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Ridiculous call this early.

Doesn't really matter, we've got Casey facilities, so having a base that is in or near the heartland is symbolic more than anything.

You are the most bizarre poster, PF.

Petty's that good he gets two guernseys. Pretty good. I guess that means he's staying. :P

Handy with Geelong and Carlton coming up that McAdam looks likely to play in those fixtures. I'd say that's what they targeted for his return from a ways out. I think with him fit, he's going to add a real potency to our forward half and push real pressure for spots.

I disagree. If Kozzy plays, his pace makes our front half a completely different proposition.

When was she employed? Because it's clear they started filming it last year.

It's a very impressive feature from the club. That's the sort of content many of us have been crying out for. Great access, really good coverage from a filmmaking perspective. Be great to get these sort of features regularly. Not once a season type thing.

How do you know this?

Petty will come good if he gets some continuity at senior level this year. Simple as that.

Lack of height? He's 194cm, the same height as Charlie Curnow and Taylor Walker...

Like my boy in 2021. Just have to get him to stop singing that bloody Blues theme song and his latest trick, shouting "go Blues" out the window... 🤦 Congrats mate.

Now for Petty...

Or just sell him on a defensive position within our system.

Nah, what's he saying? How dare he proffer that fitness has anything to do with the result. Why doesn't he just come out and say we're loading?! Bloody excuse maker.

And fitness/conditioning.

Petty is clearly trying to make up for an interrupted pre season, which isn't helping his form. As he gets more match fitness across the year, providing he doesn't get injured again, I expect him to start owning the forward 50.

I hate it. But the Blues song does sound like a very, very dull children's song.

I'd be very surprised if Viney, Oliver and Petracca have an equally worse game together ever again. And that's where it was lost last night. In the midfield.

It has to be an anomaly given it literally hasn't happened since 2020.

I'm not sure I've seen it mentioned in this thread yet, but not having Kozzy for the way we defend and try to turn the ball over or maintain territory, cannot be overstated enough. Our forward system relies on his explosive pace.

As Lever intimated in his post game interview, we got our strategy wrong early and in the last quarter, we went more attacking. IMV, if we knew we were going to struggle arousal wise for 4 quarters, we should have started attacking from the top and then dug in to defend a lead. I think we're making too much of stoppages at the moment. Of course, we need to get better, but last night we were useless in the contest, with all our mids banged up, so naturally we were smashed in stoppages. In previous weeks losing stoppage has meant we cab slingshot, provided the post clearance pressure is good enough. Last night at times it was non existent. Furthermore, I'm on record saying the ruck position is the most overrated position in the game. The reason Max is so good is his marking around the ground, not his tap work IMO. He taps it directly to the opposition more often than tapping it directly to team mates, and the strategy this year and towards the end of last year was to take the ball from the ruck as often as possible and get territory. I think it has its place as a strategy if we're being beaten soundly at stoppages, but not as a first option. I'd much prefer him tapping to his feet and allowing our mids to shark or defend the opposition sharking.

Don't you worry I was saying it to them all night, but they kept up...

They had the bye. In no other elite sport in the world would you play 3 games in 12 with the near identical personnel. You look at soccer, they play a second string team for EFL and FA Cup ties and ring the changes in midweek games. Their sport is also less physically taxing not only in the kms run, but in the sheer physicality. It made a huge difference. You could tell we were out on our feet by the second quarter.

Oh, and I maintain what I said about Brisbane supporters in the run in to this game. They are as smarmy as Zorko and whichever nuffy sledged Petty about crying again.