The Panglossian

You’ve failed to remember correctly! That would have been “Big Bob “Johnson, not Tassie.

Yes…. Just after a Graeme Jacobs missed a sitter from dead in front….Phew!

Willem Duursma and Killarney both played for Casey for a game or two in 2025. Killarney probably did more.

I know I’m hopelessly biased, but I cant believe the diabolical run our girls get with the umpires every week. When there’s a scrimmage in our backline near the goals , it’s inevitable that a dubious 50:50 free will be awarded to the opposition. Breathe on them, and it’s 50 metres. Questionable frees are given against us all over the ground,when identical incidents aren’t penalised for the opposition. Is it because our girls tackle harder, or more often? Do they backchat the umps and put them off side? It’s not just the 2 finals( presumably with the better umps), but the whole season.

Can someone tell me where I can find the full fixture on one page( as in the Footy Record)? Even the Dees’ fixture on one page would help.

Tom Sparrow has been in the leadership group, I think.

Many umpire apologists claim the umpires can’t affect the result of a game. They were clearly influenced by crowd noise in the first half. They must have been informed of it at half time, and came out with 5 straight frees to Bris. If the umpires had kept up with the same errors of the first half, Geelong would have stayed in the game much longer. The “noise of affirmation “is most obvious at Kardinia Park.With the odd shaped oval, training on their home deck, and travel for the opposition, Geelong should win the premiership every year. No wonder they’ve been up for so long. They’re experts at sweeping misdemeanours under the carpet. I’m hoping this disappointing result will cause some disquiet in their administration.

Hyphens can be so important!

He has the knack of taking a “hanger”. Good kicking action,too. Apparently was in intensive care with pneumonia,causing him to miss most of preseason. We can expect much better things in 2026.

I think some people may not be aware that there is no added time on for the first 15 minutes of a quarter in the AFLW, except for after goals or if there is a major hold up, such as play being stopped if someone is injured. Regular time on, such as the umpires automatically blowing the whistle to stop the clock for an out of bounds or ball up, only happens in the last two minutes. The ball rolling about on the bowling green occurred in that 15 minute period so the umps didn't immediately blow the whistle. Having said that, the point at which it should have been obvious to the umps that we had a protracted delay and time on needed to be called was reached way before they actually did so. I haven't watched it back but I guess they should have pulled the trigger at least ten to fifteen seconds earlier, possibly more. Certainly enough time for us to have another attack on goal, given where the ball was. Certainly I'd realized what was happening and was shouting "Blow time on you (expletive)! at the screen. 👿 Thanks, Craig… I was unaware of that detail on time-on in AFLW. It is open to manipulation, though I’m not suggesting it was manipulated in this case.

I like the Suns, but thank heavens it’s not them with the responsibility to knock Collingwood off next week. I was hoping for a convincing Lions win, since they can probably beat Collingwood, but I don’t think Gold Coast would have.

With 3 min to go ,the ball went out on the full and over the fence on to the bowling green. The time-on clock did not stop. We lost 40 seconds. Also , there was no consistency in the time keeping on ball ups. Sometimes the clock stopped, and sometimes it didn’t. I think we’d have won with that extra minute, though we probably didn’t deserve to.

I’ll never forget the joy that day!

That should read….. “ we also got Ed Langdon.”