Jaded No More

To be honest, if the players are happy, that is all that matters. I am sure if there were options up to grabs, they would have spoken to the leadership team and asked them to discuss the options with the players and decide which location they preferred. If as someone mentioned they can have their own apartments rather than staying in hotel rooms, you would definitely take that, especially for those with small kids /babies. If you're going to live out of a suitcase for a long period of time, having extra space, bedrooms, a proper kitchen etc would definitely be a plus. Also note that some players have school aged kids who need to do remote learning, so the bigger space would definitely be a plus.

Knock on wood, but gees injury list is looking good compared to the last few years. Now I've probably gone and jinxed it.

Just terrible.

I want to know what Harmes' role was yesterday before I make judgements. I may be wrong but I think he was playing on Smith, who regularly destroys us. If so, he did an excellent job as Smith was basically invisible. He also appeared to play a little more forward, which I don't mind, but of course that will lower his stats. Wouldn't pay too much attention to the free kicks. There were some pretty soft ones paid the Hawks way. Can't blow air on them without it being a free. Gawn was absolutely immense yesterday. At one point my husband said 'I don't know why they bother playing someone on him, just give it up'. Next minute the umpire is yelling 'no Hawks ruck', Gawn takes the ball out of the backline all on his own. It's like they knew.

How can you drop Jackson after today?

No change I don’t think. Unless we know we are about to get slammed with matches and need to rest some players.

Finally a four quarter effort. And the structural changes with a second tall forward and a second true tall defender has completely changed our game. It was a no brainer and I’m glad finally they’ve figured it out. Jackson being so mobile actually makes us look better than Tmac because he is good at ground level. I wouldn’t be opposed to seeing him and Weid getting the next 3-4 weeks together to see how things develop. Jackson can also more than hold his own in the ruck which is very important as it allows Gawn more time to play in the defensive half where he dominates. Omac has been wonderful the last two weeks and I hope all the haters can finally get over their biased opinions against him.

Gunston. I swear he just loves to play us. Oh well. We smashed them.

Weideman just needs confidence and continuity. He has a lot of the hallmarks of a wonderful player.

Why Weideman hasn’t played until last week is an absolute mystery.

I don’t think I’ve ever watched Melbourne play Hawthorn where Gunston hasn’t been good. It’s just really baffling.

Given we are playing the best team in the comp next week, we need to take a big win.

Oliver has been ok I guess haha

I just [censored] knew we would come out and smash them ?

I just [censored] knew it

Smith and Gunston. FFS. Every. Single. Time we play this team.

I’m just worried we will stop in the second half. Five goals is not a big enough margin and with a percentage as low as ours we need to keep going.

Jackson doing very well. I’m so impressed.

How is that NOT holding the ball?

Who is this and what have you done to my team?

That. Handball.

Jetta is having a good game

Brilliant pressure inside forward 50 in the second half of that quarter. All of our goals came directly from that. Well done.

FFS our lack of defensive spread is absolutely [censored] woeful. We look horrid.

Aren't your borders still close to everyone? Or did I miss something?