At the break of Gawn

Very good!

I’m more nervous for this game than any other game this season. So many questions to be answered tonight: 1. Can we maintain the rage and continue on our form or have we officially hit a flat spot? 2. Can our forward line kick a big enough score with only one genuine tall forward again or was that only successful when we were surprising teams? 3. Are Essendon actually decent and can make a case for the top 8? 4. Does bringing Viney back bring back our ruthlessness? etc. If we win tonight, and the Dogs lose to Eagles in Perth, we go 2 games clear on top. It is a massively important game for us. My MFCSS is at an all time high today, but surely we beat this mob and continue on our way?

Works ok for Geelong. Blicavs & Ratugolea as the two rucks with Cameron and Hawkins as the two tall forwards. I’m a firm believer that BB is in our finals team.

Thought May was actually decent. Shut down Elliot in the first half but then went on Mihocek and I think he kicked one on him. The other goals were on Petty. Petty was poor, although Darcy Cameron was gifted two of them by the umpire.

I reckon the coaches votes will look similar.

Can’t believe a few people don’t have Gawn, he was huge. 6. Petracca 5. Gawn 4. Oliver 3. Kozzy 2. Spargo 1. May (big second half) Apologies to Tmac.

Absolutely thrilled with that win and super proud of them given the interrupted week. Here I was worried we’d lose 3 in a row after last week! This team is different.

The other thing to remember is that we had restrictions went that happened. Connor broke restrictions. Marty hasn’t done anything wrong here. He’s just unlucky and it’s very hard to keep on top of all the exposure sites. New ones are getting added by the hour.

He’s having a better season than anyone else going around right now. I’m glad I put money on him at $17 for the Brownlow.

Would actually prefer M Brown over Weid right now. Through the was ok against the Hawks a few weeks ago. Took his chances.

Getting a please explain from the umpires won’t change a thing, but I think it’s important for the club to stand up and ask the question. People said Hardwick was whinging but at least he’s being honest and not copping it. I just think not asking the question makes us look like a club that just accepts poor treatment from the AFL.

Agree with every single one of these.

Maybe I’m catastrophising here, but I can easily see us going 9-3 here. Dogs are in unbelievable form and we face them at Marvel. We then play the most in form team of the comp who’s won their past 6 games. A “home” game against Brisbane in Alice.Thank god we have the Pies after that.

I really hope Melbourne enquires it. Goodwin never does. He just has the view of “swings and roundabouts” but that non decision was clearly influenced by the crowd.

The deliberate I could potentially understand with all the panic with 20s to go, but the holding the ball was as bad as the Zac Bailey one. Just gutless umpiring

Not enough our small forward pressure players: Spargo AnB Pickett Need a ton more from them.

2 of those wins were against North and the Suns at home by just 10pts. How they beat the Cats in round 1 is still a mystery. Geelong simply didn’t turn up and by the time they did it was too late. They’re still a sneaky chance of the wooden spoon in my opinion as I can only see their season getting worse and worse.

Beautiful weather in Adelaide today it looks. 24 and sunny with only a few clouds. I’m actually thinking we’re going to have one of our bigger wins today. 40+ points. The crows have fallen into a hole lately (although they were decent last week). I just can’t see them kicking many goals against our defence. We’ll do what the Giants did to them a few weeks ago.

Brown can manufacture goals a bit better than Weid can, and if he takes a mark inside 50, it’s 80% going through compared to Weid who is a 50-50 set shot. Having said that, Weid can crash packs better than Brown and is better at ground level. It’s a tough choice. Let’s see how Weid goes this w/e, but if he doesn’t hit the scoreboard, then surely Brown comes back in. We need as much scoreboard pressure against the Dogs that we can get.

Genuinely worried about McKay next week. He’s got 10cm on May and in great form.

Bit amused by the posters wanting Harmes dropped. He hit the contest hard and was Melbourne’s no.1 ranked player on the ground last night.

Had Rampe on him most of the night and he’s the Swans best defender. Tmac and BBB wouldn’t have played so well if Fritsch didn’t get the best defender.

I haven’t watched the replay yet after getting home from the game, but that doesn’t surprise me, he’s a woeful commentator who also shouldn’t be allowed to do Dogs games.

Can someone explain how the Saints have 54k members this year and we’re only on 46k? We’ve had a higher tally them then the last few years (9k more in 2019), yet, there they are sitting 14th on the ladder or something with 8k more members than us?

Congrats, Adam! I’m still making my way through the Great Deepression but have just pre-ordered this on Amazon ?