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Why?

Where was this?

Leon Cameron had lost the players, we must remain focused and put them to the sword.

We beat them last year in a low scoring affair and we can do it again.

If we are relying on making the finals by beating the weaker teams, some of them twice and maybe pinching the odd game against a potential top eight side we might as well shut up shop now. The next four rounds being Saints, GWS, Geelong and Hawthorn are all very winnable games, we could be going into Anzac eve 5 & 0. From memory we gave Brisbane a good run for two and a half quarters last year, can’t remember what happened against the dogs.

Apologies if mentioned earlier/somewhere else, what’s the latest with Ben Browns injury?

If this goes ahead guest passes should/must be made available for all home games moving forward.

Different player. Have time to be an extraordinarily damaging which he doesn’t have now.

If you go to the contracts thread you get a gist of where everyone is at. Players such as Melksham, Hibberd, Jones, Gawn, May, Tmac and Lever (although only 25) have either had or coming to the end of their payday. I’m guessing Ben Brown would be on good money without being extravagant, Oliver and Petracca are about to have theirs. I would not hesitate giving Oliver 3.2 million over 4 and Petracca 4 million over 4. I think there’s still plenty for Salem and Weid both who need to show more.

Can you please give some examples of what you mean?

Look at Richmond, you would have Martin, Cotchin, Riewoldt and Lynch then the rest, more than one model works.

His set shots?

Clearly not everyone is in agreement with the side selected, really looking for similar intensity and pressure to that of the first two games. Anything less is unacceptable.

Thanks for that mate, I’m a Sydney based Redlegs member. We (my fiancé and I) try and get down for 3-4 games a year, I normally buy her a guest pass. Having said that I’m watching the 9 morning show and I’m sure it just said that the MCG will be at 75% capacity shortly, hopefully when that happens guest passes and offered again.

If the predicted crowd numbers are true, is anyone that has a premium membership aware if guest passes were available?

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Congratulations, exciting times ahead.

With Viney to return in coming weeks I think Harmes may miss.

I just read the first post on the link, if that’s how Freo line up and we lose Choco can coach from round two onwards

Exactly.

When I get a minute I want to look at our starting 22 for the two losses against Freo and Sydney last season compared to our starting 22 for the Geelong and Hawthorn finals in 2018. May only joined us at the end of 2018, Lever missed through injury (from memory) Petracca only started dominating last season. In short our talent has improved but our culture hasn’t. Whats behind the Saints rapid rise? 2018 Saints 16th, Dee’s win 2 finals Ratten appointed Saints coach. 2019 Saints 14th, Dees 17th End of 2019 Saints trade in Hill, Howard, Ryder, Jones and Butler. 2020 Saints 6th win a final, Dees 9th Ive used the Saints as an example because they have managed to turn it around in two seasons. They have some talented players but I wouldn’t say they’re an overly skilled side. Ratten has brought a culture and gameplan that their players have seemingly bought into. I just looked at the Saints best 22 for this year, I personally think if both lists are fit, player for player we have the better list.

You’re not Robinson Crueso there.

In 2020 did we have enough skill to win the premiership? no we didn’t. But did we have enough skill to beat Freo and Sydney, yes we did. When the Hawks threepeated they came to play for the big games but on a few occasions when playing a weaker side they would get jumped early and even be down at qtr time only to get a spray from their coach, then their leaders would step up and they’d go on to win by over ten goals. We get jumped by a weaker side and go on to lose, our leaders went missing last year when everyone knew what needed to happen in order to play finals. We may have been bundled straight out but it still would have been a great experience for some of our players.

Now yes, but they had their chances.

Respectfully couldn’t disagree more Sue, case in point GWS.