Fair enough. I see what you mean.
Guv run? Gosh. He was a statue.

I don't think Evans will be playing till round 2.
What if Carroll and Cowan return this week?
Carroll was sprinting and closing down space during reserves game.

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I know we were not expected to beat sydney. But cmon 12 goals in less than a quarter, it was like watching the harlem globetrotters run through witches hats. That we dont expect. If we played well, and fought hard and lost, then i would have respect but not what happened in that 3rd quarter.

Of course it was orchestrated.

We’re back in the Dylan Howard bin-dipping for medical records era.

Someone’s phone will be ‘hacked’. Nothing surer.

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Carrol and Cowan need to come in if they are fit. Bring Derksen in. Dean if he cant run out a game, will need to make way till his fitness is up.

But McGovern either needs to be dropped or played forward.

Wow.

Wright is in charge. no allegiance to past players.

I do agree with bluehammer in that we may be known as a contested side because we said we were and back in 2022 and 2023 was our one wood, but I dont think we are the best contested team in the comp, nor can we rely on winning the contest.

We took the foot off the peddle for 15 minutes, then when Sydney were 2 goals up we couldnt win the arm wrestle/ contested ball imo. Weird.

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You've got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them...

Doc led with his chin or Gorringe did the dirty on Doc.
we need to know the truth about that before we go out lynching.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0XtWOfgT1M

For what it is worth.

Regards Cazzesman

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”

cool head

like very much

I say the game was a unicorn

If we keep serving up the bombing game, we know the players learned nothing during the preseason.

Have to add, the Forwards didnt lead much throughout the whole game.

I even saw Harry bomb the ball to Kemp who had two taller opponents on him and no crumbers near.

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As for the last line and

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Silver lining though, at least we were punching on. That’s absolutely something new.

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

We've talked a bit about how having TDK, JSoS and Charlie half out-the-door all season had a negative affect on the club... but the Sam Docherty retirement saga probably didn't help much either.

I actually like Voss' response today:

"People keep asking about last year's best-and-fairest speech and culturally we defeated ourselves, well, I just felt it was an example of that," Voss said.

"For us to have a productive conversation, I think we all need to know that we're not going to get mixed between the old and the new.

"We're new, and that's the way we're going forward."

Handled it beautifully I thought . Well played M.Voss .

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Carroll is in the team as a defender, could swap him with Ollie and play on the wing.

If Cowan is fit then replace Guv with Cowan.

I think the problem is that our only attribute is that we are a strong contested side. We are not the best at the contest and we don't have any other strength right now.

Two Rucks!

What Simmo says
Former West Coast coach Adam Simpson, who has a minor role with Voss at the Blues, also provided his two cents on the situation.

“I know it might not have aired the way he (Docherty) would have liked it,” Simpson begun on SEN’s Whateley.

“But if that was what the locker room was like last year, it’s a good thing he’s not there now if that’s his opinion.

“It doesn’t matter how good or bad a leader you are, if you’re talking like that within the four walls it’s going to ooze out to other players.

“Then it undermines what you’re trying to do. So getting that separated was an important piece, and I suspect he wasn’t the only one with those thoughts. Those moves have been made.

“Now he (Docherty) is on the outside he can say what he wants. But it’s hard to be part of the club.

“Everyone has got a gripe. Patrick Dangerfield will have a gripe with Geelong that he’ll never speak about because there’s too much respect there. You’re not always happy.

“He (Docherty) has got every right to air his feelings but it’s hard to be part of the club when you know what they’re trying to do and the work they’ve put in. They need a little bit of support at the moment.

“The internal stuff, what’s reality and what’s now, that’s the most important thing for Vossy. Not how he handles this issue. It’s more how they respond this week.”

So, if i take what Simmo is saying and what Voss said this morning, and I add the sooking in the media over the summer by Doc (about not recruiting
for the here and now at the end of the 2024 season), perhaps Doc was a part of the cultural problem at the club last year.
I am glad the club didn't let it fly. Even if Voss is not the answer as coach, we don't need past captains hanging shit on the club in public. Doc had plenty of opportunity to walk his comments back but chose not to.

10 minutes of the media trolling & baiting him with about 3 decent questions thrown in


He handled it well

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To be fair, that was also a shitshow

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Congratulations CK95

Once the lasagne got on the outside you couldn’t deal with it?