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Good role for Selwood when he retires....

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It's a familiar story. Even winning four out of seven is likely to see us out of the top four. So many wasted opportunities over the years.

Thanks so much for the great report DIO. What a BS fifty! Tragic way to get knocked out.

Yep Brown is in for sure. Hardly any game time. Melksham did a lot of bench time too I believe. I'd say they are the two ins.

What the one where he smashed Hibberd in the face, collected the ball and then dropped his knees to the ground to pull a high free kick in front of goal? Naaah, the commentators said it was "a wonderful professional free kick." I thought Hibberd did a great job too.

Ben Brown got benched early in the vfl game last night. FINALLY! they must be bringing him in for Thursday's game. Hope he gets a really good run at it. Also gotta say Petty is getting better and better each week. I hope the backline holds together through to the finals because we're rubbish without them at the moment

Thanks for the updates everyone

TMAC works hard up the ground, clunks the marks and then wheels around to kick to......? Ben Brown has to come in. Fritsch can hold his head up. A really good return to form. That was a clear mark in front of goal early in the last quarter that wasn't paid. (thanks ump no. 6) Our forward line is as functional as the National Party. The amount of times I watched blokes in front of goal getting in each others way was distressing. Thank god for our wall down back. Hunt and the rest of them were probably told at the last break to hold that forward entry until they were certain they had the right option. He busted his guts. Twice that he was penalised in the last he actually did hand pass it off but was penalised anyway. (thanks ump no. 6 again) Our captain was punched in the back of the head and went down again (thanks mummy). Our team needs to start being a bit more grubby IMHO We can't keep expecting to win games by playing one quarter of football. Our midfield sucked.

I reckon his feet are stuffed.

Hey @Demonland John may be a great guest for the podcast. Fantastic effort John. 450 games. Geez he would have seen a lot. https://www.facebook.com/285839797316/posts/10159331001272317/

Did it have that lovely plastic sheen to it as well?

Just switched back on to check the score. Did BT duck down to the Geelong 3qtr huddle and have a chat to them? They all seemed to be covered in s**t

Brilliant! They could have used this as their team song. Rammstein polka cover - you have nothing. https://youtu.be/a5xSxGhlHfc

I'm hoping the bombers get up. I hate both teams but want anyone near us on the ladder to fall.

Did he eat one of their players?

Do they know the team song words? I swear it's the first time I've heard it. Poor bastards. Well done Suns

Really nice summary @binman. I thought Kye Declase had a pretty good game as well. Weids really put in some effort but those hands just aren't holding the footy. I used to be up in Brisbane for quite a few years and was a Lions member for a couple of years during their premiership run (please forgive me, they were my second team and it was a joy to watch blokes like Voss play footy). Alastair Lynch seemed to have a similar problem and me and my mate used to call him rubber chest / iron hands. For about two years he couldn't seem to take a mark. He went away to battle CFS but I'm pretty sure during that time had his eyes checked and came back with contact lenses and his marking was transformed. Just wondering if it really is confidence with Weid because he spills them at VFL level too. Also wondered if Selwood had been over training those Essendon players? So many of them just kept dropping knees and lifting arms to try and pull a free. It was good to see the umps didn't get sucked in much by it. We've got some great depth and it's fantastic to see the senior blokes like Jones, Jetta and Melksham really putting in and showing leadership for the younger ones.

A lot of respect for him after the horrible year he had off field last year and yet he still performed so well. He just does his job really well week in week out.

Yep, I think they were. I'm also getting concerned about how many times our captain gets punched in the back of the head due to faux spoils. He was down on all fours after copping another one on Saturday night. It happens every game without the whistle ever being blown. It can't be healthy for him.

I watched three blatant pushes in the back to our players in the last quarter which weren't paid to us. I didn't think the umps were too bad on the whole either. It was great to see the deliberate rule not paid like it has all season as well. #essenflogs

He's been down a bit the last few weeks and I thought he played a cracking game last night. Considering how poorly we'd marked in the forward line all night, I reckon it was the right decision to soak up time and try and ice the game.

I didn't think I'd ever say this, but go Eagles!

Harmed I think

He's having a cracker. Brayshaw seems to be missing. Who shut Merrett down?