Lord Travis

Giants winning it from the contest today. Contested footy wins finals. Let’s hope we can bring our a game tonight and get it done around the ball.

Gus seems a logical choice for a trade, seeing as his brother and lots of family are in WA. I highly doubt he’ll be traded though. He loves the club and loves living in Melbourne. He might not be lighting it up on field, but he’s filling the role the coaches are asking if him, and filling it well. His defensive positioning has been a big part of our defensive zone vastly improving this year. He’s also super important to the club culturally. Yes he has media presence with the podcast etc, but he’s also one of the key drivers of hard work and respect amongst the players. Look at the end of the Geelong match last week as an example. When all the players were going berserk celebrating, Gus joined in celebrating for a bit and then tried to encourage his teammates to go shake the oppositions hand and show respect. He was first across to shake the oppositions hands and got the boys to follow him. He’s a leader out there for our players driving the right kind of values amongst the group. Then when they were in the rooms, he sung the song with more gusto than anyone! Not saying Cerra wouldn’t be a great get for us, he’s a great silky skilled player, but trading Gus would disrupt the playing group, standards, and culture of the club. And at the end of the day, the new standards being driven are the difference between 2021 top of the ladder demons, and the years before where we failed to make finals. Same list, different culture and standards.

Right ok. Should’ve known it was just fluff. Thanks for the info!

Anyone know if Taj has actually nominated?

Glorious! Now we can visualize where all those behinds are kicked from 😛 Pretty cool update though actually.

I saw Daicos nominated for father son. Are these nominations officially open? If so, can we expect to hear this week if Taj has nominated?

100%. He’s proved me wrong and is developing very well. Now I think he struggles as a tall forward but guns it as a ruck. Just need to lock him away long term now!

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Was not born.

Unbelievable win. Truly unbelievable. I thought we were gone and they proved me wrong. This team is finally coming good. Well done on on finishing top boys. Stick it right up everyone!

Oliver has been brilliant. Our only winner out there tonight unfortunately.

That quarter was Mark Neeld era bad. 8 goals in a row against. Good to see we saved our best for last!

15 minute period has just ended our season. Yes we reload for finals, but with our current personal we cannot win a flag. Too much inexperience, and too much reliance on Oliver and Petracca. As soon as they’re not getting ball, our midfield disintegrates. Port will beat us in Adelaide next week. Who knows what happens from there. [censored] disappointing end to the season.

Worst quarter of the year

Game over. We’re off the Adelaide next week to play Port. Poor end to the year.

Have a sinking feeling our inaccurate goal kicking will cost us the flag in finals. My MFCSS is acting up again…

Smith spoils his mate and costs us their first goal.

Yes. Coverage will swap to our game automatically. Just enjoy the ride!

Just saw the clip of the Majak incident. What a beat up! Not even worth citing, let alone four weeks as Tom Browne suggested. It’s basically a careless arm around the shoulder. The media should be ashamed of themselves for trying to make it a story. Pathetic parasitic scum.

Wake up Melbourne ffs!

Rat**** defensive running from Clarry. He’s well off today. Cmon Dees fire up ffs. Should beat these sorts of teams by 60+ by now.

Midfield defending has been poor thus far. Clarry, Trac, Harmes and Langdon all jogging while their opposition runs off. Coaches need to find a way to fire them up consistently.

Bad luck for Hunt. Sent back to his natural position on halfback this year and he’s flourished again and played every game. He’s not the cleanest player, but he’s one of our most impactful when on. Shame he might miss playing finals after being a consistent part of the team that got there.

The kick inside 50 about 40 seconds into that clip is what got me excited. Been years since we’ve had a player like Trapper or Yze nailing low bullet passes to a target inside 50 amongst traffic. That was beautiful and something we lack; elite decision making and kicking skills. Very exciting!