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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.

Well your 2nd point is wrong. Ginbey pushed Petty in the contest when he knew he wasn't going to impact. Petty is now concussed and there is apparently nothing to see? Ginbey who has done it before. It's very similar to the mansel incident.

Exactly. Spargo was in rehab for most of the preseason. His round 2 selection was a shock to many and it looked like Goody was rushing him back from injury just like he did in round 1 the previous year. Why rush him back? Well.. just have a look at this thread. When the options are: Sharp - has had a few good moments but has been disappointing overall. Culley - A slow midfielder who got delisted by a team who are in full rebuild and has also just got over an injury himself. Spargo had 7 disposals on the weekend, 2 of them were clangers. He is still better than the other options. I would much rather play Spargo and hope he can build on form as we know he is good when fit. We have multiple players each week who are horribly out of form who continue to get games. Jesus... We even have Fullarton getting a game at the moment. The cupboard isn't bare, but it's slim pickings in the reserves at the moment.

We can get all the W's back together again. White, Woewodin, Walsh. Now we just need to find a Wheelan, Ward and Wheately.

100% dazzle. Barry had a few odd choices which gets immediately pointed out by has haters. I followed the draft heavily back in those days like many on here. The Gysberts pick was the real standout flaw although he looked great in his first few games. I remember the media stories and rumours coming out that other clubs didn't rate him that high. The majority of the other picks went round about where they should have. Was it a mistake picking Watts over NikNat? Yes. But Watts would have been a top 5 pick if we didn't take him. Likewise with the majority of the other picks. Blease went about where most thought. Tapscott was there abouts. Scully and Trengove were widely known as the top 2 picks that year months out. Even if all of Barry's picks were taken a smidgen early, there is no way all of those picks fail to forge a decent career. I remember when Blease retired and he said "well I've had 5 senior coaches in 7 years." Our facilities sucked. Our development sucked. I feel bad for the players we drafted as they were in the worst environment to succeed at AFL level.

Alright. We have seen a lot of words and little action. The president has said to judge us on next week where the players are ready to impress. I'll be watching expecting an improvement. If it doesn't happen then I'll be done with the current administration and expect a number of staff to give notice.

These things are small potatoes for me now. I'm thinking long term. We need to become a good club first and foremost. #1. Get a training base. It's held us back for 30 years and we cannot attract talent based on 'good team culture' anymore. It's a massive hindrance and it needs to be sorted before we can truly become a club that has sustained success. #2. Anyone who doesn't want to be here can go. Accept unders if/when required and get on with it. I don't want to see a pea heart effort like the first 2 quarters ever again. #3. Rebuild as best we can before Tas come into the comp.

That's the sad thing for me too. After the first quarter I found myself just not caring and starting to think of the other things I could be doing instead of watching. I'm guessing this is how the fair weather supporters feel and I'm not upset that i'm thinking of becoming one.

Fantastic from spargo. It would normally just be good, but tonight it's incredible.

I just keep watching thinking it's going to 'click'. This is the first time ever that I'm thinking of turning off. It's so hard to watch. At least in the rebuild years you could get belted but see a work in progress or some good individual games from certain players. This is just horrendous.

The bigger question for me is Why would he want to come to us?

At the ground. Umpire number 22 is freaking killing us AGAIN.

Loved dark as soon as I switched to it. It's the navy blue with red user names and white text. It's the Guernsey colours and different to all the other websites I visit. I'm surprised that there are so many picking the light theme in the poll.

Bah.. never before have I been so frustrated by the lack of information. I usually fully understand that the club just want to get the scans know before commenting. This one really hurts. Sitting here just fearing the worst.

Of course. But it hasn't changed. Some of Vineys kicks inside 50 last week were the worst I've ever seen from him. Worse than when he had full blown plantar fasciitis. Players who consistently do it needs to be dragged to the bench. If it continues then you tell them they will be dropped until it improves. If it doesn't get better you drop them for someone who can do it better. It's 100% in the coaches power to change but they don't and I don't know if they will. They just continue to talk about it.

I'm happy. We lack key position players especially developing in defence. I'm thinking TMac might even get another year purely as depth depending on how he finishes the year.

Rivers just needs a bit more time and experience to adjust to the additional opposition midfield pressure. Certainly worth continuing with. I haven't seen anything which suggests Langdon can play an inside role. He looked completely lost last weekend.

I would love to give all the praise to the opposition. They were great. But we were terrible. There was something not right with a number of players. The problem is that we went completely missing a few times last year and it's happened again. That is really concerning.

That is disgusting. We are all disappointed. Maybe the 'Demon supporters are pathetic' thread was correct after all. Anyone know who this guy is?

Plus he got a great block on Corr who was all over him all day. So frustrating. JVR should not be out number one key forward.

Want to be positive but it was pretty disgusting. Langdon isn't an inside midfielder. Rivers really struggling there too with the extra opposition pressure. Trac didn't look right. He didn't want to be out there today even during warm ups. Forward line terrible and need to start leading to the ball carrier. The ball carrier needs to honour the lead to start encouraging it more often. This is the most frustrating thing we supporters have had to watch for 3 years now and it's difficult not to get annoyed at the coaching team. STOP BOMBING IT IN! Every time I see Woewodin in the team I know we are going to struggle. Howes has joined him. Depth still an issue.