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Goodwin needs to change (by his own admission), Buckley has, Hardwick has. How Goodwin changes will be critical to our club. With his shiny new team of coaches everything has to go right. these trips can be valuable and probably even better that he's doing it with Richo. They need to be on the same Page because if we are 0 and 4 all hell could break loose.

Clarkson will clearly do wonders with Frosty

So its reported that Carlton have 2 Friday night blockbusters at the start of the season. How the hell do they get the star treatment when they have lost 11 in a row of the opening round? They have had 6 or 7 prime time games last year as well.

Really? Brisbane says hello. Their draw and limited injury list propelled them to second where they were found out.

Young and Jackson is a much better pub....

He swallowed a Thesaurus.......

Yes but we don't or won't dictate the fixture It's a set up as you know by the AFL.

The good news is we play them early (after them making top 4) If we win our membership and season is on a roll If we lose hopefully no-one notices.

Sorry mate that is such BS I can't believe you wrote that.

Thanks for the heads up. Were they the same people by any chance that were unanimous on Toumpas?

Sah-lem??

Would we have picked up Paddy if the Aints had taken Petracca? Sliding doors perhaps.

Some snippets: One of the first things we got right at Melbourne was cohesion from the top down. The coach has to be given all the responsibility and authority. You can’t have a high-performance manager coming in on top of the coach. teams that win sports championships throughout the world are the best defensively. Offence is talent, and defence is mentality. Build a defence that no other team finds easy to break. It was our mantra at the ­Demons — be the team everyone hates playing. (we are the opposite!) If you’re a behavioural-based team, your performance rarely drops. I think of Hawthorn and the Melbourne Storm. If you’re a talent-based, experimental team, you’ll have your good days when you beat one of the better teams. But it won’t last, and it will crack under pressure (very astute observation)

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/rugby-union/lessons-for-the-wallabies-from-our-rebuild-at-the-demons/news-story/211fb983d86ee5c1960404e34cd8a46d It's paywalled but will try to update with comments later

One of those players that can mark the ball at his highest point as it were. Makes it very difficult to defend against. Took a very positive step fwd this year. A lot to look fwd to.

Definitely something there with Oscar B. Has vision and the abilty to use pace and side step to give himself extra time. They're good qualities to have. Also seemed to deliver the ball quite well. Seemed quite comfortable on the field and would expect to get beter with more game time.

Another year like this and its a delist. If he could have more composure he could be a very good player. But his handballs to peoples feet, fumbles at critical times and poor delivery make him a liability.

In theory yes but there is a price and he isn't really a 'proven' performer. He is a reasonable player with a lot of potential. At the risk of setting off a firestorm I rate him like Jack Watts. Could be anything but will probably end up middle of the road.

He is a poor man's Zac Dawson sadly.

As a fwd he's hard to stop on a lead and he can lay a tackle. The fwd pressure was sadly lacking this year from most but he equipped himself quite well.

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Why dont we get his ex-captain to have a word about the dees...

It's the off season.

It's been obvious to many on here for a long time that our two way running is below AFL standard. Our midfield is lazy, unfit or a combination of both. It's why teams play the chip and hold and switch game against us. You see how poor we are defending opposition transition very clearly when sitting up high at the MCG. Added to that we have been a very poor one on one defending team - hence the recruitment of May and Lever (not so much for one on one but intercepting transitional play). Some pointed to the pre-season injuries and lack of training as a reason we were particularly poor this year in this area. It's one of the reasons for sure but we haven't had the personal. The club has taken way too long to solve this issue - maybe they thought JKH and Stretch might fill these roles - but the recruitment of two gut runners in Langdon and Tomlinson bodes well. Let's hope the game plan under the new team of coaches is able to be carried out by the players at their disposal. Would still like to take 3 and 8 to the draft to get some silky delivery skills.

We let frost go AND 3 draft picks for 2 picks back. I'd say we rolled over and he had zero trade value.