Jaded No More

There is nobody I enjoy watching play footy more in a non Melbourne jumper than Bolton

Another 70 inside 50s for 5 goals?

With Woewodin and JJ as ins (and only one mid out), it definitely spells a mid going forward for longer periods. It obviously won’t be Viney, so that leaves Trac or Sparrow. They can definitely both rotate at half forward and make an impact. What concerns me is the lack of reliable goal kickers. Ben Brown aside, where are the rest of the goals coming from if Kosi doesn’t have a great game (and form isn’t on his side)? I’m all for playing to the ground conditions (would have been good to see that the last two weeks), but we don’t really give any forward mix a real go consistently. Smith in for 3 weeks, two of those weeks played in awful conditions. He wasn’t amazing, but he also was not giving us less than Melksham has, and is certainly much better defensively. This can’t be the forward set up we think we take to September, unless we are very confident Fritsch will be cherry ripe for finals, Gawn will start delivering up forward, and Ben Brown is going to return to 2021 form. Long reach there.

This is the master plan we’ve been working on. Genius.

I’m confused by the lack of forwards

Why didn't they communicate the complexity of the injury to begin with? Did they not know it was a tendon issue? Why let all this [censored] fester online and in the media and cause further hurt to Clarry? Also the mind boggles why we are now giving him 3-4 weeks to recover, instead of, you know, two months ago??

Three months for a hamstring injury. Yep, checks out.

Oh good. No Clarry for another month and no Fritsch until finals.

Marvel SUUUUUUUCKS. I just pre paid for parking because of course half the train lines are once again out of action. It is a terrible stadium with no atmosphere and you can't see anything from 90% of the general admission seating. I rate it 0 stars, and yet I will be there with at least 2 bells on.

Goal kicking was still bad 🙄😅

Juicy $1.01 odds on Brisbane.

Agreed. Like people have anything better to do on a Saturday night in the middle of winter anyway. I for one can't wait. School holidays have gone on for what feels like several decades, and I am ready to escape to Marvel.

Somewhere my high school friend who was OBSESSED with Shane is sobbing uncontrollably 😂

Did you think Bowey was ready? Or McVee? Debuts are one of the best things about footy. Just enjoy it ffs!

It helps that most Pies fans are on Centrelink 😉

And not debuting him as a sub 🙄

Such good news!

People are dumb and nasty

Like he’s a drug cheat, like he’s on his final strike etc etc Yes morons will be morons, but when you keep feeding the trolls…. I just hope that mentally he’s resilient enough to handle this rubbish.

Well social media is once again flooded with absolutely horrible innuendo and garbage rumours. Oliver deserves better.

Me too. But I have no idea what he’s not doing well. He’s been as productive in front of goal as any of our other forwards. He kicks well, he competes well. Without Fritsch I would have thought JVR would be the perfect replacement. I have no idea where our goals are going to come from.

The goal posts have significantly shifted every week. I don’t need a breakdown of his medical history, but he’s our most important player and the last time the club said nothing, morons on the internet said he was serving a drug ban. I don’t want that circulating again. I’m sure he doesn’t either.

Firstly that discussion should be had behind closed doors Secondly, it takes nothing away from the fact that he’s missed two months of football with a reported regulation hamstring.

Why the hell did they fly him up to Alice? What possible benefit would two plane rides made to his hamstrings? The vision of him arguing with Selwyn today is really not great.