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Great win by the saints. Great pressure. Interesting comments during the game from Riewoldt and Dunstall about how the stk forwards nulified the tiges defensive zone by forcing the to play man on man / one on one contests. We should be doing the same.

Saints running hard both ways and good disposal. What a difference it makes! Theyre also not having 3 players getting sucked into tackling one opponent. Go saints.

Keith Richards biography was a really good read. Surprisingly he remembered lots! He spoke about how thrilled he was to tour the US the first time. Not for the fame but the opportunity after their big shows to go and find his heroes in little dive bars and sit in with them and play and learn from them. He saw this as a huge priveledge. I guess racism gets beaten when people walk a mile in other peoples shoes and people keep an open mind. It is up to us all not to step over racism and violence to others.

Yep. If they'd dealt with it properly in the first place it would be water under the bridge by now. Completely understand Hertier's stand on this. Just wants them to own up to it and apologise like decent human beings. This just keeps swinging over Eddie's head.

Completely agree. They've gotten out of this very lightly. Evidently McKenna was his wrestling partner. All other players are deemed fine for some reason. Glad we're not playing them this weekend now.

Haven't been that fussed on him but seems to be hitting some form. Had quite a few assists as well from the footage.

2000 fans today at metricon. Is that a record? Suns impressive how they're running this out.

Anyone see the wonderful hi-def slow mo bushy out the left nostril by McKenna at training this week? Great stuff by fox. Got to watch it three times in a row

Down pat I'd say. We were doing it with our eyes closed on Saturday. ?

So Jetta as one of our most experienced and important back men is out of touch. He's always done well on Betts. Why wouldn't you match him up on him and hopefully he'll play himself in to form? this seems like common sense which seems to have vanished from the coaches. We can't afford to sack Goody and I know he's still relatively new to it. We still seem to be missing the right culture and leadership on field and the right strategies in the box to get anywhere near a flag.

Maybe swap him over with Tmac? Shoulda had a crack at that movie after half time.

I guess Binman it's A) they had a mental lapse after 1.5 and its mental discipline B) they didn't stay fit during lockdown and it's mental discipline. Maybe a bit of both?

You can see we take the foot off the pedal during a match, After a good win, we'll then drop an easy one. After we have a good season (2018), We do the same. I remember hearing Mick Malthouse before the start of the 2019 season saying he didn't expect us to threaten as we have a lazy, rest on your laurels culture. It's been there for a long time. It's the coaches job to change it. Smiling and telling the players to be happy after that win seems ridiculous

It happens so often and Nev gets seriously crunched on a regular basis. It makes me mad to see it happen. We're lucky he's so good at recovering.

We are not right in the head.

Quinton Narkle's nickname would have to be "[censored]" wouldn't it?

Dangerfield has a bit of Tammy Baker about him.

Definitely needs at least another 10 rule changes.

Not sure Ethan. Last line = I'm really excited!

Yes! Will the shorter quarters eliminate Deetime?

Thanks @Lever08 from some of the footage I saw, it looked like the "play on at any cost" strategy has been backed off?

On reflection, our whole quarter fade outs also cost us for a number of seasons and that was on display in round 1 as well.

We had all off season to fix it and we didn't. I just don't have faith in the game plan and the constant bombing in. I doubt they've revised it. We have the cattle, not the execution.

I voted no, but the NRL did it pretty well this week. I'm moving towards no volume now anyway. The likes of Dwayne and Huddo shouting the whole time drives me nuts. I see Dennis Cometti doing his vitamin ad sometimes and it makes me realise how much these newer commentators are clowns. Sound effects.... definitely the sound of a bomb being dropped with every Melbourne forward entry.

Real rationale = Big Bash As Roy and HG said last weekend. It's not sport it's entertainment!