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This will be a complete whitewash Straight sets simon will say we did nearly everything right and just need more f******connection It will do my head in Our leaders failed when we were 9pts up with 3m left. What do they train for?

Grundy was dudded. He is what he is. Max can't play fwd because he can't kick for [censored]. Yet grundy was castigated because he can't take a contested mark. He would have been fired up to play Collingwood against their 2 rucks. And against carltons 2 rucks. Yet we went in with one injured ruck. Beggars belief We beat both Carlton and coll with 2 rucks in round 12 and 13.

Cripps tried to strong arm our players No penalties for the golden child

Well it worked - they got the Joel Smith mark reversed

I think this is a furphy. Its not talent There have been dozens of times we take the ball down the wing with 2 or 3 players open in the centre corridor. Our players don't even look there. There are clearly instructed to go down the line to a contest. I won't be convinced otherwise. Its infuriating Its the polar opposite of what we were doing in the pre season and early part of the season when we were the most accurate side in the comp. The other infuriating thing is speed. We consistently hold the ball up and wait for the players to get back. When we play on we are a much more damaging team. Jordon is among the worst but by no means alone. Again clearly to instruction. Boo

This has been my argument for bringing Grundy back in. We won't lose much at centre clearance and it will force oppositions to adjust. All year I thought Gawn would take the tap and go back to defence while Grundy would ruck around the ground but we never tried that. And I still reckon thommo could play as a defensive fwd. Goody it seems has to be pushed into making changes

You are probably right but I am trying to reconcile the freewheeling way we played in the pre-season and early rounds when we scored easily, cleanly and through the corridor. We tried doing that in the second half against coll and carlton We cut angles and kicked into the corridor and were the most accurate team in the comp up until about round 7. It was less predictable and way more open.

I have said numerous times our game plan is a) very taxing, b) keeps oppositions in the game and c) very predictable. Our fwd half issues are at least 5 years old and we have an old ruckman as our fwd coach. Really? The game plan to beat Melbourne us well known but most teams are unable to compete for longer. Its patently obvious that good teams can compete for long enough as the do in finals. We do about 90% right but the 10% sees us lose. We made some changes around the edges this year but its time to completely re-design how we play.

Or three marks in the fwd 50

We supposedly built a team that is primed for finals footy. We have lost 4 in a row. We consistently shoot ourselves in the foot with accuracy , bombing the ball into the fwd50. We have been doing this for 5 years. We do dumb things and keep repeating them Our selection policy is a shambles. We are unbelievably predictable Two finals we should have won and yet here we are. How is it the Kingsley takes a team thats 3 and 7 and wins a final as well as winning at 11 separate venues? How is it that Voss was in the gun to be sacked and here we are The mistakes are all our own. And we keep repeating them And you don't understand calls for him to be replaced? At this point we will have another 5 years of this and then we'll say what a wasted era

Langdon and ANB must have slipped over 25 times between them wtf? Youre professional athletes. Fix your boots

Ive never seen a goal overtired like that. The review was inconclusive That's 4 goals in 2 weeks that the AFL pets have got from crooked score reviews. Add in onefrom Petracca in rd 22 and its simply corruption at the highest level

The AFL is corrupt. How many frees did that f*ing no 22 pay against us and then not give us?

Because there are different home teams at the G depending on who is playing. When we are the home team we have the home team rooms that get fitted out with sponsor signage etc

We are the home team I presume as we finished higher on the ladder. So usual rooms.

Can confirm Richmond job is no decision as yet but between Yze and Mini. Yze's preso was apparently outstanding.

McRae and Voss learned their footy under Mathews and in finals early territory is vital. Collingwood didn't bend down to pick up the ball at first they simply knocked, kicked, handballed it forward and the put huge pressure on the demon defence that started very slowly We were down 3 goals before you could think. Expect similar from Carlton and we have to stop it. Come out breathing fire and get the ball fwd at all costs. But no long bombs. I'd be happier with scrubbier ground balls that put real pressure on their defence. We have got this. Go Dees

Depth is a furphy in any side. You can't have good players playing down at Casey continually. They need sustenance or they leave for better opportunity like Bedford and like Harmes and likely Jordon

I called this early in the week and was jumped on. But i think it's a good idea. Without weitering dominating they are vulnerable down back. Thommo is string and he's a good kick...

100% correct

As a hypothetical, Brayshaw could have determined to continue playing because the AFL had made the head sacrosanct and changed rules and suspensions to support this view to protect all players including of course himself. The Maynard incident is essentially unprecedented (possibly the closest is the Cripps incident) in that Maynard ran at full pace before jumping into Brayshaw. HIs intentions are probably irrelevant for this. There is no way Brayshaw would expect that front on contact as it is illegal, the contact was also late, and it was also high. It was also at a force that no one would have conceived. I think he would have a good case against the AFL and yet again they have made a rod for their own back in order to appease a big club/name player/finals aspirant etc The number of exceptions to the AFLs rulings (including Cripps, Vlastuin among others) may well mean that the AFL is not really serious about protecting the head. The spurious argument from Cornes about high marks where a players knee hits another's head is a furphy and totally different to a player being attacked head on as was Brayshaw. I hope he sues the AFL for millions.

I'm waxing between CGAF and don't let the AFL bastards win. I hope the players are switched on from the start.

Carlton players 190cm or over last week McGovern Cripps TDK Pittonet McKay (wont play) Weitering Kemp Marchbank Curnow Acres Melb players 190cm or over last week Gawn May JVR (Wont play) Lever TMac Smith We look short

I don't think we can afford to do that for 4 finals in a row...