Undeeterred

His manager was quoted in the press in the last week or two as saying Freo knew he was going to request a trade from about a week after last year’s grand final. The whole thing is ludicrous - he could easily have told us earlier.

That first statement is just flat out incorrect.

You mean apart from Lever, May, Langdon, Hibberd, Melksham, Brown and Dunstan? That’s 6 out of our last match 22 and one of the next in line who have to come to us from other clubs. And 4 players (Oliver, Trac, Viney and Brayshaw) have signed ultra long deals in the face of serious bids from elsewhere in the last three years. Bit of a stretch to say nobody wants to play for us.

Of course The reporting doesn’t sound like that’s what they are up for doing, although of course that’s possibly just an early negotiating position. But if they start with 20 and something else, we’d be mad to cop that.

If we managed to stooge two top 10 picks then gave up one for Grundy I’d just about cry.

Well WCE can F off if they’re not coughing up pick 2!

We’ve had since May to think of something, to be fair

Not even shocked.

You’d think Tomlinson Bedford and Chandler are all a chance of walking and that’s just for starters

Disregarding that time when he was best on ground in one of course

All of this. 100%

Bad timing for an article like that

At least May is a decent kick and would usually make it. But why Maxy is trying to hit that kick is absolutely beyond me

He really was. One of only a handful who stood out. The inboard kick to Hunt who was 1 on 3 really cost us though - it feels like we keep asking them to be bolder but when they are, there’s too much of that sort of stuff costing us goals.

I don’t think it’s fair to say Geelong own us given that two of the last three times we’ve beaten them, once by 80 odd in a prelim

It was a shocker. But May could have said hey Buddy, I’ve had about 16 intercept marks on you, get a kick

The momentum turned massively when Buddy flopped like he’d been shot. He got into May because he hadn’t had a touch and May fell for it. Because he’s May

Quite possibly the best thing to ever happen. Hilarious

But he was a negative, that’s the whole point.

Should call it the Melkbar

Other than the other one he took falling on his [censored]. What a game Jakey boy

I can see Spargs or ANB getting the bullet for someone, may as well be another borderline player with no awareness or game sense

What’s your proposal?

With one team pretending it’s ruckmen are key forwards and watching them spray easy shots all over the place because the only fit actual key forward it has can’t get within 10 metres of the ball when he’s brought up from the twos

No, it looks like one basically [censored] team and one very good horribly out of form team thrashing around playing footy on a beach in thongs