Mel Bourne

Nice one Joel! The tactic of sending Clarry into the ruck to shake his tag is clever. Might have to get him to do the centre bounces as well.

I wouldn’t trouble the word “seriously” in this instance. But I am more and more of the opinion that a lot of Kozzie’s issues stem from not being coached well enough.

Of course I’m not happy. But the modern league is very competitive these days, and even teams who are low on the ladder find pockets of excellent form. I don’t see it as “Demons are being showed-up by duds”

I’d suggest that was an automatic response to, y’know, having taken the ball over the boundary line.

Arm wrestle with a team who beat the premiership favourites two weeks ago.

Laurie finding some confidence. Good to see.

Boundary umpire is the dill.

Adam Tomlinson

Kozzie isn’t playing for a couple more weeks.

Petracca outmanned by a first gamer.

MELK!!

Bailey Laurie is looking very unsure of himself out there. Third game, and maybe fair enough. But he doesn’t look ready for the big stage yet.

Let’s just say I prefer your phrasing.

Make it more obvious.

When are people on this forum going to finally understand that being able to attend games is a privilege, not a display of commitment? I would love nothing more than to be there today, but I will have to watch from home, for reasons I don’t owe anybody here an explanation. Stick your “shame” up your [censored].

Indeed. I try not to react to the millions of online opinions which like to simplify the world’s problems into an “us or them” scenario, but I think everybody needs to let go of the trope that drug abuse is essentially a bit of a “lefty-hippie” thing. When an otherwise affluent city is allowing the kind of degradation the initial poster took issue with, the culprit is almost always the corporatisation of essential services - aka the outsourcing of conscience. Sadly, something both “sides” of politics embrace wholeheartedly.

Sure, it’s the “liberalism” that’s destroying the city. Perhaps we should embrace conservatism and become more like Baton Rouge, Louisiana or Tampa Bay, Florida. As for “liberalism” equaling drug abuse, the highest drug use in the USA is in Nebraska, a conservative state.

My blue-bagger mates are very confident. I’m also noticing a few neutrals making the call that the Blues will be the come-out-of-nowhere premiers this year. We need to put a hush to this malarkey.

He’s a great player, but not sure how much I can “like” somebody who bashed the hell out of someone because he was refused service at a nightclub. As for a tough background, I dunno, private school boy who grew up in Ashburton. Not exactly from the dark side of the tracks

https://youtu.be/Z0Q3E2F65vM Five minutes is all you need for a quality game analysis.

Anyone genuinely angry at Sparrow for “causing” this injury is as sharp as a beanbag.

I think I’d rather the club’s doctors come up with the definitive info.

It’s a blow, but to all the wrist-slitters might I gently remind you that we beat Collingwood with not only Oliver out of the team, but Petty as well.

That’s a decaf.

Agreed. Any argument that resting players might mess with form is somewhat negated by the existence of an interchange bench. In any given match a team has to perform with several combinations of players on the ground. Resting players such as Gawn or Viney (or whoever could physically benefit from it) provides the team with the opportunity to sharpen their form when those players are ordinarily on the bench in a “normal” game.