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The Media absolutely hating on us this year. I can’t watch any of the footy shows anymore , King, Cornes, Whateley, Robbo, Caroline Wilson, BT, just love sinking the boots in.

He was coming back from a knee injury and then had stress fractures of his ankle. As long as our medicos give him the all clear I’m ok with it as he is 28 and if he can get back to full fitness could be handy for us, especially during this window of the next 3 years in that quest for another flag.

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I’m sorry i was just asking the question no need for the smug tone champ

Well he hasn’t made an impact in a long time anyway. What was the injury keeping him out this year?

I rate Grundy, but he has to have no injury concerns, as he has hardly got on the park in recent years and i dont want a liability.

Whatever we did, it didn’t work. Second half of the year we looked flat.

Brayshaw should have stayed at half back. He was in the all Australian squad because of it. I wonder if they pandered to his desire to play mid when negotiating his contract and played him there accordingly. Harmes did a good enough job as a tagger and they could have put a Sparrow or Bedford in the other wing

We need to change things up quite a bit. Better forward targets in Van Rooyen and TMac, but we also need X factor in guys like Monic Wakefield who impressed me this year. Throw in J. Smith and the forward line starts to look dangerous with Fritsch and Kozzie as well. Outs are Spargo, ANB and Brown Melksham Petty and Smith could be interchangeable forwards/backs when we need to change something up. Rivers and Hunt for Bedford and Chandler , and I’d play Brayshaw on the wing or down back. Bowey as the other half back option. Finally if we don’t get Grundy, then Weed would be a second ruck option as he is starting to look good in there, and will probably kick more goals than a Jackson anyway. He just needs to put on some weight and build up over the summer.

I really think it was our pressure around the ball and on the spread that hurt us this year. No where near last years levels. We strangled teams last season and forced them into pressure kicks more often than not. Fix that up and get in Van Rooyen and with TMac back as solid forward targets next year Will hopefully see us challenge again. On a side note you can see why we went hard at Jamie Elliot a couple of years ago, exactly the type we need

I look at the level of intensity, collingwood played at tonight , and ditto the swans last week and the lions in the second half, and we just didn’t have that same gut busting desire at all this year. It was like we were saving ourselves for the finals , but we played below our best so often this year it became the norm.

Brayshaw was outstanding when played at half back Oliver - Where would we be without him? May - Best fullback in the league Casey into a Grand final and only losing one game for the entire season

Premiers last year, then win our first 10 games of the season. In comes the Bye, then we fall into a huge hole and out of finals in straight sets. What the hell happened??

Were the second half fade outs , which ultimately cost us our year, lack of fitness or mental attitude? We couldn’t keep up with Brisbane’s run and spread in that second half and it was clearly visible who was working harder.

The fire and intensity were missing all year. Even though we all wanted to see them win one live, there was just something missing this year.

Rivers Salem and Hunt were so bad, it was like we played the game with no half backs. We have a good engine room , but took away a huge strength all year when Brayshaw was down back. No really need to take him away from defense , he was a star there.

Any chance someone could have manned up on Rich?

They had loose players everywhere. Our team defense and pressure was terrible in the second half.

The season mirrored our worse losses and finals 10 wins in a row to start the season then more losses than wins Up early in games with decent leads Then run down in second halves

Worse finals series I’ve seen Viney play

17th for pressure acts tells the story this year. The ruthlessness has gone, they are content they won one last year.

Beaten two weeks in a row by teams who were more desperate than us, Especially n the second half when the game was there to be won. So much for wanting to win it in front of family and supporters

Because I know what we are capable of. Our best is THE best, and we just have to bring it.

After seeing all that, I still believe we are the best team in it. If we pull our bloody finger out!

Incredible first week of finals really