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Well put. There’s big multi year decisions to make this off season aren’t there. Mckay would be a mixed blessing… but so tempting! Personally im in the long term success bag vs immediate success. Hopefully we can do both. Once Tassie enters and, given that our facilities that may make attracting players more difficult if we’re falling , we just do not want to be dropping off too far at that time. The plight of West Coast is not something I want to ever see again at this club. Ultimately this club has done SO much right for a long time now…I feel I can trust good decisions will be made. Even if I disagree with them.

He'd be great with Kozzie wouldnt he. AND the handwringing from the dockers would be magnificent.

Re May. Im wondering if age and dodgy hamstrings are catching up with him...or it was purely an off day. He was sublime a couple of weeks ago but even then his kicking, while it's always had its occasional flaws, is beginning to feel like a genuine liability. Everytime he goes to kick it I realise I have no trust it's going to a melb player! We obviously need him, he's still a star, but my question is do we need to take the kick ins off him entirely and / or do we need to try to get him to handball now rather than kick as we might do with someone like Max?

this is the self SAME guy who was outraged the dees were getting pick 3 for Frawley. frikn hypocrisy of the highest order.

When you land and recover…We need your opinion re Clarry. i’ve been scouring this forum looking for you fr weeks lol.

If he was playing as a pure fwd as is suggested I’d say that is pretty decent isn’t it?

It’s worth a lot OD! I’d love to see this happen… almost as much as I wanted a flag.

It was a set up from months ago imo. Hardwick left the tigers because he knew he had that job up there. He didn’t want to quit the tiges and go straight to GC. Tge whole thing smells. Dew missed his chance with us big time.

Well, regardless of how it got this bad ( and none of us know that for sure) we have to make sure it heals properly now. Whether that means missing 2, 3 or more weeks or the frikn season. Clarry healthy is a bigger fish than the season of 2023. We need him for 5 years not for 5 weeks. Its heartbreaking but its part of footy.

Yep..literally the only player we have who can kick straight consistently. FML. 5.15 might look like the good old days soon. he's going to be a massive loss.

Bedford doing what kozzie used to re pressure. I dunno what’s happened to this side. They’re tough at it i’ll give them that but playing with no sense of purpose and kicking with no confidence .

fritter with ice on his foot 🤦‍♂️

jesus this whole 1 goal a bizalliion behinds is now the norm. fmd

Interesting. If there was ever a time to go at him it's now. It's a risk obviously given his knee but it shouldn't cost the earth the earth either with that in mind.

Possibly the worst free against us for the season. A great tackle …and it ended up in a goal for Geelong. Still angry about this one.

critical moment wasn’t it? I thought it was going to HTB. We never got to see that replayed.probable 2 goal turn around.

we haven’t given up such a run of goals fr a long time. pretty disappointing.

Seems like a lot of over confidence on this page?! Im expecting a tough tight contest.

Introduction of recruiting zones that didn’t favour us at all. Introduction of TV at just the time we were [censored] ongoingly. Only the top sides got on the replays bk then. As a supporter since 1970 I can tell you we were very very rarely on TV. Footy went big dollar professional and we were still being run as an amateur club as part of the MCC. Lost the MCG as a training base and went from the having the best to having probably the worst facilities in the comp. These days the AFL protects the big drawing sides. Look at the coverage and big games the blues still get no matter how [censored] they are. We fell through the net after 64 like water through colander.

I just don’t like the way the draft is progressing. If players can choose to go to only the teams they want to then the bottom teams and poorer clubs are truly screwed. Which …. one day… may be us again.

That’s what they said about us in 21 re playing a PF in WA. I didn’t spot our mental scars that night and I highly doubt Port will be losing a final in Adelaide… they’re just a much better side in 23. Just hope it’s not us that have to play them there.

You my be right...its just unusual for two players to do it at once. But in saying that Im probably looking for a negative bias as I want the lions to fall.

Yesterdays Heroes..they were both greats. Fritsch is the best right now.

Seems like its possibly designed to take the heat off the coach....to avoid him having to make a hard call. But it weirdly brings the whole club into focus doesn't it?

Stoked with one of the best wins since our flag year. So many positives! But for the sake of discussion. 1./ Is there a better way to use kozzy to get him more involved? He no longer takes centre square bounces I see. Curious about your thoughts. 2./ The Brayshaw dilemma. His mistakes are becoming alarming. I believe He was manning Daicos in the last minute when he got free at the stoppage . same in the first qtr… can’t remember who it was that waltzed out of the stoppage to goal w Brayshaw no where to be seen. He miskicked badly to cough up our first goal as well. I’m a fan of his at heart … he’s tough and fit and did plenty of good things throughout. BUT onball he can be a liability . So…where to play him now with McVee nailing a spot down back and Hunter on the wing.