Rodney (Balls) Grinter

Great summary Binman. From what I saw of the game, also I thought the key was that Taylor didn't engauge physically so much with Hawkins and relied more on his ability to read the play and intercept. Has me thinking that would we perhaps be better playing Lever on Hawkins and May on Ratugolea or one of their other key forwards in a few weeks? Not that I thought May did badly on Hawkins last time around before he got taken out by his backhander.

Gee, all the doom and gloom for GWS to kick off this thread aged well didn't it??!! To be fair, I was mostly thinking the same thing before the game started and certainly not complaining about the result. Does have me worried about all the tallent that GWS still have on their books. Loose their elite key forward before the start of the season, have a horror run with injuries and still compeditive with good teams and in touch with finals. They have been inconsistent, which is why they are not deeper inside the eight right now, but that is probably somewhat because they have struggled have any consistency with personal due to injuries and a young side. If those two things turn for them next season, they could be quite a formidable team.

Agree with the above. Also, while it's a little bit off topic of this thread, but from what I saw of the game, I thought was that Taylor didn't engauge physically so much with Hawkins and relied more on his ability to read the play and intercept. Has me thinking that would we perhaps be better playing Lever on Hawkins and May on Ratugolea in a few weeks? Not that I thought May did badly on Hawkins last time around before he got taken out by his backhander.

Here was I thinking this thread related to our charge to make the top 8. Seems unusually pedestrian for this time of year ...boreing even. Usually around this time of year, I'm doing the sums on us needing to win our last three games of the year and what other teams need to loose games for us to sneak in. Not really sure how to handle this guaranteed finals caper. Where has all the excitement gone? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️

Isn't Walker thier captain WTF? What an embarrassment. What a disgrace. Come on AFL time to step in. No more time for BS excuses and puss weak appologies.

It often more like a 20/80 decision the way holding the ball decisions don't get paid by some umpires. Was often a directive of coaches when I played that you are better to hold onto the ball that bit longer, be prepared to get tackled and dispose of it properly to a good option than to panic and just put the next bloke under pressure or turn it over. I've never really had an issue with it when Jones or Viney get paid holding the ball on that basis alone. Even in recient times when he wasn't racking up huge possession numbers, it was my observation that Jonesy often used the ball so creatively and setup guys in good space within our forward line that we got very good value out of those possessions, precisely because he didn't just pass the ball on like a hot spud.

Seems like Oscars are wipping boys whichever team they play for.

Thinking about the Eagles copping the full brunt of an Optus Stadium booing should be extra motivation for our boys to do a proper job on them. Would be a real highlight of our season if we could make that happen.

So [censored] ropeable right now. The contrasting outcomes between Jack and Lance Franklin is a [censored] disgrace. The only potential upside is that we can now micro manage Jacks training regime in the run-up to finals, get him cherry ripe ready to tear some opposition on-ballers a new one.

Of all our games to stuff-up the replay for, the one we finally put a team to the sword properly! I finally got rid of ripoff Foxtel for Kayo back in March and haven't looked back.

There's a contract with the MCC that has to be honoured doesn't it? The MCC/MFC alliance has to be worth something doesn't it? Sorry, I forgot how this really all works - we'd be screwed over big time, but wouldn't it be even sweeter beating them on the one and only time the GF if played on their dung mound?

Brisbane are puss. Only up there the last two seasons because they had a dream run with injuries and home games. My personal thoughts are that there are only really 3 genuine contenders for the flag this year - us, Bulldogs and Sydney... and I think we can beat them all. Call it a hunch, but I really do hope and expect the wheels to fall off dad's army when the going gets tough deep into finals. All the others are just pretenders.

Puss off for good Jeff. That's the best thing you'd ever do for Victoria.

Spargo has an excuse - he's a short [censored] by birth. Selwood is just a [censored] by birth.

Bloody hell, how is this preparation for finals? [Sarcasm]

KOSSIE!!! ... PILE IT ON DEMONS!!!

Double goals from that pocket and the mouth off with the [censored] Essendon supporter come to mind.

I love ANGRY MAX!!!!

Loving how hungry we are today. We have the taste of blood in our mouths and we like it!

"No community sport, no professional sport for the next three days." I did read that and thought WTF. Equally though, I think the MFC, the Suns and the AFL would be more than happy for our team's to get the [censored] out of Dodge.

A bit disappointed with Ticketek today. Tickets were delivered by sms, surely they could have sent out another sms to let people know the game wasn't going ahead, but nothing. Must say though that Ticketek's online ticketing user interface is tones better than Ticket Master - they are the worst.

Living in South East Queensland, I was originally quite happy when our game Vs the Suns was switched last week, as I'd inadvertently double booked myself with a camping trip. Was stoked when I booked my tickets for today's game on Thursday night. Really flat about things being cancelled this morning. Guess I was really fated not to watch this game in person.

I generally agree, but I actually think the AFL should have bitten the bullet and hubbed all teams in Melbourne. Puss off this Perth Stadium grand final [censored] as well.

Spot on

Yeah, not sure Mitchell would be so happy with that. Do the bosses job, you'd expect the bosses pay. Even with COVID, Hawthorn are a wealthy club, they'll just cop the soft cap tax.