Dr. Gonzo

Give me a spell

Geelong also finished runners up once and made Prelims 7 other times under Scott. 22 & 23 were failures. We choked in the finals both years, didn't win one final from four attempts, all at our home ground.

Pies, Lions and Cats have all played off in Prelims outside of their flag years. Prelims are different to semi finals, you need to get to the final 4 to give yourself a crack at the flag. If you haven't made the Prelims you were never a chance at a flag. Some teams make prelims and get belted (like us in 2018) and were never a shot at the flag, but for the most part teams that make the final 4 have put themselves amongst the teams with a chance at winning it all. If you're in your flag window and haven't even made the Prelims (ie gone out in straight sets) it's a failure of a year.

We haven't even made Prelim though. It's all well and good to say flags are hard to win but we should have been at least competing for them by making the final 4.

All in time for them to change the FD rules 🤯 🤣 /MFCSS

Gambling is synonymous with footy now. The AFL and broadcasters are allowed to benefit, but not the clubs. Gee why would the AFL want it that way??

A champion of the club and a champion of the game. RIP 🏆 🏆 🏆🏆🏆

It doesn't look good but devils advocate, he's been pretty poor this year and that's mainly due to injury interrupted preseason/season. Could he be banking on a big 7 weeks to finish the season to raise his stocks? Probably a long shot. End of the day he has shown he will be a decent player but he's no gamebreaker. If he wants back to WA see what we can get and move on.

Not a chance in hell it happens. I agree Goodwin may be better suited to the role but having a new coach come in with the old coach looking over his shoulder? Who would want that situation? I'm surprised Richardson has lasted this long, one of Perts mates who should've gone at the end of last year.

He won 3 hit outs and 1 went to advantage? 33.33%? I actually agree though his ruckwork is decent but that's beside the point. He doesn't get I volved around the ground and, most importantly, he needs time to develop up forward. He needs to play forward and stay there. If a defender is best placed then Chaplin is not it because our forward line absolutely sucks.

How many teams in the top 8 have absolutely no structure to their forward line and a young key forward requiring coaching on positioning, blocking and leading patterns?

With basically a healthy list.

Maybe we can package them all up for a 2nd rounder?

We played well for 10 minutes and that's about it. Our midfield needs a massive shakeup Oliver and Petracca giving us not much. Fritsch and Salem need to be moved on as well. Jefferson looks a bust, has no intensity. JVR has to be left forward for the rest of the season, bring someone else in to backup ruck FFS. Being in Campbell, Verrall, who cares just let Roo develop up forward.

Oliver is just a bang average midfielder now, offers no point of difference at all. You could replace him with someone on half the coin and get the same output. Petracca seems to have lost a step and he was never the quickest player to begin with. His disposal let's him down way too often and he doesn't hit the scoreboard as much as he should. One of them has to go, I'd be moving Oliver and not just due to the off field baggage. He is one dimensional and close to being a plodder.

He's had a poor season, interrupted by injuriesthough

Take it out in front Fritsch FFS

Don't worry, it will be pulled out of nowhere at a crucial moment in a big game.

At least Kozzie's had a quick spurt and kicked a couple, Petracca, Oliver, Viney done nothing (Oliver was containing Dawson but what's the point? We're getting done around clearance and Dawson's getting off the chain a bit now).

Well it was a fun 5 or 10 minutes

I'm not seeing much fast ball movement. Very stop start chipping around,not much overlap handball.

Take a bow

Roo X2 💪💪

Jefferson is not an AFL player. Zero intensity/presence. Will be surprised if he even meets the low standards of a Weideman.