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That’s gold Bub.

A lot of comments along the lines of “starting to see glimpses of the new game plan / how we want to play”. If it was 2023 or even 2024 I could cop that but it’s not. He’s 12 - 18 months too late and we’ve been well and truly passed by.

The pass mark is finals this year as a bare minimum.

Played his last game of AFL, next….

It’s not just the losses we had but how we lost. Yes Langford / Windsor / X look like beauties but remind me how are Collingwood’s first rd picks going? We can’t score, been a problem for years now and we’re not getting any better. Could we / should we have targeted Membrey / Wright ? I can see elements in our gameplan changing but it’s taken 18 months to long and not everyone is on board at times in terms of where to run to create space / options. Really hope we have a new coach next year.

Macrae wasn’t when he took the reins at Collingwood, everyone starts somewhere. Let’s nab a Pies or GWS assistant or similar.

So it’s a development year because of…. Was this season flagged as a development year before rd 1?

We are so far off the pace we are kidding ourselves. The sooner we move Goodwin on the quicker we’ll be back up there.

This year Turner has kicked some goals from deep in pockets / difficult angles and can take contested mark. Considering we’re a team that struggles to score and has players that struggle with set shots with very little difficulty be it angle or distance I’d like to see him play fwd for the whole game.

I think Treloar was missing as well as Weightman.

If you look at Collingwood’s team last night Sounds like us in 2022/23, who are these teams that are more efficient offensively? Geelong beat them last week by 3 points, GWS pumped them in rd 1 but their form has since been the opposite of Collingwood. Adelaide can score but can’t defend and the Lions were dismantled by them two weeks ago. For me the Bulldogs are the second best team in the competition as they should be on six wins (they were undoubtedly robbed against Collingwood) and have been playing all year with key players missing. The way the play they are able at times to score consecutive goals very quickly and they also defend very well. We like a few other teams have been caught napping and are purely making up the numbers this year.

Agree, It’s comical that this is even thrown up. Collingwood and the Dogs can have key personnel out and still play exciting attacking footy but not us.

Regardless of personal Collingwood go into every game believing they can win whilst other teams are beaten mentally before the first bounce.

Season over for Freo, Pies resting quality players and still running rings around the opposition and here we are struggling to run out games and trying to learn a new game plan which has been around for years.

Play Turner up fwd. And he’s on fire.

Play Turner up fwd.

Just pay him out, it’s over.

We are a broken team. Goodwin can go, and a couple of players can join him.

Centre clearances 6 to 1 Stoppage clearances 16 to 4 Inside 50’s 26 to 13 For 3 goals 7 Same problem for 4 years in a row.

Can anyone remember what Freo gave up for Bolton?

And here lies the argument. We’re not a top team, yet many on here think another coach would have us playing as a top team. Also I would argue that Collingwood and the Dogs play endeavour to play the same way every week regardless of personal. We love an excuse at Melbourne.

Combine that with what was seen as a relatively easy draw.

Bulldogs started with JUH is dealing with personal issues but have moved on to any timeline around a possible return will be dictated by the AFL. This paints a reasonably clear picture as to what is going on and holds the player accountable. Oliver went from a four week hamstring to a seven week hamstring to a hospital jailbreak. So yes Oliver and the MFC may have copped more attention but they brought it on themselves. The Bulldogs haven’t let the off field drama affect their on field performance, if anything they’ve done the opposite. They were robbed by the umpires and should have beaten Collingwood, they should be fifth not eighth. Starting this season Melbourne had Picket, Windsor and McVee out, the Dogs were missing Bont, Treloar, Weightman & JUH. I missed the Anzac Eve game but many posters commented on how when Gawn was subbed out the performance of many others suddenly dropped.

Look at how the Dogs have played all season, combine that we’ve who’s been missing. Had Bont, Treloar, Weightman and JUH out for numerous weeks to start the season, Bont is back but Darcy is out. Last season we as a club were affected badly by the Oliver media coverage, to be fair the Dogs are copping just as much if not more over JUH and are handling it on and off the field like professionals.

If not for the umpires they’d have beaten the pies