At the break of Gawn

Nothing compromised at all about that flag. If anything, the compromise was against us because we had to win our first two home finals at neutral venues. You want to know a compromise? Collingwood playing at their home ground against an interstate team on grand final day.

Yep, get the off-season surgeries out of the way early.

If you had told me at the start of the year that our midfield would become our worst performing area, I’d call you crazy. I’ve got more faith in our forwards than I do in our mids. Also, I fear for the crowd size next week. Port could out number us.

Treloar is way too quick for Viney.

Never seen so many broken tackles. Smashed in clearances again. Midfield not running hard enough. McQaualter surely can’t be here next year.

Just FYI no one at the Herald Sun tipped us except for the Kiss of Death. According to them we’re the biggest underdog of the round.

Can’t see us winning the midfield battle at all which will lead to a heap of entries and ultimately the win for them. My confidence in McQualter is waning and I don’t think he has any tricks up his sleeve. I know the Dogs are our bunnies but I reckon Trac has been BoG in probably 3 of the last 4 against them which also doesn’t help.

Dogs have just opened their new home base. Looks world class. When will we open ours? 2040?

If I’m being brutally honest, we should be doing the same thing with McQualter. Clearly hasn’t worked this year. Teague on the other hand would be a great addition for us and has a proven track record of improving a team’s scoring.

A lot on here are really overblowing how good the Giants are. They lost to Richmond and the Suns on expected score and only won off their accuracy. They’ve lost to the likes of Essendon and Adelaide (both teams we’ve beaten). I fully expected to win last night but the fact is after the Giants made some tactical changes after qtr time we had no answer.

Knowing that we’re not going to do anything meaningful this year, I wonder if it’d be better for us to not make finals to give ourselves the best chance for 2025? 2021 was built off a full pre-season. I’m not sure if a first or second week finals loss is going to do anything for this group.

Wife 9 months pregnant. I’ll buy another membership when the baby is born to make up for it.

Another poor coaching performance. No answer for the Giants handball game. Tmac on Hogan made no sense. Another poor coaching performance by McQualter too.

10th on the ladder. Got smacked the week before, cold rainy night. We also haven’t played attractive footy since round 4 2022.

Bowey, Bill and Billings all gotta go.

Head in the sand. Their handball game in the middle of the game and our horrible centre clearance work were the difference.

Horrible centre bounce work by Gawn and the mids in the last qtr

Think Tmac got blocked off the ball so Hogan had a free run.

Feel like they’ve barely made a mistake in the middle. Us on the other hand is one after another.

Killing us with their handballs

The amount of unforced errors we make in the middle of the ground is staggering

Callaghan had 14 disposals that qtr. Need to get AnB on him.

Our 2nd qtrs have got to be the worst in the AFL. Goody goes in with a strategy for the first qtr and then the other teams adjust and we get rolled. Over to Goody to shift the game.

Killing us with numbers around the ball. Working harder than us. Not sure why we’ve dropped off so much.

Absolutely essential to win tonight to help our finals chances. I don’t like our chances of winning 4 straight if we lose tonight. The Giants have been very average the last few weeks and only winning due to accuracy. May should be able to cover Hogan and I’m trusting McVee to do the job on Toby. This is also the first time we’ll see Petty, JvR, Melksham and Turner all up forward while not doing the majority of the ruck. In some ways I hope the rain stays a away a little bit because I think we can get them in the air.