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I just watched the clip of him desperately jumping off Collingwood's bandwagon, cracked me up, worth a look haha

Not too much margarine, Zak got 10 this week himself.

I've said all year that Bont will win it. Another AFL darling....but of course, he is an outstanding player. From memory he did turn the ball over quite a bit in the first half of the season, but the media are always right up his clacker.

I haven't seen the game v Roos yet however with Petty out, the common sense thing that comes to mind with Oliver back is Petracca to spend all of his time forward to cover until Fritsch/Petty come back. He's strong in the contest, good overhead and will hit the scoreboard. I don't see the point of changing too much, ie: Smith, Brown, Schache, Grundy. No need to panic, we won without Petty this year.

I have a few issues with anything Geelong mate haha

And then he prances around high-tenning all of his teammates with a big [censored] eating grin after kicking a goal from 1m out

Next week v Blues

So basically a $50,000 fine, what a joke. The AFL continues to deliver incompetency.

IN: Hibberd, Sparrow OUT: Woewodin, Harmes imo

Round 6, 2004 Cam Bruce kicked 7.2 and had 25 disposals and we won by over 100pts v Carlton, remember that game clear as day. Random stat I like is Adem Yze kicked 5 goals in a game 5 times as well.

Ahhhh. This is what absolutely [censored] me with the AFL. The roll-out of "Rule of the Week" It changes most weeks, then the following week it disappears. And when they do knuckle down on one rule a lot of the time it's barely even there. It's hard to watch and I'd imagine frustrating to play against as it's relaxed the following week. The rules are already written in black and white, just do your job and umpire those rules each week without the need to escalate things. Sure, send the club a reminder each week for educational purposes, but don't go pinging free kicks left right and centre for a different rule each week. Rant over.

Gawn has missed what 3 games?, with 3 x 10 day breaks around the bye, I'm sure the club would've managed him accordingly. We only have 4 games left and then he (and everyone else) get another week off. He won't be rested, he's hit top form. They can manage his TOG also. Edit: there you go, Goody thinks the same.

How do you think a win vs the current inform and 4th place side would look for their case of a priority pick application? 😉 Won't get within 9 goals of us or win another game this year.

I think if that continues then we will bring Hibberd back asap. See what eventuates

Let's see how dodgy the AFL are themselves are with how they handle this. You can't have this sort of thing happening and gotten away with yet rub players out for weeks for things like tackling techniques.

Any options bar Lions at the Gabba. Finishing 2nd makes things a hell of a lot easier than 3rd or 4th.

I know they didn't win, which is why your bolded part is exactly what I meant. " stripped of the one game premiership points for which they have erred in" Poorly worded maybe. They should be stripped of 4 premiership points (whether win or loss) for the game they have erred in.

How is this story tracking - I've been away a couple of days, any heat from the AFL? The more I think about it the more I think Port have blatantly cheated here. No test for Aliir and Jones subbed off with a "migraine" reeks something dodgy. You could understand a tiny amount if one of those but not both together. I'm no lawyer nor know the exact rules but surely this is bringing the game into disrepute, ie; "abuse of position in order to obtain a benefit"? If the AFL are serious about their head injuries then I think a harsh penalty of a decent fine, stripped of the one game premiership points for which they have erred in and loss of draft pick. Either all 3 or a combination of 2.

I didn't say he would be traded......nor do I think the club want him traded. However Brodie himself, one of the best in the comp at his field, may want to look elsewhere....why would he want to be lining up at Casey as a backup, especially with Max, us and forwardline firing without him, he deserves better.

I mean, its just bloody terrible. They are meant to go back over the vision and assess, how could a professional in that field, or those around him, not give Aliir the care he needed. Just unbelievable tbh. This is why its suss, no test for Aliir and then Jones subbed out with a "migraine" - it's just plain dodgy

Good to see. It's almost like Port were cheating the protocols so they wouldn't miss a week, panicking after a few losses, or just plain incompetence.

I think that would be correct. We'd then take on the remainder of what his new contract is. ie; $950,000 is the apparent figure New club $600,000 We pay $350,000 Collingwood $0 But I'm probably wrong. Its still a lengthy contact too from memory?

