Wells 11

Honestly , the fact that this was leaked feels like trouble to me.

seems like just yesterday ( last year i think) he kicked 1.6 or 1.5 and he used to do kick like that regularly. i just couldn’t figure him out bk then as he always has had the most balanced, fluent kicking style in our team imo. 46.18 this year is an incredible return and 7 goals straight shows how far he’s come , but not just in kicking but in all aspects of his game. Feel like he’s our version of a Gunston. Interesting to remember we got him w the pick we got for Watts. Our recruiting in the past 5 years has been as good as it was bad in the 5 before that :-)

fritta and jackson. in the last! 🤩

I wanted to discuss this. I’m piecing together snippets and wonder if anyone has more info. We played monday night v WC ( late) flew bk the same night into Melb, probably arriving Tues at 6-7 am? Once we got bk we’ve had to go into 72 hours of iso so Adelaide are allowed to come over. So lets say that ended Friday lunch time. I heard Gawn speaking saying we’re having. training run Sat and that’s it! That’s a massive disruption isn’t it? Meanwhile Adelaide have a week w everything as normal. How do players deal w injuries, do rehab, fitness etc etc? I guess if we come out a bit rusty we’ve got to cut them a bit of slack. Glad it’s Adelaide not Geelong.

hmm i don’t think so. off the top of my head i’m pretty sure we won 16 in 1990. but there ARE still 2 games to go and either way it’s a great accomplishment.

call the frikn game off! so much stress on the players.

well the way i’m looking at it, if i’ve got my facts straight, is that i think casey is mcg sized. so we have one marvel size and one mcg. IF that’s so i’m happy enough.

thanks for this. A great interview. Pert is definitely growing on me. He feels less corporate and more football than i first thought and seems to love the club. Bit of a worry re the 8 mill loss over 2 seasons though. Guess it’s true fr all clubs.

i get the sentiment as they’re below us and coming off a bad loss. but since when is playing the Eagles in Perth a “ danger game”? they lift in front of their crowd and the eagles this season, at their best at home, can match it and more w anyone. coming off such a publicised crappy loss i’m thinking a win fr us will be a big achievement. i’d more label this game a big ladder shaping contest , critical fr both sides and on a par with the geelong game round 23.

An obvious one. Having Gill , Roffey , himself etc there at the announcement of a simple 3 mil ground surface upgrade looked on the surface like making a big deal about v little. Had to be a signal that it was more than that . How far advanced are they re facilities that will bring all of the arms of the club bk under one roof?

they were in brisbane apparently not GC so it may not be so. but if it is that’s a looong time to be stuck in a plane seat hey.

wonder if we are having to sit in the plane fr that time?

well, we now have the perfect definition of a cluster [censored] do we not!

well… it will mean we’ve flown melb- brisbane- perth- melb on the day before the game. i don’t think there’s a golden solution to want here. GC in perth is our best outcome.

it might have been so but, as i understand it, we have no place to train in wa apparently. stuck in a hotel.

in Melb? so we fly from melb to brisbane to perth to melb in the day before the game?

oh ffs.. what a total stuff up! agree w u suns should have played here.

we’re an unassisted club that got smashed financially ( and worse than most others) in a year we should have creamed it. You do you and what you feel is right … but i’m looking to donate more.

if so… that’s Qld, WA, Darwin, Geelong. [censored] me. this is 2020 all over again.

Yep such a memorable win that final in 1990. A high point. We’d just beaten them the week before in the final round of the season … so 2 wins v the hawks in 2 weeks felt like a big statement. Dees were real contenders! Unfortunately the following game ( after a week off to let the magpies and eagles replay their draw) we played the eagles at waverley and got fully thrashed. despite the weeks rest and despite the eagles travel schedule. It’s a loss that remains one of my worst memories as the 1990 flag was just so winnable. it remains “ the one that got away” in my brain. so it was a big high right next to a big low…. and of the two memories the loss makes a deeper impression.

Thanks fir this. I was surprised to see Gus at 15.4%. that is actually pretty disgraceful fr a player of his ability , especially given one goal he kicked was from 1 mtr out! So, if my maths is accurate, it means he’s only kicked 1 other goal from his other 12 set shots? that’s crazy bad. with Oliver i pretty much just presume he will kick a point now, but even HE has a better % than Gus. My concern is when finals pressure hits we may get even worse. straight kicking makes a huge difference in big games.

i’m away in the NT jaded and in and out of reception, so it’s super hard to keep up w things! I was hoping to c the dees in darwin..has that game now being switched?

It’s going to be harder to open games to crowds now this has happened. Gil is def earning his money

Amazing that his form has meant we replaced tomlinson easily. i thought at the time it was a massive blow. when tommo comes back we’re going to have serious depth.

agree. pickett was a total passenger and has been fr weeks now. vineys kicking was just horrible and yes, was a liability today.