Deetective Sgt. Taggert

Haven’t had a chance to watch the game yet, but I can’t help but feel we were due a loss to Essendon. Arguably we only just got over the line against them the last few matchups so seems inevitable that at some point they were going to get us, as much as that sucks!!

Agreed! Has looked really composed with the ball.

Both Petracca and Oliver don’t seem to have their touch today (Clarries great goal on the run being the exception)

Currently 15-18 total clearance, which was better than it felt watching it!

Eh? Big call this early in the season on our vice captain

Not sure I like Petty up forward. Feel like we are missing him up back especially with those goals to franklin and Logan. Can’t help but feel like he would have stopped at least one of those marks.

Wrong thread!

Great start. If we could start evening out the center clearances and Petracca can find his kicking boots we’ll be in for a good ride.

I thought this was a interesting article from the Age: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/cats-10-goals-up-even-before-landing-henry-dees-rely-on-the-replacements-20221012-p5bpcj.html Given the situation with Geelong being able to pay players less, which lets face it, is not simply because of 'lifestyle' and 'culture' but also because of that fact there is a significantly lower average cost of living in Geelong compared to all the other major Australia cities (between 10-24% lower according to this website: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Australia&country2=Australia&city1=Brisbane&city2=Geelong&tracking=getDispatchComparison). So surely on that basis Geelong ought to have a lower salary cap than all other teams,if the cap if meant to provide some form of equalization? Seems a no brainer for me and would be very similar to other types of companies and organizations that adjust salaries based on the the location of the job (and the associated cost of living).

I think an alternative on the current model could be that once one team activates their sub, the other team has the option to activate their sub (replacing an under-performing player) either within say 5 minutes of the sub being activated, or during any of the subsequent breaks in play (qrt time, half time, etc.). But if they have an injured player then then could still activated the sub at their discretion.

So McInerny is out for the lions. That means our rucks have a great chance to dominate unless lions have a good backup waiting in the wings?. That might also be a reason that our selectors choose not to take a punt on TMac.

I’m curious to know if the guys think the pre-finals bye worked against us (and to a lesser extent Geelong)? It seems both Collingwood and Sydney were able to apply enormous pressure during their respective matches despite the fact that @binman and others were anticipating those (relatively) younger teams would begin to run out of steam come finals time. I can’t help but wonder if the pre-finals bye helped Syd and Coll freshen up more than it helped us freshen up. It will be interesting to see how the pies fare against Fremantle having to back up again next week. While Sydney will obviously get to freshen up again ahead of their prelim.

Is it just me or do Ginnivan’s baggy shorts make it look like he’s wearing a skirt?

We’ve now won 15 games, the same amount as Richmond in 2017. Just saying.

I’ll take any win at this time of year! That final goal by Pickett was somewhat similar to Tommy Mac’s goal to beat the eagles in Perth back in 2017.