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Petty will be my litmus test for goody and team planning. If petty lines up in Round 1 2025 as a forward, after a 2 year failed strategy, then goody lost me. He must be seen as all he can be. A very good key defender

Ed's a private schoolboy. Maybe he outsources the dirty work of chain cleaning. Just a guess.

Absolutely a priority

Very simplistic and needs qualification 2019. Banged up after finals in18. Only 2 players completed a full pre season 2022. Injuries cruelled any finals hopes yet nearly won both. Trac on 1 leg 2023. Finals selection issues by coach. Poor decisions. Oliver with 1 good hand. Brayshaw. Yet nearly won both. 2024. Nothing to work with due to injuries and no forward strategy. Flag midfield gone. 2025. Big things still expected

No way DDavey was he ever going to Mongolia. No rock climbing sites or indoor facilities. No decent bike repair shops either. Nice one Ed.

Great summary of langdons view of the world wcw. The club had to ban him from rock climbing on game day mornings. He holds the afl record this year for most out of bounds on the full. Ed carries the great Stan Alves number with pride I'm sure and I'll bet culturally he only makes us a better team. Excellent signing.

And the losing margin of 51 points was the same as that to the Dogs by us in the 1954 grand final. We all know what happened next. But Norm was in charge then.

Watch Turner get subbed on during 3rd quarter when petty puts in another shocker. No wait. I forgot Goodys coaching. Time on in the 4th I guess

Why?. Great player but no coaching experience. Maybe could learn on the job. Back office advisory maybe. We need a seriously top shelf forward coach. And maybe strategic in the mould of Yze A good cultural fit

No Brodie Grundy either. So much for the hye this year

You should have posted this on Day 1 of the thread and saved a lot of angst. Surfing is how poor gws is and what a bleak future their players have missing out on playing regularly at the G. I'm seriously sympathetic to those players and amazed more haven't left

They've stupidly s reduced 2 games Friday night. Early start for us means viewers can catch later parts of second. Afl management of football blows my mind.

I got it during the game after 1/4 time

Excellent points LG. Not a lot of in-depth thinking on this issue. Sure the Dees have issues, but lets call it out everywhere. Not doll it tired old tropes

Don't get sucked in by the lazy AFL media. The Pies vs Tiges game had 58,000. They have a total membership of 200,000 combined. Equates to 29% of members GWS have nothing and we have 65,000. 17,000 attendence equates to 26%. Same ballpark and just Demon -bashing by commentariat. Caro did it a few years ago, but when big clubs fail to attarct we hear crickets. I was there and it was freezing and left at 3/4 time being in my late 70's eneough was enough of the weather.. It was on free to air. What did you think would happen.? Tiges v Pies was primetime afternoon in the sun. Why not 85K. Oh, thats right their [censored] too.

I'm not the market, but can someone hum one of her tunes so I can recognise it?

A most conservative and reactionary senior management team if ever I saw one. Apart from Barnesy in 2018, which should be standard each year, to Robbie in 2022 (which was the most entertaining thing on the day) AFL are just out of their depth on this issue. Everyone who has been knows the MCG has shocking acoustics, and daylight donesn't work. And we need this why????

Excellent summary of the Tiges comparison - none at all really. Could add in Clarko's faiure to build the hawks on the run - remember Jaeger O'meara anyone. Our profile is ripe for quality top up in some areas. Just needs to be well managed. After reading this afternoons Age update on Trac's progress, and the steps are younger players have taken, looking forward to 2025, and tomorrow night. I expect to beat Gws,

Good point. And Gus also in 2018 when he came 3rd. Fantastic effort by clarry.

You may be right but I have dees finishing 5 even before last game and had assumed a loss to freo. I will stand by this but withdraw if we lose to gws. Before last week we had a solid month of form.

Interesting only . Clayton played in good teams winning more games so oppo player took less votes from him than in the losing days of Robbie and Wells.

That's worth something I guess. On ya Hodgey.

The Pies one and only wooden spoon was in 1976. And guess who they played and got spoon-fed against. Mighty dees at Vic Park. Sun headline Monday was "dees spoon feed pies"

Well said. I've got us 5th even with freo loss

Their analysis supposes the changes to the 8 from last year will be of a number that has never(hardlyever) occurre, And as they both said, their predicted 8 will be wrong for sure. They both had flaky Power in the 8 for example. I reckon the 8 will be as it is now in terms of teams making it. Positions to be determined. 2 in and 2 out from 2023- Pies and Power out.