Mel Bourne

I gotta admit, I was spurring them on to kick that extra point!

the top end Disco is a much-needed shot in the arm. Lever & May, our “bickering couple”*, were immense. Howes, like McVee last year, is coming along really well. Max just generally plays a great game of footy. I don’t know how much he has left in him, but I miss him already. The midrange - Langdon, Pickett, Chandler, JVR, Frisch, Trac, Billings, Windsor, Woewodin and McVee all showed us the full spectrum of their potential. More lighter colours though, please. the low end - One of the poorest games I’ve seen from Sparrow. I back him, but he better be down on himself after that one. - Can’t believe I’m saying this, but joining Tom down here is ANB, Viney and Oliver. But I know these guys will hate being down here, so I expect to see some frenetic redemption. Oliver clearly has the bigger hurdles though. I swear to god he’s carrying his hand in a strange manner. - Rivers**, Petty & JVR, both MIA. And a shout-out to Laurie, for bagging a couple of cheeky ones. Hard to gauge his overall form after such a short (but effective) stint. I could be wrong about all of this because tonight’s been a bit of a tribute to Laphroig whiskey. *the only bit of commentary I’ve chuckled at amongst a sea of brain-dead “quips”. The commentary was utterly disgraceful at the beginning of the 3rd quarter. BT and Bradshaw just waffling on one of their tangents-from-Aldi, and completely ignoring the play. They should be pulled up by the network for such slack amateurism. **way too harsh on Riv.

Don’t ask me about next week. No [censored] idea.

All going to plan, folks.

Ha! If the Gameday thread came with audio, it would not necessarily be the sound of silence.

My prediction is the Tigers will throw everything they can muster at us early. Possibly even heading into half-time in front. Then this particular thread will become a place of darkness. Season over. Certain players will be told to never play for us again. Then the more well-rounded team (ours) will systematically carve it’s way to a 42-point win. Hooray!

It’s clearly been decided that match-time is a key ingredient for getting him back to his best. So many of our players (and across the league) were obviously struggling after an intense period of the fixture, so early in the season. Clarry more so than the average player, for reasons known. Assuming his hand is right enough, I think he’ll be better-off for those matches and a decent recovery period.

Rachele is not gonna sleep well tonight.

I’m not a big “conspiracy” guy, but it is so insanely obvious that goal umpires have been told to review as many scores as possible, because Crypto Bet have told the AFL they’ll give them money every time it happens.

BT quote of the round/season so far…. ”Taylor Walker. So intelligent.”

No. Tik Tok Turkey

The kick from the centre, straight to the only player in deep forward - a lions player - was a moment of utter disbelief.

Here is the most recent list for all the would-be team selectors. Expecting a fresh one soon with Salem’s report

@Demonland Would it be possible to have a constant window with our injury list/availabilities somewhere on the front page of the site? It’s a bit of a P.I.T.A having to go and look for the Injury List thread, then scroll through that to find the latest post from the club. Anyway, for anyone else thinking Marty Hore is an option, he was listed as 2-3 weeks away, last Monday.

They also smoked at half time.

I actually did wonder if something’s gone through the club. They just look so…lifeless.

We look like the Gold Coast Suns circa 2011.

Questions will be asked.

Incorrect. While a space between each dot is acceptable, it is not required.

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.