Adam The God

Bit of a step down, huh?

Chaplin is our defensive coach...

I wouldn't be going for David Teague. What's Josh Mahoney up to? Would he swallow/sparrow his ego and come back and work alongside Lamb and co in the FD?

Those votes seem fair to me. I'd have Clarry with a few more there, but none of our other guys deserved votes IMO.

Why is Tom Morris reporting what skin condition Goody has? WTF right do we have to know what condition he has? Such an unethical little runt.

I agree. I'd err towards us missing and re-setting, but I don't want the club to put the cue in the rack. The only guy I'd consider playing from here is Jefferson. We've played enough kids. Sestan would be a liability at AFL level. He doesn't currently have the tank for 2 quarters let alone 4.

This is a different point to what the club should do though. The FD should keep fighting.

You do realise this is the tanking philosophy, right? I think we can go hardcore and still not make it. And if we do make it, our kids get finals exposure and we get a chance to win a final.

It might just be Windsor for Hunter. Seriously.

This is it. Agreed. I hope he goes again, but I think Petty would be a great replacement.

We all want changes, just don't need wholesale...

Except 3 of our losses have been by a combined less than 2 kicks. But it's semantics at this point. The point I'm highlighting is we don't need to throw the baby out with the bath water.

Agreed, we've lost too many games comprehensively to not be making up the numbers. But a fit Clarry and Trac would mean we'd have a better chance of not merely making up the numbers.

It's 2.5 wins to 2nd spot. It's as outlandish as you paint it...

And yet three games by under a kick go the other way and we're second. Lions and West Coast games were both post 5 day breaks, so it's clear we weren't "out classed". We didn't bring our game in either performance. As evidenced by the next time we played both opposition. We led Brisbane the majority of the game and late in the last, and we easily accounted for West Coast the second time...

Yep, exactly. 1 point to the Blues, 5 points to Brisbane and 2 points to GWS. It's such a game of margins. The difference between Collingwood finishing top last year and finishing outside of the 8 was often a kick or two. They won so many games from behind and by thin margins. We led for the majority of the Brisbane and GWS games. Both likely top 4 teams, and Carlton could still be a top 4 team too. Freo had our measure both times, and Sydney at home ultimately did too. So did Collingwood when we played them. Otherwise, we have nothing to fear from other teams.

Clarry faded in the last, but with a full pre season, that's when his gut running sees him dominate and go above 30+ touches. If Clarry was fully fit this year, I reckon we're top 2. Provided he has a full pre season, he'll be back to one of the best mids in the game in 2025. And that's with Trac only playing half a season. We have a lot of upside next year and I expect the media to write us off. Just as they did at the end of 2020.

You're kidding right? If that were the only attitude, and we weren't constructive with our feedback, we wouldn't see consistently brilliant development of our younger players...

Yep, and he'd give us good flexibility next year, given he's a half forward that can genuinely contribute at contest and stoppage. He's good by foot and has very good hands. I was impressed by his ground ball last night.

Yep, he was good. And we have to give him some continuity. Team high score involvements too.

Laurie? 19 touches, 3 tackles, 3 clearances, 1 goal assist, 6 score involvements (equal most for us).

Agreed. But I don't think he's been the same player since getting injured late last year. That said, he will still kick 40+ goals this year. He's an A grader and our forwardline is a bit feast or famine.

I wasn't sure who or when we'd sub Turner on, but as it turned out, I reckon that was a tactical error not playing him. When Turner came on, and we went long to contests inside 50, we looked dangerous in the air with three talls. As it didn't rain, I think we could have afforded ourselves the three talls. Perhaps we were worried about their run off us with three talls + Melksham and Fritta, but I think we could have stretched them more in the air when we had territory against them.

It's hard to know. I think our transition ball movement in the first half of the year was him, but it didn't exactly work either. It'll be telling what changes we make this off season.

Is it a personnel thing or is it McQualter? Our loose marking at stoppages has happened way too many times this year for it not to have been picked up. So are our mids simply falling asleep or are they being instructed to position themselves really aggressively (read, stupidly)?