Very Jaded

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.

Too true. We lost a game of footy. These guys lost their mum.

Can he kick goals?!

Agreed. He won’t get sacked nor should he at the moment, but if we don’t overhaul the rest of the coaching team come year end, I would be very disappointed. Pert needs to flex some muscle and go hunt top assistant coaches from other clubs. Throw that extra cash we made from all those idiots who signed up as members this year!

That miss by TMac which ended up in a Collingwood goal was the moment we lost the game. I love McDonald but he is an embarrassment to himself and a liability to our team right now.

I do love supporters saying Goodwin isn’t the blame because he isn’t the one kicking poorly. Mate, he’s our senior coach. He is to blame for our poor structure, for our lack of game plan forward of the ball, for giving out of form and soft players games every week, for repeating the same thing week in week out and expecting the same result. Sure he isn’t telling McDonald to miss a regulation shot and ruin our momentum and hence the game, but he is picking a half fit player who can’t move when he has a second ruck in the VFL who can just as easily stand in the goal square and do SFA. The blame falls on his shoulders. To suggest otherwise is to give him a free pass he doesn’t deserve.

You have to feel positive about the fact that we can get the ball. But we cannot use it. The utter disrespect that Goodwin shows the wings at the MCG is embarrassing and makes him look like a moron. Nobody cares that we smash them in clearances because they know nobody on the outside can do anything with it.

The lowlight was having to report a scum supporter today for abuse. No idea if anyone will follow it up, but he was drunk and abusive and of course had a small child with him, because why not continue the cycle of being a filthy piece of dog [censored]?! Anyway I thought our backline was good. The difference May and Lever made was immense. May was excellent. Lever got better as the game wore on. Hannan likewise. So nice to have some quality back in the side. Gawn was superb was always. Grundy can clean his shoelaces as far as I’m concerned. A superb midfielder and leader. Our contested work was good, but as has been the case all year, we have no purpose using the ball going forward of Centre. I don’t know what the game plan is, but it’s failing. Chaos ball is dead. Speaking of dead, Tom McDonald’s career... what has happened? I would give him the rest of the year off and pop Preuss at FF. How much worse can it get?!!

If you can’t kick a football you can’t play football.