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25 mins of madness or... Sadness? There's a surprise Petty forward, Disco back.

Good parent = get them into watching our women's AFLW team. A much more enjoyable team to follow who play hard for each other

Gee, just watching the last 20ons after the pub. 3 mins to go, 50m penalty to the Hawks for absolutely nothing at all. 2 mins to go, an Adelaide player gets smacked in the face and penalised for htb. Glad the crows are going well. Go ANB go Burgess. We have a better list but they have absolutely everything else

Might be the way to go. Zanker is improving year on year as our key forward. I always have faith in Mick and the team to make the right moves. I wish I had the same faith with the men and wish they'd use Mick as part of the coaching group. He could make an excellent match day strategist which we seemed to have missed since Yze departed. Anyways, I love the way the girls play for each other and how well they recovered after a poor start last year. It's going to be challenging again this year. I can't understand why there aren't more demonlanders on the AFLW bus. AFL is looking more and more like drama filled soccer players constantly throwing their hands in the air. The girls just get to work. Anyone know how to watch the wonderful Goldy play in the granny this Sunday?

As mentioned a page or two back, I think the best scenario we could hope for is that Goody announces he'll finish at seasons end tonight. That would be the best outcome and get us focussed on finding a new young coach asap before the other clubs get rolling. We have to make changes now. Not in 6 weeks.

You'd think if the board and management are any good, they'd find a way to just discuss it with both incoming and outgoing and come to a clear strategy either way. But they must do it tomorrow. I'm incredibly sad about today now. Another VFL / AFL record we've got ourselves. It's not a good one. There are good people on and off the field and they care about each other and they are trying really hard. I think the effort and want is there to do better. But when a workplace is broken, you have to be fair to everyone and make the hard decisions swiftly and decisively. The last two years of sliding have been hard for everyone. Some action needs to be taken no matter who loves who or who's a good bloke.

What did we do? Subbed Windsor off We stemmed the bleeding by benching Koz and Melksham. Petty had a chance in the pocket 6 points in front 3 mins to go to and bash it through to get us 7 points up so we could ice the game. I saw Fritsch in St Kildas goal square trying to spoil while Petty was still looked to be up forward. I watched one of our club all time greats and posession gatherer run into goal clear to kick and hack it out on the full. Our skills and goal kicking are truly deplorable. I saw our team totally confused in the final minute while our mung bean coach looked like a startled deer in the headlights on the boundary. I saw a young st Kilda kid paid no respect and run free in the f50 with under a minute to go after kicking a goal a minute earlier. I saw Jeffo get dropped and Petty continued to be played forward when it just doesn't work. I'm happy to see us bleed now if we give the kids a go AND give them something besides complete chaos as a game plan. I saw us hug the boundary line week after week after week after week. I saw Disco continued to be played back when he could be the part of the solution. I saw us take the foot off the throat because we don't have the killer instinct to be the champion club we had the opportunity to be. The buck stops with the coach(es) and the board that hire them. Thank you Simon for bringing us a wonderful moment in time I'll never forget. But your record since that moment has completely crumbled. We became the hunted and every club has run us down.

Geez how strong was Chandler to break that tackle at half back

That should have happened 2 years ago

If he doesn't get another AA this year it's a travesty. How many other ruckman do you see continually in contests like that?

Koz seems to have shifted into another gear. That tap from Gawny to him in the centre bounce was incredible. Loving Chandler getting back into form too

I think our backline holds up well without Maysie and Lever too

It's amazing the way he makes space and then hits the contest at pace to gather and goal

Yep, Lindsay got smashed earlier under exactly the same circumstances. No problemo! Pickett, oh he's taken a cheap shot.

Geez Fritta has been amazing since he's come back. Just a brilliant aggressive game

There's been wild calls by the umps both ways. Crazy

We've got a trio of the worse dribblers in the league. I'm calling them "the Tribble team"

Free kick to pies right in front of goal. 19th man

Yeah, definitely not writing Jeffo off at all. I think it's insane he got dropped instead of letting him have a run with JVR in the seniors to try and find a rhythm together. It just struck me as reflective of our kicking and skills across the whole group. A great pack mark and then a total lack of concentration and technique to put your head over the ball and drill a drop punt from 30 out. It sums up our season. Loads of effort and then puss poor execution. It drives me mad, I wanted to see the lad kick 6 today. He should be given a good run in the seniors.

If there was a moment that personified our AFL / VFL season, it was that set shot for goal by Jefferson where he went to 2 goals 5 for the day. 30m out directly in front, he just leaned back and kicked the ball on the flat like a pancake. It was so incredibly lazy and ill disciplined after taking a great mark. What on earth is going on with our skills?

I think there's just a structural problem of there being too many teams now. They probably need to bring it back to 12 or 14 teams long term. Maybe even two divisions? I hate the idea of it and the ramifications of it for us but dead set the league is a dogs breakfast. They're not helping either that the VFL / probably the second tier comp in the nation is really poorly managed as well. I think you're almost at the point of having to build a good second tier comp to then feed the premier league but the AFL is not interested in building the game up and investing in the game itself. It has the stench of ARU about it right now. Anyways, good old Cats and Pies forever. They know how to run the game

Vlandy has just had a crack at the AFL. The NRL seems to be surpassing AFL viewership now. Our game has never been in better health hey? The RoarNRL News: Origin eligibility overhaul for Kiwis and Poms,...State of Origin eligibility is set to change in what would be the biggest shake-up for representative rugby league rules in decades. The ARL…

Oops, I need to clarify. Go Bedford not Greene A soft spot for a bloke who didn't get a clear run at the Dees

GWS might go alright this year. Amazing quarter.