titan_uranus

I wonder whether this decision may be made quite late in the piece. The situation in Victoria is going to be a hell of a lot clearer in 2-3 days. The numbers will either flatline/decrease, and the panic will subside, or they will increase, and the lockdown will become a longer-term thing. If it's the former (and let's all hope that's the case), the NT government may decide the risk is small enough given the players have been isolating for a while now and are returning negative results. There's a major financial incentive for the NT to get the game going in Alice on a standalone Friday night with the two best sides in the comp (I'm not suggesting finances should win over public health but it's just a factor). If it can't go ahead in Alice, I imagine the AFL will offer us (as the home team) options, and those options are likely to be the two NSW stadiums, as I suspect NSW is least likely to kick up a fuss about us coming into their state.

Essendon's win has mucked this stat up unfortunately, pushing GWS down to 11th.

I mean, the OP can't be suggesting we muck around against Brisbane, then the next three are Collingwood, GWS and Essendon. Essendon just beat West Coast and are in the top 8 tonight with a percentage over 100%.

West Coast is going to lose to Essendon. That will put us 4 games clear of the Eagles at the halfway mark of the season. Huge. Meanwhile Essendon will be 5-6 with a percentage over 100%, and (COVID aside) they're only scheduled to travel once more this year.

There aren't words strong enough to describe how much I disagree with the OP.

As I've said in other posts, the AFL's decision to deem our jumper a clash with the Dogs is a disgrace. It's exacerbated because of it being an indigenous jumper designed to be worn in Sir Doug Nicholls round, but the core problem is the AFL's "policy" treats most clubs one way, but treats Carlton, Richmond and Essendon in a different way. They let Essendon wear a black jumper as the away side on ANZAC Day when their opponent, Collingwood, also wore a black jumper. It's embarrassingly and unfairly inconsistent.

I actually have to agree, not with the Razor Ray bit but the umpiring overall. Unlike last week, I didn't think they were continually making mistakes. There was a deliberate I didn't like, but generally I didn't notice them that much and that is always a good thing.

No, that was Carey. Daisy Pearce stands out in this commentary line up. The rest are morons.

If that was your first thought you need to chill out a bit. We're 10-1. We just beat a side almost no one thought we'd beat. We're 4-0 against the top 8, 5-0 if you include Richmond.

We're wearing it next week, we were always going to for a game in the NT I think. We'll presumably wear it again later this year in a home game against GWS or something, but this was Sir Doug Nicholls round, this was the round where the league shone its light on our indigenous players, this was the round it meant the most.

And once more: the AFL's clash jumper "policy" is a [censored] disgrace. We can't wear red vs the Dogs, and in the Sir Doug Nicholls round to boot, but Essendon can wear a black jumper on ANZAC Day against Collingwood, and Carlton gets to wear its home jumper against Richmond, Collingwood and Essendon. Steven May was talking during the week about how much it meant to him to be able to wear the jumper in Sir Doug Nicholls round. To some it's a small issue but for a competition that wants to be elite, it's a disgrace.

A few options here but let's be honest, none of them are good and losing Langdon against a Brisbane side featuring McCluggage is a major loss.

What about Cordy mouthing off at him after obviously getting him high. Fritsch just went back, curled the goal around, and got on with it.

You do know you're talking about Matthew Richardson, right?

There might be a rule whereby if the concussion happens with less than 20 minutes left, you can just activate the sub straight away (would make no sense otherwise, why wait 20 minutes if the game is going to end).

So I guess Baker replaces Langdon? That's a huge loss. Irreplaceable.

Yeah agree, JJ is fringe for them right now. Of those you've mentioned though I reckon Dunkley, Treloar, Martin and Wood get back but I'm not sure if McLean or Vandermeer are best 22 for them. Only the two goals for the Weid. I thought his leading and contesting were good, but I agree that he didn't have a great game. Who replaces him though? How does Brown, for example, get back in when he had 4 touches and no goals last week and doesn't play VFL this week?

6 - Oliver 5 - Harmes 4 - Lever 3 - Rivers 2 - Spargo 1 - May

A few struggled at times (Weideman, Jackson, Hunt, Melksham) but no one played so badly to warrant being dropped IMO. No change unless injury. (if Langdon's out next week vs Brisbane that will hurt, big time).

The Dogs had 19 scoring shots, that's their lowest all year (they had 20 against Richmond). And we kept them to that amount on Marvel.

Huge game. They dominated the stats and had tonnes of the ball but the stats don't show you how much they were mucking around with it because of our pressure and defensive set up. A massive team effort. Oliver was dominant but this was as much about the stars as it was about lesser lights, like Harmes tagging Libba, Jordon's midfield role, Weideman continuing to present despite having a poor first half, Spargo/ANB/Pickett gut running repeatedly to keep the pressure on, Brayshaw's amazing defensive game on the wing. We had to match them in the middle and we did, winning CPs by 21. We had to dominate the air and we did, +5 marks inside 50, +9 contested marks and a lot more intercept marks (can't find that stat). There will be those who qualify this win, noting that they were missing Treloar, Dunkley, Wood and Martin, and arguing the lack of a Dogs home crowd helped us. But [censored] them. We brought our defensive A-game and our pressure A-game and like Richmond, a top 4 contender couldn't go with us.

Almost as good as the first quarter because they started really well and the ball was stuck in their forward half. To come out with 3 goals to 0 is a massive effort. One more quarter...

This is one of your worst. You’re upset about us not kicking on from a 5 goal leas against the ladder leaders?

Disappointing to give those two late goals back. Should be further in front. But they lifted that quarter and we still dominated for most of it. Big third quarter coming up.