Trump's crew are out claiming he luckily avoided shots, and it now appears the "shots heard" were Secret Service operatives shooting the at the bloke carrying the rifle.
Have the GOP learned that someone taking a potshot at Trump boosts his figures?
You really are a conspiracy theorist aren't you LP.
Re watched the game and its so evident how important a fit TDK is to us. The bloke is a freakish talent and game changer and with a strong injury free pre season who knows how impactful he will become. His agility is so rare and has very quick hands and even if he misses the tap he is a big fast moving mid after the ruck contest. Impossible to contain.
We go from looking one paced to fast when he is in the ruck and even though he was less then 100% he is a vital cog for us and was imo our biggest loss in the last section of the year.
Would love to have this guy fully fit entering a finals period.
Choose any 2 smalls to go out. I would've chosen durdin and fantasia to miss.
Tdk starts. Moir is sub.
Cincotta comes in and cerra goes out. Your last spot goes to either lord, carroll or binns. Probably Carroll but given he is likely to be going maybe go lord instead.
Do you really believe those changes would have made the difference in what was a smacking before our opposition clearly took the foot off our throat with nothing to gain. Its possible those changes see us lose by even more with the kids being scarred by a 15- 20 goal loss? Just because we will never know doesn't imply they are correct selections. The club needed to risk all to have any chance and when that fails of course you can argue what if they did this or that but the reality is we entered the finals in poor health and regardless who we picked as sub or at MC in this game we were cooked before the ball was bounced.
We need to be very active in the offseason and make a few ballsy decisions to improve on this year
He was made for Lachie Neale.....just another game we lost at the MC table.
EB do you really think our list is that good that we flip a 60-0 start by changing one or 2 selections. I wish i agreed but we have more issues then MC selections imo. We fans seem to think our problems would be solved by a smarter coach better selection's etc however maybe the list has more holes then we think. We don't have the overall talent to challenge the best teams when it matters. We fail year in year out mate. We just aren't good enough for long enough.
Disgraceful overall performance. Time for much introspection and reflection. A lot of work needed to prepare for next year. I’ve just about had enough, at least for the time being.
Im with you cookie. Its so hard to fail year after year after year when we have endured the longest rebuild known to mankind. We should have been contesting for the flag this year there is no stand out team it would have been a great year to strike but again when it matters we fall short. Sure injuries late in the year made it harder but serious teams dont drop the games we did when injuries werent an issue.
And to see teams like geelong and hawthorn still alive just makes it that much harder to accept.
Need some big gutsy changes if we are going to go further next year. The current list (injuries or not) wont take us deep into finals so be interesting to see what the club does to change things in the off season.
Honestly don't mind Kennedy getting subbed off. He is essentially playing the same role as tdk. Ruck/forward.
If we want a spark Kennedy isn't going to provide it. He is too slow for Brisbane As bad as they have been our small forwards are more likely to provide a spark and kick a random goal.
Also Kennedy just had a kid in the last 24/48 hours so he may be a bit tired/distracted.
He didn't look too tired or distracted when the camera panned to him sitting in the back row.
He looked absolutely pissed off. Pit was getting smashed and we go and sub a mid for a ruck.
It's a roll the dice game. Death or glory stuff. We're taking risks. A few of them I suspect. There would have been considerable thought about the fitness of these guys. Some it was deemed weren't worth the risk. Others it was probably considered that their 80% offered a but more than a youngsters 100%. While they may not make sense to us the selectors have a lot more information than we have. It may not come off, but it's arguably the best side we can present given all the info.
Great post. Spot on. Cant win unless we put it all on line and if that means playing our best players even if not 100% so be it.
The season is dead if we lose this and playing guys with under 20 games esp is not going to get the win.
Not sure what fans what. We are in a do or die interstate final against last years runners up. Do you really think the likes of lord carroll moir binns can get the job done? Yes we are risking heaps by ‘maybe’ bringing in underdone players or players with long histories of soft tissue injuries but the reality is we fans dont ever really know the condition of injured players and how ready they actuallt are and our only chance of causing an upset is if our best players perform close to their best not running with 4 kids with less then 10 games.
Its our only chance and i understand the need to take risks to have a tiny chance to cause an upset.
