Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

Edo!👏 We have our own Goulds. Phew...

Banno! 👏

Missing Gillard for Gould ☹️

Crows using their wind advantage better this quarter.

***THERE'S A DEDICATED GAME DAY THREAD NOW***

That's what I was assuming and hence my sympathy. Used to hate it on the bay-hugging Sandy line - option only on one side, and distant.

This thread sharing commentary with the '10th season of the AFLW' thread. One eye on each, folks? 🤪

I think Goldy's granny is 4.30 pm their time so 12.30 am tonight, our time, maybe?

11.30, Brownie. Link on Club website. Maybe 12.30 for 'TG4'(?) - second half starts then. Half time. Dees 5.1, Crows 0.5.

Good start by the girls - same connection, physicality and skills as I saw last week. Quarter time, 2 goals to 3 behinds. Withstood early Crows forward 50 dominance, with wind. Benefited from inaccuracy, then took over late. Paxy motors on! Now with the breeze.

Sympathy, dan. My drive from afar requires only slight deviations for me to have a choice from several lines.

This, perhaps?...

Thanks, as always, @WheeloRatings. Extraordinary detail! I do wonder: How many people does it take to gather and record so much? How do they actually do it, and so quickly? Whose money pays them?

This oldster will take that from you, QD, given your Deep poetic post. But it's a teeth-grinder from anyone else...

What are you and your romantic erudition doing on a footy site! (Nice, btw 😊)

Kicks like Fritta?

Good for football.

She had the grace to apologise. So she has some self-awareness. Perhaps overdue, though, in translating that into accuracy?

And it's the sort of opponent we've recently had trouble with. Not today.

Petty seemed to do more of the forward rucking than Van Rooyen. Do the stats bear that out?

It was to his family and friends, A. But your last sentence still holds! 😊

Is there a case to be made for quality over quantity in this post-St-Kilda, Docklands-vibe instance? Two things: Standing at the exit from Spencer Street station (I'm an oldster) for a quarter of an hour or so just before the start I was struck by the variety of evident Demons streaming past, particularly youngish people, and very particularly families with young kids, all very happy to be decked out in the red and the blue (in some degree of answer to those who last week saw a generation of Demons lost to ridicule and bullying during the week). Something of a resilient future there? Per my earlier post, the noise was not a 16,000-level noise. Fair call on the raw numbers, though: in 2025 the Eagles are 4th on the 2025 average attendances (and Freo are 3rd - so maybe there's a bit of a WA 'footy starvation' factor there?) But we're not too shabby in 8th place, ahead of Hawthorn and Geelong, notably)

Streamed on the Club's website, 11.30. This team's worth a look - although the talls carnage from last week puts a dent in ☹️

If you want to be positively distracted from what the crowd might or might not be, sit with the Demon Army. You'll always feel like you're at a 'biggie'. Kudos, as ever, to Our Army. p.s. Noticed a couple of apprentice chant leaders. Succession planning appears alive and well in this department of our Club. p.p.s. Singing the song before the final siren: both neck-hair-raising and slightly awks when it's a team of the calibre of WCE

The last time Dees and Dogs met after thumping wins in their previous games...