Who would you have JMac target this year?

[Rocket Science]

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[bulldogtragic]

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Crameri & Stringer going? Dickson a long way off this year.

We'd need to find a forward too, JMac.

[Bulldog4life]

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Crameri & Stringer going? Dickson a long way off this year.

We'd need to find a forward too, JMac.

As I said at the start of the year Dickson was still partying when the season started. Not with alcohol either.

[bulldogtragic]

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As I said at the start of the year Dickson was still partying when the season started. Not with alcohol either.

Well a club statement or lack there of will be telling.

The Crameri & Stringer families are tight. I wonder if our ongoing talks with Crameri are behind some of this innuendo (at this point).

[Twodogs]

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Yep - too often clubs and supporters alike get sucked into what a player can do, and not what they consistently do.

How many times has Jake played well in a big game? I can only think of one - v Hawthorn in the SF. On just about every other occasion in big games against good opposition in finals and H&A, he's been ineffective.

Any chance we can lure Kelly?

That would be worth considering.

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The blow up happened today in what is assumed to be his exit interview for the year.

Few home truths told and jake threw toys out the cot

Is that all it is? I was worried it might be something serious. Its less than 12 hours after the event and tempers are hot. Let's wait until trade period and see what happens then.

[The Doctor]

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What shits me is that less than 12 months after we win a Premiership, we head straight back to our old ways with on field and off field issues surfacing.

I think we are missing Graeme Lowe

[GVGjr]

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Any chance we can lure Kelly?

The Saints are apparently now out of the running. Perhaps there is another suitor but I doubt it is us.

[GVGjr]

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What shits me is that less than 12 months after we win a Premiership, we head straight back to our old ways with on field and off field issues surfacing.

You can't afford to take the foot off the accelerator like we did because much like a cruise liner coming to a stop momentum is so hard to get going again. It's got all the signs that we allowed some people at the club a bit too much latitude.
Like in any business if you don't address errant behavior by some it quickly spreads.

[The Pie Man]

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You can't afford to take the foot off the accelerator like we did because much like a cruise liner coming to a stop momentum is so hard to get going again. It's got all the signs that we allowed some people at the club a bit too much latitude.
Like in any business if you don't address errant behavior by some it quickly spreads.

Bevo mentioned earlier this year that he 'doesn't sweat the small stuff' on On the Couch.

Perhaps he should have.

[GVGjr]

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Bevo mentioned earlier this year that he 'doesn't sweat the small stuff' on On the Couch.

Perhaps he should have.

Turning a blind eye to issues or allowing some players a bit more latitude than they should can be very difficult to reign in when it's needed.

It's going to be a real test for our footy department to deliver forthright assessments of players and keeping them focused and positive.

[jazzadogs]

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Turning a blind eye to issues or allowing some players a bit more latitude than they should can be very difficult to reign in when it's needed.

It's going to be a real test for our footy department to deliver forthright assessments of players and keeping them focused and positive.

It sounds like a forthright assessment has been part of the cause of the Stringer mess today (allowing for germ Barrett's version of affairs to be accurate). Although Jake's reaction is disappointing in that scenario, I'm glad that it suggests there is a lot of honest feedback in the exit interviews. The key will be exactly how the feedback is delivered, and how the players react to the honesty of it.

[Topdog]

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0 or 1 goals in 18 of his last 24 games. I'm surprised he thought the exit interview might go OK

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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Why can't we ever have nice things?

I thought the flag would be a turning point but straight back to our old ways

[chef]

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I was just thinking that. With StevieJ finishing up, and a likelihood of of losing Kelly, Smith, Whitfield, the lure of a flashy mercurial type like Jake to market on, GWS might play.

He's not moving interstate away from his kids.

Hope we are happy with our pick in the 20's for him.

[KT31]

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First round pick and Stringer for Kelly, they give us a second rounder ?