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12 weeks ago Goodwin said Grundy is now at a club that values him. 12 weeks ago. Disgusting how Grundy has been treated.

Yep. Interesting watch this space. Nick Riewoldt albeit grand finals losses said they put so much effort for 2 seasons for little reward, it broke them. Max saying it's very Melbourne way of losing shows the players have lost their faith in the fwd entry structures. Max and May are 32 next year. Harry Petty, Daniel Turner, Jacob Van Rooyen need big preseasons. Howes AMW Taj need to be better and be regulars. We need new blood to rejuvenate cause the same 22-25 will be mentally shot if we play the same team.

Ironically we have Ben Brown, Jake Melksham, Tom McDonald to add to JVR and petty who are all excellent set shots but unfortunately none played last night.

The game plan to kick to the same spot on the fwd line and on top of players heads. We've had 2 years of evidence. Max said it's very Melbourne way to lose. Opposition don't even bother defending their direct opponents as they know where the ball is going. Simon Goodwin is not a coach. He follows analytics. Don't worry about forward craft and leading and provide options, analytics says kick it to this area so do it 💯 of the time.

Exactly. Maynard didn't mean to concuss Angus but he was looking to collect a body on the way down. Old school clumsy Shane Mumford style. Make sure to collect a body on the way through.

You don't get beaten by what you know. David King More inside 50s please. Goodwin.

Grundy in. Tmac out. Tomlinson/turner. Van Rooyen out. JJ in. Brayshaw out. We need 3 kpd. Salem to be forward. Been trash for weeks. Maybe try as Melksham type. Salem fritch anb Koz grundy Chandler. I'm drunk.

Goodwin has wanted this since pruess, Jackson, Grundy. gawn still ruck but agree gawn to occupy more back half and Grundy forward half.

We kick to the same spots as data will show that's the percentage play. Chance to score but also the hardest spot to rebound quickly and we get repeat 50s. The problem is everyone knows where it's going and it's always 3 defenders to 1. There's no seperation. Its just pure stubbornness to not change cause we won a premiership with that model. The problem with that is other teams improve post 2021. They also learn and set up against our predictability. We need to evolve but we won't.

Is the tribunal suppose to be impartial? Jeff Gleeson feels like he is running AFL's agenda. Why have tribunal? Things get overturned by clerical errors. The blues player getting off cause he punched with a left hand rather than right. Wtf.

The Brayshaw Liberatore concussion v hunter rozee needs to explained. Roulette.

Moniz Wakefield was someone who looked promising last year n hoped wouldve developed more than I thought.

It feels like when we won it, we wanted it to be the perfect pure clearance into fwd 50. It was wet and we fumbled and it got turned around as port went for territory.

Petracca and Clayton Oliver have played less midfield this year than last year and 2021. There's a considerable effort this year to run more numbers through the midfield and we are getting mixed results. So which do you want? Seems like people are complaining we don't have 4 or 5 petraccas and Olivers.

Tank for Harley Reid activated

Fox have a stupid segment called "ear massages" where they have dozen of examples every week. Chol was unreasonable with possibility to cause serious damage yet not cited. They pick and choose.

Agree. Form for both years aren't that far off. Difference is last year was bottom 6 teams whilst this year, top 6 finalist playing out of their skins. The intensity late this year could burn out the players, sure but look at it this way lads. We need 16 more good quarters this year. Go flat out as you will have a week off before finals. A week off before prelim. It's go time.

Goodwin will want to look at jsmith. He misses Tmacs versatility. Do a job forward but if one of the big 3 goes down mid game, shift Smith back and bring on a runner. We will always have a runner as sub. In most of our losses, we lost the big 3 at key stages n exploited.

We won games from defence last year. We looked safe even under pressure. Now may, Petty, lever fumble, drop marks. Salem looking for form. Sure opposition are devising plans but our defenders are out of form. We've lost our A1.

Cats also playing north, Weagles twice this year. 4 percentage boosters. They also play 3 other teams outside the 8, port, saints and bullies twice. Cats are home and away specialists.

We essentially went small with mbrown n gawn out for weid and Bedford. Unless the weid can show something to be that tmac role, That looks to be the mix now. When gawn gets back. Gawn in. Weid out. BBB as the sole tall forward and gawn/Jackson rotate as the second and a fleet of small forwards.

Interesting, Maybe some analysis is needed to this. Last year, our defensive structure was strong 1st half, conserved energy before running over teams in the 2nd half,esp last quarters. That was our DNA last year. Going hard 4 quarters isn't possible in a 23 games. We only need to do this for 3 games guys.

1. Backline consistency. Last 3 weeks, when Petty went off for 20mins all 3 games, we fell in a massive hole. Lever has been terrible and fumbly. May, Petty and Lever need to string games together and they must find a way when one of the 3 goes down mid game. 2. Forward connection. A lot of talk about pressure rating but if opposition keeps taking intercept marks, you can't pressure. 3. Fumbling + Goalkicking. Fumbling causes shallow kicks or been tackled. So much fumbling yesterday. A lot of been made of sparrow, Anb, Spargo etc. Nah they aren't the problem. They are role players. Our stars set the tone n playing unders. Petracca not himself. No may. His fault. Lever. Playing awful. Salem. Underdone. Langdon. Playing hurt. Good week to reset.

Melksham Langdon May Tomlinson Weid McDonald Dunstan harmes

The likes of Brodie grundy, Tim English, Coleman jones went pick 18ish and were already more accomplished than Andrew at their age. Ayce Cordy Was a bean pole and v good under 18, went pick 18ish as well. I think the kid gets through. First pick who won't do anything for 2-3 years. That's a high price for that investment. Most clubs let others do the work and try to trade.