Previously known as LITD.

This guy is going to be a star and a huge part of our success. I don't think there are many players one can compare him with. Such a great addition. Well done MFC. Hope to see many years of him and Kozzie up forward kicking bags of goals. I wonder if he will bulk up as he's so young. But I guess its always a fine line bw speed and bulk. Sometimes when he gathers the ball up I forget how tall he is. Great to see him holding his marks and slotting majors now too

Greta post BoBo. You can see the pain in the faces of players that have spoken about this issue. It is obviously incredibly hurtful and disrespectful to them. Some of them look gutted. The only positive is I do believe as bad as it has been at times, things are improving a little bit. Maybe I am wrong and just live in a different world. Sad to say back in the 70s and 80s going to the footy as a teenager and then a young adult I heard some bad stuff on too many occasions. But while I don't get to as many games anymore I don't hear any negative comments at all. Obviously its still happening, but I'm buoyed by the fact that its shouted down in this day and age and rightfully so. Lets hope we can continue to educate people on the pain this causes but I guess there will never be a cure for total irrationality.

I was thinking why eagles fans and port and crows fans are so vocal. Im guessing that as that both SA and WA only have a couple of teams in the comp each, it is more of a them against us feeling. its much more parochial than Melb and probably more like how it used to be a long time ago with suburb v suburb.,

Thanks Wadda. Could not agree more. I'm sure its not the whole crowd but sure sounds like a lot of them. I mean who goes to the footy and openly jeers a player to miss a shot on goal? Not us. One may quietly hope they miss but doesn't actively boo so as to put them off their kick. Bunch of ferrals as far as I'm concerned and it just makes the win so much sweeter. As for being un -Australian, I hope they all drove home soaked to the bone only to find their homes burnt down by the lightening strikes that didn't turn up at Optus stadium. Cheers.

It makes the win just so much sweeter. No wait...deliberately giving them hope and a look in after the lightening break and then running out the clock made it better. Maybe wrecking their finals dreams. Or maybe they all went home soaked. I dont know.... but I loved it.

Petty was lucky but to be fair we were unlucky with a lot of other non decisions. Despite being lucky it was great tatics. I think eagles fans are just too used to getting the rub of the green over there.

Weagles are in the plus...no surprises there.

I wish we had footy every night like last year. I reckon it will happen one day.

Used to be a big fan of him but thought his laat ywo years have been well below. At his best, three years ago he was an elite athelete and very fast for his size. He use of ball was excellent. If Jake gets back to three qrts of his old form and intensity it coyld be a big factor in our remaining games and finals. Great to see a few growing in form and the introduction of Bowey late in the season. Could all the planets be aligning?

Eagles are well and truly an aging team compared to us. I think they had about 10 players in the over 150 game zone compared to us with about 3. Their reign is over and ours is starting to begin. We had about ten outs from the prelim game and some wonderful new young ins. No wonder eagles fans are frustrated.

On a wet night he held seven marks(our highest) bought the ball to ground which resulted directly in two goals...kicked 3 himself, laid two very solid tackles and also rucked. Was our best forward by far.

Yep. No brainer.

1......Bb just pushed out Rivers 2.Anb 3. Harmes 4. Trac 5. Oliver 6. Dogga...marking on a wet night was sublime.

Actually Bowey looks like a crimsoned version of spargo with a cookie crumb catcher.

I guess hes ok for a fanta pants. Will be a big part of future success.

Did anyone count the number of frees Nicholls gave eagles compared to us. Hes a shocker. Id guestimate it was about 14 to seven. He was a shocker in the cats v swans game i watched this year as well. And i agreed with a review of his work of that game that stated...Forward Jeremy Cameron wasnt paid a mark close to goal as umpire Nicholls adjudged the kick had not travelled the required distance, which it did as the AFL accepted the next day. In another piece of play, James Rowbottom should have been penalised for holding the ball from a tackle by Geelong skipper Joel Selwood. Nicholls was again the officiating umpire but he ruled thesiren had saved the Swans. I think he showed constant poor judgement again last night and gave eagles way too many softies close to goal. Obviously hes a lot closer😁 but aside from the sheer number of dubious ones paid it was the lack of holding the man calls he made. Watching the replay, a lot of our players were held off the ball and a couple of the insufficuent intents on a wet night were not in the spirit of the rule or hes adept in mind reading. Time to put him out to pasture.

Absolutely. Even when he wasnt clunking them he got the ball to a comp. Does more than the stats show. So thrilled we got him and hes getting back to his old self.

Agreed. Which is why I thought doggas and bb marks were fantastic.

I noticed with the camera in the rooms we seemed to spend a lot of time during tge lightening break excercising while eagles sat still for most of theirs. I was wondering if we wore ourselves out. At the end of the day eagles had the momentum of ours rubbed out by the break. They stormed home with manic play, bad umpiring, the wind at their backs, nothing to lose and some bad misses and a little panic by us but no cigar. Poor eagles fans. All wet and no points.

Great to see some players return to great form. The only ones struggling are spags and fritta but thats ok ...theyll pick up. Anb, Harmes , Rivers, bb and Jackson are back playing their best and just in time. And we bought in Bowey just before finals.

Hes touted as one of the best ruckman about but we all know that is Maxy as demonstrated last night. Max may be a shocker at set shots although has gotten a little better ie his banana against gc, his crumbing, marking and tap outs are par excellence and he shows a huge ammount of leadership.

Talk about entitled. I do believe their booing does impact the umpiring and is the reason they do it. Its the booing of opposition kicking set shots that does my head in.

Well done Joeboy.

I get why but Bb dropped after three games earlier this was in hindsight a big mistake. H2o under the bridge and im glad hes had time to run into form. As Richardson said last night, not many blokes who have kicked sixty plus three years in a row. Big game and statement from him coming up v the crows.

Great post. Gawn was superb. He was crumbing like a small rover at times and in slippery conditions. Captains effort.