leave it to deever

If the Afl is serious about preventing concussions they would have umps penalise players dropping knees or ducking.

Yea, well it could be argued BB with our fwd line, that's us atm.

Only when they lose.

All for the mid season trade idea.

I hope your right.

Yea good point. Not like that gang has being overflowing with members the last half century either. He gets a pass. Besides as KDF pointed out, it's more other clubs way of doing things.

Don't mind me Wtf, go and get your $ worth. I do at the opera .

Just voted and it confirmed what I knew: that the vast majority of us wont. Unlike other clubs ( particulaparticularly crows, power, eagles and lions), we are above such neanderthal tactics. Disclaimer. Umpires not included.

Maybe so but where are the replacements?

Confidence definitely lacking as well, compared to 21.

To think I've been pondering if I should travel down to this game. Well that's that decision made for me. Rats.

I'm genuinely gob smacked by that price. Since moving to rural Nsw 11 years ago I don't get to Melbourne as much as I would like. I go and support our great team at the Scg when we play there but about 2 years ago it was 8 dollars for a cup of about 375ml mid strength. Aldi sells a great 330 ml bottle of knock off stella artists for under 2 $2 a bottle. Maybe they make about a dollar off each sale. @ 14$ I wonder what their profit margin is. Given serving costs etc they must make around 8 to 9 dollars a sale and I think that's a conservative guestimate. Good old footy, the working class game and societal leveller. Some fair seats for the wife and 2 kids could set you back around 100. Parking 20. Snacks 40. Total 160. Kicking back with the wife and having 3 or 4 beers each would give you little change for the whole day from 300 bucks. It's astounding crowd numbers have been so good.

That is theft.

I think Afl has proved that you need a lot of luck to get to the prelim stage. On paper our current injury list seems small, but every week we have lost key players and we never seem to get settled.

I think the fear and concern is that we could end up like the bulldogs after their long breaking flag drought. Similarly they too successfully changed a lot of things like many of the positives you mentioned about our beloved club. Since their premiership, they have had finals success but also failure. Quite a few years of contending but not delivering the ultimate prize. Yes this success is wonderful and better than being on the receiving end of losing all the time but maybe we were hoping for back to back cups or at least another one this year It's not to say we won't but it's not looking as likely lately. As you say we have some wonderful talent but like all talent in Afl, it has a window for achievement. Are supporters genuinely concerned that this window is closing? I'd say so. Are we like the players, frustrated by a weekly occurrence of injury? Yes. Has our club been exposed in our forward line issues and other clubs outcoaching us? It's not all doom and gloom but after a shocking end to last year's clear chances, this season seems to be slipping behind again. It's great to celebrate our success but sadly that can bring contentment which ironically leads to failure. Perhaps like the bulldogs, breaking that long drought was enough for the club and their hunger was satisfied. I don't want to be too negative but we seem to be a shadow of the 21 side atm.

Great podcast. Thanks very much. Not sure about the fumbling being accounted for by the dew at the Gabba and rain at Adelaide. If anything the 3rd Quarter was the wettest and we played our best footy.

Great question though.

Was that the Turkey that payed the mark in front of powers goal from a 9m kick? Probably the same ump from that Crows game when they didn't call a clear dob.

Nice pun work.

Was it Viney Or Tmac?

Maybe so but it's hard to inject some mongtel when players are being cited every week and penalised like Jvr was for retaliating which cost us a winning goal.

It's his lack of tackling that worries me.

It won't be easy with Oliver out and our ramshackle forward line. Hopefully our smalls dominate. This seasons giving me the s4its at times. About now is one of them.😄

This year has been a shocker with injuries from the get go and at least one occurring each week.

Is Fritta injured as well?