Jaded No More

No risking players unnecessarily please. No change for mine.

Well credit to Rawlings. This was the least dysfunctional our forwardline has looked all year.

It’s like he played at GC his whole career and has never had a win....

Regardless, you do not hit a player in the head. We had the free. In our forward 50. Disgusting leadership. Jones should be embarrassed by that.

[censored] off Jones. Garbage leadership.

The AFL should spend less time regulating fan behavior and more time regulating umpiring standards. The umpiring this season has been a joke.

Having a fit list is pretty much key to winning premierships. Statistically the less players in your list you use during the season the better you place.

Foot. Fecking. Soreness. Might as well tell us he’s out for 4-6 weeks. Just amputate. This season. I’m done.

Why the [censored] did they rush him? I just can’t with this club’s injury management.

I hope we don’t spare any money finding a new elite conditioning coach or whatever the hell is the title. A very very important role, I would look at teams who have had good success with injury management and throw a bag of cash at whoever manages them. Injuries ruined our 2017 and 2019 seasons. Let us not have 2020 be a repeat.

Would trade Petracca over Gus. Would get us more in a trade too.

Well done to the club for being proactive. All I want is to not waste them last 10 rounds. And they haven’t. Thrilled Rawlings is back. Wasted in the VFL he is an excellent line coach and can only help our horrible forwardline’s form.

I get to save money buying finals tickets and spend it on alcohol and cheese instead (but will most likely just put it towards the million wedding related bills).

Correct. The club made no excuses for Gawn in round 1 after he was hospitalized with an infection just days before the game. In fact nobody knew about it until after the game when some journo wrote it up.

The lack of respect for a champion of this club who stuck around when we were an abomination on and off the field when he could have left, is frankly heartbreaking. I know fans who jumped ship while he stayed and carried a pathetic group of players on his back . Jones not only deserves another year, he also deserves to call time on his career the way he chooses to. He has bloody earnt that much, and frankly him playing 22 games in 2020 is not going to be the reason we don’t win a flag.

If we don’t use the rest of this year to get ourselves cherry ripe for 2020 and find out what we need to know about out of contract players, we are surely just wasting our time chasing a pipe dream. Let’s make the most of the second half of the year by giving players who need exposure all the games (is JHK any good? Do we keep Stretch? Which rookie gets an extension? Can Salem play wing now that Lever and May are back? If KK is fit can he play wing?). And for the love of god please send McDonald to some sort of healing retreat. I can’t see him slowly and painful hobbling around any more.

Got 10 clearances. Ten! Insane. Ruck rule changes have really helped him.

He had what 7-8 clearances? He is dominating around the ground.

I hope we pick a slow inside mid with suspect kicking. It’s the missing piece of our puzzle.

A Collingwood fan on the train even said that Gawn destroyed Grundy. He is so far above any other ruckman in the competition. He now wins clearances too. An absolutely phenomenal player!

True. But we might be good next year. Who knows. At least we didn’t trade our first round pick this year and we can console ourselves with a decent player come the end of the year.

Doesn’t look aggressive. Just passionate. Hore is a rookie but he is a mature aged player. Don’t think he would run home and cry about being given some directions from a senior player.

He and Salem clashed head. Didn’t pass concussion test. Not sure Salem did much better going by his disposal today.

We can’t trade our first round pick this year . Thank. God!

On the plus side, how good was it to see Lever and May on the field and getting thru the game? May was very very good. Did an excellent job on De Goey who is an absolute gun.