Ethan Tremblay

The curtain raiser is far more enjoyable than any other game I’ve watched this year.

Gold Coast don’t count as a real team.

A steady rebuild under Roos was completely undone in less than a season. Those who agree that we’ll be ‘fine’ next season, apart from hope, what exactly is that being based on? We’re back to square one. I’m not ‘slashing my wrists’ (horrible phrase by the way), just a realist who’s seen it all before and have seen nothing to suggest we’ll turn it all around by early next season.

We’ve had 360mm since the start of the year. 212mm in June and 72 for this month and counting. But yes, Melbourne has still had a hell of a lot less. https://www.watercorporation.com.au/water-supply/rainfall-and-dams/rainfall The soil is a hell of a lot sandier here, perhaps the drainage is better making the surface harder? Or maybe not, I have no idea.

Not consistent enough for mine at the present, goes missing against the better teams too often. If he can work on this he’ll be a gun. Surely we have the cap space, Essendon would want a first round pick and a player though. Gut feeling and nothing else tells me he is Essendon through and through.

Apparently he’s a midfielder but he’s played off the half-back in the games I’ve seen of him play in this season.

Plays for Fremantle now so I don’t care all that much, injuries are a part of professional sport. At least he’s still getting paid (a lot).

The game’s being butchered by Gil, Hocking and Co. I wonder what their endgame is? (No Marvel pun intended). IMO there was nothing wrong with the game a few years ago, the constant tinkering of the rules since then has turned it into an almost unwatchable mess. Looking at the bigger picture and not the outcome of each individual rule change, what are they hoping to achieve overall from all of these changes? Do they think the competition will become more even? Are they hoping it will appeal more to an international audience?

I wish we were downhill skiers.

I don’t think they really care anymore either.

"The AFL is examining the issue of excessive tackling, with football boss Steve Hocking saying the AFL wants to reduce the amount of tackling in the game." Hocking said that tackling had become ‘‘a feature’’ of the game and that the AFL wanted to see the number of tackles reduced, although he did not specify the desired number. ‘‘I have a very strong view on that. It has become a feature of our game and all the stuff that we’re analysing is how to get a balance back in that so that it’s not a feature of the game." Until Gil is gone I think I’m pretty much done with the AFL, is it even Aussie Rules anymore? https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-racing-to-build-new-review-centre-for-finals-20190717-p5284z.html#comments

So just his age has changed since his playing days.

We’d get fined for tanking but not tanking if we were to ‘rest’ Brayshaw now.

Trac’s getting better every week, including his set shots. He was one of our best players and managed to break through Bulldogs players on numerous occasions. Instead of blaming him for the loss, praise him for assisting with keeping us in the game.

We are dumb. Constantly bombing it in to a pack that’s 25m out. At least kick it over the pack, they’re smashing us in the contested marking.

Overrated apparently. Pressure and tackles win games. No way we can win this if we continue playing how we are.

How many times does an opposition player get around a ANB and slip past him? Lay, or even attempt to lay, a tackle son.

Are the umpires attempting to break the free kick record? Our skills are just horrible. Petracca has done a couple of nice things, building in confidence.

Far too quick and much cleaner than us. Laying a tackle or two wouldn’t kill us either.

Bulldogs by 64 points in a close one.

That goal!!

Same Height as Petracca at 186cm. I’d hardly call him a ‘small’ forward. He doesn’t play as one either.

On-field results for the first few gamesmanship next season.

The Coat-Hanger Bandit.