Brownie

Get ready for 16 on the field

Agree, Clarrie was the only one worth watching today. He's a shining light in a pile of poo.

Have a big fat weisenstaphaner and a schnapps for me @ProperDee first time in a long time I won't be making the two hour trip to the Gabba. I just can't be sure what they're going to dish up but here's hoping we've got the wheels back on. Looking forward to more beast mode from Viney. Go Dees

There was some contested footy in the centre square during the third where he crunched 1 Freo player bringing him to ground, tripped a second Freo player over with his head and then got up and brought a third player down with another crunching tackle. What amazed me in that skirmish at the end of the third was after decking Walters, he had three Freo players come at him and he didn't even raise his hands up to instinctively protect himself. He just kinda came at them and roared in full beast mode while they tried to rip his Guernsey off. You can see in the photo, his hands stayed down the whole time as if egging them on to throw one just to make him angrier. He's just brilliant to watch when the red haze comes over him.

I watched him take a blokes legs out with his head in the last then get up straight up and lay a tackle. Great game by Viney.

Still bombing into the forward line. I bet we won the f50 entries again and lost the quarter as usual.

Lockhart has had a brilliant quarter

He's awesome

I wonder if Rawlings pushed for Fritsch forward. I hope he gets a good couple of games in the forward line to prove himself. He's a natural up there I reckon

I hear he had a promising pre-season and is looking ripe for debut in the JLT series in 2020

Geez I hope we can hang on to him. Great to have Jade back in a senior role. It wouldn't hurt the club to throw good money at him to keep him in as a 2IC to Goody. He's not a bad plan b if Goody can't turn things around by mid 2020.

Years ago I saw a keynote by Lawrie Lawrence. His talk was all about preparation (and practice practice practice). He told an amazing story about the 2000 Olympics. The one athlete with more weight on their shoulders than any other was Cathy Freeman. She was expected to bring home the gold in athletics for Australia. The pressure on her was immense. Lawrie said that the reason she did this so successfully and that the pressure didn't crush her (I.e. don't think about it) was preparation. She practiced and practiced her whole routine so often that by the time she walked into that stadium, she was on auto pilot. You must be prepared at an elite level. So you gotta wonder why we are taking this so casually. If this is match day simulation, then they should be putting blokes on the mark and simulating the whole thing over and over until it's just a routine on match day. And.. coaches are there to correct and coach along the way. We seem to be more Krygious than Freeman

The Matildas. They go harder and have mad skillz

We don't need a map? I'll have a look at it cheers. Sweet country by Thorton was pretty cool too

I'd highly recommend reading Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu. Should be read in every school. The more Australians learn about this wonderful culture and appreciate what they've had to endure since colonolisation, the less booing and [censored] there'd be.

Nice to see consistency rules for the MRO and Geelong. Hawkins gets off with an elbow to the head. The tradition lives on https://coupler.foxsports.com.au/api/v1/article/amp/afl/afl-2019-four-players-fined-for-striking-including-geelong-star-tom-hawkins/news-story/dd9ece8132d8236fd49c48e080124f1a

But the umps aren't professional. So AFL is really semi-pro

We did lower our eyes in the first half and then generally went back to bombing. It does my head in. Brayshaw had three good clearances from the centre bounce in the second half and just booted it forward without even looking. They all came straight back out. He's such a classy player usually. What's happened to him?

Jkh was pushed both hands square in the back by Jenkins. That's why he lost his feet.

Hopefully it's under Casey now

Yes. [censored] scared.

I'm no bloody expert but mental strength for athletes comes a lot from practice and preparation. You practice over and over and over again until there is nothing to worry about or fear. As many have posted this year they are supposed to be professional athletes. Fmd

They'd miss

Pushed straight in the back

Incredible umps