Mel Bourne

Billings is worth persevering with. He’s coming off two years plagued with injury-setbacks, and is finding his feet at a new club. He was never going to play his best footy in the first few weeks. (Oh and, my phone seems pretty determined to spell his name as “Billing’s”, so I can understand the errors)

No worries! And thank you for making me realise I posted this in the wrong thread!

Billings is worth persevering with. He’s coming off two years plagued with injury-setbacks, and is finding his feet at a new club. He was never going to play his best footy in the first few weeks. (Oh and, my phone seems pretty determined to spell his name as “Billing’s”, so I can understand the errors)

Yep, you really don’t want to read the comments on AFL reddit. Thankfully nothing racist (AFL Reddit does a good job of policing this), but I had no idea how much of a “sniper” he is perceived to be by opposition supporters.

Frustratingly, this is just your usual unnecessary and undisciplined stuff from Koz. He’ll get a week.

Copped a big hit in the ribs, from memory.

Jack wearing Gus’ helmet. 👌

This ain’t cool. Plenty of stuff we can joke about, but this isn’t it.

Yeah, no way was it an intentional sling. Rivers applied the tackle right on the umpire’s whistle and Rozee went limp at the sound of it, rather than putting up any counter-resistance. Suffice to say, he got rag-dolled because he chose to become one.

Crows for me. “Kick A Vic” Never forget. Eagles supporters are a very close second. Can’t stand watching games over at The Boo Factory (unless of course it’s a Grand Final with no Eagles present).

Marty Hore doesn’t have a nickname? I have a few ideas I could pitch, but I think the best one is… Martin.

Look, I loathe ‘em… …but we’ve only won one more game than them this year.

Indeed, hoping this wild new approach might catch on.

Yeah, he had a real “Rolling Thunder” era Dylan-look going on.

Great that Kayo have jacked up their prices and done f$&k all to improve their service.

Love you Max, but that was absolutely disgusting football.

I’m talking specifically about how this affects a player’s mentality. It’s evident that Tomlinson wanted out, and would likely have been satisfied with any club who was willing to give him more game-time. But instead he’s been treated to the same frustration within the first two games of the year. If I were him I wouldn’t give a toss about our club.

Not letting a player who’s keen to leave the club do so because they’re “required”, then dropping them for the second game of the season despite a solid performance in the first, is the epitome of poor player-management. Goodwin, though rich in “learnings”, seems to have learned nothing from the selection debacle of last year’s finals campaign.

We can’t rule out the possibility that Melksham is constantly on Demonland, and was playing 4D chess with you.

Let’s not make assumptions (that can quickly become hastily -formed theories) based on things we don’t really know about. If he’s despondent for any reason, it might just be because he’s frustrated with his body and wants to get on the ground.

Yep, brought this up earlier. Goodwin needs to go back into the box. But he’s very much a creature of habit. Would be genuinely surprised if he did it.

…could’ve run around into Grundy’s area. A bit Marx Brothers, but would have been better.

Is it time Goodwin tried a new approach and went back into the coach’s box? A common theme in the criticism of him tends be his inability to react in real-time, and overall favour the game plan above all else. I do realise he has comms running through his headset and staff on the bench with him, but there’s no denying that if he were watching the game from (literally) a different perspective with asst-coaches beside him and data in front of him, he would have a significantly different experience of the game. And those differences could be telling.

McVee’s description unfair

Among other things… It’s a bummer our key forward can only kick goals by accident.