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It was the perfect result. Port lost. Tough game that hopefully they struggle to come up from. And the cats win, but at home really should have done so much more impressively.

It's not a willingness to run and score. It's is the ability to do so. Big difference. Impassible to play we have in the last few week when fatgued. Look at port and the pies, the two teams most consider to he the most agressive, high octane teams (I don't- we are). Both look very fatigued yesterday which given how intense their previous two games were is not surprising. The mighty pies scoring machine was 29 points at half time! A reminder that in 2022 at this stage we were also trying to score heavily and were also really aggressive with our ball movement. And that followed exactly the same pattern as 2021 ie dour in the middle of the year(because of fatigue) before ramping it up big time as we neared final. Which is exactly the same pattern as wer'e seeing agsin this year. Coincidence? Possibly- but unlikely. In 2021 we could only manage to score 65 points in our 20 point loss to the dogs in round 19 In round 20 we scored 128 to demolish the suns. And didn't score less than a hundred for the rest of the season- including of course our barnstorming finals run The common thread in all those wins games was, on the back of phenomenal fitness, running over teams in the last quarter - stronger for longer in 2022, we scored 100 points in our loss to the dogs in round 19. Hammered freo in Perth in round 20. Went out super hard against the pies in round 21 and blitzed them the first half. We were less dynamic in our narrow win over the blues in round 22. And absolutely destroyed the lions at the gabba in round 23, leading by 11 goals at half. The common thread in all four games in 2022 was running out of gas in the last quarter Signs on that front look so, so much better this year. We didn't run out any games in the back half of 2022 like we did against the Lions, Crows and Tigers

Good thing we're not a big scalp - well at least not according to 95% of football pundits all season.

The umps won't fall for that

C'mon cats!

C'mon. Choco? Wotcha talking about Willis? Our most successful coach since norm smith for pete sake. The last time we finished top 4 in three consecutive years was 1958-60. He stuffed up last year? Waste a generational list? I would have thought as a long time dees fans you'd appreciate how hard it is to win a flag. We have one. And are likely contenders for several mote years. All under goody. Seriously, he deserves more respect.

Are you being serious. You weren't a fan till the last 6-8 weeks? Goody won a bloody flag two seasons back! When did you start supporting the dees? 2022?

My point, for what it's worth, is you could have made your point without calling posters who hold a contrary view, or a senior coach of a premiership winning team for that matter, a nuffie. I mean, it's not compulsory on the internet to insult people.

Go redlegs

Did I say that? We dominated the pies. We put time into daicos and limited his impact - without having to sacrifice the output of one of our players or allow daicos to drag that player away from the contest. Goody doesn't tag. Take it up with the manager, Karen.

Gotta build a solid foundation before you can renovate

Which is one reason I'm loving all the different modes and methods goody has employed this season n. We have plans A, B, C and D. Mcrae is playing chess. Goody is playing 5D chess.

You'd reckon goody and the other coaches would be loving watching back to back games of our contenders getting the suitcase knocked out of them.

And really, teams have to use the bye period. Too late now.

Do you mean nuffies like our Premiership coach?

Ia that you Garry?

True dat.

Another dose of the flu? They need to look at their control systems for infectious diseases. I've heard colliwobbles can be really debilitating.

Feedback is the new learnings.

Not by me.

Such a similar vibe isn't it. Easier to see when it's not your team.

Blimey, 17-2 in centre clearances. That is unbelievable.

Yeah, maybe.

Garry Lyon - a question. Do you recall the dees beat the pies on kb?

Serious question. When was the last time we were 44 points down half way thru the last quarter?