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Recent history suggests that the Suns are always up and about early in the season. A potential banana skin if we're not switched on throughout I think. Looking forward to see how our new look backline perform for a second week.

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

Wouldn’t it be ironic if it was Ricky Nixon, but everyone didn’t believe him?

Jackson and Bowey, so glad they’re ours right now. Brilliant games by both.

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

Good teams get wins when they play poorly. We played very poorly, but fact is we are missing most of our backline, had a short preseason and we’re in unfamiliar humid conditions. Personally, I am very glad to bank to 4 points

Good tough win. Gold Coast are genuine improvers and will push plenty of teams this year.

Bowey had the composure of a 100 game player.

I 🙋‍♀️

No one outside our club will ever talk about bowey, or realise just how much we appreciate him. But he is very reliable.

Bowey excellent

Still hasn’t played in a losing team. Long may it continue.

Bowey should be called The Janitor because he’s spent alll night cleaning up everyone’s mess.

Bowey our best and to end the arguement now he gets more hard balls than Caleb Daniel would get in a season. Just sayin

A difference in Neal Bullen from now to 2-3 years ago… he wouldn’t have hand balled and would’ve tried to kick that goal himself. Team orientated play wins premiership

I love Ben Brown so much.

Rankine a late out for the Suns

Good to win a grind. Tough conditions The job was done

Bowey was poise personified. Can't remember him look flustered or screw up a disposal all career. Trac you champion. So humble and grounded after a 41 possession game, and throws in the cheeky comment about getting Dogga signed up at the end too. Finger on the pulse.

Boys should be in ice baths for the next 5 days. Recovery, recovery, recovery.

Well I’m off to the game and my back is screwed so the Mrs said why don’t you have a few rums to do which I replied ok for medicinal purposes. 10 rums later (the OP stuff) and a couple of neurophen and I am right to go. GO U MIGHTY DEMONS.

Keep talking and I’ll be an expert in no time.

Absolutely sensational moment with Buddy's goal and the crowd running on. Felt like we needed that to remind us that footy belongs to the fans, and an 'old school' footy moment like that did just that. The huge smiles from everyone involved, including Buddy, were unreal. I absolutely loved how it played out and that all the fans seemed to understand the moment. Let's not panic over things that didn't happen and just celebrate how it actually went. As for the Tuohy 'incident'... Are you guys for real? Tuohy had people running all around him, you can see him trying to weave through the crowd and then someone just runs straight into him. Calling it a 'shirtfront' is totally ridiculous. Tuohy was just about standing still when it happened, and he immediately pointed to the blokes wallet after he got up, not exactly the actions of someone who just assaulted someone hey? In both cases, let's not create things that weren't there or freak out over things that didn't happen, was an amazing moment all round and the fans needed it after the last couple of years..

This is exactly the sort of match the dees lose - beat a top team and then drink our own bathwater, get ahead of ourselves and falter the next week against bottom team. Hold on a minute... how did that post from 2019 appear? Weird tech issue alert

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

I want to buy a copy of this game on DVD so I can burn it and throw it in the bin

Safe to say I will never watch this game on replay.

And there he is again.

So you’re able to swipe somebody in the face with the fingers before tackling them now? can’t say I saw that one in the rules. DuhWayne and Brereton arguing that it doesn’t matter if you’re hit in the face, how are these two paid money

Bowey is already better then Daniel at the same age

all Australian in the making

Come out firing after 1/2 time and put this one to bed please Dees.

Your wife sounds like a keeper

Sorry, come again? I didn’t catch that. It’s hard to listen and projectile vomit at the same time.

For all Gil's huffing and puffing about fines and don't run on the ground, why on earth didn't the AFL have a serious security plan for Buddy . He was lining up for goal for 30 secs. More than enough time to get a squad of fit security guys ready to rush the ground and encircle him. Some swans players tried but his teammates by and large failed in this too. My memory later in the event was seeing Buddy's wife move from elation to possibly a look of major concern for his welfare. A miracle no-one was hurt.

When Jack Viney breaks a mirror, the mirror get 7 years of bad luck

Agree that our defence is ahead of other teams in the comp and that the better teams won’t score as easy against us but still feel we miss to many gettable shots for goal. Can’t find stats for season but as of June 8th last year our set shot kicking was 48% and the worst in the comp. BBB cemented his place in team after that and our kicking in Prelim and GF probably improved our average but it’s still an area I think we will need to improve. We dominated most of the top teams in the home and away last year but poor goal kicking often kept opposition in the game for longer than they should have been and we relied on our superior fitness levels to get the job done in the last quarter.

If this was the worst ‘misadventure’ resulting from that debacle, everyone there ought to count themselves lucky. That circus was an open invitation to injury or even worse.

Changed it to what really DID happen.

I thought that was brilliant. Yea there were moments of concern, but it's better to have a life of colour than one of sanitised beige orderliness. In the end people largely didnt push-in too much and there was a bit of drunken revelry, no harm no foul. Great scenes, congrats Buddy

My god waiting until 8pm is a pain.

Still 24 degrees here… about to head off to the ground… no sign of rain yet!

They don't like daylight savings up there what with the extra sunshine fading the curtains and all that.

Hopefully we’ve prepared for this game the same way we did against GC last year - by spending 12 hours trapped on a plane. We haven’t dropped a game since that fateful day on the tarmac.

Should win this easily. Just like we should have beaten Adelaide last year.

What I'm getting at is they don't have the legs for the new game plan...good teams will pick them apart. When the pressure came on they stated reverting to the old as you say. ...and whilst old news, it still seems to be new to Brian and his team of commentators along with many other experts. I wonder what excuse Scott has this week for a poor performance? it's obvious Danger, Hawk & co must have had the flu again

The old legs is old news! Selwood gave away 4 frees, the first of which became a down the field free which, iirc resulted in an early goal for Sydney. He did little for his team. All that aside, my post you quoted was about their 'new', much hailed game plan which failed when pressure was applied. They looked stuck between their old and their new method. Neither worked.

Damn it I feel asleep during last quarter and missed Buds 1000. The two games so far this round really show the difference when a team is kicking well. Dogs 13.12 90 v Carlton 16.6 102 Swans 17.5 107 v Cats 10.17 77 I think it’s an area that we will need to improve on if we want to win back to back flags.

The spectators feet left the ground before contact, he can accept a one match ban according to the match review panel.