Wiseblood

For anyone who can't see the game - we're actually 6 goals up here. Don't listen to the rest as you wouldn't know it.

HOGANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!

I understand sometimes why Hogan gets frustrated. They pay him nothing.

Again, we're playing poorly, but good sides know how to put the opposition away. Get the first of the last term and we can do that. We are still in front even though we aren't switched on. Get through this term and get out of there with the 4 points. Then we have an 8 day break leading into Queen's Birthday.

HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE let off to finish that term. However, another dodgy free for the Dogs. Oscar was pinged for a push in the back, but the Dogs bloke got the ball and literally fell to his knees and face planted. Oscar didn't initiate that at all. It's ridiculous.

Why are the umps so quick to play on? Hibberd did not move off his line and got called to play on 2 seconds after a mark.

Big 5 minutes coming up. Don't want to let them get anymore and would be happy to snaffle another for us.

Demons! Stick that up your clacker Doggies!

Apart from his poor kick a few moments ago, Hibberd has had a super 5 minutes.

Glad he got the 50 as he should have gotten it prior for Daniel holding on to his arm after the mark. That used to be an automatic 50 metre penalty, they don't pay it anymore.

I [censored] love Jake Melksham's field kicking.

How good has Oscar McDonald become? Great contest there and a perfect kick that helped to set up this shot on goal. Great to see.

The only positive thing is that we have an 8 day break coming up and then the bye. Hopefully Lever may just miss a week and return after the bye.

We're not playing well, but let's be realistic - we aren't going to play well every single week. Some games will be a struggle. It's how we respond that matters. After them kicking the first 3, having lots of cheap frees and winning the clearances, we showed the maturity to steady and kick 7 of the next 8. Our older heads stood up, while Macca and Hogan stood up in the forward line. We are cleaner, smarter and better, but allowing the Dogs to drag us down to their level. I'm still confident for the second half but it won't be a 10 goal win.

Nice work from Jesse. It's a hard fought, low skill sort of game where goals are like gold. Hogan slotting that one is very, very handy.

While it didn't matter, how the hell was the not holding the ball??

How good was that from Spargo? That's why he's in the side! Great kick from Bernie to set it up as well... then Tom misses the easiest shot he'll ever have!

Dal Santo just saying that Melksham is back on. Let's see how he goes.

I wonder if Lever is out for the game is Tommy Mac spends some time in the back half?

ANB takes a great mark running back with the flight and converts!

Melksham is an ankle. Tried to run it off but looks like he can't. He is running the boundary right now. Lever was innocuous, left knee. He hobbled off but that's all we really know at the minute.

For all their domination around the contest, especially winning the clearances 17-5 and having a bucket load of dodgy free kicks, we're just 8 points down. They are flooding the contest and flooding our forward line. I'm glad it's quarter time as I think it gives us a chance to reset and change a few things around to combat it. With two currently down on the bench, this is a big test for the boys coming off a 6 day break in Alice Springs. I reckon we can do it.

We're controlling the game much more now, just took us 15 minutes to settle.

Razor gave them another one and he was 40 metres away.

He hobbled off but no indication his day is done. Thank God for Tommy Mac. We've settled well, but we need to ensure we use it better as they are flooding back in a big way.