Adam The God

Dannyz has a pretty long track record of inside Intel.

That's Selwyn's background. Injury management.

Well, we know who the better footballer is, but we also know who the better leader is.

Well that's because you have to pay overs (generally) to woo other players over. And we're not a sexy destination without Caulfield built. It's partly why I think our list management strategy has been to draft top end talent, rather than hope to land it paying overs like St Kilda allegedly do.

We don't actually know this though.

What I loved about last night, and there was a lot to love, was that clutch contested mark at half back. The pressure was ratcheting up at that moment in the game, and he stepped up and took a contested mark when we really needed it. It was very Bontempelli.

And the board, specifically Green, said we'd know about the success or otherwise of the business case for Caulfield by mid 2025. So I'd suggest Green and Guerra should be expected to have something for us in the next 3-4 months at the latest. There has been no update on Caulfield for months, so we can only take them on their word that the business case would be known by now. The fact we know nothing is concerning IMV. We need to have it okayed before the start of 2026. Ideally now, so we can approach opposition players with a home base on the horizon.

The idea that someone will have a good season because their coach was their childhood hero is laughable. The players loved Goody and yet they struggled for consistency for 2 years. It means little.

Remembering that the bones of this team played a chaos game for 4 years prior to 2020. So I don't think it's an inability to embrace the chaos. It's an inability to execute when the game goes up a notch and an inability to know when to change gears.

It was practically a carbon copy of the GWS game in Round 1. We have to learn how to win close games and know when and when not to flick the switch.

At least he's hit the ground running. 6 months after they said he would. Fantastic.

Son, @Engorged Onion, can you please provide your services to our football club? Whoever is team psychologist is struggling to get the job done.

It's just about consistency though. If you're going to pay it against Kozzy, you have to pay it against Cameron. I wouldn't have paid it either time.

Clarry was our best player for mine and it was easily his best game since 2023. 9 score involvements, 1 goal assist at 87% with 19 handballs from 30 disposals. He was really good. High damage and low turnover count with only 3 from 30. Interesting thing was only 2 clearances though.

Kozzy had a free. kick paid against him for exactly the same thing earlier in the game.

I hope Judd stays, but he needs to play back. There was a passage of play tonight that reinforced my view that he's no midfielder and doesn't execute quickly enough with genuine frontal pressure. Our mids did a brilliant job of flicking the ball around and keeping it in motion, and away from Collingwood's frontal pressure, probably 5 or 6 Demons involved and it finally got to Judd and he choked it up, Collingwood slung shot off it for a score.

Was brilliant tonight. Love him. Great first season, Bison.

Bottled another lead we should have held. @Scoop Junior

I should post more on gameday threads. Our stoppage work that quarter was phenomenal.

I don't know what they're saying on the TV but we're defending the ground well and moving the ball well but our stoppage work is atrocious. Jones needs to go. And we need to stop turning it over so regularly across half back, but you can see we're making progress on this stuff.

I was talking to a St Kilda mate this morning who saod he and many others he knew weren't going to renew next year if Wanganeen-Milera left. It doesn't take much to get signatures, but I hope all those that refused to re-sign because of Goodwin re-sign next year. I won't be holding my breath though. I will always buy a membership because the club is bigger than my disappointment in it.

Please post more mate.

Derpsy derps. Thanks mate.

Hang on. I missed this. What happened? Buckley was on 3AW talking about offloading Clarry?

Because some of the stuff that has come out of the club only board members or key FD staff could know. Or we could just bury our head in the sand.