—coach—

Reckon we weathered the storm well, settle things down now and let the Casey juggernaut roll on through

Wow great to see the standard of umpiring consistent from AFL to VFL, rubbish in both

Toms injured again so we wouldn’t have been able to bring him in.

I've been to 6 games at the MCG this year for 1 win and 5 losses, should I ever attend again or is my fierce support just too distracting for the players?

One thing that rarely gets mentioned is how often our handballs go to the feet of the intended recipient. This causes then to slow down to collect the ball rather than simply keep running at full pace. As such they end up under pressure and then have to give of a quick kick or hand pass which invariably is misdirected further causing turnovers or lost opportunities.

Oh FFS Melbourne

This team sure knows how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

My training report from Goshes: - walked past Mitho, Bannan and several others on the way to the G. Told them to have a great sesh. All looked to be in good spirits. End training report.

I said this to a mate of mine after the game, it was like they just let us get first hands on it at every stoppage only to tackle us immediately to cause a turnover. I still can’t work out why we aren’t looking for our first handball to go 10-15m away instead of 2-5m away as we keep passing to a bloke under just as much pressure as the first guy.

Why couldn’t either of these teams kick this poorly against us FFS

That’s really disappointing to hear. I took my 9yo girl and we had front row seats on ground level Olympic stand. She stood up the whole game to see over the fence, waved her flag and accidentally hit people and they were all brilliant about it, just encouraged her to love the team. All were under about 55 so that may explain the difference.

Sensible woman, it’s bloody cold here!

Welcome 31!

Taking my 9yo daughter to her first finals game at the G! Both super pumped. I've shown her some of the goals (Hannan and Melky) from our 2018 finals campaign and given her a sample of the crowd noise, but nothing beats the sound of it live. I'm getting shivers down my spine just recalling it. Reckon she will have a smile from ear to ear when we kick that first goal! Can't wait!

By far the best team across the night! Every time Adelaide has some ascendancy we brought it back on our terms and eventually crushed their spirit. Could easily have been a 5+ plus win, bust couldn’t ask for a better start to the season! Well done Dees!

PAAAXY you beauty!!!

Great effort by the girls tonight all over them now, should be 4-5 goals up but for poor goal kicking.

I went back out of interest to see what the difference is. 2018 he got 48 frees for (22 games, 2.18 per game) 2019 44 (22 games, 2 per game) 2020 6 (9 games, 0.66 per game) 2021 11 (13 games, 0.84 per game) 2022 11 (16 games, 0.68 per game) Quite a different

In days gone by, if a team attempted to physically beat us up like Brisbane tried the other day we would have folded like cream puffs. Instead we returned the favor (legally) and hammered them back into their hole like whack a mole! Loving it!

Reminded me of when you grab someone’s arm and hit them with it and say stop hitting yourself

Jeezus Christ only one team allowed to received holding the ball frees

Jeeez after a great first half of umpiring it’s gone silly all of a sudden

57% inside 50 percentage!

Well that was a thoroughly enjoyable quarter!

So if we win the premiership again, like we did last year with a loading period, would you say we won in spite of loading or because we loaded mid season?