Jaded No More

Disco looked good in there. I would play him instead of May (who needs to rest!), Howes can play the Rivers role as he’s a good user and AMW and Bowey can play on the smalls. The reality is that the midfield is the number one priority to fix in the off season. If it continues to stink it up then we won’t compete again. We need to generate more midfield power, and we will undoubtedly do that via the draft, but it’s not enough. Rivers and McVee are absolutely both good enough to become seriously great midfielders. It’s time to make it happen. Viney is 31, Trac is an unknown and may find himself more forward when he returns, Gus is gone, Salem can’t get on the field. We have to regenerate the midfield and the quickest way to do that, is to use what we already have at our disposal.

All I ask is for McVee Rivers and Kosi to get more midfield minutes between now and the end of the season.

You completely missed my point. Anyway, I am sure having one of Gus or Trac or a fit Clarry in any of the 3 games you mentioned above would have made a difference to the margin.

I said for weeks that we won’t make finals, but I also said that what I think shouldn’t matter as I want our club to do everything in their power to try and make finals. I’m not sure what is so hard to comprehend about that? I also NEVER wanted Gus traded. As for my Gus comment, let me clarify further for those hard of understanding. Losing Gus in isolation is absolutely not why we are where we are. Losing him on the eve of the season however started a chain of events which really compromised our entire season. Firstly it meant that we had to rush an underdone Clarry into the team, instead of giving him the time he needed to build his fitness after an interrupted off season. It also meant that once we lost Salem to injury we had no experienced player to cover the role. We then lost Trac, which meant we pushed Rivers into the midfield, but we lost that drive off half back because you guessed it, no Gus. Same can be said for losing Bowey for 8 weeks in round 0. Gus had the versatility to slot in a multitude of roles, roles that have been hit hard by injuries this season. And finally, you speak to anyone in the inner sanctum and they’ll tell you that Gus was as much a leader as Gawn and Viney and Lever. Gawn and Gus spent a lot of time bouncing ideas off one another. Losing that spiritual leadership has really hurt the side. Losing a player and teammate they loved so much so suddenly, hurt equally as much. So no, Gus alone is not the reason we are where we are. But his sudden loss not only left us an A grader short on the list, it started a chain of events which is very much part of why we are where we are. I will challenge any club to go into a season losing a key player without cover, then losing their best midfielder to injury while their other best midfielder is battling with injury. Take Cripps and Walsh out of Carlton, Bont and Libba out of the Dogs etc etc and they would struggle. The reality is that in a competition this close, everything matters. If instead of us losing Gus the Pies lost Hill 10 minutes into finals, and Brisbane don’t lose Ashcroft to an ACL, well I reckon the premiership history book is written differently.

Demonland is nothing if not predicable. Death, taxes, and “sack Goodwin” posts every time we lose.

When we lost Gus we lost our season.

Turner is gonna be a player

The devil works hard, but the ARC works harder. FFS there’s an umpire standing RIGHT THERE

He’s awful. Every week I watch him call for really obvious goals to be reviewed. Just make a bloody decision you gutless [censored].

Everything Kosi touches turns to gold

Well done Woey Jnr

The ARC is the real winner tonight

Kolt’s lack of pace worries me. Lever without May = 🫠

To be fair while the umpires are horrible, we are losing because we are completely terrible and being dominated all over the ground.

So we dominated clearances this quarter without Clarry or Viney doing anything. Interesting.

Going by his goal kicking, possibly 😂

Disco and Petty back now and Tmac has gone forward. Probably because he was getting too close to punching an umpire in the head.

McDonald is me tonight

Umps and ARC need to get in the [censored] bin I bloody despise English. P!ssweak [censored].

Oh just get [censored]

Goodbye 2024. You’ve been downright awful.

One of my absolute favorites. Star and a great guy to boot.

I am bewildered by the midfield set up. Gawn taps to the open side where Clarry is standing behind his opponent. Why is Rivers hardly playing midfield? Why aren’t we tagging Bont? Tmac’s frustration is very much felt here.

Normal programming has resumed. We look trash.

7 week suspension incoming