4 minutes ago, Demonland said:

This is so good for us.

6 hours ago, At Least I Saw a Flag said:

I actually don't mind Healy as a commentator. Seems I'm the odd one out here.

I'm not sure that the players who are out injured are necessarily best 23 any more ... other than Bowey, and perhaps Rivers.

However future injuries will presumably facilitate their returns to the side at some stage ... I'm thinking Tmac, Viney, Salem. In each case, I think lack of pace is perhaps the main issue. I can relate to that ... even I've slowed down!!

Rivers comes back in, probably for Lawrie, other than that I don’t think Viney TMac or Salem have a spot and Bowser, not sure.

I seriously think we should keep the Irish music at all home games after every goal. The scarf waving in the MCC was Essendon-like 1990s early 2000s. An amazing spectacle.

I think it'd really lift our players seeing the scarves waving in the stands and it'd put off opposition teams, certainly interstate teams where we have the outnumber.

As for the game itself, Koz was brilliant early, loved Langford's game, Chandler's best and Kolt's. All three probably played their best games. Howes and Turner down back are such steady heads on young shoulders.

Trelly did some special things, didn't he? That cut back to JVR in the last was utterly outrageous. And I loved it!

A great game from JVR. Sharp, Langdon, Checkers and Fritta all played their roles really well. And we got contributions from Jeffo, Laurie and Moose.

Extremely happy with the win. And again, to those who said losing to Essendon would undo all our good work for the first four weeks, naaaaah.

One observation I had was that we didn’t allow the Lions to “stretch” us when they played the uncontested possession game. That was in contrast to the Bombers, who waited to stretch us down the ground before threading the needle back up.

We flooded back through the middle and into defence whenever the ball was turned over in the forward 50, so when they tried the uncontested possession tactic, we had extra players behind the ball and could let them go kick-to-kick and switch the play because it made little difference. Then, once we won the ball back, we flooded forward again.

I’m loving watching them play this season.