In Harmes Way

5 goals might still not be enough - Umpires will give them 4 over there and we lost by 9 points

I’d reckon we’ve got 45 players on the list who are single minded in their desire to win (at least I hope we do). I understand it’s an injury, and that how the player feels has a bearing on whether he plays out the game; but this is Jack Viney 2.0. He’s not just having a rest the next week, he’s continued playing on it (potentially exacerbated the injury) and now won’t play until next year. Hopefully he doesn’t have a Trengove inspired rehab. My view is the medical team should intervene for foot related issues in much the same way as concussion.

Well I reckon we needed to do something different this weekend while we still can. Hopefully this negative inspires a positive change in our forward structure. Unfortunate for Jesse. I really don’t know though why he played the game out after he complained his foot was very sore after the half time break and was clearly hobbling off the ball.

We’ve just come straight off ‘Member F••• you round’. Almost bipolar.

MRO findings for round 21: Clarry charged with making umpire contact with Fleer (careless). Maybe that’s why he only paid us 1 free for the day. Given our luck, I was fully expecting OMac to be charged for intentionally cleaning up Chelsea Roffey and getting 2 weeks ?

We're consistently getting 60+ forward 50 entries per game, we actually need to focus on: 1. the quality of the ball going into forward 50 = lower the eyes = midfield coach 2. the speed of the ball coming back out of forward 50 and waltzing through the middle of the ground, putting pressure on pagans paddock behind the high press defense = midfield not working hard enough back defensively = midfield coach 3. Whoever is picking JKH to get a game = midfield coach? Who's the midfield coach?

You've fixed the smiling face on the Centreline. ? Maybe you can now move on to fixing our record against top 8 sides. Or our goal kicking accuracy, if you're feeling really energetic.

I reckon Frosty did better than just break even. He can hold his head high. He didn’t kick half of the 18 behinds today.

I wasn’t too despondent when we beat the crowd by 91 points in the Alice. I’m pretty sure that was less than 20 weeks ago.

Loved it when Frosty beat Buddy in the 1 on 1 in the 3rd and then burned him off to the roar of the MCC. I had high hopes for you today Frosty and you exceeded them.

We would have won that game today if we’d gone on the preseason camp. Soft.

Not usually in the camp of blaming the umpires, but Nicholls was frustrating me this arvo to the point of kicking seats at the G. He’d either: 1. Allow a non officiating umpire to call a free our way 2. Deem the contest halved, even if he’d just paid a free to them for the same thing 3. Give them a free, even if we’d done enough to win the free once or twice over before he could ping us third time up. We’ll never get a fair result with him at the helm. #cheatingbaldprick

What a great article. We are truly lucky to have Gawny - it’s this caring and inclusive culture he refers to that is building a tight knit juggernaut that 90% of clubs would be envious of. When you look back only 5 years ago, the transformation across all levels of the club from board, admin to football dept is truly incredible.

That video of Nibbler popping out of the wheely bin and scaring Clarry was bloody funny.

Hopefully the headline in the paper tomorrow is DEE DAY Maybe tomorrow’s headline could be another thread ?

Pretty clear the early game day posters have kids under 5. ? Daring to believe we can get this done, lock a spot in the final-lys and start to hone our finals style game knowing that we’ll be there. Hope it stays dry for the ladies.

Lucky, that churchy trait gets Nathan Jones off the hook

Just watched Jako, what a legend. Ive lost none of my man love for him.

I find the two themes of (i) let's pray for a set of outcomes that gets us into the 8 and (ii) let's pray for a (riskier) set of outcomes that works towards us finishing highest possible place on the ladder and going all the way as quite amusing. I'm glass half full. I hope we have a decent win over Sydney, confirm our place in the finals and then the boys really knuckle down and play finals type football over the next couple of weeks against good opposition and possible opponents, knowing they're in the ballroom and a chance for the big dance if (i) we play good pressure footy, (ii) work hard defensively and (iii) get a fair dose of luck go our way for a change.

But at least you'd get to see a fair bit of our boys Steve, being a Perth boy.

Thank god for you Andy. I just enjoy this site for discussing my favourite topic with like minded people, without enough praise for the admin that goes on in the background to make it all possible. 3 votes to you mate.

We’re developing a champion team rather than a team of champions. Our boys will share too many votes to win one. But we’ll get some Norm Smith medals soon enough

In the world of soccer, where they haven't changed the rules in the last 50+ years (apart from introducing offside), the red card rule has stood up without question. Only the AFL seems to make a complete hash of these things. We'd only be looking at completely blatant (dog) acts where the send off would be called upon. I like the idea that the offending team is one player down as a result of that player's stupidity, it matches the loss of the opposition (if the victim can't come back on). If we had another Troy Simmons incident in the first 5 mins of a grand final, I'd be spewing.

9 seconds end to end. If my maths is correct, we could have kicked 300,000 goals yesterday if we’d kept that up

Cracks me up