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Agree on all your points. Especially Tim Lamb. Extending Adams, Laurie etc recently for two years is very questionable. They seem incapable of moving on players who are not showing much.

Let’s not get too excited about that game. Geelong have the worst rucks by far in the league and opposition rucks dominate them every game. Not playing Grundy in the finals was a huge mistake but moving him (and his contract) on was the right thing to do. Gawn is not a forward and neither is Grundy. They were no good together.

Agree. No depth whatsoever. Shallow midfield. Hopeless forward line. [censored] coaching.

Is there 11? I can only count 8. Still a disgrace but let’s at least get the facts straight.

I get this but I believed at the time (and still do) that losing Brayshaw at that stage of that game cost us the premiership. And now our window looks close to closed to me. Not to mention the implications for Brayshaw himself. It was pretty consequential.

This was so obviously Maynard’s intention which therefore made it suspendable. He “chose to” make him earn it and it went wrong. This is how he plays every week. The AFL 100% put up a deliberately pathetic argument at the tribunal. It was all a sham to save face but protect Collingwood. Absolutely effed.

Collingwood wouldn’t be offering that. Cameron is a better player right now. Adelaide would be a better shot at 1st ruck but does he really want to live in Adelaide (VIC boy right?)?

I sure am wondering if he was the special ingredient in 2021 that we are now missing (plus Burgess, though he’s clearly not having the same impact at Adelaide).

Well, how is this approach supposed to be helpful? Can’t breach confidence? Then don’t make suggestions about something that you can’t talk about. It’s annoying for those not in the know.

That’s BS. We aren’t big 4 but we are next. Our conversion rate of total fans to crowd numbers is probably close to best in the league. The criticism of us is BS.

It wasn’t the stand rule. It was for going over the mark, specifically on May’s left side. It was clearly the correct call, though doesn’t always get noticed.

Matthew Nichols has money on Freo. That was crazy.

They won’t carry over three players. Likely that just one will miss out

We were into him in his draft year

I haven’t seen him play this year but high draft pick so clearly has talent. We are desperate for midfield depth IMO so I’d be all for it if he is the best available.

Definite?

What a shame

Still, I’d classify him as a running half back, more so than a player like Howe who is a medium who plays tall.

He’s only 184cm. I’d love him at the dees for some more run off half back.

Isn’t Hayward a free agent?

This is all true. But it helps a lot when they have been almost injury-free.

Exactly. Way too early to judge a young tall. No one else (below Jefferson) has done much either. Looks like a very weak draft early days.

Not many good players picked after him.

I think it has been in the media somewhere that saints are throwing lots of $$ at him

What a joke. Obviously not a clear record then. Unbelievable that they would come to that conclusion. Was the AFL lawyer deliberately putting up a limp case again (eg Maynard)?