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In full agreement. ☝️

Turner and Weid both named which is interesting. dropping Hunt with Ginnivan and Elliot as there smalls is also interesting.,

Well....that worked out more than ok in the 64 grand final :-) But times have moved on I confess.

Club in its first mini crises for quite a while. Tmac down, Bartlett headlines, 2 losses in a row, May gets club suspension. If they lose on Monday this goes from being a mini crises to a full blown one. Club officially now in a stress test…that could get much worse. let’s see what they’ve got.

I don’t understand why Tmac was training on that last week? Given out abysmal history with foot injuries why weren’t we being somewhat precautionary? I’m seeing players like Petty, BBrown and Trac played when it’s clear they’re not right. I’m concerned we’re being overly cavalier with injuries atm and starting to pay the price.

This is our window. It’s here and now for the dees. We need a mature forward. The only thing stopping us from winning another flag or 2 or 3 over the next 3-4 years is a power forward. We can’t start next year with Brown, Brown, Weid and Tmac and expect it will all work out.

If the rumours re Tmac are true then imo Daw must at least come into the equation. Weid and M Brown have no physical precense and that isn’t about to just appear in their game. Both are really just third talls and that’s it. Asking them to play a different role doesn’t make them capable of it. B Brown is in the worst form since he arrived at the club, perhaps of his career and imo must be carrying an injury. On the rare rare occasion he gets it he now can’t kick anymore either ! We’re going to have to reinvent the fwd line and no one seems quite right. JVR? Daw? Weid as a key forward? Personally I see big flashing red lights for the dees. This issue isn’t going away.

or what? tmac isn’t coming bk this season apparantly… so weid is next. imagine going in with a weid and mitch brown. dees are in trouble now.

just saw that too. Geez i hope not. seems a long way down to go planting brown or weid in his shoes.

Gary was one of my idols bk then.

I’d forgotten how bad a loss feels and how many questions it brings! On the positive, while we got killed in the air , there is just no way that happens w a full strength team. On the negative our depth got shown up with all the ripple effects exposed. Who’s to say we will be full strength at finals time? 3 coaching thoughts. How is spargo and Jordan remotely a wing combo? I think it’s time to cut our losses w Weid. He just has zero physical presence and when things are actually turning against us ( as they will) he’s a demoralising sight. Time to blood JVR? And , obvious in hindsight, but why play petracca in a state like that? he should not have been out there.

Bedford and Kozzie is a super exciting combo

I saw him kick 4.3 v the bombers so Im still a little hopeful. But as it stands now he remains one of the very very few errors Taylor has made.

It’s been said multiple times but just how good has our trading been! Lever, May, Langdon and Brown. All of them add so much. When he came bk in last year he gave us the final piece in the puzzle imo. How we got him fr a mid second rounder still surprises me. Great bloke, great footballer. A pillar in our premiership side. congrats on 150.

It’s no wonder teams can’t score against us is it. Wondering where a player of Salem’s ilk fits back in is a ridiculous luxury. Brayshaw, May, Lever, Petty, Bowey, Rivers and Hunt is just an awesome array of back talent. Given Cameron’s role fr the lions and what he did to us in the final last year Hunt imo has to stay. It’s super super tough on either of them but it’s between JJ and Rivers. This is what it’s like when you’re the premiership team and 9-0 the following year! Gotta drink this in while the era lasts. You never know the length of time it will be.

Flatten them yes… and happily so. I hope by over 100. But i can’t bring myself to scorn or deride the club in general.

Agreed. I really feel fr them and see so much of the dees in 2012-13. yes our plan worked but the 10 attempts before didn’t. lol. When i look at the roos I can only see the place we were so recently in.

we’ll get a good look before then. Freo and Brisbane twice before the end of the H&A season.

It’s a big call as schwartz was such a freak. But I’ve had the same thoughts. something in the way he moves brings him to mind.

I don’t reckon the veil will ever be as dark or as impenetrable when it gets pulled out again! so yes, it’s proof re the positive matter has annihilated at least some of the negative.

according to the article he’s having scans today. Let’s pray it’s minor.

Unless his primary motive is to win a flag , and the opportunities that being a premiership player may bring him.

Agreed. Outside of us with the red and blue hearts, articles saying Melbourne were brilliant again just isn’t an interesting story any more. It’s old news. Happy to win another flag with accolades going to teams getting within 6 goals of us.

Good, thoughtful post. I suppose it was traumatic to be a dee in his period. I mean there were plenty of lows before him but that was the lowest era of all of them. But its also good to remember he was a human too. I’ve been considering more recently that he bought in taylor directly and then inadvertently Jackson and Roos. So in fact , without Neeld there’s no flag. So yes… time i put the sword down.

SO glad we don’t do cairns anymore! Players looked knackered. Be intersting to see if both teams fall away next week.