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Anyone else really disappointed that people actually voted?

We could win this to be honest. And monkeys might fly out of my butt.

Well that's just it isn't it? This is the new norm for Petty. I really don't want to hear about unrewarded leads this week either.

Yeah need to just cool it on the Binman binning.

The attitude towards rehabbing and management of players has completely stumped me this year. Absolutely stumped me. We start with Rd 0 and taking some massively underdone players into that game. We go to Rd 2 where our best defender cracks his ribs, is out for literally 10 days then comes back in only to cop it there early in the game against Adelaide and show signs of visable pain. Again on Rd 2 where our other gun defender appears to tweak his knee, seems fine and a couple of months later has a concussion which at that point gets put in for surgery on his knee that he'd 'been playing through'. Rd 5 where Clarry hurts his hand and again is visably in pain throughout the game against Bris. I could go on and on, I'm tired of it. Lambs to the slaughter.

Glad to be back

The ref had no idea

I've had that many stupid random grand final dreams I can't even remember them all. One of them was during 2001 playing them in a rematch GF that year and I was at the game but my seat was in the Botanic Gardens. Guess I was really in the nosebleeds..

The only grade is the one we didn't make today. *jazz hands* 😉

My kingdom for depth in the midfield. That's pretty much it for me, there is no-one at Casey I'd feel confident throwing the keys to right now. Instead we've gone out and sought some break in case of emergency talls.

Can you use loading as an excuse for a 90+ point loss? Genuine question because I'm going to find it a hard listen if that's the narrative and that we'll be running on top of the ground in a few months.

One of the feelings that I keep coming back to is this. For most of my life as a Dees fan, you got used to the chance that no matter how terrible or good we were at the time, a result like this could happen. Forget 186, I remember being in my adolescence in 98 and being in reasonable form coming up against an ok Geelong team that was still sort of riding on the tails of those GF appearances list wise. They came out in that first quarter and smacked us, goal after goal after goal it was completely unprecedented. You then have 186, another gane that I at least expected us to be competitive in but a witches hats like performance. Obviously the last game of Roos in 16. We've been spoiled, yes spoiled. Since that 2016 game against the Cats we have almost always been in games, very rarely have we had the wanting to hide our face feeling due to our talent, system and competitiveness. It has always helped us % wise and really in 8 years to hardly lose a game by over 50 points is remarkable. And then comes today, that old and dark feeling that on any given gameday a shellacking could happen. Yes, I thank the MFC for this run of not being bounced but this one certainly took me back.

If we want to change the gamestyle we need to bring in more players to execute it. This is correct yes. The argument can be made though that we didn't have the personel for the old gameplan either though. That style seemed to illuminate our deficiencies up forward even more than this one. We were definitely close last year and it worked for the most part, but we seem to be poor goal kickers a lot when the whips are cracking and 3 finals in a row of this is sufficient evidence of this for me not to mention getting burned by the teams that setup for it. I don't know what the way forward is right now but I'm not going to pretend that the old way was perfect. I don't condone losses like this but if we just went back to the well with the old stuff I'd be disappointed.

It's just sad. No other superlatives to describe it, just really sad. For us, the fans that made the trip there, for the people who have to front up at work tomorrow, and maybe most importantly for themselves. No-one wins. It's a damn shame

I really hope you don't get totally bashed for this post because games like this very well can alter a football club's arc. It's too simple to call this a one off, the ultimate fork in the road if you've ever seen it.

There's literally one thing I care about right now, I hope this doesn't ruin the DLers weeks too much. That's all

No votes. I am taking the ballot paper in the polling booth, folding it and stuffing it in the box without touching pencil to paper.

Laughter is the best medicine

A very flat feeling one hasn't felt in a very long time..

I really appreciate your words mate but it's just not going to get far today. In a few days it might be the perfect post but you could be wasting your energy right now and I don't want positive energy wasted.

Please no-one celebrate avoiding a 100 point loss

The mulligan was West Coast.

Get ready podcast panel, you've got your work cut out for you this week!

Can you really use loading as an excuse for a 90+point loss?