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That allows for people to complain if he stays or goes.

Agree Mickey, but again hypothetically, if you traded him to Cats after matching contract offer and say they gave you a good outside mid and a first round pick and you got say a good key forward with that pick , what would you say to that?

It would be sad to see him go, but hypothetically, if we got a first round pick that we used to draft a Max/Ben King forward type, I could live with that.

We have had probably the worst run in routine of any club, changing venues and travelling more than any other club in the AFL.

There is another bloke who generally plays when we lose.

Not totally certifiable yet.

But Dogs deserve it playing every game at Metricon and being based a few minutes away?

If we win last two games and Dogs drop one, we make it.

It has been changed, we are playing in Broome at 3.00 am friday, in a carpark at the back of the local pub.

Bye Simon.

Need to be well ahead by half time.

Dan Andrews has just declared it a law.

Travel, breaks between games, timing ( playing a side that has many injuries ), and venues has been more important this year than most. Having a shortened season has worked against lower finishing teams in 2019 as well .

No Nic Nat, Hurn, Cripps and Shuey helped the Dogs, who were at full strength and playing on their 2nd home.

Clearly Max is going to play a lot of the game up forward.

Well we got the pace that many of us wanted, so we will see.

Woosha is smiling because everyone knows he is not coaching them, Rutten is.

Kossie needs experience, to learn how to play in the AFL.

When you want other teams to win for us they generally lose. Yes I know plenty on here will post we should worry about ourselves and win our own games.

Gawn, May, Petracca, Oliver, Langdon, Brayshaw, Lever and Salem are probably our best and the 3 newbies all look good.

Can't argue on the second bit but maybe a small argument on the first point.

When you are locked down forever and going insane you will try anything.

Of course not that it matters, but Port last played a week ago at home, not in Alice Springs, 5 days ago, flying home at 3.00 am and they are at a one day advantage of recovery on their opponent who played 6 days ago. Oh and BTW they are better than us, quicker than us and also better coached, not that that should matter either.

I think it was Lever who short passed a ball to someone and kicked it high allowing a player to run from a distance behind him and jump up to out mark him. It was a simple basic pass. It was not only poor skill but just dumb. Worst part of it is that is a typical part of our game, we are incapable of passing the ball to retain possession. We don't seem to try and remedy it in any way. It goes on year after year. Don't get me started on the handballs to the ankle or to a player with a man right next to him.

I don't like making excuses, but from a personal experience in Cairns, I was there last summer and dropped off a rental car and then walked back to meet my wife.I walked about a kilometre along the main street, so there was intermittent shade and when I got back I felt absolutely sick. I felt like I had run a marathon. I was just drinking cold water and resting. Yes I am not as fit as the footballers and much older, but I do regularly walk for an hour or longer and I have never had this reaction. The humidity in Cairns is a killer. After that day of travel with an early start probably 5.00 am, playing on a windy ground they have probably never seen before, against a side that has had 2 days to acclimatize and able to get up at a normal time in routine, train on the ground and get used to the conditions, all off a short turnaround from the previous game and having got to bed at 5.00 am a few days earlier from the Alice Springs game, well that is simply unfair. We seem to have played at more grounds, with more short breaks and travel than most other teams and that has to affect the players.