Hatchman

I remember seeing him play for us at the G early on. His left foot was elite, still is. Hibberd is a bit of a genetic freak. Build like Dustin Martin, leg speed of someone much younger and lighter, and reads the ball and play so well. The sight of him grabbing the premiership cup and bolting to the crowd will make me smile till my time on earth is done. Great memory

San Francisco Bay Area over here. I'll watch it on the WatchAFL app and cast it to my TV - night games on the Australian East Coast mean 02:00 start times in California

Part of me wonders if a lot of the games we were playing in the second half of the season were using tactics that were deliberately designed to get other teams to change their analysis of the way we play and spend energy adjusting for that so that we will change tactics in the finals series and catch them off guard. We played differently last night, and I do concede part of that is due to the fact the Brisbane were so bad. But it still seemed different. I am a lot more confident in our chances of getting to the GF. Last night a lot of things just seemed to "click"

Hunt is playing like someone who knows he is in with a shot at playing in a GF. Form has been excellent

Who the hell does this anymore??? Seriously? Who?

I'll rewatch the 2021 finals series for the 10th time, shed a few tears, toast the boys and I won't give an eff. 45 years of suffering means I'll probably be dead before I can amass that much sadness again in this lifetime

I think he still has next year on a contract so he's not worth chopping. Mitch Brown would go before him. He is still serviceable as a last line backup forward/ruck but I would say he has blown his chances now for season 2022 - unless we have a serious injury that we need him to cover

Ha! I really should have re read that post 🤣 But it was the premiership!

I feel you. I married a Tigers supporter My long-suffering ended last September

They are going to hit the wall 4 weeks from now

Great win by the team. Weideman would be lucky to play again for us, he was terrible all night. Didn't touch it until the second half in a game where we dominated the inside 50s. He just can't read the ball in flight. On the lead and on the chest he is fine, but once it goes overhead and in a contest he is no good. I'm convinced it is his eyesight.

We're the reigning premiers, this whole season is a first for me. It's great!

Maybe it is a vision thing with Sam. Adding to his bag of dropped marks and misses there was one where the ball flew over the pack and he literally dropped a chest mark that fell into his lap. It's possible his depth perception is totally whacked. Before wearing contact lenses at 15 my depth perception was horrible, I had spectacles which kind of helped, but if I was trying to catch something that was not coming straight at me and crossing into the zone at the edge of my spectacles and vision I'd struggle - probably why I was so bad at cricket! Once I wore contacts I got better at everything, footy, basketball, baseball etc.

We're second on the ladder in the last quarter of the season. I don't think we have too many issues. Having said that I do believe our biggest issue right now is the lack of a strong marking forward that can run up and down the ground to work with BB and Fritsch. If TMac was fit we would have that base covered and we'd probably be on top. I never appreciated how much better we are structured when he is in the team due to his huge tank, strength and defensive skills. Weiderman and Mitch Brown are not the answers and that has been proven now. BB out of the team also made life much harder against the Dogs. I believe we need to trade for another BB/TMac - I did like the look of Ugle-Hagan, wonder if we can get him or if there is another player in the league that is looking for a move?

I think Daisy is the best commentator in the game. Furthermore, her special comments are way more insightful and demonstrate an understanding of the modern game, and its tactics, that the old dinosaur commentators just don't have.

Exactly, and his half-wit brother was no different. I hate seeing players do this and would love to see it umpired out of the game.

Melkshams run-down tackle and then gut-running to kick the goal, plus a very unselfish pass to Brown (or Fritsch I forget who) for another goal will keep him in the team. He was better than Bedford. In: Oliver, Petty Out: Bedford, Tomlinson Sucks for Adam as he had a great game but he did not make it back to the team on form alone and Petty has earned the spot.

Despite him signing I think we should trade Sam this year while he still has currency. He's been with us for a long time but he still cannot take a contested mark to save himself and he gets bodied off the ball too much. He is a nice kick for goal, however. He's one of those players that is just a little too good for VFL, but not good enough for AFL, he'd have better luck at a club that is struggling.

I forgot how hard Byron played. Man I would hate to be on the end of a bump from him

He is a gem. All of the Pickett bloodline brilliance and toughness, strong sense of playing fair and elite defensive efforts. I am so, so happy we drafted him. Could become one of the all time greats.

Is it just me, or is Fritsch leading a scoreboard for the most amount of physical damage done to opposition players? He must have steel-plated elbows and knees

Glass houses everyone. Just saying. If he backs it up on the field then let him take a mid-season holiday to blow off steam. Love how in the Last Dance even Jordan reflects how Rodman came back from one of those benders and totally smashed everyone at training.

Very well said

If Turner had not been concussed and Max had not been playing injured then the result would have been closer as it threw our structures out of whack and the Pies smartly capitalized on this. Petty also looked hurt after a big clash in the third as well. Mitch Brown had to be moved to defense to cover Turner and then when Max went off in the third, Cox sat in the hole in our forward line and grabbed everything because Ben Brown was double-teamed and Fritsch was well-held. Why on earth our mids kept bombing it into the forward line in the third and fourth quarters is beyond me, that was a stupid tactic and it cost us momentum and ultimately the game. The competition is very close and every team knows us very well. Once our game plan came apart at the seams as the injuries mounted the momentum started changing, McCrae changed tactics and the result was inevitable. Good coaching by the Pies. But we head into the bye at the pointy end of the ladder and the two weeks break should be really good for us to put a better team on the park in a couple of weeks