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Ugly can be truly beautiful - if we keep winning

So we just pluck a gun mid out of thin air to allow Tracc to play forward, or pluck a big strong marking KPF out of the even thinner air? Ah ... it is such a simple game. 🤫

Interesting that whomever wrote this thinks we may not add anyone at all, given that we are two down already, and have one vacancy. IF there is anyone who fills any of our needs surely we should grab one.

kev - we will miss your reports. Enjoy. Was Petty (you said in rehab) running uninhibited?

Lackadaisical

But where were 😮 Scott's votes for Dangerfield, Selwood and Ablett?

Despite his Lazarus like miracle return this year, I would suspect that Tom McDonald may retire at the end of this season. And if Richo likes him, that must be a positive.

And he had better do so quickly - Melksham is due to return after the break, and if he gets fired up there will be intense competition for this position.

Maybe when we get a new forward coach with forward skills?

Hope it is not just a “rule of the week” thing, and continues: finally umpires took notice of the holding of Maximus in ruck and marking contests. They however did miss, or chose to ignore, Tracc repeatedly being held out of the centre square contests. It was blatantly obvious from the stands.

I hadn't realised that kick ins were counted as possessions .... need an asterisk*

6. Gawnius maximus 5. May 4. ANB 3. Tomlinson 2. Pickett 1. Salem

I heard someone in the crowd at the game also saying Windsor needs a rest. Do you mean a Bex, a cuppa tea and a good lie down? If what is meant is playing at Casey that is a nonsense. A week off doing tapestry? Will not happen. If Petty is out injured - IMO BBB is cooked, Jeffo is too raw though just starting to hit his straps at the lower level, Turner still injured (again), Shack just non competitive, FullArton who knows what, where, why - no good answer for another tall forward option. How did Verrell go today?

I may sound like a heretic, but IMO Roughead was a bigger team contributor than Buddy.

Is this from the Chris Scott presser?

2 observations from Scott's "press conference" (only watched the first half; couldn't bear or hear any more) 1/ what a miserable sod he is, "we played badly" not "GW$ played well" etc etc. Same every week. 2/ what a tight a*sed organisation is the AFL. Any decent professionally run organisation would shell out a few bucks for a couple of roaming microphones and only allow questions through these microphones. Instead we may hear a bit of a mumble from the background and the answer refers to something that we haven't heard. It has annoyed me for decades. First I thought it may be the MFC being tight but it seems to be throughout the competition. (Same applies to the score review amateur hour technology - shameful stuff Dill)

Of course it isn't. Jackson is one unique player and cannot be easily replaced. Who was on the market at the time we should have gone for, and got???

Do you serious think that fans don’t like Hunter and Billings and may not take to McAdam because they are recycled? Do you mean like May Lever Langdon BBB? Certainly it would seem a good tactic to try to isolate #31 deep forward by getting other players to lead fast and wide. He is fast and a good mark. Has it been tried?

Maybe Hodge can be recruited as a tactical consultant to Goody??

Touché Frankly it doesn't generate enough if any revenue for the AFL execs to care at all.

Who in the world does the AFL scheduling? Madness. 2020 on a Friday night! I certainly won't be watching and I suspect only a few diehards, plus Collingwood fanatics and Fremantle diaspora will see it through. I hope the ratings are a record low for a game involving Collingwood.

Well, now, I hope he isn't.

As I recall JVR was named in the 25 a couple of times late 2022; some were calling for him to debut but the FD wisely held him back. And he went on to have an really excellent debut year 2023.

It certainly does seem to coincide with the time of season. Maybe we should be narm in the preseason only, if at all

I must agree - Fullarton was recruited as a mature, game ready tall forward who can ruck a bit. We have desperately needed both this season but haven’t given him a look in. Buyers regret? If he doesn’t get picked when we are as desperate as we are he will be a totally wasted trade.