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GF in the city I was born in on my Birthday! The stars have aligned... It's Demons in 2020!

Just a point of order... there are some things that Jetta brought that Jay may develop. Jets is really annoying to small forwards (and others). He has a nifty way of holding on without being pinged. I have heard, first hand, team mates complain about this in pre-season simulation training, to the point where Dunny once advised his team to, "just hit him"! Jets rarely panics... if he is beaten he just fronts up for the next contest. Jets knows when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em.!

You had better take a closer look, Lord Nev!

I was outraged by the 50 metre penalty against Fritsch at the time, so I followed up with a bit of analysis. First up, we all agree that Fritsch was trying to slow down Brisbane (and Bailey's) ball movement. Here's my description of the sequence. Fritsch slides across the boundary line to attempt a mark. Bailey (Brisbane 33) gives him a little nudge forward. The Boundary Umpire whistles for OOF. Soon after, Curtis Deboy, umpire number 11, whistles the stop in play as he runs toward the two players. Meanwhile Bailey 33 tries to get ball. Fritsch is trying to get to his feet. Deboy calls out "Bailey". Bailey 33 now has Fritsch's head between his legs. He then pushes Fritsch to the ground by shoving down on his shoulders (this fits into Fritsch's plan beautifully). With Fritsch now lying face down, Deboy calls out, "Bailey, give it back". Bailey regains his feet (which he is entitled to do as he will be manning the mark) and immediately hands the ball to Bailey 33. Deboy has already decided to pay a 50 metre penalty and adjudicates that decision at the same instant that Fritsch is handing the ball back. Now lets look at that in time! From the moment Deboy says, "Bailey, give it back", 6 seconds transpires before Fritsch hands the ball to Bailey 33. NOW, PLEASE COMPARE WHAT I HAVE DESCRIBED WITH A SIMILAR INCIDENT 10 MINUTES EARLIER With 12:07 to go on the time clock, Petracca lands a beautiful tackle on Bailey 33 between the centre circle and the wing Boundary line. Umpire 3, Leigh Fisher blows the whistle to award a free kick for HTB to Petracca. Bailey 33 tries to slow things down and as Petracca tries to retrieve the ball, Bailey 33 pushes the ball away along the ground. Petracca immediately looks at umpire Fisher with the expression, "Did you see what he did?". No reaction from Fisher and Petracca gets the ball. My point... 12 seconds transpired with this bit of by-play between umpires whistle and Petracca getting his hands on the ball. No 50 metre penalty for a sequence that was twice as long as Deboy's mischief! By the way, 6 seconds of game time was lost with the recall after Lever's mark as well as any advantage we had with field position.

Gawn Oliver Petracca Viney Langdon May

Going through a careless stage, and it can look ugly. Still getting a lot of it from getting to the right places. Not known as a rocket scientist (you know what I'm saying). It is clear, he will have to consistently make better decisions if he wants to become one of the best! Its there for him if he can change his evil ways...

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Bennell 4 goals... Brown 2 goals

A dismal effort! Give up joeboy. Your analysis is about as incisive as a Lou Richard's prediction of who will win next week! (and Lou's not even around to make that prediction)

Attention coach assassins! Which teams in the 21st Century have won a Premiership because they changed the coach? Not saying they don't exist, just interested in the probability!

Thanks for that impressive bit of game analysis DEEZEE

Quite a few 'experts' here tipped an easy Cats victory. It went down to the line. WE were close to winning. Are those experts prepared to acknowledge that they underestimated our team?

Give it a rest! You are no better than the leader of a lynch mob! Get some help on analysis! Stop potting the coach! You are not contributing to the club in any way! Trolling is a sub-standard existence. I'm calling you out!

After they got on top in the third quarter, I wondered if we could get ourselves back into the game. I have hundreds of memories of us not getting back into the game in the past. I'm attributing the getting back into the game to the players and the coach. We almost stole it! What are the Trolls attributing our 4th qtr. comeback to?

Hard to read the garbage! We were in the game throughout. We gave ourselves a chance to win. We were the equal of the Cats, wherever they are ranked. It was a line ball in the final minute. Posters who are keyboard assassins need to take a breath before they post the bile. WE have a very competitive group right here, and the more games they play together the better they will be. Think about how long Ablett, Selwood, Hawkins and Danger have been playing. We are tracking in the right direction. I hate the venom, the knee-jerking and the abuse that the 'supporters' show here. Grow some, and watch the game for what it is worth... a dour struggle that was oh so close! PS: The absolute morons that keep calling for the coach to be sacked... and have been doing so since Norm Smith... YOU ARE WEAK AS...!!!

Agreed Titan, I was more responding to the notion that we were midgets! There isn't a player under 6'1" in our named forwards

Comparing the teams, as named, The Dees forward line is actually an average of 2cms taller than the Cats

Its a silly argument. Lyon, Nietz and Schwarz would need to adapt to play the modern game according to game plan and team values, but they were smart enough and athletic enough to manage that as well as anyone from their era. Jakovich ain't chasing anyone, and he may not fit into the modern game plan, however, he would still manufacture 10 shots at goal a game!

The Norm Smith curse ends with another curse... I'll take it!

The AFL is so corrupt! Trying to cave in a bloke's ribs with an elbow draws a fine (because Jack is obviously a 'good bloke'). Compare this to the one match suspension May copped last year, ruling him out of round 1.

Nice to see your turn of phrase is improving after 75 posts!

The sky is falling! (again)

Just a few observations after watching the first half again... (not to say these points applied to the second half!) McDonald played quite well. Jetta also managed to keep his Giant from doing any real damage (coaching masterstroke at that point!)

Round two just completed with a win, yet we have posters wanting to lynch the coach, swap one of our best for a 1st round pick, denigrate our VC with claims that he is not wanted as a leader, shoot our one true warrior for being 'past it' and drop a bloke who kicked 3 of our 7 goals. The cumulative effect is to paint a picture of a bunch of headless chooks!