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Good mark by Petty. Drifted in from the side like a defender… 🤔

Their speed, patience and foot skills are picking us apart.

I love the way Serong hunts the footy at speed.

Langdon sticks out because he covers the ground like the Freo mids. Our spread is almost as bad as our clearance work.

Well we have a lot of scope for improvement…

We pushed him out. It was our decision.

There was a pic of Oliver’s hand the week he came back doing the rounds at the time. Considering his hand was stuffed before he had it operated on, his ability to play post surgery was incredible. It looked awful. Up until this year, he’s been one of our top 3 players since his 2nd season. People should give him a break and be respectful of his illness.

Tom Morris wouldn’t want to cross paths in a dark alley with Jesse Hogan. He is a pathetic human. He should still be virtually unemployable with his track record. It’s bewildering that he is still in the industry.

Of course he is a legend of the club. They are bloody hard to win and he got us over the line. He’s not Stevie Armstrong, he’s a Premiership Coach! I am not his biggest fan and even I can acknowledge that. We should’ve won last year too! I do apportion some of the blame for missing on Goody though. It was plain to see that we needed to turn the list a little at the latter stages of 2022. The fact that we couldn’t replace Brayshaw with a serviceable player in the finals was a reflection on his lack of forward thinking. Then…. Schache…. He deserves this season to trial some players and load up for 2025.

Can’t help but I have a bet with the family. if we win the next 2, I go to the Gold Coast and thaw out while watching the footy. If I lose, my wife gets a weekend retreat. I assume the dees will have some sort of function up there…. As long as we win the next 2!! 🙏

Speak to anyone in AFL circles and they will tell you Petty will again ask to be traded. That should give us some more draft capital. If the top 40 is as deep as one people and posters think, it represents a good chance for us to pickup 3-4 players.

JT is on record as saying that they like his attitude and power. Hopefully he can play a couple more games with Casey to show some other skills. I think he is relatively underexposed which is odd given his heritage. He used to tell people he liked soccer more than AFL which is not unusual for sons of guns. I went to school with Kevin Bartlett’s kid and he always said that he barracked for Brisbane and preferred tennis and cricket to AFL.

I played on him for 15 min when he was 15-16 and I was 17-18. He was comically good. I was psyched when we drafted him. The good thing to come out of that 15 min from my perspective was that my then coach never experimented with me in the midfield ever again.

I was reasonably confident we’d go well on the weekend as they are massive pretenders in terms of their results from a very easy draw. Nothing would make me happier than them either missing out on the finals all together or making an elimination final only to lose. It’s a win-win either way.

I wish. It would be way more scandalous and interesting. I could be a paid journo like the rest of those media muppets.

Neither can I. Still, that’s what I was told at Kings Birthday.

I’d rather Waterman. King needs to be rebuilt. Schwarz is an awesome bloke and is a legend of the club but some of his observations aren’t the best.

I know an umpire too. It’s a tough gig. They are scrutinised very heavily internally and externally. Making decisions is harder than ever as there are way too many players around the ball and the rules are difficult to interpret. Very rarely, if ever, in the cold light of day can I point to umpiring as a deciding factor. The AFL on the other hand…. they are an entertainment company that is completely unaccountable to the game.

I think it’s more to do with the parents. I’ve not heard that it was/is a player(s). It’s probably pretty normal but there’s plenty of smoke around us at the moment.

The Bowey thing is interesting. Not from a StKilda perspective but there are a bunch of parents and families, particularly of the younger players, who are a bit unsettled re their respective son’s. It doesn’t mean anything will eventuate but Bowey is an example of a player who fits the above profile and his old man still supports the Saints.

They won’t. But I really wish they’d make Bowey come back via Casey. I feel we have stalled his development by rushing him back to the big league at all costs.

I watched a bit of Eagles vs Hawks. The Eagles pretty much packed their bags at half time and went home. They were pathetic. If we can’t run with those guys we should sack every HP coach we have.

I wonder if Goodwin feels pressure to go all in for the finals or is comfortable enough to continue to blood new players. Our list is in need of continued development to see what we have in the tool bag for 2025. We aren’t going to win it all this year, 2 of our top 3 players who are also 2 of the top 10 in the league have had their seasons compromised and our new game plan was not successful. Play some more youngsters in different positions (Bowey to mid/fwd, McVee to mid, Howes to mid/fwd), debut Jefferson and give the kids extended runs. This would necessitate loading the backline with senior players, something I am a-ok with. We can continue to tweak the style of play as we still have enough quality in our senior players to do so. Load up on 2025. Bank another top 10 draft pick. Throw the cheque book at somebody good.

He played ok but boy does he go to ground a lot. His balance and agility are very poor, which you’d expect from a player a lot older.

Liked the video. I’m oddly pretty excited about this Friday. AMW has a lot of traits that translate to AFL. Haven’t seen him live for a while though so won’t pretend to know how he is really going. I remember watching him at training during his 1st season participating in some tackling drills and thinking he was already one of the better tacklers at the club. He also has speed. 🤟🏼