2025 Pre-season discussion. The Madge dynasty begins.

[theshed]

I get it but telling your players where they have to live is stupid. I'm fine with not cutting things short so they can skip the traffic, that's common sense but to tell them you have to live within X kilometre radius is just old man thinking.

And let's be honest, Brisbane is honestly not that big a city, traffic isn't really that big of an issue compared to so many other cities around the world.

I live a similar distance for work and it 100% impacts my performance.

 

[Sproj]

I live a similar distance for work and it 100% impacts my performance.

I live a similar distance from work too but it isn't the reason my performance is impacted. Hehe

 

[Mustafur]

I get it but telling your players where they have to live is stupid. I'm fine with not cutting things short so they can skip the traffic, that's common sense but to tell them you have to live within X kilometre radius is just old man thinking.

And let's be honest, Brisbane is honestly not that big a city, traffic isn't really that big of an issue compared to so many other cities around the world.

I personally don't agree with it because I know when it comes to clubs in Sydney a big chunk of players live just as far away if not more when you include traffic, but at the same time you could argue having to travel an hour back home each day can wear on you over the course of a year, kinda like the constant flights etc.

I think I would be fine if the club just recommended it rather than anything else, I think the highly professional players would be able to work it out themselves on what route they should take on it, there is also the impacts of where their social lives lie as if they base themselves in Brisbane but everything else for them is in GC they are doing the drive regardless and I don't think isolating players from their social lives is healthy.

 

[YeahNahMate]

Show me a bloke at 24 with all the fame and money one could hope for at that age, with his upbringing, with what has happened to his parents, with his ability to find his way towards on the nose actions (despite being pretty mild for footy players) and yet at the age of 24 your going home to your partner with a young child of your own and looking after your 2 younger brothers like they are your own whilst expecting another. I have a million times more respect for that man than anybody else in our squad. He is beyond impressive. The load he has taken on at such a young age and yet still performs week in week out. Genuinely so impressed with that man, if he were my son I would be immensely proud.

Pats impressive as well but he doesn’t compare to Payne. I think we would be in a really good place if Payne ended up captain. I genuinely mean that. So impressive that he can be the rock to so many people when everyone in his life has created an environment where it would be very reasonable to expect significantly less than what he has done. Incredible young man.

As much as I love Pat......the troops have not responded to his captaincy.

I wouldn’t be opposed to them being co-captains, they both offer something different

 

[Mustafur]

I wouldn’t be opposed to them being co-captains, they both offer something different

I'm a firm believer that the best player plus experience should be the captain(it's critical that the captain is one of the best players so that players will listen to them without thinking they are just some plodder), IMO Walsh is the best player but when you put experience into the equation it does tilt towards Reyno still, post Reyno it probably leans towards Patty or Haas for now atleast until Walsh matures but I think Long term if he can mature Walsh should be Captain, that for me wouldn't happen till he gets closer to his mid 20s though.

There was some games this year that showed Walsh has good leadership though.

It is important that the player being captain is a good talker but, and for me Haas kinda lacks that, Carrigan does have it and so does Walsh but he is still a bit too young for now.