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Nick Riewoldt fairly and squarely put shit on Baines when talking about the decision to move McEvoy on from the Saints:
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But you have certainly derailed the thread, Twodogs would be proud of your efforts!

The Dead Kennedys.

This is grubby as considering what's happened with GetSwift over the last few years:
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It makes a massive difference when you need it, which is why having someone who can play forward but is more than competent as a ruck is a good thing. It's also why the position is so bloody...

It may have been that we thought that Josh Schache who had a promising finals series was going to take a step up in intensity and overall output over the last twelve months, it could be that we tried...

Sorry to sound like BAD, because he's one in a million and we love him and he can't be replaced or replicated, but how do we know we didn't try?

Don't stress MJP, nobody wants to add players anymore.

There's literally no players we seem to be connected with or who might be available that anyone wants.

I'm happy to do that, but then we all get upset because we're wasting the Bont years or whatever.

We've never had tall defencive, ruck or forward depth and now we're on the precipice of having it...

It's like this board's gone mad.

We don't want ruck cover we will actually play as ruck cover, we're worried about getting defencive cover we will actually play even though we need defencive...

What if having a mix of these guys at different times means we're more competitive when dealing with the high ball and give away less uncontested/ intercept marks in the forward fifty? Does the ball...

I guess we should have forced him to play for us then.

I agree we need a replacement for Stef, and I hope we get one.

As for finding someone like Lobb to replace Bruce this year, it might be that you have to put a lot of work into landing players like...

Well I'm already on record as saying getting Grundy is what I'd consider doing, and have that same conversation with English.

Don't get me started on the mids!

So we don't want Lobb, but we also don't want a ruckman Bevo won't play (like Sweet).

Who's available that we might want then?

We all think Bruce is at least a small to maybe medium chance of...

No he wouldn't.

He's tough but there's a reason why Carey was known as the King inside the four walls at Arden and it wasn't just for his abilities in landing a root and kicking a footy.

I don't get it.

But he's a great bloke and a great warrior who only plays the ball........

Apparently having reflexes and getting ready to hit back is a bad thing.......I actually think Carey was genuinely worried he was going to be hit.

It's where real warriors sort out their difference, not pea-hearted wannabes like Carey and Stevens.

Aza lacked the conviction to make it happen. He didn't even start a thread on it.

I'm glad he didn't, this is great news!

Lewis debuted at age 19 and had 21 disposals and nine marks, with I think all but one being intercepts.

He was excellent in his first game.

How much coin does an assistant coach earn? ~$180K plus on-costs of say ~30%? That's almost half the money gone.

I'd presume a part time physio would cost ~$60K plus the ~30% meaning we'd have...

How could you possibly know that?

I want to make a disappointing season better by making it worse and missing the finals.

Collingwood gives the five.

Firstly, it was definitely Happy Days who said everything about the demise of Libba. Nobody else did.

I don't see him going past 2024, but it won't be enough to keep Josh on the books...

He'll be waving it around after this endorsement.......

I don't disagree, but I don't think it's achievable.

Bringing in Jones and Lobb says to me we're having a crack at a flag, which is what we should be doing to either win a flag or find out how far off the mark we are before we go into another rebuild....

Bont goes for kicks mere mortals just can't pull off, and they look great when he does.....and shit when they don't.

He's only going at ~71.5% efficiency this season which is pretty ordinary but...

Who'd have imagined that an establishment club and supporter base would ignore the hard times and act like shitheads as soon as it turned rosy?

You definitely looked it up you old fart.

But the issue is Libba isn't going anywhere soon. And that's fine with me even though I think he gets a free pass when he's undisciplined with his positioning and too assertive in the middle.
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There's a pretty basic rule to follow with him. Don't take much notice of what he says leading up to a game, and take notice of what he says after a game.

That ball had a vicious twang on it and went to the defencive side. It typified the crap and ill-considered kicking our forwards have had to put up with all year.

It's been super noticeable at...

He gets a lot of shit, but as long as he doesn't get asked silly questions he's usually pretty good.

I honestly think he's worried about our defence, which to me came through in the presser. He...

The first half reminded me/ was a carbon copy of the Sydney game last year at Marvel where we got utterly smashed for uncontested marks and possession, and only went down by a few goals.

To me,...

Yeah I wouldn't expect to see Schache replace Bruce on the back of those comments. He said it will be reviewed during the week but Bruce is progressing week on week and I think we'll want to get as...

He played exceptionally yesterday, however, he is completely incapable of moving the footy forward quickly or playing any other role than the one he does. I do really like him but if he's going he's...

Just watched the presser, Bevo seemed as if he was smelling burnt toast he was that angry.

Was actually quite respectful though, credit to him.