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Of course our recruiting has been poor. But we didn’t get to this place due to that - we put all our eggs in our champion player basket and they have fallen off a cliff.

Dogs were also missing Liam Jones at that point. Pies were hoisted over the line in that game by the 3 in yellow. It’s remarkable how important Sidebottom and Pendlebury still are to them. Sidebottom is still playing so well.

Tom McDonald used to be great at the blocking for teammates/forward craft type stuff. I know his mobility is not where it was but he could be worth a try again just to support JVR.

Agree. Given his exception fitness, he is a great matchup for Cameron

Sounds like a grade 1 medial injury which is generally not long

One of the things that has really frustrated me throughout Goodwin and this list management team’s tenure is their inability to cut dead wood until it becomes bleedingly obvious that they won’t make it. We have the best recruiter in the business and we give him so few picks to work with. Watching Casey (fortunately I missed the main game for a family event) today and last week it is abundantly clear we failed with our delistings at the end of last year. Billings, Verrall, Laurie and Woewodin, with big question marks on Brown, Sestan, Adams, Kentfield and Howes. I’m not proposing they all should have been delisted but it’s too many players who have shown very little and lack outstanding attributes. This has been a pattern with this list management team. Good riddance Goodwin, Lamb and co.

I think he’s an extra week away. I didn’t hear him mention Jeffo, but I will admit I wasn’t listening that hard.

I listened to the presser so you don’t have to. Blah blah blah method, blah blah blah not at the level, blah blah. Only useful things that were said were Pickett, Windsor and Lever back next week. Plus Spargo if he gets through the protocols. Re: Lindsay injury, not sure, hadn’t really heard. Which I think is slightly positive as they often know straight away with the ACLs 🤞🏼

This is the only way we should even contemplate trading Kozzy in the next two years. He is way too important to us.

They weren’t ’that’ old in 2023 but they really are now and they have brought in zero young talent since then. They still rely on Sidebottom, Howe, Pendlebury etc who are now seriously ancient and will be in big trouble in a year or two regardless of their ability to recruit from other clubs. It costs a lot of cap space to recruit good players from other sides (for example see what Perryman is on, absurd) and most players are quite loyal. It is not a sustainable method. I will enjoy their demise.

Absolute gun. There will be no regrets about that trade

One of the better games I have seen for us from Fullarton. Baldi was our best. TC was great. Bonner was good, but disposal was iffy at times. Handy game from Langford. Mentha didn’t get much of it but I liked what I saw when he did. Goal kicking was terrible. Lots of very straightforward shots.

He is also hopeless.

Sydney’s backline tonight on the team sheet: Blakey Melican Wicks Roberts Rampe Paton That’s incredibly weak. Blakey is a gun, Roberts and Rampe are good and the others are plodders. Hawks looked good but won’t be getting too worried about them yet. Also, very short injury list. Hate them so I really don’t want them to be good again.

A cyclone making landfall so close to Brisbane at this time of year is extraordinarily unlikely. They have nothing to explain.