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New strategy for getting away with umpire dissent...

Do the thumbs up after you have lifted your arms like Clarry haha.

Thought Dunstan was good tonight. Viney in, he's playing some of his best football right now.

Lever for Smith.

IN: Kicking accuracy please, I wasn't concerned at any stage of the game, but those kicks for goal gave me the [censored].

That was gross.

Hinkley is done.

A multi-year finals team playing like a rebuilding side to try and mitigate the damage.

Absolutely awful.

Looking forward to a nice single malt while I watch the game tonight.

Still think we are a game up or so given our injuries from what I thought at the start of the season, so a bit nervous as always.

Bowey to keep progressing on his way to a world record hopefully.

Obviously the injuries we have aren't great.

But kudos to the recruiting team. I look at each line and all the players can play decent footy or better, we don't have to bring in the "might be okay" players and hope for the best*

*Smith and Hunt do raise my blood pressure a bit sometimes, but a premiership helps with that a great deal 😈

BBB is in for a ripper season I think.

Doesn't get outmarked, brings the ball to ground at worst and makes a contest. Plus has a bit of a run at players to force them out wide before they kick.

Also knows how to do some nice taps if he can't mark it.

And kicks goals!

Weapon.

With the outs I'm not super confident at all.

It's all about system, if we get that right we shut down the Doges and win.

But with a bunch of new back six players trying to gel with that system, we might leak more goals that any of us would like.

Hopefully the mids and forward line fire!

I reckon the Bulldogs will come out breathing fire.

MFCSS is still strong with me despite the glory of last year, but I can't wait.

Our baby had me up at 3:30 this morning, but I've taken the day off tomorrow so I can stay up "late" tonight and continue to try and get her first real word (she babbles a lot) to be...

Maxxy!

What a year!

Merry Christmas everyone.

A flag and my first kiddo came along.

Couldn't ask for more!*

* Santa; One more flag next year, pretty please?

Woke up at 4 a.m and couldn't get back to sleep.

Go Dees!

Survey done.

How [censored] good is this.

Go Dees!

6 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

Loved it.
Added abit.

 

Also added a bit.

How long has it been since we were legitimately the best team in the comp?

Long may it continue.

I am very entertained right now :)

Our coaches deserve kudos right now.

We have such a good defensive system (and players working so damn hard and not chasing possessions for themselves), so even when we have injuries and teams now trying to mitigate our game we can pull through with the big W.

I was seriously worried with some of the injuries that we couldn't adapt, but we seem to be at the moment and that I reckon is because of our system and the players belief in it.

It also gives the guys from the VFL a role to play when they come in, which simplifies things for them. They don't have to be heroes any more.

I don't tend to engage with posters that much but I would love to see @Wiseblood come back and post. He was super optimistic over the last few years (whether I agreed or disagreed doesn't matter) and if he is lurking should come back and enjoy a start to the season I'm pretty confident very few of us have seen in our life-times.

9 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

Fortunately for Petty he has 3 of the best defenders in the league beside him (May, Lever and Salem)

 

Good time for him to learn then considering our injuries.

1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I’m sure the phrase “April premiers” will be thrown around on Bigfooty tonight.

Many times :)

How good is this?

Seriously, a team that play for each other and a structure that looks right now seriously [censored] good.

I love it.

Blundstone Arena is a hole for football. 

BBB in for Milkshake.

Now that I've gone off topic.

We're winning, it seems like we have a person in place and her CV looks good.

Best time to make the change if there is little media pressure around the change.

Best of luck Kate!

2 minutes ago, Dees2014 said:

I doubt we are being told the whole story here. It is just too sudden to be a coincidence. In this era of political correctness, often quite justified, l wonder what more there is to this story. Certainly, it seems very sudden...it would be good for all concerned (including Glenn B) for there to be more transparency in this, especially as it comes as we are seemingly about to embark on a golden era, in no small part set up by Glenn himself! 

What's political correctness got to do with anything?

I like being wrong.