Jaded No More

He may well retire especially if he has another calf injury. Not sure how we fill all the list space we are likely to have, especially as we don’t currently hold a second round pick. At the very least we will have spots left by Gus, Smith and a retiring Ben Brown (can’t see him getting another contract). Schache is unlikely to have his contract renewed. Then you have Tomlinson as well, and that’s not even taking into account that Tmac may retire (hopefully not, but he was set to retire heading into this season), plus other delistings such as Hunter. Given we rarely pick beyond round 3 of the draft, we will need to find some decent free agents or get some trades happening to fill those vacancies. At least we have debuted plenty of youngsters this season to allow us to make some good calls on their future. I was sure AMW would be delisted, but he’s proved me totally wrong!

I loved the free against Salem for a push in the back (no issues it was a free), but then Stringer was allowed to shove Judd in the back 10 times for no free. Just be consistent for god’s sake!

The only thing that may work in his favour is that we already will have a large list turnover. They may keep him on if he’s willing to take a small contract, as we do lack depth in the midfield. He is not a bad depth player, but culturally he’s a liability.

Anyone know what the injury to Woey is?

That was a shocking call that went our way. I swear umpires have zero feel for the game.

I’ve heard very similar and I don’t read BigFooty. Hard to see him retained on the list beyond this season.

He should be getting 6 touches a quarter at that level, at a minimum, while playing midfield.

All hail King Judd

Charlie Dixon; when you’re repairing a clogged toilet at 12 and lining up at FF at 1.

If he complained about that, I can imagine his displeasure at some of the lovely things I was telling him to do last night.

Thanks Mr Jefferson

Pickett Fence is weeing himself as we speak

@WalkingCivilWar was Jefferson training as normal during the week? Just wondering if he’s injured or rested or potentially debuting next week?

Because Nathan Williamson is more worried about getting his 90s boy band hair on tv than being an actually good umpire who makes consistent logical decisions. The fact that I know his name and number means he’s a rubbish umpire.

The ruck position is completely overrated. Unless your ruckman is Max Gawn.

His aerobic fitness should be medically tested for science

Do they also think Petty was the wrong choice to ruck? 😂

No sure Petty can ruck another week and this time against two actually great ruckmen. Much food for thought.

100% TOG. The man is superhuman. By the way, Petty returning from a horrible foot injury with 0 pre season and hamstring awareness a week ago, and is expected to ruck against a really good solid ruckman. The pile on is insane. Roo was always going to do better given he trained to do backup rucking all pre season under Gawn while Petty was riding a scooter with a foot in a moonboot.

Melksham’s ACL and Maynard being a POS cost us a flag last year. Nobody will convince me otherwise.

Australia wins

The only thing the “Package” 🤮 has done in pre season is eat McDonalds and apparently take up a new religion.

Porky can’t run

AMW getting subbed off was purely about fitness. We had a lot of kids running on a very heavy track. I expected us to run out of gas to be honest. Did not help making the sub and then immediately losing Rivers for 10 minutes to a shoulder jab and strap. Also McVee running rings around Porky Stringer was delightful.

Windsor is fire