Can I just say - never saw Hird do/say anything when the cameras panned to him...

Does he have Thompson, Wellman, and co. in a different box actually coaching the team or something?

The most animated I saw pretty boy was when he was gnawing away at his nails like a squirrel. He must've taken a good few centimetres off them last night.

Bad luck - the Carlton game was pretty ordinary. Hopefully you're not a jinx

The previous two games I saw live were draws so I don't really know what to read into that...

It was a fantastic win. We played our guts out and attacked the contests with ferocity (particularly in the second half). Our run was generally much better. We still need to push ourselves in this area and our forwards need to work harder in order to lay more tackles inside forward 50. I also thought we used the handball better than we had all year. As has been said, we did over handball a couple of times which cost us goals in the first quarter, however due to our harder running we were able to handball forward of the ball rather than backwards. This opened up a number of opportunities for fast breaks down corridor. For me Essendon's pressure was ordinary at times. They were reasonably slack on us in the corridor and almost invited it at times. When the chain of handballs and effective disposals by foot link up correctly, geez we're exciting to watch.

When the chain of handballs and effective disposals by foot link up correctly, geez we're exciting to watch.

... and that all depends on players running off the ball and presenting forward of the ball.