Red But Mostly Blue

We're running out of vowels (which included the sneaky hybrid 'y') and I'm not going into Demon Meths - but maybe it could mean the method by which we do our good things. The way we strangle our opponents. #Demon Meth(od)s

I prefer not to remember. Hint: not good.

I know he came on fresh, but I really liked Woey's attack on the ball last week. Really hope (for his continuing progress as well) that he's not left out this week.

Hey, that is something indeed! ❤️

Completely agree. There are no easy games. Taking oppo for granted is a recipe for disaster. We play them at their home, in front of their crowd - I am not expecting anything other than us treating them with respect and trusting that 4 quarters of our brand of footy will prevail. If we win, based on our system, I will be happy. If we win by 50, great. But I won't expect it. We snoozed against the Blues last week, and it cost us a win. That's the stuff I am more interested in.

It's not great that we're down two forwards - but tbh it's the best time to have these issues. We're looking pretty good, it's vs the Eagles (who should not be underestimated of course, especially as it's there) - but I would far rather these issues now than against teams in the 8 right now. We have recruited Fullo for a reason, so it really isn't a bad time to use him! Yeah he may not set the world on fire, but he kind of doesn't need to. Just chop out ruck relief, hopefully snag a few marks and if he scores, even better. He would be replacing JVR who, while being handy with the ruck relief and is developing well for a 21 yo, has not been in red hot form, so we just need someone who competes well. I think Fullo should be able to do this.

Poor guy can't catch a break. Has been solid since joining. Looking forward to him having a good run after Freo. Seems like a good kid, and knows where the footy is. Can kick. Much to work with. Just needs some luck!

Yeah it's just so strange. Can't be fatigue relative to the Blues, because we ran over them in the end, and they played 3 games in 13 days (like we did against the Lions - but they held up, whereas we didn't). We need to upgrade whatever psychologists we have on the payroll. We are a better team every day of the week. All between the ears.

I did refer to the miss as Petty and the Heartbreakers, which I thought was a decent call. At the end of it, aside from a dud umpiring call here and there (which I thought were wrong calls, but won't blame for the loss), we lost in in Q1 for numerous reasons - aside from the fact that we gave up a 5-0 start (and then 6-0 at the start of Q2) (which you just can't do against sides, let alone dangerous sides like the Blues), which was partly because of their midfield dominance, but also because our i50 entries were so poor and we could not land a mark in there (they did, several times) - AND they were as you say, unusually accurate - an anomaly - any other day, they kick 4.1 or 3.2, and if so, we win. A very strange game. Won the i50 entries again, more scores, and x score - another moral victory, but no points. Just gutted we gave them another close one. I truly dislike their fans and am bummed we don't play them again this year. We can only hope we both make finals, and if we face them - we actually beat them. They are claiming us as their bunnies now. And while we know this is not true. The proof is in the results. They knocked us out of the finals, and now claimed another close one. We have to beat them on the scoreboard and not fluff it. Again. Long wait until then. But overall I think we're in good health. Really positive signs. But they will need to examine what happened in Q1.

Agree. Proud of the boys for not giving up. I hope we see these [censored] again and finally collect the debt.

That’s how I felt. I thought we started well. They took their chances, had some lucky bounces, and we didn’t. Mind you we didn’t mark anything in our 50 and they did and that was a big difference. But not a 5-0 difference. Agree. I’d rather write this off as an unlucky night with some costly misses and a particularly bad dangerous tackle call.

The better team, again, scored more shots but fluffed it (easy misses, a complete.no-show in q1) and was done by the umps (that dangerous tackle was simply fraudulent), but yet we walk away with nothing. Again. Proud of the boys for not giving up, but I really hate seeing the blues after these games.

Left it too late. More scoring shots. And ultimately lost by a cheat dangerous tackle call. Really gutted this could have been ours.

Oh my god. please can we steal this I won’t ask for anything for Christmas in July

I’ll say one thing for us that we already lnew obviously. We’re never out of games. No matter what happens tonight there’s that. But we’re still here 2 goals to go

MY MAN JACK VINEY ❤️ Still mad about that dangerous tackle. We would have one less goal to get. Ah well guess we will need to kick 3 goals

I’m still mad about that dangerous tackle. We are firing right now. Would have been within 2 goals

THAT IS CALLED CHEATING

20 points - takes me back to the back third of q1. Memories. cant concede again. Gotta go for it

Max and those brain farts WHY!?

Petty and the heartbreakers (that was filthy) needed that 😔

Well we have given ourselves the best possible chance. Would have been nice to land one of those posters. But alas, we need 4 goals, plus cover anything they score, which is hopefully none or very little. Interestingly it’s 13 scoring shots to 15. Their q1 sharp shooting blitz cost us.

We nearly fluffed that. Brute strength from Trac who is on his way to a bag. One more and we are in this. At the very least done concede

First things first we CANNOT concede the quick reply from the blues as they have done all game. We really need to snag two more to keep this to 3 goals in the last.

Billings 🤮 Can someone pls explain hollands to me?