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Our outrage over the trading ban is nothing compared to Mrs. Jolly's over her dud auction result. You've got to keep things in perspective.

Sounds like that was enough for you. If the players were thinking the same thing, it's no wonder we didn't turn up to play.

You can't understate the magnitude of that failure on the game's biggest stage.

Our loss is your gain. Well done on getting his signature.

I agree with you on this. It makes the failure in the 2014 GF all the more difficult to swallow, because Malceski was one of our better performers on the day and throughout the season, and yet we're losing him. There's a real question mark over the rest of that playing group.

The problem is that Malceski was a proven performer with plenty to offer. And we've been unable to keep him.

I'm very sorry to see him go. He's been one of our great success stories. First Mumford goes, now Malceski. Yet Goodes stays on and we're still stuck with Reid for another 3 years. We're not the clever list managers we think we are.

Winning Round 1 would have made no difference to how the season finished.

Well, weren't we just a smarty-pants then?

Just goes to show why lengthy contracts are uncommon...oops, forgot about Buddy.:oops:

Unimpressive stats...just reading it makes you understand how much of a passenger Reid has been. As for that 5 year contract, what were we thinking?

Not a bad idea. He'd bring an edge to the role. But whether it's Harley, Thompson or someone else, something tells me the way the club is run from now on will have a much sharper edge to it. The shockwave from last Saturday will see to that.

He'll either be traded, or given one last chance to prove himself in the backline. One thing's for sure - the clock is ticking.

It's not a trivial observation. The players were obviously not right mentally going into the game. Maybe the atmosphere around the club wasn't right either. On the way home from the parade, I overheard a woman on the tram saying she had asked Jetta at the airport if he was nervous about the...

I agree with you 100%. I don't understand why it hasn't already been forthcoming.

Whatever the history and dynamic of the Bloods Culture, our club has a reputation for being the nice guys of the AFL. But I think next year they'll probably have something of a harder edge about them. The coaches certainly will.

And Hawthorn aren't?

I received an email today from the club. Here's the part dealing directly with the GF: To me, there's something deeply unsatisfying about this. It doesn't reflect how I feel. Why didn't you play the sort of football "we wanted or that we're capable of ?" That's the question everyone wants...

To describe Sam Reid as a forward is being optimistic, to say the least. He hasn't done anything to justify the slavering hysteria that accompanied his signing a long-term contract. As far as Goodes is concerned, he should listen to Leigh Matthews and bow out now. We need to fill his spot...

It's not the deal that will look shittier, it'll be us. The rest of the team. The club. And God knows what Buddy himself must now be thinking.

It's now tainted by the GF, like everything else about this year.

For me, it's not a matter of perspective, or feeling ashamed, or embarrassed. It's a matter of feeling betrayed. The club and it's supporters were left humiliated and defenceless in front of the rest of the AFL community by what happened on Saturday. I always thought there was a risk that...

Too many people around the club are preoccupied with what venues we get to play on. Whatever happened to "anywhere, anytime?

We're really missing AJ in defence. Since he went down our backline hasn't been the same.

The reason we lost so badly yesterday was that the players had not recovered psychologically from their defeat to Hawthorn in Round 18. They didn't believe they could win, and it was brutally exposed by the pressure of the occasion. Doubt took over. During the week, O'Keefe gave the game...

I've never thought it a good idea for the club to become overly dependent on the SCG. But that really has nothing to do with what happened today.

You're too kind.

No excuses for a performance like that. Hawthorn were obviously hungrier, but still, we weren't right mentally. Sam Reid has to go. He's had long enough to show something and he hasn't, and doesn't look like he ever will. Wonder what Buddy thinks now?

I'm sure they're looking forward to Round 1 already.

Looks like we saved our worst game of the year for today. Very disappointing. We look like impostors out there. Take a miracle to come back from this.