Jaded No More

Have you seen who isn’t playing for Geelong? Dogs will respond strongly after last week.

Hopefully. Makes their already leaky defense worse.

Caller on SEN lol Pies are in shocking form, they need a win. Besides there are no guarantees Brisbane beat Saints. We can still finish 3rd.

It could mean nothing, but it could also mean that we have far more finals experience than any other team in it, which can only help

Ok let me rephrase that. Of the top 8 sides (assuming Dogs miss out), the most recent flags are: 2021 Melbourne 2012 Sydney 2010 Pies 2004 Port 2003 Lions 1995 Carlton 1966 Saints GSW - LOL

Don’t laugh. If Pies lose we are odds on to play Brisbane at the Gabba in week one of finals. No. Thank. You.

Port have no draft leverage at all. So they’ll have to give us a player and it has to be more than Georgiadis Will take Butters if I must 😂

Because we are the only side in the 8 that has won a flag this decade

Ummm Goodwin? If you mean who will coach our midfield, we can go after Dew, Ratten etc. Buckley is never leaving his cushy media gig

And the way they all cry about the trade ban they got for rotting their COLA. You gotta laugh.

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Hey @binman are Sydney favourites in this game because the punters think we are going to try and lose to stay in 4th?

I reckon he will. Goody sounded happy when he talked about him. To me it’s our best option given we’ve lost Petty. It allows us to play Tommo down back and make Smith the sub who can then cover forward or back. Also means Tmac can take the forward ruck contest which leaves JVR open deep.

I don’t think you understood my point. I’m all for giving Tmac and Fritta a run this week. Even if underdone it helps with cohesion in a game we don’t need to win.

Berry is a bog ordinary footballer. If they want to run with him in their finals side then it gives us an advantage. Would you play Harmes to shut down Neale at the expense of say Gus or Sparrow? Good luck to the Lions. They’ve lost a lot of class and pace with Ashcroft going down. Doubt they’ll play a mid in a purely negative role in finals, but it may happen again. With Fritta back is reduces the need to play Trac forward. So they shut down Clarry and Viney, Trac and Gus get a better run instead. I’m not worried. The crack at McGuiness IMO was because he was going the man not the ball. Holding and scragging Clarry illegally behind play all day. I hope in finals the best umpires don’t allow that to happen.

Why? We don’t need to win this game we just need to get run into their legs and cohesion up forward.

Clarry won’t get tagged in finals like that tho. Which finals side is going to have a run with player focused solely on shutting down Clarry over winning the ball?

I mean if Tmac and Fritta hit form then we aren’t that far off our premiership winning forwardline. Just replace BB with JVR.

Overs for mine. Could be our last chance in a while to get another generational midfielder and extend our window.

Hulett is the one that got me.

If he passes a medical, then it's not the worst idea IF we think Verral has a future from 2025 and beyond. Also means Goldstein is on injury standby, because you can't play him and Gawn in the same side. Ever.

Pre season 2021 they rated our midfield bottom 4. I still laugh at that.

Not to mention that in the last quarter Mitchell moved the tag off Clarry, because he obviously felt they couldn't win the game if we continued to drive so much attack from half back, so he tagged Rivers instead and Clarry spent like 10 minutes being Clarry and we win the game anyway. You don't beat the top sides with a tag, because the top sides do not rely on one player to win games. We literally beat the top 2 teams this year without Oliver.

Grundy's rating is a joke. He cost us very little and saved our [censored] when Gawn was injured, while getting Gawn to peak Gawn at the pointy end of the season. And the irony is, we will get as much if not more in return for him than we paid to get him, should he choose to leave.