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Hang on, so the player has an unofficial test and then, if they test positive, the club doctor will deliberately mislead the club and say, oh player x has a strained hammy, or whatever, and needs to sit out the next game?

Okay, there’s something I don’t understand about this. So a player goes out on the town, snorts a few lines but, no worries, the club sends him off for a bit of unofficial pre-testing. Then if he comes back positive the club tells him, no problem, sit the next game out matey, put your feet up...

I’d actually argue why not go one step further - if it goes through the main posts from a kick it’s six points, regardless of whether the ball was clearly touched or hit the post.

Actually, you can. I know a running coach who spends a lot of his day doing exactly that. 😀

There are a few reasonable posters on the MB and we even have a few advocates who fight in our corner like sherb from Carlton and Kwality from West Coast. However, in general it’s a hot mess over there. Indeed, if you really want to suffer then read through one or two of the hundreds of...

Is this like “Who’s on first”?

And are you going to tell us what it was?

If that’s correct - hell, even it’s two or three times that amount - that’s even more pathetic of the club than I thought. After all the money many fans spent on the GF attendance I’d think the very least the club could do would be to live stream.

Sure, there may be several factors at play and they may not be consistent over all the games but bad nonetheless.

Wow, great work, I’d not seen those numbers before. I’m a big fan of Horse but those stats are awful.

There’s going to be an incredible amount of crap thrown around over the next few weeks and months as everyone scrambles to come up with anything, absolutely anything, that might possibly address the shortcomings exposed by that disgraceful humiliation on Saturday. That includes contemplating...

Thanks, mate. Being very familiar with your posting I can say you’ve always been very supportive of the Swans and have regularly fought in our corner on the Main Board. Appreciate the comments.

I had nightmares beforehand that he’d somehow have a career best game and win it for the Cats. It’s no comfort but of course he was as hopeless as usual but, yep, at the end of the day the pr*ck has a premiership medal and most of our players don’t.

They could publish similar articles for probably 95% of our players after yesterday, with specific examples of poor passages of play on each. However, those two Hawkins goals were terrible to watch - the first was bad, the second so soon afterwards was unforgivable.

Genuine congratulations on the win yesterday. The Cats were as excellent as we were awful. Some fine words from your coach and captain in their speeches and some good posts from you guys on our Board (unsurprisingly the same can’t be said for the Pies fans who thought they were compelled to...

Agreed, no single player’s improvement would have changed that result. We were so bad, and Geelong so good, that it would have needed a significant improvement from the vast majority of our players to make any meaningful difference to the result.

Yep, for arguments sake let’s say Reid and the medical team went to Horse and said he’s able to sprint, jump and has an 80% chance of lasting the game. Should Horse have picked him? What if that 80% was instead 50%, then what? Risk assessment was always going to be pivotal to deciding whether he...

I don’t know whether he was dishonest and neither does anyone else on this board - perhaps he was, perhaps he wasn’t. As you say, alternatively, he just may be clueless about his body. However, there’s also a third possibility - he’s an elite athlete with years of experience who has a very good...

How times change. 48 hours ago he was the one player on whose presence our whole structure depended and the majority of posters were sweating on his availability. Now, according to some apparently well informed posters, he’s a liar who deliberately deceived his coaches about his injury, and of...

1. Fox 2. Warner 3. Rowbottom 4. Parker 5. Clarke

Yep, as I watched the first centre bounce, then the first two minutes, then the first ten minutes I thought ‘Christ, we’re nowhere near it here, Geelong are absolutely all over us’. Shortly after I turned to my mate and said that even though we were terrible we were only about seven points down...

As I said before, there seems to be an assumption that Reid knew he wasn’t fit enough and deliberately decided not to tell the coaches how he was actually feeling. However, it may be the case that he genuinely, but incorrectly, believed he was fit enough to play and the medical staff agreed with...

With respect, I can guarantee you that there were a lot of players out there who “were not feeling 100%”. The question is whether Reid genuinely believed he was sufficiently fit to play to an appropriate standard. That may or may not have been the case - none of us know for sure. In addition...

Agreed. The bloody game will be replayed on Foxtel a thousand times over the next few months and I’ll be studiously avoiding it every time.

I say ‘no’. I can take a loss if it was competitive or it can be used as a springboard for next year - this was neither. It has potentially set us back and was humiliating to boot.

Yep, I don’t think a ‘gorilla defender’ would have made much difference today. We lost the game starting in the midfield, that’s where we need to concentrate on.

To be honest I don’t think it really mattered. Cats were so dominant in midfield that the ball rarely got that far.

Best: Fox - the only genuine success story, at worst came out even with his opponent and probably beat him Daylight The rest but only within the context of a team totally destroyed right across the ground and who played putrid football Warner Parker, Rowbottom Clarke Papley Mills Rest of...

We were totally dominated from literally the first minute to the last. Quite amazing really. I can’t put into words just how angry I am right now.

You think it’s over? The humiliation has only just begun!