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Just now, Jontee said:

Still havent beaten anyone above us or in the 8.

The latter is the knock on us, and it won't be answered until either Round 7 (if Hawthorn hold their spot in the 8) or otherwise Round 8 when we play St Kilda.

Geelong are 3-2, but they've already played three top 8 sides and 9th as well. Their repeat games include Port Adelaide, North and West Coast - you can almost lock in six wins right there, and certainly the three home games as they're all at GMHBA. They also have the Dogs and St Kilda twice, but again the two home games are at GMHBA. They have Fremantle, also at GMHBA, and are yet to play Adelaide, GWS and Richmond, all mid-table sides (at best). 

This loss hurts Geelong, sure, but they've probably already had the hardest part of their fixture.

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14 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Good on Gaz for addressing the dissent rule.  👍🏽 

Absolutely! Finally someone in the media calling the ump dissent rule a disgrace and AFL in crisis is they don’t fix it tomorrow

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1 minute ago, titan_uranus said:

The latter is the knock on us, and it won't be answered until either Round 7 (if Hawthorn hold their spot in the 8) or otherwise Round 8 when we play St Kilda.

We’ve beaten 4 finalist from last year. Including the grand finalist and another top 4 team

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48 minutes ago, Chook said:

Is James Brayshaw OK? How do you confuse Joel Selwood for Dangerfield?

Pretty easy I would have thought Chook. Both:

  • dive
  • tunnel
  • throw
  • hold
  • leg
  • tantrum
  • sulk
  • obfuscate
  • backchat, and
  • cheat

with impunity.

Very confusing on many levels My Friend.

(BTW . . . are you the Chook formally known as CiP?)

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11 minutes ago, DubDee said:

We’ve beaten 4 finalist from last year. Including the grand finalist and another top 4 team

That is clearly something in our favour but unless you see Essendon, Port and/or GWS rebounding and making finals this year, those wins aren't going to be as strong as wins over Brisbane or Fremantle (both of whom we play twice), for example.

FWIW I see GWS pushing for the lower half of the 8, and I think Port will get much better than the currently are, but Essendon might be a lost cause.

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36 minutes ago, McQueen said:

I think it’s a wonderful and very deep of thought adaptation of Bryan. 

Sheeeeet. Just realised I’ve been getting my own child’s name wrong all this time. I should’ve been calling him Grendan. 😁

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"His record over the past decade, given the talent at his disposal, is remarkable. And he is an old school players’ coach. He refers to them as ‘my sons’. Even Kane Cornes, who is constitutionally required to find fault with everyone and everything, speaks of his former coach with great fondness."

I liked this quote from The Guardians Jonathon Horn...

I'm not sure when Ken will get the chop... but surely Ken has got the chop?

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2 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

That is clearly something in our favour but unless you see Essendon, Port and/or GWS rebounding and making finals this year, those wins aren't going to be as strong as wins over Brisbane or Fremantle (both of whom we play twice), for example.

FWIW I see GWS pushing for the lower half of the 8, and I think Port will get much better than the currently are, but Essendon might be a lost cause.

Agree with your post. I do think this is the most open season in decades as far as the top 8 goes. After Melbourne and Brisbane there is not much between the rest. Aside from north maybe. So maybe average teams

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The questions about who we’ve beaten may be valid, but the way we’ve won is a different conversation altogether. We just seem to constantly go to a next gear the moment we get a challenge. I think the players even enjoy it, it’s like where running a race together and then just when the other team thinks they’re in with a chance we turn on the after burners. 

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8 minutes ago, Pates said:

The questions about who we’ve beaten may be valid, but the way we’ve won is a different conversation altogether. We just seem to constantly go to a next gear the moment we get a challenge. I think the players even enjoy it, it’s like where running a race together and then just when the other team thinks they’re in with a chance we turn on the after burners. 

I have full faith that if we played ourselves in a parellel universe, we would still Win!

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1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

GET [censored] GEELONG!!!

A bit harsh M R. !!!  I, for one, was terribly upset that the Cats dropped their bundle and lost the game 

Nah, just kidding!!!! 

GEELOL............ G. A. G  MEGA  FFFFFFFD !!!!!

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1 hour ago, DubDee said:

Omfg. And the commentators say nothing which makes me want to kick the cat

Re commentators ... 

Way too much fawning over Hawkins. Good player obviously, but a genuine #$% bloke. FFS, call out that cheating. Lyon, Reiwolt, Robinson, Whateley etc ... If it was a lesser player, e.g. Nibbler, they'd make a meal of it. Same with his 'pushes'.

It was hilarious in the last few minutes Duckwood was up to his old tricks. Fortunately the umps didn't fall for it. If anything, he should have been pinged for HTB ... but the umps had pretty much put away their whistles.

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3 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

Defensively he’s ok. It’s what he does the rest of the time that makes you want to close your eyes and pray to Jesus 

 

Hawkins and his fat oily thighs are keeping Geelong from bottoming out. He is genuinely the only one not on his last legs. 

Bloody Hawkins. Frost hardly brushed him on the side (not the back) and Hawkins dived as if falling off a cruise ship. Not only got a free but a fifty. Just plain stupid umpire decision. This is a joke AFL.

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1 hour ago, DubDee said:

Can someone ask Damien Barrett when Josh Kelly is going to win his Brownlow?

id take Sales over him any day of the week

Salem would be Norm Smith Medallist most years. 
Except for CP5 and Fritsch

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