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We need to appeal. I don't care if May misses another few weeks. We need to appeal for the sake of the game. You can't let that become the normal sentence for a normal football action. I doubt many would argue if he received 1 week. 2 weeks would be harsh justice. Tom Lynch got 5 weeks for an intentional punch to an opponent's head. How the [censored] is this 3?

Yeah ok. I appreciate that the chart can be the starting point for a more detailed conversation. At the start of the season I had us finishing 7th in the ladder with hopefully a wet sail. Ah Steven! Please tell us the story about your brother telling our recruiters to draft Hannebury instead of Strauss again.

All that chart shows is that we have had some good games against some teams in the top 8. Good victories over Brisbane and Freo. Very close losses against Collingwood and Giants which we should have won. That's it really. Even if we had won those games we would still be outside the eight. The real question from here is: can this talented list turn it around next season.

This comment took me by surprise as he seems a big guy. How tall is tall enough these days? He's listed at 194cm While I would prefer we had at least one key forward who is 196cm or taller (Ideally another who is close to 200cm who can pinch hit ruck). I think 194cm is tall enough to make it. A few players for comparison Harry McKay 204cm Tom Lynch 199cm Lance Franklin 199cm Nick Larkey 198cm Joel Amartey 197cm Tom Hawkins 197cm Harrison Perry 197cm Jesse Hogan 195cm Aaron Cadman 195cm Josh Tracey 195cm Matthew Jefferson 195cm Tex Walker 194cm Charlie Curnow 194cm Jacob Van rooyen 193cm Nate Caddy 193cm Darcy Fogarty 192cm Jack Darling 191cm Jake Waterman 191cm

I started reading this thread without knowing the Casey game was happening. I thought that Lurker had got a miraculous call up to the senior team.

An absolute disgrace. I was already livid at him for screaming at a first year player in Lindsey after that 50m penalty and then he has a go at the greatest ruckman of all time for a bad kick in the last 30 seconds. He can go and get [censored]. Lindsey dropped his head after that spray and continued to make mistakes. As if he needed an over the top verbal spray from a senior 'leader' player.

We are going to need money for Caulfield. If we don't get a new home base soon we will be left very far behind. Unfortunately, we need the money.

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Oh good. I thought I would have to re-watch the game and focus on him. I thought it was a very good game from Salem. Glad I'm not the only one.

The Scott Thompson trade still hurts. Young gun who was on the verge of becoming a great player. He got injured mid year and didn't play again for us before we traded him for pick 14. I remember discussing with other Demonland posters that we had got massive unders. We knew he was worth way more than that. We on traded pick 14 to the cats for Brent Moloney who needed draft capital to send to Richmond for Brad Ottens. Richmond picked up Danny Meyers who played 26 games.

McVee may play a position that isn't as much value as other positions, but it's a position we need. McVee has shown that he can play his positional very well. He is 21 years old and should improve with more experience. He will be a lock in that position for 10 years baring injury. That's 10 years of never having to worry about a small defender. I wouldn't be giving that up, let alone gifting it to an opposition team without significant returns. As for JVR, he is either carrying injury or horribly out of form. He kicked 28 goals in 2023 and 30 in 2024 while also playing back up ruck. I wouldn't be writing him off cheaply either. I do appreciate that we want Jacko and the benefits of nabbing him would be a near perfect fit. That third tall forward/ ruck is a difficult role to fill. I've come to accept that Kozzie will leave at years end. If he doesn't then we will have to give up something of value and I appreciate the opening post thinking of options.

No juicy nuggets. As mentioned above, there is a lot of frustration with their players kicking it straight to Gawn. A lot of disappointment in their midfielders not working hard defensively. These are the only worthy mentions from the bigfooty post match thread on Brisbane's board. Noah terrible, and how Harris continually gets bullied by Melksham is frankly pathetic. Goodwin may be average in many areas but he does a really good job in identifying opposition weapons and get plans in place to blunt them. Melksham on Harris and Petracca playing on Dunkley were interesting moves. Highest tackle count on Lions side was Lester with 5. Even Dunkley had only 4 as I think Petracca went defensive on him. Rest didn't bother. Note to Brisbane defenders. The big bald dude is not - I repeat NOT on your team. I know we were wearing a different jumper today but it's not excuse for not being able to kick to a team mate. How many kicks inside attacking 50 didn't even go to a challenge, let alone to our advantage? And clearing defence ..... what a ****ing joke. Just keep kicking it to the biggest guy on the pitch and hoping he doesn't just send it straight back. Gawn was always killing us today. He is the best ruckman to ever play AFL/VFL football. He will be a hall of famer as soon as the waiting list is over post retirement. Criteria is 5 years. He will get it as soon as he is eligible

I didn't think we still had it in us to run out the game strong. Great work team. Held in all day and completely owned the last quarter. It's a good day.

It really is slim pickings. All the talk from bigfooty Brisbane board is about Gawn vs Big O. Big O is struggling big time and they are worried Gawn will dominate. McInnerny is getting epidurals to get him through the pain. A lot of comments about playing Fort instead or tag teaming Gawn, however Fort has been dropped. The draw to North last week has really put doubts into their minds. I'm surprised they aren't more confident, but I guess we usually matchup well against them. Some standard comments that I've picked. 1.This game against Melbourne is going to be a tough game especially as Gawn is playing so well in the ruck. 2.Gawn's clutch marking all over the ground is such an asset, I'd love to see how we can use Payne to get to those contents and nullify him in the air as much as possible (especially against a weaker tall forward line) 3.I am a tad worried about Kosi as well, always seems to go well against us, does not need many touches to cause damage, I assume Answerth goes to him. Also think this game will be very tough, the Dees have played some decent footy the last few weeks albeit in patches, we would not want to take them lightly like we did North. 4.100% on Kossi he slays us keeps them in games against us and i always get nervous when he is near the ball inside our D50. Melbourne like a low scoring game if Kossi gets us like he normally does they will be in this 1 and perhaps cause an upset if we play in the manner we did last week (looking at our mids whilst saying this) And if B.Frisk gets his out the back ****min goals that he has a rich and proud history of....im quitting footy

Yeah, to be fair I went back and looked at the footage from another angle and there wasn't much in the Ginbey push.