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3,2,1,….

I have sneaking suspicion Caro will have a storey to tell on this in Ch7 footy show tonight. Apparently there are a few bombshell breaking stories tonight.

That is really a juvenile attitude. Poor form.

Nothing in it. All about brand management. Anna is not an accredited footy agent and wouldn’t be my first choice if I was trying to instigate a move elsewhere. Any chance Trac was not happy with the leaking of BS during trade season?

Can’t get anything past that Christiansen . Especially when it’s against his side. 🙄

He needs to take a leaf out of Riley Thilthorpe's book. The guy looks like a gladiator.

They have the talent and skill. The ? Will be in their fitness and keeping the talent in the field. Daicos clearly didn’t get the minutes in during pre season. Will he be playing catch up all year?

Callaghan is a jet.

Daicos lets ball go in tackle then gets a hold free. The fix is on early this year.

No but the proposition will be playing finals. Which we can offer plus potentially some more dollars.

Cameron has to be suspended for that push,

Stopping Daniel’s next week will be key.

Just like previous assumptions on here i.e. in season loading, goody changing the game plan or holding on tactics for finals etc , this one around trying to attract players in silence is non-sense. I believed all of the above to some extent but year after year were proven incorrect. I listened to SEN crunch time when Simmo talked about Oscar as a free agent. He said he wants to stay in WA but there appears to be some misalignment in salary and hence indicated that he was potentially gettable. Question is can we offer Oscar the $$$. All the commentators on SEN seemed to think that Eagles and Hawks will not be able to offer top dollar or match incoming offers. With Brayshaw's retirement and presumably the cap space we made available for Houston, i wonder if we can pursue Oscar as a free agent. It will be the steal of the century. The other interesting discussion during SEN crunch time was that the work on pulling players out of clubs was a minimum 18-24 month proposition. If we have not been having a conversation with Oscar 12 months ago, then we are unlikely. If we are not into him, then Lamb and co have to go. We have been a KPF short for almost half a decade, which is plenty of time to do something about it.

He’ll be AA FB if he plays every game. Solid player. That Hawthorn backline reminds me when we picked up May and Lever.

Geez the hawks have got some cheap frees tonight. Having said that Swans will struggle this year.

This is why opening round should be in Melbourne. No rain.

They play an exciting game. However, Sydney are deplorable defensively. There is no way we give them this much space. Maybe we get burnt on turnover here and there but this game is heavily on the outside so you cannot compare. If we try to play this game style , like Sydney are , yes we will get toast. But this is not our game style so I’d just hold your horses. Remember Port beat them in finals last year when the Hawks were hot. Port play a similar style of footy as the Dees.

Neither of these forward lines are drastically better or worse than ours. Just goes to show it’s not as important to have superstars in your forward line.

And expected score

Grundy stinks. Luckily we got rid of him last year😂

Freekickhawthorn is back yuck

I think Swans by a 10+ goal margin which will send all the pundits that selected Hawks as their premiership favourite back under the rock they crawled out of.

And the Monday night show is bat [censored] boring. Funny how they opened taking another swipe at Melbournes off season dramas. Not a single mention of Sayers … They really must have some gears to grind with the Dees.

Yeah I agree with this. Ground balls in d50 are a massive vulnerability. We lack agility in our defenders as well as our forwards. Teams are now targeting and recruiting a more athletic type of footy player to try and play the outside game and beat you with skill rather than strength.

On footy classified Hird mentioned that his view on Goody was pretty much what we have all said. He favours low scoring , stoppage based , boundary line biased footy. He’ll prioritise limiting scoring over hitting the score board. Can you get the coach to fundamentally change his philosophy?