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If we are going to have a sub story within a story why shouldn't we discuss not having Melbourne Officials, players appearing on the Footy Show until Newman has been removed, especially as how well Sunday's Celebration went by everyone.

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4 hours ago, sue said:

Too true.  A poll on at what point in the game did you stop being anxious would be interesting.  In my case a few minutes into Q3 (which is a record since the 1960's).

I did a victory lap around the loungeroom when we broke the chris sullivan line right before half time.

Second half spent with my feet on the table. Pure luxury

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17 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

1994

That was it! Thanks! 

I’m really chuffed with the way we are going. Love the women’s team, the anti gambling initiative, the NT development work, Casey,and the way we are playing.

Kudos to Bartlett, Jackson and all the people who work at our club.

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15 minutes ago, Brownie said:

I did a victory lap around the loungeroom when we broke the chris sullivan line right before half time.

Second half spent with my feet on the table. Pure luxury

as pauline would say...???

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What a fantastic performance overall. And after watching the game again via replay, all I can see is upside, because we made a number of fixable errors that cost us during the game - although obviously not a lot!. We gifted the Crows goals (think Salem twice) and butchered goal opportunities ourselves (think tmac and Hannan). Certain players disposal are works in progress (think Jones and Brayshaw - especially Gus - and for this game Salem). Unfair criticism after a great win? Maybe, but fix these skill errors and we become a premiership side.

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49 minutes ago, willmoy said:

If we are going to have a sub story within a story why shouldn't we discuss not having Melbourne Officials, players appearing on the Footy Show until Newman has been removed, especially as how well Sunday's Celebration went by everyone.

Say what?

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I had a quiet laugh to myself when Melksham kicked that goal after a Crow fumble a few cm from our goal line.

It reminded me of the sort of things that regularly happened to us in the bad old days, I remember flinching more than once when our ineptitude was exposed in the back half.   (Matthew Lloyd and Al Nicholson standing, wrestling with the ball on the goal line and Lloyd nonchalantly pushing it backwards over the line)!

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11 minutes ago, Mickey said:

Say what?

Refer to Article 28/5/ 2018 by Craig Little in Guardian on line Australia Edition Today

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1 hour ago, willmoy said:

Refer to Article 28/5/ 2018 by Craig Little in Guardian on line Australia Edition Today

Thanks. Thought you meant we had decided not to appear on the Footy show, didn't realise it was a suggestion to Newman's comments

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Gerard Wheatley this morning on SEN said we remind him of Geelong of 2007 (we all know how that story played out).

I actually looked at the 2007 season after the St.Kilda win wondering if we could somehow mirror something similar. Geelong were 2-3 & all sorts of questions were been asked after a home loss to North. Similar to us. The cats then went on to storm the competition and win 15 on the trot. I’m not saying we will do the same but the style we are playing atm flies in the face of what everyone else is doing... As Gerard said Geelong was doing the same in 2007

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11 minutes ago, JV7 said:

Gerard Wheatley this morning on SEN said we remind him of Geelong of 2007 (we all know how that story played out).

I actually looked at the 2007 season after the St.Kilda win wondering if we could somehow mirror something similar. Geelong were 2-3 & all sorts of questions were been asked after a home loss to North. Similar to us. The cats then went on to storm the competition and win 15 on the trot. I’m not saying we will do the same but the style we are playing atm flies in the face of what everyone else is doing... As Gerard said Geelong was doing the same in 2007

The opportunity is there. Up to the players and how much they want to be Premiership Winning players or just AFL Players....

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5 hours ago, Rod Grinter Riot Squad said:

Not correct sorry.

They would be crazy to do running before the game, need to be ready to play if a last minute injury.

Cant hide the fact they are doing training, anyone at back of grandstand would be able to see them. They have to do a solid workout, as no game this weekend (every non playing emergency does it at some stage of weekend) and footage was in first quarter, Bruce said they were still at it at half time.

They have to do the full warm-up and prep as if they're going to play. They're only free to do their own work once the game starts. Standard practise.

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10 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

Humble brag.  ?

What's to brag about? Paris is a toilet of a city. Literally. There is dog crap everywhere. I mean everywhere.

Then there are the people... worse than the crap.

 

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47 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

What's to brag about? Paris is a toilet of a city. Literally. There is dog crap everywhere. I mean everywhere.

Then there are the people... worse than the crap.

 

Preaching to the choir, Gorg.

Well aware that Paris is indeed a [censored] hole.

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Don't want to start another thread but anyone noticed where that dirty filthy scum of Norf is on the ladder Freakin 5th., and so peeved off there not going to get another dose of demonaid before the finals if they make it.Love to give them the hiding of a lifetime just to put them in their place.

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9 hours ago, mongrel said:

Gus doesn't register a single vote in todays Age.....

Shows how little they know - perfect 10 from the coaches!
10 Angus Brayshaw (Melb)
4 Michael Hibberd (Melb)
4 Jesse Hogan (Melb)
4 Jack Viney (Melb)
3 Max Gawn (Melb)
3 Clayton Oliver (Melb)
1 Jake Lever (Melb)
1 Christian Salem (Melb)

Interesting that other than Gus and one of Hibberd, Hogan and Viney (one of must have 2 + 2) the coaches saw it quite differently.

Max is now 4th overall:
51 Nat Fyfe (Frem)
46 Patrick Cripps (Carl)
45 Trent Cotchin (Rich)
45 Max Gawn (Melb)

How proud must Gus' family be after what he went thru and they went thru.  Its the heartwarming side of footy.  Terrific to see him up and about in every way.

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19 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Yes, Adelaide was missing Sloane, B Crouch, Walker, McGovern and Seedsman (and Smith for the year).

But they still had Jacobs, who was destroyed by Gawn. They still had Jenkins, Betts and Lynch. They still had Talia, Doedee (who they've been fawning over all year in Lever's absence). They still had M Crouch, Gibbs, Atkins, Laird (3rd most possessions in the league to date). 

That line up would beat many sides this year. Indeed, with the Crouch brothers and Sloane missing large portions of the year, they were still 6-3 going into the game.

We've now got wins over North (6-4, 120.49%, 5th on the ladder, and at a time when we had injuries to key players and they were close to full strength) and Adelaide (6-4, 109.68%, 7th).

That puts us at 2-2 against the current top 8, with one of those losses by a kick.

We shouldn't get carried away, and we have a much harder fixture post-bye than we do pre-bye, but maybe the narrative around us, that we haven't beaten anyone good, deserves further thought.

I  dont recall the media fawning over are shocking injury run last year.

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3 hours ago, Dee Dee said:

I had a quiet laugh to myself when Melksham kicked that goal after a Crow fumble a few cm from our goal line.

It reminded me of the sort of things that regularly happened to us in the bad old days, I remember flinching more than once when our ineptitude was exposed in the back half.   (Matthew Lloyd and Al Nicholson standing, wrestling with the ball on the goal line and Lloyd nonchalantly pushing it backwards over the line)!

So true.  It happened week in and week out.  I used to tell my little boys one day we will be like the good team and kick easy goals like they do and lots of them..  For years I told them this.  The last five weeks have been a joy.

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This is the best it's been for us since the Crows game last year. I had a sneaky look at that game, and at a couple of other highlights, and the thing that struck we was it's clear to the naked eye that in the last 5 weeks we're playing better than we did at any stage last year INCLUDING the Crows game, which was probably our best win of the year. And by "better" I mean our game plan is way more lethal. Since Goody swung a few changes and allowed the side to spot up leading targets and get over the back, not just go up the line Neeld-style, we've got the whole footy world talking about us, and for good reason.

Can we just play the Crows every week?

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