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Richmond undoubtedly playing better than us. Absorbed a lot of pressure early. They look better on transition.

Collingwood supporters are worse because they have an airy confidence and it's hard to talk back to them. Richmond supporters though are generally a few more notches down the IQ radar. They made the Prelim in 95. I was there that day at Waverly. Miserable day. Geelong pumped them. But Richmond supporters were singing the song in the final minutes because they'd had such a great year. It gave me goosebumps. Funnily enough one of the most vivid football memories I have. Tigers supporters outnumbered Cats about 10 to 1 that day.

We were loud today. I was proud. But we need more.

Honestly we never really looked like losing. Gawn just had that aura about him defensively that tends to mean we win.

Oliver and Petracca have let us down today.

We are choking a touch here

The week I trade Petty out of my Supercoach...

Add Oliver to that list.

Man Salem and Spargo have been huge liabilities.

Well that was silly.

You were saying

They look far too quick and get into space way better than we do. We are defending well generally but if we turn it over at half forward they almost always score.

Neither. In fact it's probably made me against sacking Goodwin and giving him the time to reboot and right the ship now.

Revealed on Fox Footy that if we pay him out before end of his deal (2026) then we have to pay 100% of his remaining salary. Could be anywhere between 1.5-2 million. This would be included in the cap spend for football department spend meaning we'd likely have to pay a luxury tax of 75 cents for every dollar over up to a million, which would be likely given we'd have to pay good coin to get a half decent coach in. Club heavily scrutinised because most coached only have a 3-6 month payout clause. Goodwin has a full contract payout clause. So basically... unless he resigns we'll be with him for a while. I couldn't see us justifying that payout unless they have a good coach lined up.

And of course I plan to catch the 12:50, I get to the platform at 12:49:50 and the doors are closing... the train leaves bang on at 12:50. What is this [censored] leaving on time to the millisecond? I'll miss the first 15 minutes now.

I swear I saw us shortened to $2.90 shortly after Goodwin's press conference. It's now at close to $4 following news of May.

Going with two Carlton supporters and a Collingwood supporter today. All very into their football and with great insight. I am genuinely very interested to see what they make of us.

Compared to what?

I am actually quite concerned for tomorrow. I am also starting to feel genuinely concerned for the wellbeing of the club. 10k members down vs this time last year. Small crowds. 0-5. No first round pick. I just can't see how Goodwin coaches his way out of this. Pert and Roffey already fell on their swords. Things come in threes. Goodwin just seems like the inevitable third. It's almost like we have to fully move on from the remnants of the Jackson/Roos era.

Man North plays dumb sometimes. Like why do they just keep jumping on the ball. They've been pinged like 5 times.

If anyone thinks we are even a remote chance of winning tomorrow or turning it around and winning more than a handful of games for the year, please turn on the football and check out how bad North can actually be. This team beat us by 10 goals and probably should have won by 100.

We had one 😏

I tipped Collingwood. Something NQR about Brisbane. They have been smashed in parts of games and wheels were bound to fall off. Collingwood is exceptionally well drilled. They just go go go and ALWAYS kick to space. Their players work so hard.

I didn't say we should dump them though. I said if he wanted to make a statement then those are the players to go. He has dumped Fritsch and JVR for one of two reasons: Form We're simply trying something different If it's the former, it doesn't address the issue of delivery or structure. We are still a tall forward down because even though we brought Turner back, we dumped him for Linsday. If the latter, then that suggests our issues lie in the forward line. Either way the same issue persists in that we are basically putting it all on the house that the issue isn't necessarily our gameplan: it's who we have in the forward line. I just don't subscribe to that.

Did we? Where?