FireInTheBennelly

Exactly right DV8, but the do-gooder supporters will say but it makes no difference. For the last 15 years (at least) opposition teams have seen the upcoming fixture being Melbourne and thought sweet, I can do whatever I want and get away with it. I hate to say it, but we're still bordering on bruise-free. Sure we go hard at the footy, but we don't show any other form of toughness. Ruthless! That's how you win flags. No, for the muppets, I don't mean violent. Ruthless means standing up for your mates, playing hard (but fair) at ball and man.

Perhaps because the only trick we know is to bomb high and long? At the very least a giant at FF would've made all their defenders more accountable. How many intercept marks did they pull in? Does that happen if they're forced to be more accountable and man Preuss? What if he takes a few grabs early and they have to double team him?

Odd comment. Big difference between bashing someone and standing up for your mate.

Spot on

A lot of the protected area 50s are completely pointless with the kicker looking the other way. That one actually got in the way with the kicker looking to go that direction but having to go back the other. Play on

Ridiculous call. Like I said, that situation happens every game, and the player is NEVER called for holding the ball. Yet ours get's knocked out of the game and pinged. Just 1 in a long line of umpire howlers. We should've picked up at least 3 more 50 metre free kicks in that game, but that clearly wasn't 'allowed'

We can't control what we can't control. Yep we fluffed plenty of chances, but chances shouldn't be taken away. Chances shouldn't be gifted to the opposition incorrectly. My big call: we'll make the 8 comfortably. Petracca needs a kick in the ars.

I can't help but feel he's only going to get better. Great get.

But it's a team game and Vardy's team won. I hated that nobody stood up for Gawn, AGAIN! The mark is in the goal square, give away the 50 to make the point and watch the team walk taller.

Honest question. How often does a player that quite obviously didn't hear the call and stops, gets called for holding the ball? Follow up question. How often does the opposition attempt to hurt that player that has clearly stopped? Second follow up question: Why the absolute [censored] is that not a free kick for a dangerous tackle? Ball goes up the other end for a 12 point play. Then the throw and goal. How much did we lose by? Sure our skills cost us goals, but that's within our control. What isn't in our control is the rubbish umpire calls. These weren't the only bad crucial calls. Make no mistake where this game was lost.

I see Wagner has been given the Lewis role.

I thought that was the case. I recall Hickey being the ruck in the infamous 'straight arm' free kick game where the umps slaughtered Maxy to the point he almost gave up. This doesn't bode well.

Was it Hickey at the Saints that always used to towel Maxy up?

Knew it would happen. Let's see our reaction.

This is the site you're after for umpires CMWYW http://aflua.com.au/umpire-appointments/

Bring in Preussy and it'll be raining goals for the Dees DV8

At least the 6:30 news will be long done before the game is

Who blinks first? IN: T. Hickey or IN: B. Preuss

What was the Lewis injury and is it long term? Take it to the draft. Seriously though, that was terrible, but a good result. Good teams find a way to win ugly when they're out of form and I reckon that's the last frontier for us. I can see us kicking on from here. We'll beat the Weagles.

I think the more pertinent question is why was Myers allowed to take that kick? On the coverage I was watching the siren clearly blew a second before he marked the ball. It wasn't even borderline, the siren clearly went before the mark. Can anyone confirm if that was indeed the case, or my feed is total crapola? Edit: I've just watched the final 2 minute clip on the AFL website and it has been 'doctored' right at the point where Myers marks the ball. The original vision was smooth, that vision has a cut in it right at the crucial point. Coverup!

Tanking

For sure. He still looks like he has massive improvement left in him as well. Needs confidence that the position is his I reckon. He's not dumb, I'm sure he can see the OMac situation as well as we can.

You're probably right, it was just a wind up.

How many players over the last 10 years can say they beat Roughie so badly he was dropped?

We only just got them back on last week, with paperclips.