From memory, Tomlinson got dropped while in-form and playing a blinder. That to me tells me he gave up on the idea, as Tomlinson should never have been dropped in the first place. But, we all see it differently and thats OK :-)

So these are the things I wanted to take a look at yesterday morning. 1. Well it speaks for itself. Credit to Goodwin for trying Petty again again considering he looked to have given up on the idea recently himself. JVR is getting game time and his confidence is growing. I just wonder if taking Petty from the backline is also a big negative as well as a positive. Suddenly and strangely, Tomlinson and/or Smith become very important players to us from here on. Do they move him back when Fritsch comes in, who knows, that will be interesting. 2. We definitely took the game on and played with more flare up the corridor. Whether this was just because Richmond also did it or was tactical who knows, but credit for Goodwin changing it up after half time. Of course our form and taking the game on also coincides with playing 3 very good offensive teams as well, but when the heat is in the kitchen in a final, i think we have that over the top 3. If we can absorb the pressure better defensively (unlike the middle patch v Brisbane) I think we can go all the way. But its also up to our mids to defend better up the ground, we saw how much heat our backline was under yesterday in the first half. 3. Now this is what I find interesting, I tried to keep tally of entries and players as best I could while I minded the kids, of course this is just opinion and not factual. We had 73-45 i50's. There was definitely a massive improvement on the direction of i50's with what I would consider only 8 kicks to the pocket, which has been a real issue for us for a while and massive improvement. It's that forward connection (not loading) that many of us have been wanting to see and the real reason behind our form drop earlier. I reckon we lowered our eyes and looked for a target on 22 occasions which from the naked eye seems like a huge difference to what we are used to. There still was many bombs into 50 though even when not under pressure, Viney (5), Langdon (4), Gawn (4) (cant fault his second half) and Petracca the worst culprits. With Viney, Langdon and ANB in the (what I considered poor entries) group with the most poor entries in that second category. ANB provided a lot of drive into 50 in the first quarter but boy does he let himself down with poor kicking, can't doubt his endeavour. Tigers entries were sublime at times with Dusty (was he coaching McVee at one stage?) and Bolton. If i was a recruiter I'd be specifically targeting half forwards with elite foot skills, or as some suggested, move Bowey or Salem up to HF. Anyway just a bit of fun, I always choose a few things to look at each week like this so miss plenty and in no way am I right, everyone would've had their own criteria and standards. I don't subscribe to the "I told you so posts" about Petty as a forward as even Goodwin had gone against it nor do I believe training loads or fatigue were a factor for our form, which has seen the same forward connection issues for a long time. We seemed to run out games fine during that period. What I will give credit to (which I'm usually sceptical) is the growth of Goodwin to turn around our form. His decisions of late has been THE major contributing factor IMO. Petracca majority forward was ballsy, Pickett to the midfield, dropping Grundy (yes he wasn't "rested") and putting trust in to JVR as backup ruck, persistence in Melksham, Brayshaw tagging Neale, May to Dusty in second half after a poor first half, change of gamestyle to take the game on more, the Petty re-experiment, extra goal kicking practice programs, straightening up forward entries away from the pockets, faith in Rivers-Sparrow-Pickett in the middle, giving Brown a chance, giving Gawn a rev up and overall growth to actually make some in-game changes when needed. I don't think we should be resting players in-form either, flaunting with danger. We can manage them with TOG or via the sub. Carlton and Sydney will also be a good test for us, not easy. Anyone done a ladder predictor yet? ;-) You'd think Harmes, Jordon, Woewodin are on watch especially with Hibberd, Oliver, Fritsch to come back. I think Goodwin will reward Hibberd this week at the expense of one of those 3. I can't see Grundy coming back now unless Gawn is injured. They even gave away the experiment at Casey yesterday where he played the last half in the ruck after looking lost early. We look a far better team when we play with flare and bring everyone into the game. Go Dees.

Tankathon by North. Cant be winning when you want a PP now hey.