Jaded No More

If he’s not ready for a full game he shouldn’t be getting a game. Because there’s every chance he will need to play a full game as Laurie did in last year’s final against Pies. You shouldn’t play anyone who can’t compete for a full game. Sub or otherwise.

I just think that starting a debutant as sub is giving him little to no chance to succeed. Worse case scenario he comes on early for a key injury, and struggles to fill the role. Best case scenario he comes on in the last and has minimal chances to show what he’s got. Hope I’m wrong and he has a great showing on limited game time!

I hate this

Kayo struggles to stream with my high speed NBN. I can only imagine how amazing the stream will be using airplane WiFi 😂

Does anyone know if you can download a replay from Kayo to watch offline? Hoping to watch the replay on the 7 hour flight home

Yeah yeah, but can he take a contested mark?

Following (half arsed and unenthusiastically) from Singapore airport Not braggin… just shopping 😆

One of my favourites. A humble champion.

The tiny glimmer of hope we had left, is now gone with Trac out for the season. You don't win flags without your best players.

Bye bye 2024, you were trash Sending Trac all the positive healing vibes. I'd give you my spleen if I could!

Bloody hell poor Trac. Hope he makes a full recovery!

Yep LJ is more of a long term loss IMO Certainly not a loss from a leadership perspective however

This is @WalkingCivilWar one chance to get his job!

You’ve clearly never heard a Melbourne player speak about Gus. There is a reason we wanted him to be involved at the club and especially on game day on the bench. It wasn’t some sympathy job offer. The club knows full well how vitally important his leadership was. Forget the fact that he was incredibly versatile and excelled in just about any role you gave him, forget that he’d help our midfield woes, forget that he often stood up in big moments. Good players come and go, but great leaders are hard to find and harder still to replace.

Of all the players who departed our club since 2021, the only one that’s left an irreplaceable hole, is Gus. The rest would make no difference to our fortunes right now. But the loss of Gus on field and off it, has had IMO an immeasurable negative impact on the team.

It's irrelevant. If he has something personal going on off the field, and they want to keep it private (which they clearly do), then by all means don't discuss it. But this constant need by the Collingwood PR machine to make Maynard the goddamn victim, and paint him as Mother Teresa, is putrid. He was upset after what he did to Gus? Good, so he damn well should be. At least he still gets to play football.

Or you can poke my eyes out with a blunt knife instead 😭

This is the [censored] that makes my blood boil. Just [censored] OFF mate.

Yep, they’ll get on it right after they stop using a Nokia 3310 to give us ARC decisions I’m sure 😑

I never said he lied. I have no doubt Trac said he was fine to go back on and try to play thru the pain. But if the doctor turned around and said sorry we think you may have internal injuries, you need to go to hospital, there is no way known that Trac would or could overrule the doctor.

Club confirmed he’s had a procedure done. No idea if for the hole in the lung or the spleen tho. Neither sound good.

Yep, so a doctor had to sign off on him returning to play. It wasn’t Trac saying “I’m going back out” while a doctor ran behind him with a broken stethoscope yelling “but you’ll die” 😂

You do realize that what he’s saying makes the medical staff even more negligent, because it seems like the players are calling the shots. Which is ridiculous as the players are NOT doctors. I don’t think the decision to get back on the ground was his alone because a doctor would have to sign it off.