48 minutes ago, Deesprate said:

Swans result top 4 here we come

Is this for certain????????????????????????????????

3 hours ago, BDA said:

The Giants should appeal. It's no different to the Fritsch incident

Selwood no case to answer. WTF

MRO is a shambles

Giants didn’t waste any time lodging an appeal BDA, in a club statement they said this was a football action and doesn’t warrant a suspension. 

45 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

well if hwsnbn had played it probably would be a crows win (just like our game)

Crows desperately unlucky with that head clash, 2 men down > Port goal,  and then the sudden need to restructure 2 men down. 

I'm sticking up for Toby. Did I just print that?

3 minutes ago, willmoy said:

I'm sticking up for Toby. Did I just print that?

Don’t feel bad about being pro Toby. He is pretty much the funnest player to watch in the AFL when he isn’t playing your team 

Plus he hit Dangerfield which makes Tobes even more loveable 

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44 minutes ago, Delusional demon 82 said:

That hawthorn draw now [censored] me , if we had those extra two points , with 15% on the swans we would already be a top 4 lock , regardless of the next 3 rounds 

I'm really not sure what you're whinging about. One win from 3 and we're top 4. Port won't finish 1 or 2.  We'll  win one of the next three minimum.

Selwood did not deviate from ten metres away and he still got off from a dangerous head high hit, which could have resulted in a neck dislocation.The AFL Board need to be replaced before someone is killed and then it's too late.

6 minutes ago, willmoy said:

Selwood did not deviate from ten metres away and he still got off from a dangerous head high hit, which could have resulted in a neck dislocation.The AFL Board need to be replaced before someone is killed and then it's too late.

This is where the AFL is very wrong to evaluate the injury. Players will watch that and think that’s ok, right until someone does it and puts a player in a wheelchair - and then all of a sudden the league will realise it is about the action, and not just the outcome.

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

We've dropped to 4th..

To say we need a win against the Eagles would be an understatement. 

Watching Port Adelaide there is no way they are a top 4 side. They're the biggest pretenders going around.

Nah we don’t need to win on Monday. Crows next week will do us

All AFL players are tough but Patty Dangerfield comes back to life more often than James Brown did. They said he would be out for 4 weeks when Viney slung him. He played the next week. And IIRC he has been carried off before and done a sudden Lazurus, but not before Tribunal flogged the guilty. Then bounced back for Tuesday training. 

St Kilda have modelled themselves on Melbourne in the second half of the year, I reckon. They've nicked our set up behind the ball and place a greater emphasis on post clearance pressure and around the ground clearances, and ground ball gets. 

It was a similar sort of match tonight to our game against Sydney, in that the Swans were monstering the centre clearances, but St Kilda were intercepting those shallow rushed kicks that barely penetrated 50.

Parker is a major offender at those rushed, nothing clearances that get intercepted. He was an offender against us too. For me he's a vastly overrated player. He's good, but not clever or particularly skilled. Certainly wouldn't provide us anything different to what we already have if we were to go after him.

It also makes you wonder if Sydney are simply happy to take territory off winning the centre clearances, rather than have quality of clearance first and foremost. We're the opposite. We'd much prefer to get the most damaging centre clearance possible or put enough pressure on the opposition with their clearance so we can intercept. It's a different story with our approach to around the ground clearances of course, where we're quite happy to take territory.

I thought St Kilda also exposed their lack of pressure forwards by rebounding with extreme pace off half back. They cut Sydney to ribbons, and stretched them out of shape with angled, wide, excellent ball use, and looked for thst corridor kick almost every time. They're a good team to watch, St Kilda, when they get going.

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1 minute ago, DubDee said:

Nah we don’t need to win on Monday. Crows next week will do us

I want to win Monday, get the job done and give it to my Dirty Filthy FILTH supporting boss.

