Bowey was immense, so composed under pressure, hard to believe hes only played a handful of games at AFL level. That sort of decision making and disposal under pressure takes years to get to that level. 

Petracca did what Petracca does, what an athlete. 

Stand tall Bowey. Great game. He is so poised with the ball in hand off half back and will be an AA half backer in the next 2-3 years. 

Trac, LJ,  Oliver terrific. Better today from Kozzy. Another solid hit out from Tommo and J Smith. 

Spargs and Hunt on the outer. Sparrow, JJ and at TMac have to be on notice with two stinkers in a row. 

We’re getting it done like great teams do. It’s not always pretty and we were cooked at 3/4 time. 
 

A lot of players were well under their best, but thats ok, it’s at the right time of year and we still got it done.

I’d like to see Toby Bedford get some game time for Hunt. He looked exciting at times against the dogs (although a bit nervous) but I liked what I saw. 

Maybe 10 day breaks don't help us

Did what we needed to when we had to. GC will beat plenty of sides that aren't as good as us this year. 

Maxy got smashed in every marking contest and didn't get any luck. Sparg's field kicking let him down tonight. But nice to see Kozzie getting back into some sort of form, and bowza and dogga, what can you say.

Also thought JJ had a good game. 

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Good to get the win. GC are a good side. Miller and Rowell kept grinding they are both hard at it, and Anderson kept kicking crucial goals. Really happy with the win. A few liabilities tonight though. Sparrow, Spargo, Hunt, and probably Rivers all performed poorly. Sparrow I thought was terrible.

Professional grinding win against an improving side in tough conditions. Jackson and Boweys impact at their age is ridiculous. Our defensive run was not up to normal scratch and our forward talls in Brown and Tmac did not give much,. Take the win and back to the G for round 3. 

May, Bowey, Tomlinson and Smith were good in a defence that saw a lot of footy.

Gawn looked so cooked. 

Track and Oliver win that game for us.

Brown, McDonald and Gawn forward saw too many packs with all three going up. 

Now let’s get back to Melbourne away from that weather…

Wow we were pushed. Don’t think we were bad, but Gold Coast were really good tonight. Hope this is just early season jitters.

Petracca was phenomenal. Jackson, also really good. Gawn had a shocker though, couldn’t mark to save himself. Spargo was solid as was Bowey. 
Was is just me or did that umpire just loved saying “play on” every times a player took a mark?

13 minutes ago, Bang Bang Bang said:

Jake Bowey should be ineligible for the Rising Star when he already is a star.

 

He played another great game, tonight. It was made more impressive in the oppressive humidity..

Trac has had 118 disposals in his last 3 official games. 39.3 avg. 

Not at our best but got the job done.

Bank the win and move on

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Kind of result I expected. 

Good hard fought slog against a team that's certainly on the rise. Play like that tonight all year and I think they win 10 games.

Our young kids are genuine freaks. Bowey and Jackson are next level, kozzie just doing what Kozzie does. I also liked Tom Sparrow's inside work and James Jordon on the wing who's work rate was noticeable tonight.

Take the win, and move on to next week.

5 minutes ago, Cassiew said:

Wow we were pushed. Don’t think we were bad, but Gold Coast were really good tonight. Hope this is just early season jitters.

Petracca was phenomenal. Jackson, also really good. Gawn had a shocker though, couldn’t mark to save himself. Spargo was solid as was Bowey. 
Was is just me or did that umpire just loved saying “play on” every times a player took a mark?

Seemed play it was play on if a player went 1cm off his line…

Hard to watch. Very hard to watch. I'll take it nonetheless.

Good win. GC played pretty well. Thir midfield is excellent with Miller and Rowell

Bowey was very good in Salem's role.

Jackson great.

Trac probably has six Brownlow votes.

Loved Pickett's goal.

Worried about Max's form. Was a liability tonight.

A good, professional win that one. Certainly can't discount the effort that went into it, tough conditions against a talented opponent. 

We absorbed it and then overcame it. The best part is that I think we all expected we would, and we did.

Will never take being a bloody good team for granted! It's awesome

The umpiring was gutless tonight, for both teams, but hurt the Suns towards the end of the third particularly. 

Hunt's disposal has not improved

Bowey playing Salem's role tonight

forward line seemed congested

backline a little shaky, tho still conceded the average 60 odd

put the Q in the rack at 3Q time, did what we had to do

lets smash the bombers next week

How nice is it to win a game easily when where playing as poorly as we did tonight though ? 😍

Winning ugly is better than losing, take the wins anyway the come not going to be many easy games this year. 

Youngsters were great , especially Bowey and Jacko with Kozzie always exciting.

Might be time to give Bedford more of a regular game, as Hunt is just not grabbing his chance and turns the ball over too much.

We miss Lever lots as we don’t have that intercept marker who reads the play as well as him.

 

Trac is such a bull and the best player in the comp right now.

Love how Trac stitched up LJ in his interview

gold!

Well we got the win we have plenty of improvement left in us. Gold Coast are better than  I thought they were Rowell and Miller are elite. Petracca WOW Bowey WOW Jackson WOW. If Hunt gets a game again I'll be amazed absolutely horrible.