Jaded No More

So we are going to trade an AA ruckman for an average forward who has done his ACL? Yep that sounds like exactly the sort of thing we’d do.

How about our inaccurate kicking? We finished on 13 behinds. Crows on 15. If we kick straight in the last it’s a 5 goal win.

It’s a fine balance between getting the touch and match hardness back in his legs for as long as possible pre finals, given he’s missed so much footy, and not risking him for a game we should win anyway. The flight is 45 mins. It’s neither here nor there. He probably spends longer driving to Casey every day. I also imagine it’ll be a cold day in hell before Clarry finds himself playing in the VFL for fitness/form… would be fun to see him get 60 touches then get taken off at quarter time tho 😂

Woewodin does not have the elite endurance that Hunter has. A few times today he got lost in the transition from half forward to half back. It’s fine, he’s a kid, and it happens. But to play wing requires the freakish ability to run and run and run repeatedly at top speed all day. Hunter and Langdon do that better than anyone. You will not see us place that burden on Woey in his first season. JJ is ok but he doesn’t have the speed. It’s why we went and got another specialist wingman. Hunter is ridiculously maligned here for no reason.

Goody said Clarry is still 2-3 weeks away post game but Ooze said pre game that the North game is the plan, which is 2 weeks. Is Goody just covering his [censored] after the last 10 times when he told us Clarry was playing next week and didn’t? Or is Yze just frothing at the mouth to have his best player back?

He is holding the space warm for Fritta. He’s a very good impact player in short bursts, but cannot sustain 4 quarters of effort anymore. He does it once in a while but never consistently. For mine he has to play the sub role, but Smith is a better option now thanks to his super versatility at both ends of the ground. He could even ruck if you were very very desperate.

McVee might go for a rest. Tough ask to play 24 games plus finals in your second season of AFL. Plus McVee really had his colours lowered today by Rankine, who admittedly is an absolute gun, but you can make a case for him making way for Hibbo, who looked 90 levels above everyone else at Casey. I would consider bringing in Petty forward but I know that won’t happen anymore. Just can’t see how you drop Tomlinson on today’s game. He was so much better than May, but of course you don’t drop May. Or do you “manage” him? The big call will be Grundy. Richmond are basically ruckman-less. We could bring Grundy in for BB and try and stretch them that way?

Lunch pale union guys. You kill me 😂

Each to their own. I hope you’re pleasantly surprised in September.

Ben Brown is one of the smartest players in our team. If he wasn’t playing without a kneecap, he would be doing a Tax Walker right now.

Hunter is the new ANB. Everyone wants him dropped every week. And he never will be.

We both had 9 shots on goal in the last quarter. They nailed theirs. We didn’t. We kick straight and we smash them.

I’ll raise you Oliver, Fritsch and Petty. Three much better players.

Exactly this. Ross Lyon is the best coach in the game at taking the worst possible lists and turning them into mediocre teams. Saints have a bottom 4 list IMO. If Ross coached Adelaide they’d be top 6. They’d never kick more than 4 goals a game, but they’d be top 6.

Because they are a very young side. So they are going to be inconsistent. A side that takes it up to all top 4 teams is not a bad side. They play very aggressive footy. Like the Pies that is fraught with danger. Unlike the Pies, they don’t have the experience. Pies are on average the second most experienced side playing week in week out. That helps. Adelaide will be a very good team in a year or two. I know I would rather play any side currently sitting 5th- 12th over them.

He is cooked now. Been insanely good all year. I hope he has a rest when Clarry is back.

Nah mate, we are no good. Go away with this rubbish.

No I’m asking who do you think is a better side? Because the Saints are 6th and they are, IMO, rubbish. Adelaide are inconsistent because they’re young. But they are a much better side than Saints. Ladder position aside.

They will be a bloody good team in a year or two. Make no mistake about that.

We are 4th on the ladder with 2 games and percentage ahead of the rest. Why is it blind faith to believe we are a good side? We’ve beaten more top 4 sides than the Pies have.

Would have helped given May had an absolute stinker. He. Was. Putrid.

Who do you think is a better team? Adelaide or Saints?

Why is Tomlinson getting dropped this week for Petty, when he was our best tall defender today, instead of Petty going into the forwardline? I will never understand this logic.

Not enough is being made of the fact that we have been without arguably the best player in the competition for close to 3 months now. Oh and missing our best forward and one of the best medium forwards in the competition. We just do not appreciate what a loss Oliver is. That we’ve managed to beat 2 top 4 teams without him is bloody excellent. Very few sides would cover this type of loss for as long as we have.

Pies give up a massive lead against Adelaide too and conceded 7.1 in a quarter to them. We came back from 5 goals last week against Brisbane. Why oh why are the Pies the most amazing team to ever exist when they claw their way to win, and we are no good when we do? 🤷‍♀️