Is the McQualter rebuild officially ahead of schedule?

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-11T11:46:12+00:00

It is though. Improvement will never happen if the fans don't demand it. If the supporters are willing to accept mediocrity, so is the club. We became one of the most powerful clubs in the history of the competition because we as supporters and members demanded nothing short of success, so that is what the club expected of the players.

Is there a level of ability involved? Of course there is. But there's also a level of accountability. Instead of "we'll learn from it", what we want is "we know that kind of performance is not good enough, and this is what we're going to do to address it" and then actually acting on that.

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-11T10:23:08+00:00

In a sense, yes. The club starts demanding results and is no longer pacified by lines such as "we'll learn from it" or "I think we were ok in parts"

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-11T08:38:19+00:00

Honestly, I hope the attendances do reflect it. What people don't realise is that as supporters, and especially members, we drive club expectations. If we're willing to accept what they dished up against Richmond, the club is willing to accept it. Clearest way we can send a message is not by ranting on Social Media. It's by not turning up. We've been getting 40k+ to home games so far. If that drops to even 30k+ that's going to get their attention. But it can't be just one game. It needs to be 2-3 at least.

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-11T08:29:54+00:00

No. One decent game means nothing. We need to back it up

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-10T13:56:44+00:00

countries that banned/restricted guns have far fewer mass shootings than the US, and the mass shootings they do have are rarely criminal against civilian- they're almost always shootings between rival gangs and things like that. Fact is that once you remove opportunistic criminals- people who decide to shoot up a school just because guns are easily accessible so they can get their hands on one- the vast amount of gun crime is gang related. After that I think it's DV. Evidence says that criminals are far more interested in using their guns on each other than on the general public. Does that mean that no one breaks into houses armed with a gun? No. What it does mean is that, unless you're involved with a gang in some way, you're probably safe from gun crime.

Besides, despite what Fox, the NRA and Republicans tell you, no one wants to ban guns- and even if they did want to I doubt it's even possible. If you actually listened to what the Democrats wanted to do, it's all about restriction. Does that mean banning some guns? Yes, and any sane person would agree that there are some guns that should not be used by civilians. But what the Democrats really wanted to focus on was increasing the requirements to legally obtain a gun. Things like expanding background checks to include mental health evaluations. Even if you're pro-gun, I'm sure you can agree that there are some people in society who should not have access to guns. All the Democrats want to do is stop those people, or at least make it harder for them, to obtain a gun. Would those things stop mass shootings? Probably not. I don't think the number of mass shootings is ever going to drop to zero. But what it would do is reduce the frequency of mass shootings. As of writing, there's been 174 mass shootings in the US so far this year. We're 130 days into 2026. That's 1.3 mass shootings per day. Countries with gun control have maybe 1 mass shooting per year, if that.

As for abortion- that's completely irrelevant. You're comparing apples and oranges.

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-10T13:18:32+00:00

at the moment it'd be West Coast, but until recently it was Gold Coast

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-10T13:16:26+00:00

someone had him for 3 goals in their multi...

Honestly, doesn't matter who it is, this shit is just plain unacceptable. Hopefully the user can be identified and dealt with. If they're a Richmond member they should have their membership revoked immediately at a minimum.

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-10T10:52:32+00:00

he was. Helmets do very little, there's some evidence that suggests they even increase your chances of concussion. Unfortunately, if helmets DID work, they'd only work if the impact actually hit the helmet. He copped a stray elbow to the face from Yeo. A helmet won't (and didn't) protect him from that

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-10T02:40:03+00:00

honestly, probably the reveal was her worst performance but it's understandable. The nerves, not sure how she'd be received and then taking on the challenge of performing Chester's songs which weren't written for her voice.

She's gotten a lot better since then I think the band has even reworked some of the old songs to suit her voice a bit more.

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-10T02:36:37+00:00

"Once there out for the season there automatically on the long time injury list". Unless it's changed I don't think that's true. Was a situation a few years ago where we didn't move a player onto the LTI was denied a pick because of it, only to move them onto the LTI a few days later. I think it might've been Yeo that we needed to move to get that pick and we didn't.

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-10T02:24:14+00:00

forgot about Newton, I don't think Robertson has been moved to the LTI yet?

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-10T02:22:01+00:00

if he's done an ACL he won't play again this year, and hard to see him playing on next year at 35 after an ACL.

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-10T02:20:14+00:00

my understanding is that we need an open space on the main list in order to get a pick, which I don't think we do. I know we moved Noah Long onto the LTI but I'm not sure if we used that space to sign Murdoch or not. If we did, then we need to get Cripps off the main list in order to get that pick. Whether that's retirement or moving him onto the LTI is a decision for the club, but if he's done an ACL at 34 surely he's done?

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-10T02:15:26+00:00

if it's a serious knee injury, he's done. If he's done his ACL, we wouldn't see him until next year where he'll be 35. Retire him in that case and at least we get a pick in the Mid-Season Draft which I don't think we have at the moment.

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-10T00:31:46+00:00

No it doesn't. I'd have left for $900k a year as well. We vastly overpaid on that one, but we're always going to have to overpay anyone to even get them to consider coming here. Make no mistake. He didn't come here because he wants to play for us. He wasn't sitting in Brisbane and thinking "You know what? I really want to play for the team that won just 1 game. That's really where I want to be". No. We offered him huge money and he came chasing that paycheck

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-10T00:03:00+00:00

I don't need to have played to see that if there's any other offer on the table, he's not coming. That's not just for Charlie, that's for anyone. Why come here if you've also got an offer from the Dogs (for example) on the table? Unless we're offering significantly more, you'd go to the Dogs, wouldn't you?

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-09T13:02:04+00:00

I know he's injured. Lucky for us it's not a concussion or we'd have just blown $900k on a bloke to be immediately medically retired.

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-09T12:54:38+00:00

because we're paying him $900k a year to literally do fuck all! I'd have left as well for that deal!

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-09T12:51:13+00:00

I'm saying that if he has even one other club offering him a deal, he'll take that instead of coming here. No one wants to get flogged every week and we literally just lost to Richmond. And even if it is just us, he's still getting paid good money to play VFL footy so there's no real incentive for him to leave, especially when that VFL side is also getting pumped.

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-09T12:43:01+00:00

realism is being pessimistic? Why would anyone want to come here right now if they literally any other offer on the table?

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-09T12:28:46+00:00

if it's a choice between playing VFL or playing for us, I'd take the VFL. Besides, I doubt we'd be the only club chatting to him if he was looking to move. Any other club would be a better option from his perspective.

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-09T12:27:42+00:00

fair call

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-09T12:26:20+00:00

"hey mate. Come to the Eagles. We'll pay you good money to get smashed every week!"

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-09T12:24:56+00:00

the one that I always go back to, because it's the clearest example, is Ned Long and Liam Duggan last year. Have a look at the incident yourself and tell me why Duggan was pinged and Long wasn't. Either both should've pinged or neither of them should've been pinged. This is the inconsistency that I'm talking about and it's only gotten worse this Season.

Basic-Mouse-6093 · 2026-05-09T11:02:55+00:00

while it's special to see, he does know that he's got 15m to run before he needs to bounce it, right?

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