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That is because everyone has been waiting for their 3 oldest players to drop off as you would expect - Pendlebury, Sidebottom and Howe. They are probably all in their top 5 players this year and hugely important to them. Once they are gone, Pies will drop like a sack’o’spuds.

Lever definitely spent a fair bit of time on Harvey. I think McVee was mostly on Curtis.

I thought we were appalling, especially the first half. I nearly turned off at half time which is unheard off for me. We looked every bit a bottom 4 team. We lost the game with our own ineptitude. But even then, with even-handed umpiring we would have won (bc Carlton are [censored] too). So we lost in two ways. It’s not taking away from our poor game to say the umpires cost us big time. We should have been good enough, however, to beat Carlton even with a leg up from the umps.

Bring in Sparrow (so underrated on demonland IMO) and Petty. May would be unlucky to be suspended but I think he probably will be. Tholstrup must be dropped. Confidence is rock bottom. Sharp, Lindsay, Jeffo at risk. Though I’d keep Jeffo unless swapping for Kentfield. Keep giving him exposure, the basic errors will improve as the nerves settle with more games. Got to see what he can do given the season is well over. The rest pending Casey tomorrow, maybe Spargo, Howes? It’s a shame Sestan is still out.

Brown is an absolute butcher of the football. No thanks.

Both did. You can lose a game in many different ways.

Umpires willed Carlton over the line in the last (and all game really). I would love to know how the game would have played out with Clarry getting that Htb. All the stats say we should have won that game. Coulda shoulda woulda…didn’t. We are mentally weak as a team and that’s why this keeps on happening. Too many players rushing themselves, worried about being tackled etc etc. On the positive, thank goodness Koz re-signed. We are nothing without him (and Gawn) at the moment. And JVR is starting to look himself again.

But he would be today. They changed the rules after so that a player would be suspended if they do something like that again.

He is 5th line of betting which is absurd.

Sparrow out?! Are you for real? He is our only forward that can kick

Correction: Tim Lamb did that trade. They were probably targeting someone who went higher and got their intel wrong.

Funnily enough, watching that game I’d rather keep Oliver than Petracca. Petracca seems broken to me since the awful injury - fumbles a lot, pulls out of contests that he may get hurt, rushes to give away the ball rather than taking the tackle. He still does great things bc he is so talented and hardworking but I think what it may well come down to who we can get the best return for. Which is probably Trac.

There wasn’t any time for any of this as the umpire inexplicably called play-on before Gawn had a chance to even look around.

We are linked in this article to Callum Brown from GWS. I like it. Him and Derksen at the end of the year for a pack of chips thanks. https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-trade-news-2025-midseason-trade-state-of-play-for-every-club-trade-and-free-agent-targets-players-out-of-contract-analysis-latest-news/news-story/cf6c8470a52ab14692b98568286faeba

Expected scoring takes into account the difficulty of the shots (angle, distance, set shot vs in play etc) and we finished on a higher score. Sure, we could make things easier for ourselves by marking in the goal square but our goal kicking IS the problem.

Nah that’s BS. We are not bottom 4 and won’t finish bottom 4 but we are clearly the worst kicks at goal in the league. Brings us down from being a possible finals team.

No concussion so it will be 1-2, probably 2 given how unnecessary it was.

If we went Disco forward (not sure we should), we bring TMac back surely.

We may, but we do have a tendency to play up or down to our opponent’s level.

Arrogant team defence all game. What I don’t understand is why our method looks so different this week than the last 5 or 6. Gone is the chipping and switching and we seem back to pre-2025 long bombing and chaos. And [censored] our goal kicking needs to improve.

I’d be very surprised if they hold over 3 players for the senior team. Seems much more likely to be just Henderson and Adams (one tall, one small).

Surely Laurie is the in, sub. Sharp into the 22. Hope they are just being extra cautious with Viney. Don’t want any prolonged post concussion syndrome 🤞🏼

Soft draw. Only disappointment is the girls won’t have a chance to get at Libby Birch again in the H&A season. I guess we will have to wait for finals!

Yes, I was going to bring this up. She said we were “pretenders” and backed it up with no reasons (she is saints supporter tho). She is an arrogant and salty individual. As a big AFLW fan, I cannot stand her. Doesn’t seem to have any insight into the fact that she has left two clubs on bad terms (maybe you are the problem?!). Trashes our culture every chance she gets as though she hasn’t been gone for over a year and was never part of the men’s program. She is also insufferable as a commentator - overly critical of any team deviates slightly from perfection. I have never come across such a critical commentator.

How about any marks then? The bar some people have for AJ is sooo low seriously.