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Don't want to pick a fight. I apologise for my unnessary rudeness. I don't feel the same way about the 2019 season. Not even close. Yes of course I was terribly disappointed with the results BUT NOT the coach, players admin etc. I think calling them amateur is really unfair and I think calling their response to the end of 2019 sickening is insulting and Ill informed. And way over the top. And to be honest all this does not seem like unqualified support.

The club must be so pleased you are prepared to let the last 12 months go and decide to throw your 'full support behind the club'. Insert saracasam font Sheesh. Seriously talk about hyperbole in tbat first paragraph. Rather sickening. You sound more like a shareholder than a supporter. Supporters give unqualified, unconditional support. At least tgat's how i see it. If I quit supporting the dees after a poor season we would have parted ways 40 years ago.

False logic. With pick 3 you take the best available. Simples. You don't get cute and try to fill holes or weaknesses. If needs and best available coincide, great. That seemed to be the case for a while with young. And he might still prove to be the best of those available at 3. But it would appear the club has decided jackson is the best available. So should pick him.

Maybe not. But they risked not getting him. They were very fortunate the tigere took tambling and the dogs took Griffin.

The buddy Franklin draft is a great touchstone for the jackson decision. He went at 5. Tigers took Delidio at one and famously rambling at 4. Lidw was a good but safe call. Hawks took roughly at 2 and digs took Griffin at 3. Buddy's talent was obvious but there were question marks. So much so they took roughly first. But do that draft now and everyone would take buddy in a heartbeat. Is jackson our buddy?

Whose voice is shot unfortunately - but unsurprisingly. Arguably Australia's greatest rock band. Respect.

That and rehabbing

I wasn't suggesting our loss was only down to being cooked. Of course there were other reasons. Not least the fact we were playing a better team, coming off a weeks break, at their home ground accross the other side of the country. But at the ground it was really hot and you could see early that players were blowing up. Most were running up and down on the spot by half way through the second q - maxy being one.

Who knows, but no doubt we were totally cooked.

I agree. What Macca was describing sounds to me like tempo footy, which is super important when you want to arrest the momentum an opposition team might have. Slow things down, deny the opposition the ball and stop going all out attack. Funnily enough i think we will need to do that more often during the regular season as doing so takes the heat from the game and would help us get to the finals still fresh.

Thanks for the slide pics dom The highest number of games missed in AFL history. Combine that fact with the pre season from hell and you get one woeful season. And still some compare our situation to the pies and tigers.

That is a very good question.

Respectfully, thats not true Damo. They advised he had hip surgery before the season and again when he had a mid season break to build his strength. On the surgery he was often left of lists on here and in the media of players who had surgery - perhaps reflecting his standing. And I certainly reminded dl posters of those surgeries often enough.

All very valid questions. The club has a big call. Two other factors are relevant I reckon. The most important of those is that really, really good bigs are very hard to find. The draft is stacked with good flankers (could be rhyming slang?) and mids. So perhaps we get ash instead of young. But we won't get another jackson. The second factor is more speculation on my part. I wonder, given his athletisim, whether jackson might actually be played as a mid (ie with gawn still rucking). Say rotating wirh petracca. Would be formidable I would have thought.

I am sure we will see plenty of omac this year. And barring injury to him expect him to play most games. He is important to our structure. Will take an opposition big freeing up may and lever to be more aggressive and play ood their men. And his reliable kicking will be important. Would not be surprised to see him take a fair share of kick outs. Had to laugh when I read who made the omac comments - an 'Ian' apparently. Funny because my name is Ian. I promise it wasn't me. Unless I've gone rogue. On a serious note it is great that people at the forum and on here rightfully derided Ian's borish comments made in a public forum. Id love it if posters on dl considered this site a public forum and applied the same expectations of respectful criticism and comment. On the number of games omac plays happy to take bets, with choice of avatar the stake. Which if I win will be a picture of omac. I'm 2 for 2 on such bets (Hi prodee and Dr d) so betting with the bank's money. So to speak. Maybe Ian can put his money where his mouth is.

You may be right but im not sure the final sentence above proves the point. One im not sure it is accurate (ie some of the surgeries were wear and tear e.g. omac, a number of senior players had contact injuries eg melk, hannan, avb). Two luck plays a big part in contact injuries. Three, one year sample does not prove the point. But none the less I agree the style took an obvious toll. But if that is the model goody wants the team to become second nature then it is the approach they had to employ.

Yep. My post was supposed to follow on from your quote. Understandable that it could have been misread.

The decision Taylor has to make is not on who is the best footballer now. Or even in the next 2-3 years. But who is the best over 10 years. One assumes most experts think jackson is untapped and given he has played relativey little footy and is still growing has a tonne of upside. Young gives us what we need but it is hard nor to be excited by a player who could become an out and out star. Or not. Same vibe as for buddy in his draft year.

Not everyone

Not really. Surely the fact we had so many key players injured and rehabbing through the preseason made responding to the 666 rule change more difficult, for example just in terms of positioning and set up. Add to that avb and kk were likely our wingers and neither played a game.

Or he could have gone to the forum and made his point(s) there.

From Captain crisis

We've had way more than our fair share of funke

That is the sort of pre season interruption i can deal with. Mind you I'm a bit concerned with how specific the information is about the timing of their expected return.

What makes you think they are going into 'full on training'? I suspect, but don't know, that they are getting a good base down the pre Xmas so they can really attack jan and Feb before tapering in March.