out.

Friend has the GWS/Saints game on TV. Immediately left the room upon hearing Brereton’s voice. The king of word salad. He describes what happens during play as if everything was planned to happen in that particular way. The catch is, he never actually goes into detail about what teams are trying to achieve. Absolute brain dead “commentator”

Id keep him. Still showed against Geelong and Adelaide that he still has what it takes for perhaps a final crack at it. You look at Adelaide, GWS, Bulldogs, Fremantle, Brisbane with all these gun key forward pairings, you’d be foolish to let him go especially how deplorable the midfield had been in terms of pressure and work rate, leaving the defense as sitting ducks. May never had pace, he was never pacey and athletic like other full backs like Alex Rance, he’s your traditional 1 v 1 gorilla. Asides from T-Mac, we really have no other body on body full back. I’m hoping with a new game style and more accountability, May can help the climb hopefully back into The top 6, even if he plays 13 games next season and managed a lot.

Even against West Coast we saw quite a bit of out the back and coast to coast goals. For some reason, even against horrendous opposition, we always seem to give up easy goals way too regularly. Need some sort of system back and I’ve no doubt the new coach would be watching as realize how easy we have become to score. Good names in defense on paper, but as a unit, everyone needs to get better. Fritsch as an example isn’t an overly physical player but had a decent defensive game last week with 6 tackles just staying in contests and attacking when needed. Was also really good against St Kilda 5 weeks ago. We surely can’t get worse next year, only improvement with the new coach coming in.

Well said, mate. It was not as if Rankine deliberately followed and targeted a knowingly gay player all night and hurled insults at him. It was a throwaway, heat of the moment slur that wasn’t necessarily aiming to target a group of people. A bit of context in this regard would have gone a long way. The club and their inbred fans didn’t seem to overly care that Brayshaw was deliberately concussed, but played victim over meaningless words? The double standards that exists is an absolute joke. Why do the AFL allow Qatar airlines to be a major Sydney sponsor while they are one of the pioneers of “pride round” 🤡

FFS! Suns lose and Pies are locked in the top 4..