Brownie

Yep we're better with Petty back and Tmac forward

Sure am. Free tix from a good mate who's a lions member. Would love to hear the Gabba go quiet in the last qtr. Fingers crossed. R U up there too?

Have a weisenstaphner pilsner and a pork knuckle for me. Probably my favourite beer ever. Oh and have some schnapps too!

Yep I agree chook, I still think we'd be better running him as sub for a while and give some youngsters a crack first. Having him come on midway through the third as an impact player might be a better way to manage his fitness levels for the moment. Might be a better way to reduce his frustration with the heavy tags flright from the start of games too. Can't See it happening though. Can't see him being dropped either with Tracc out now. He is one of the best midfielders I've ever seen. God I hope he gets back to his best somehow and he's still wearing our jumper. A wicked problem for everyone at the club right now

Then why play Clarry? Run him as sub and start brown on the field. Make Clarry earn a full game.

JVR 68 percent time on ground tonight. Weird

Me too, 3 hour drive up. Feeling quite nauseous about it. Will be in the lions members section.

Yep. I've seen this movie before. Trying to ice it with 6 mins to go

Leaving Oliver on. Are we tanking? Poor kid 10 minutes of game time. That's just cruel and stupid

Love it. I reckon it was "make it look like I passed out in my undies at a 21st and my drunken mates have got stuck into me with a couple of Nikko pens"

Man he's cooked. I don't think he has the speed or endurance

All season

I agree. He would have been better as our sub and Brown should be out there.

We'd have to miss finals for it to be considered I'd say.

Geez Norf supporters would be vomiting at that 50 to Carlton

That's the tricky bit. It's all about leveraging exposure for their partners Totally agree we shouldn't watch it. However, we want to support our club and attend or watch games where we can. Maybe it's less Kayo and attending more local footy matches. It's still a wonderful game to watch, it's just becoming a complete dog's brekkie at the highest level.

Just woeful standards. Nothing to see here. https://www.theroar.com.au/afl/video/thats-a-clanger-jimmy-bartel-raises-several-costly-umpiring-blunders-in-pies-huge-comeback-1359910/

In the last few minutes, there was a North player leading in an open chase for the ball heading towards their half forward line. The chasing pies player just blatantly pushed him in the back sending him sprawling. Two pies player's just scooped the ball up and took it forward. Pushing in the back is rapidly disappearing as a free kick as well.

I swear he blew the whistle and started to pay it and then just called play on.

There were two htbs right in the Roos goals not paid and then the 50m paid or not paid? The ump should have called it back and set the mark with the 50m paid I thought. 14 frees to the pies to 3 to the Roos in the second half. Heartbreaking for their fans.

Love to know what the second half count is. The umps are doing everything they can at the moment

Oh yuck

I'd be really enjoying this if I could just obliterate last week's memory

I think you're spot on @Watson11 and the AFL will be right on to this as soon as the work out how to "leverage a revenue stream for their broadcast and corporate partners" They could have the diagnostic equipment sponsored by someone like NIB or Medibank and have boundary riders like Campbell Brown and Joel Selwood in the rooms interviewing the injured players reminiscing about the tough ol days when they or their team mates just played through it. They could ask the injured players insightful questions like "gee that must hurt a bit" player x "Yeah Brownie it does a bit yeah" then cut to an "NIB injury of the week award" or "Nurofen numbed up player of the week" For concussions, I'd recommend each suspect player just does a short 3 minute interview with BT, if they can stay in the conversation for more than 2 minutes without looking bewildered, they're obviously concussed (Note: This method may not work for Hawkins). Sorry, just trying to lighten the mood, it's been tough watching our season sink and watching what's happened to Tracc. Quite horrible really. So, yeah, if the AFL won't fix goal line technology, what's the chances they'll spend dollars on player welfare? - they bloody well should. And yep I'm not a doctor, and yep hindsight makes everything clearer, but with 4 broken ribs around his kidney and spleen area the poor bugger really should not have got back on the field. Lot's of players at the club seeming to play through injuries or underdone that you've got to query, May, Clarrie, Petty, Lever, Kozzy a year or two ago etc etc. (yes I know that's football) It's all very sad and I hope Tracc has the rest of the year off to get himself right. What horrible outcomes from the last two Pies games. Feels like Norm's back.

Nice summation by Titus Collingwood (89) v Melbourne (51) Against a Collingwood side with more injuries than that time I decided to do some of my own electrical work, Melbourne made everything look hard. There were just so many poor decisions, and not just the players, even the medical team got in on the fun, sending Christian Petracca back out when he was clearly too injured and at risk. To be fair, it turned out he only had four broken ribs, a lacerated spleen and a punctured lung. Much has been made of Melbourne changing their game style. I personally don’t see it. The gameplan for the last three seasons has been to dominate play, but then butcher forward entries with a consistency that must be intentional. When someone occasionally does take a mark in the forward 50, they seem unsure of what to do next, and so usually kick a behind. They then let the opposition waltz up the other end and kick a goal. People keep saying Melbourne have more talent than most other teams, but I’m not sure you can say that based on the evidence. To my eye, Collingwood have more talented players than Melbourne, you saw it every time they hit a target, while Demons players repeatedly clanked it into an opponent. I don’t think you can say you’re a talented footballer if you can’t hit a target, or make the wrong decision 80 per cent of the time. It has been this way since the Premiership, and nothing has changed. All this talk of changing the gameplan over the off season is just nonsense. Collingwood on the other hand play with a ruthless efficiency. They run to support each other. Their skills are good, and they have a clear vision of what they want to do. Each player knows not only their own role, but their teammates, and the seem to also like each other. Add in some outstanding players and it’s not hard to see they are Sydney’s greatest threat this season. As for the Dees, they will talk about ‘working on things’ and ‘wake-up calls’ but all the fans hear is ‘we have no answers.’ Let’s not keep kidding ourselves