On 8/6/2021 at 11:12 PM, John Crow Batty said:

Interesting stat. Geelong have only won 4 games against top 8 sides including the umpire robbery by 1 point against Brisbane and a lucky 5 points against Bulldogs. Their resume is well padded by beating easy beats in a dream draw and a dream home ground advantage. 4 out of 5 losses are against current top 8 sides. 

You’d think they hadn’t lost a game in 2 years if you listen to the hype in the media.

Saints did us a favour, win Monday and double chance is guaranteed.

If it is to be it is up to me

On 8/6/2021 at 11:12 PM, John Crow Batty said:

Interesting stat. Geelong have only won 4 games against top 8 sides including the umpire robbery by 1 point against Brisbane and a lucky 5 points against Bulldogs. Their resume is well padded by beating easy beats in a dream draw and a dream home ground advantage. 4 out of 5 losses are against current top 8 sides. 

if they're not losing against top 8 sides they're losing to bottom 10 sides. 2 of our loses against arguably the 16th and 17th worst teams. A draw against the worst team. you can only beat who you play. 

After seeing what a depleted GWS can do, it might not be such a big deal but the loss of Tex and injuries to Smith and Hamill tonight puts the Crows under the pump big time.

8 minutes ago, Spirit of the Demon said:

After seeing what a depleted GWS can do, it might not be such a big deal but the loss of Tex and injuries to Smith and Hamill tonight puts the Crows under the pump big time.

I was actually thinking that with Tex gone and under the circumstances in which he did, Adelaide were fired up with something to prove. 

Richmond are crap

24 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Nah we don’t need to win on Monday. Crows next week will do us

Cool...

14 hours ago, binman said:

Or even petty. 

As you say Taylor didn't engage Hawkins in any strength battles. Which was smart. 

And I thought a big factor in them hanging on in the last is Taylor ran off Hawkins at every opportunity. Meant they got the ball moving quickly, stopped the cats setting up a wall to trap inside 50 and got important territory.

The key of course is pressure, or else Hawkins gets the delivery he wants/needs. 

If we bring that petty can play Hawkins the same way as Taylor 

I reckon he did 2 or 3 times and just beat Hawkins hands down. It was quite an incredible display, but I agree on playing Petty on Hawkins and trying to play off him by 5m,  so there's little engagement in a strength battle. 

I think it was FIRST CRACK that talked about this about 5-7 weeks ago. The way you play Hawkins is you zone off him a bit and try and arrive slightly behind the play, but close enough to intercept or spoil.

Easier said than done of course, but if the pressure up the field means the delivery to Hawkins is rushed, this strategy becomes much easier.

33 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Nah we don’t need to win on Monday. Crows next week will do us

Can't we make it easy for ourselves for a change!

On 8/6/2021 at 1:56 PM, Jaded said:

Artistic group swimming is on at the Olympics tonight.

Not bad viewing! Good shared viewing while being on a 'phone date' at least. 

45 minutes ago, Pollyanna said:

I'm really not sure what you're whinging about. One win from 3 and we're top 4. Port won't finish 1 or 2.  We'll  win one of the next three minimum.

Agree with all that , but I’d rather it be a certainty now. You could throw in the Adelaide game too and we’d still be top. All hypotheticals and semantics now I know.
Just seems ridiculous we are now 4th and don’t have a double chance sewn up yet after being on top for most of the year . 

anyways over to the MFC to finish the job 

44 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Nah we don’t need to win on Monday. Crows next week will do us

Out of your mind!

36 minutes ago, monoccular said:

I was actually thinking that with Tex gone and under the circumstances in which he did, Adelaide were fired up with something to prove. 

It was a Showdown though where prior to the game, Port had won 25 times and Adelaide 24. This was to level it up. 

I turned it back to the Swans game as soon as the two Crows collided and Port kicked a goal from it. It seemed like a pivotal moment in the game, of which I'd watched very little. Too busy enjoying Sydney losing. Figured Port would run away with it after that.

I was surprised to turn it back after the Sydney game to see Lynch kick a goal for Adelaide and with 3 and a bit minutes to go, Adelaide be within a kick. Port are deadset ordinary IMO.

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