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Would suggest Melk and Hibbo deals are lower than before, bringing more cap space anyway. If hunt goes it will be as anFA not a trade deal, so we would get compo back (maybe 2nd round at best). Bowes then an option for us, taking 7 and his contract. Same logic applies to Grundy = what do they give us to take him off their books? Reckon they have a heap of pressure on their cap and 3 new contracts at least to include.

Imagine it comes out whilst Fagan is still coach of a team in contention? It almost had to wait until now, to provide a minimum of natural justice. He has stepped aside. on the behaviours involved, I would be horrified if it was us. At least we have a strong and positive indigenous leadership (M Whelan) and a history of recruiting and supporting indigenous players and programs. telling a young man his partner should have an abortion to focus on his footy is completely unacceptable. This was only about 10 years ago…. this will be career ‘pausing’ (nothing is career ending in the AFL, look at Hird, Carey etc…)

What? No love for forward half genius Stafford??? well done Chappy

Mitch brown (ret), Fraser Rosman (ooc) and Daw (ret) our changes to date.

They had to turn back a plane from melb to Sydney because of a funny smell. What else would you expect with all the Collingwood supporters on there…..

Home ground of highest finishing team.

Look at the cats last night. Stanley dropped back after the centre tap and B iclivs roamed forward. Seemed to work for the cats. Perhaps max back, grunted forward/ around the ground?

Grundy - man bun + salary dump + medical = pick 90 get it done!

The assumption is that the game plan will remain ‘lock it forward and kick to the pockets’. If we had better f50 presence, it might be that ‘go down the guts and score’ becomes the better percentage play. Defensive forwards are perhaps not as valuable as offensive ones…..

You need to look to know….or to firm up the quantum probabilities…..

max and lingers going on a Tour de France adventure…. sounds like they were stuffed. Too much work and no break. want to see freshness in legs, personnel and gameplan next year. a great skipper, but beaten into submission……

We assume the same system and ask ‘where does he fit?’ Perhaps the system will change and Grundy suits where we are going? Also, what if Gawn is cooked? Need to know more before i think of it as a good or bad move, but may, lever, lingers all were great pickups.

Who will fall out of the dogs with Lobb heading there? A forward line cant fit Naughton, Darcy, unglbungle and Lobb, you wouldn’t think….

We are buying the pig with warts and know what we are getting. Long term contract that will require considerable salary top up from the Pus. Injured, not first 22. Think a third rounder, salary dump and a bag of stale twisties should do it. Otherwise Col can keep him and have his salary block a number of ins they are seeking this year.

Are we there yet?.?

Salary dump or ‘celery dump’. One is taken by a club looking for relief, the other a vegetarian…

We are going to have to plan and play differently next year. The game has moved on and we didnt. (We were so ‘2021’!). We also dropped off across a number of players and area of the ground. all the talk if back to back, dynasties, high expectations and the ‘new season’ of the finals were all overblown. I think we underperformed, underprepared for what we needed, were found out, were too stubborn on selections and played too many injured players. We also failed to expose emerging talent to the big time. How many ‘learnings’ do we need before we heed the lesson? 2023 - we will either be middle of the road or have significant change in method, personnel and philosophy.

I love your work @Demon Dynasty. Thanks for making the time to share the data and open some interesting conversations.

I think we have to build the team we want to be, not the one we were. Maybe this pushes a few players up or down the pecking order. We do need to prioritise acceleration, speed, disposal quality over long distance and grass protection.

There will be a need to get guys off on their breaks so that we can get them back for preseason earlier. I imagine the exit interviews for the SF players and ‘veterans’ can be done first, then the rest after the Casey game? Or we just do them all and trust players receiving bad news who will line up for Casey will be mature enough to still put in?

I think the ‘shootout’ games we played in the second half of the season was the attempt to update the style, however we couldn’t integrate the dour defence and this go fast and straight tactic. This meant that we went back to the old percentage play book, slow, down the line, kick it to the pockets and try to lock it in. Also, some of the failed 45 degree kicks (May’s turnovers) were not comfortably executed - not well practiced or aligned across the group. Unfortunately, we were not able to defend rapid transitions from our forward half and it cost us every time. The plan to hold teams to under 60 points and just out score them didnt hold - teams simply played bolder and faster against us, and applied man on man pressure outside the contest, cutting down our space and upsetting our skills (or exposing them). We need a whole revamp in 2023, with a strong back 6 pivotal to our game, and a strong midfield still in play. We need to have better skill and speed ahead of the defenders and be prepared to control tempo (fast and slow) better than being chooks with our heads cut off. I can imagine a whole new setup for next year, with the nibbler and spargo roles changing to fast attackers, rather than grass protectors. Forward setup needs to change massively - suggest a combo of TMac JVL and Petty could be on the cards, with Weids as back up ruck (did great yesterday). Need to get chandler, Bedford, AMW and the like into the team to see what they can bring. Our vulnerabilities were determined by the fact that the defensive system took multiple years for the team to train to the right standard, and it was hard to break these habits. Also a pig headedness not to give more Casey performers real looks at AFL level. Back to Back might have been possible if no one else evolved. But they did, and we were stuck in 2021.

Pressure. Our finals run last year was ideal because the teams we played loved possession and we applied pressure and broke them down. This year, teams returned the favour and we wilted. Our biggest failure this year is not being able to execute basic football skills or decision making under pressure. We get out to four goal leads, and fold like a camp chair under Clive Palmer. Our effort is there, but our process, skills and ‘method’ as Goody so often speaks about does not know how to absorb pressure and apply it back the other way. We take the pressure, doof up our skills and decision making, then remain poor from there. We rarely steadied and regained our composure all year (perhaps the Blues game?). Big off season to come, our game will need to be evolved and the personnel that can deliver it retained, recruited or developed. A good year by 2015 standards, a poor year by 2021 standards.

Joe the goose is out… nit sure that is a positive or a negative for us…. Wish I was confident, but a bit of trepidation creeping in.

A big band of rain heading your way, too…

Cheers, will try