A lot of what you say is fair except the Swans game. They obliterated us and had nothing to do with injuries they should've won by 100 points they made us look slow and their kicking was surgical. I walked away from that game and the Hawks in round 2 knowing it wasn't gonna be our year.
What part of players aging and like this season body's giving up most don't get? What makes you so confident it won't be a repeat. Mind you before the injury's started rolling our form was just as bad. Forget next season we won't be anywhere near it and bringing in Tarrant at that age well makes you wonder. Need to make room use all our picks and pick wisely.
Makes all the difference.
Yup peak bont has arrived...
And the doggies failed with their own pressure after half time...Spot on! And maybe we can try a thing called pressure because Jon Pierik at The Age has just untapped the secretbehind the dees stunning GF victory!
You know the Melbourne way lol or does he mean the RICHMOND WAY!
I am pretty sure that the blueprint for best ever all over the ground pressure team was set by Richmond which netted 3 flags in 4 years and thus other teams including the dees have modelled their game plan around. Jon Perik don't let the truth get in the way of a good story!
A premiership blueprint: The numbers behind the Demons’ rise
What was the Melbourne way? Put simply, it was a game built on pressure across the ground, winning the contest no matter how difficult.
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All those players you mention are way past their best. Look okay against average opposition, but like Cotchin and Riewoldt, on the decline especially against good players. Retiring players is normal. Only the very best keep going into their mid 30's, and if they keep their speed can still be good players.
Enjoy it mate, have yourself a good break and come back refreshed for 2022.
Hence why i'm keen on Nths future 2nd for CCJ.Better still, I would go after Ben King for RFC
Let's face it, if the bloke is prepared to entertain a move to Essendon or St Kilda, we're at least as well positioned to receive him for the start of the 2023 season. We will be clearing some serious salary cap after 2022 with Sheds, Cotch and Jack most likely gone, and we'll know a hell of a lot more about the likes of Ross, RCD, Martyn, Dow, Cumberland, Miller etc to gauge whether they're worth taking up list places.
In fact, if the bloke we're after for our 2nd pick at #17 this year goes earlier, I'd immediately look for a suitor for #17 to exchange for their 1st round 2022 to help facilitate a Ben King trade in 12 months time.
did Boak really sign a 5yr deal as a 33 year old
No he didn't. He's signed till the end of next year, when he will have just turned 34. Signed a 2 year extension in 2020 when he was 31.
Franklin has played 47 of 85 games the last 4 years, including missing all of 2020. No wonder he feels like he can go on again.
Absolutely zero chance of getting the Saints 1st round pick next year, we know they are going to be making a big play for King
I see CCJ like English , very much kpp first ruck second . Neither are 60g kpp , will be second fiddles . Tbh reckon CCJ is better mark than English , maybe less mobile but largely similar players
Would do pick 9 for our future first. Just make sure we make finals next year and it’s a win.
Are they though? Or is it just BF circle jerking?
Reckon he'll be played forward with a chop out in the ruck occasionally...ruck men to be picked up through FA...
Yeah he's more a replacement for Flopsy the Clown than the heir to Goldberg.
Now that would be an absolute team and culture killer. Imagine trading out possibly the best player in the history of your team, one of the best players of all the time for a few draft picks.
