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Tonight we see if we have been ‘loading’ or we are loaded with BS. Training footage looked intense and contested. Boy oh Boy! Really want Sam Weid to have a great game. Win it by a point or by a mile, don't mind. As long as we start showing something akin to our best structure and process. It has to start now.

Was quite a show! Gawn at the wrong end of the table - hope the big fella gets back some form.

Interesting to listen to Goody’s presser this week. A lot of repetition re the challenge is in front of us and 6 weeks to go. I have a feeling this is when we start our run to the finals. We might be a bit rusty, but I can see us squeezing the life out of Port today, being better through half forward and creating space for forwards by faster ball movement. Port are no slouch, so we will have to play well. We were within a kick mid way through the last quarter against the cats, then got run over, Can’t see them applying that level of pressure, but we will! Dees to kick 80+, port to kick under 60. That’s a 4-6 goal win.

If either if these players win us games, then they should be selected. They are on our list this year to help us win the flag. We dont need to blood players unnecessarily, or hold out players because they wont be around next year. We just have to pick the best team from who we have, reward performance and effort.

They seemed to allow us Forst possible from the stoppage with manic tackle pressure from behind. Max couldn’t get off the ground. Too slow to execute basic skills under pressure. One or two steps too many. Harmes is not Dusty. A loss we deserved. Poor across the board, lots to work on, If that is their best, we can break it down in finals. Cats supporters are flogs.

Win, lose or draw, that umpiring was so biased. Im glad we took the points, but thre umpires worked hand to get them over the line.

Bring it home for us, WCW!

Fwiw, i watched the replay with a focus on our talls. They all did well at crashing packs, halving contests knocking the ball to advantage. Weid put his body into contests like we haven’t seen before, he competed cleverly in most ruck contests. BBB looked better and worked harder too. jacko is doing fine at plumping his value. I suggest wer go unchanged until MAx is right, the smaller forward setup with different use of the talls seemed to work well for us.

Walker seems to hate everyone who is not him

Jeepers, game day already? Better get this work stuff out the way so I can focus…..

Think we should bring back Hunt to sit on Charlie Cameron. Don’t think Pig is quick enough for him. Pig can smash McCarthy

If all this loading theory is true, then we had season 1 (first 10 matches), loading phase (11-13 plus bye). Now we are at the season 2 (last H/A games) before the final action. It all begins again this week. We really need to get back to kicking winning scores and winning games THIS WEEK, and create the dominance that sets us up for the finals. We have been poor going forward the last 6 weeks, this has to change. If we are serious about going back to back, then no team should scare us anywhere.

Don’t think we’d beat either of these teams atm. Got a lot of work to do, about 20% off where we need to be.

I’d spend it on a pie and a beer at marvel stadium

Spargo to the ruck, Trac to ff, Gus into the middle, Bedford and Kossie in the f50, Steven May to hf. what could go wrong??

We are off right across the board: poor explosive link up run is gone. we bomb it to the top of the square (making Cox look like superman) midfield not winning the contest or clearance not committing to really hitting the contest mitch brown is not the answer, or if he is I don’t like the question we lack forward pressure and allow turnovers out too easily we don’t kick to space we have lost our mojo. Confidence looks shot (there may be heart, but with no confidence it ends in slow play and fumbles) if we don’t fix this, we will be mid table.

The Ben Brown and down theory…..love it!

Practicing my Collingwood jokes on Mrs Nekkid. I hope for a better response at the ground…..

They are spinning this so hard Im getting dizzy. Wants to be the victim here? Sheesh. An overpaid, overpampered, overexposed, badly coiffured young man that did something illegal (at minimum possession). Own your mistake and stop trying to bump your insta numbers. #free kick bulldogs extends beyond the boundary……

What I would like to see in the forward 50: Not everyone pushing up so high all of the time - leave at least one player in the zone to offer a target. have four target zones - 20 out, 40 out (straight in front) and 30 out each side on a 45 degree angle. Instead of bombing it to 4 v 4 10 m out, spread to pre-designed leading zones ands give the kicker target options. Better pressure in our forward half - lock it in and win the territory battle

The May saga does not break our culture - it allows us to reinforce it by calling out what breaches standards with honesty and clarity (Max and Goody’s pressers) and setting it to rights. What busts culture is Bailey ‘Sniffer’ Smith - where bad behaviour is condoned, covered up or excuses are made. This game for me comes down to handling and seeing off the Pies attempt at pressure, and fixing our structures and method forward of the ball. We need to move it from contest with precision and create space forward, rather than allowing flooding back in our f50 because we are too slow to move the footy. hope we see a glint of steel in our game and we win by 50+. Happy with 1 point win.

It may be bad that May is out suspended, however I think the team has been dropping off defensive actions further up the ground and expecting May and his backline minions to repel most attacks. With him out and lever off a bit, whole team defence is even more important. This ‘forced out’ might encourage players to get back to the system, rather than letting the back line do the heavy lifting. i would like to see Turner come in as he has had some good games for Casey. Maybe Weid for Brown, M? ANB not the centreman. Should have enough to beat the pies, if we get the forward line working and match their pressure at the contest.

`We were beaten by continuous intense pressure in the contest, and winning the post contest possession. Rather than use the extra in the contest, they seemed to pressure the player and all potential outlets. This created the turnovers and lack of forward drive. We failed to control the tempo, and our basic skills were below standard. We wanted to do the flashy when we needed to execute perfectly the basics first. Our method into f50 was a joke. We bombed it in, allowed therm to flood and double and triple team us. Even plugger Lockett would have struggled. We were down on defensive personnel, May out, Petty banged up and Tommo still getting the rust off. Their movement i50 further enhanced the problems. We have some work to do. Right across the board but mostly in our approach to the contest and basics.

Rain predicted. Whose game holds up better in the wet? Think we will bounce back. Swans will try Freo method, then revert to their usual style, then simply not keep up. 28 points.

Tom Papley came out and said they are going to train “what Freo did” - which is great news. Not playing their own ‘brand’ to beat us means 1) they don’t think their brand is good enough 2) the Dockers formula will work on a fully fit Dees outfit and 3) when it starts to fall apart for them, what do they do? The Dockers way or their own?? Sends a powerful signal that we should capitalise on. Blood(s) in the water for a rebound.