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Is that an offical diagnosis of Donald’s mental capacity? I thought maybe dementia. Damn it! Just realised I can no longer travel to the US with the above on the interwebs.

TDS… I am almost afraid to google. Is it an acronym for our half back line? Trent (Rivers) Daniel (Turner) Steven (May)

The best ability is availability. Especially when you’re a mature age recruit who has already missed games due to suspension.

He only has to start on him and cut off his supply from stoppage. Our defensive schemes are designed to pick up players in transition

I would love them to release Windsor up the ground a bit. Viney to come in and perform a shutdown role on a Daicos?

We were dead in the water at 0-5. Dead. I’ve enjoyed the wins but at no stage did I feel we were a chance to make September. You have to bank winnable games if you’re serious about playing finals after the season we had in 24.

Petty is so poor at drawing the footy. It’s a hugely underrated part of being a forward. I’ve said it many times on here, he’s an excellent 3rd man up type pack marker. He was borderline elite at it in 2021. Teams realised this and took his run and made him more accountable. Now we are trying to turn him into a forward (again) as he has size and a massive catch radius. He shows little nous or craft but due to a complete lack of options, we persist. Not to mention his goal kicking and awful ruckwork. 🤮 As much as I hate to say this, as I love the fella, but maybe Petty needs to go back in place of Lever? Lever may need to reinvent himself. Not sure what to. A defensive forward? Any thought of moving Disco forward again should be a sackable offence. He’s a much better back man than forward. Disco is so good that he could help extend May’s career down there. Allowing May to take lesser forwards and zoning off. May’s voice and kicking are still required.

Bad kicking is bad football. So yes, the goal kicking played a major part of the loss. But we weren’t ‘on’ from the get go. It looked bad early on. Why were we not prepared and ready to go? If the players were ready for the style of game how come they didn’t respond? If it’s on the players as some suggest, then why did the Board and Footy Dept state finals were a pass mark for this group? None of this makes sense to me.

Not to speak for someone else but I think the overall head to head is irrelevant. Lyon got Goody cold today. The players weren’t up for it and we didn’t do much/anything to respond to Lyon’s plan. To look at the result as anything other than a spanking across the board is doing the Saints and their coaches a disservice.

The lack of pressure was just so incredibly frustrating to watch on TV. I had people at the ground messaging me how poorly we responded to StKilda’s setup. They were transitioning at speed and with little pressure from us. Every time the Saints got the ball at half back we looked out positioned already. I’m on record for thinking Goody isn’t the guy for us so no point beating that drum, BUT when is the last time we’ve being challenged like we were today and the coaches have changed something to help us win the game? Lyon had a plan and the Saints delivered.

So did our players apparently. We were not prepared to get in a fight today. No intensity. The last quarter was appalling.

Not sure why people are having a crack at Healy’s commentary. He clearly thinks we are the better side and should win. Like us, I think he’s found our uneven effort after working so hard over the last month confounding. I agree with him.

If Johnson played for another team I’d hate him for his fake toughness.

Not based off today’s commentary. We are awful. Effort should never be in question. But it is with us this season.

This. Our defenders back themselves to close space but they can’t do anything with zero pressure in the forward line and midfield