Red But Mostly Blue

God I hate arsey goals like that.

Melksham has been pretty good. His vision i50 has always been one of our best. Knew exactly where the goals were. Bang

The thing is Jack didn't play for that free, he was keen to keep moving.

Great set of tackles.

Looking forward to someone dropping Darcy later. My money is on Viney.

VINEY 🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️

Yikes On a positive, geez Viney has been on fire.

Ugh

Terrible burn of Melksham.

I think we can win tonight, and should, but gee I'm nervous, because we really need to signal a turn in form as turn towards finals. If we lose, we could drop to 6th, which will make things a little ugly. But that's all moot. We're gonna win tonight, because we're going to come out breathing fire. We have to. We'll want revenge for that game earlier in the year. Go Dees 🔥

Called it. I hardly ever remember my dreams, so when I do - they're bang on! Now to the second part of the dream. Gus was there, so we have 2 more flags by 2028! Hopefully (and most likely) well before 2028, of course.

Gus stays. (Saw it in a dream, he was holding the cup at the G with three fingers in the air - premiership #3, of course) Either way, my guys - we good.

Absolutely, there is certainly an element of luck in games. But you have to make the most of your luck (for example, the Pies were inaccurate against us, and we failed to capitalise). But eventually luck does turn, so here's hoping they have used up their tickets - and when we face them we make the most of ours, take our chances and put (+ keep) the foot down. After a number of recent, painful losses to the Pies (last year's Bucks farewell, the one that cost us a finals appearance, this year etc.), I would VERY much love to see us bury the Pies and send them back to reality, and further down the ladder. But we need to know they had our measure this year, and they'll know they can do it again.

I think we can and should win this Friday. At least on paper. Let's see where the boys' heads are at and if they are as hungry for back-to-back flags as they said they were . If we lose, and the rest of the games go the way they should (including perhaps the Lions finally winning at the G), we slip to 6th. Not an ideal place to launch at the finals. I mean, we need to win at least 2 to make top 4 - so can still do it, but mentally it'll be a slog getting back into the 4 with the games we have left - especially if we lose to Freo. Blood in the water etc. In short, we need to beat Freo this Friday to make the numbers nicer, but more importantly build momentum and belief.

Not sure that's exactly right. Collingwood are on the same points as us - plus they smoked us in our earlier meeting. Plus they have won 3 games vs top 8, compared to our 2. AND they are coming in with 9 on the trot - HOT (One of those wins being against us).

A lot of people are getting upset at Stokes for saying stuff that makes a lot of sense. Our patchy, inconsistent wins to go 10-0 were against lesser teams, or teams who had not yet hit their stride. Just look at the results. 11/13 of our wins are from the current bottom 8 sides. The losses against the top 8 sides show us playing a quarter of good footy, which is consistent with how we started the year. It was all very much, well the Dees are so good they only need to play 1 quarter. Sure, until you play the good teams who are willing to play 4 quarters. Complacency, ego and a loss of focus are on show. May's incident is an off field example. We built lazy habits earlier this year, and now it's coming back to bite us. Line in the sand this Friday, and we can do what we said we would do. None of this 2/4, 3/4 wins and we'll be right. Our best is unmatchable. But we must work for it! W W W W

Completely agree with this. Of all the things we've lost this year (yes, even during the earlier patchy wins this year) it's been our attitude, selflessness and hunger. Maxy said the boys want a dynasty, but to get there we're going to need a serious uptick in the WAY we go about playing these next games. The Hawks and Lions were relentless during their dynasties, and never let up. We need to rediscover our hunger, and the rest will follow - provided we actually address stuff like not bombing into the 50 etc, and some of the boys finding some well overdue form. We don't need to win all 4, but we do need to go in with confidence and momentum. We need to be feared, as it truly affects how the others will play us. I'm actually a little worried about the Pies game tbh, they properly smoked us last time, and they have their tails up at the moment, they will think/know we're up for grabs on their march into the finals.

The Pies are on the same points as us. I actually feel sick. I've hardly ever wanted the Bombers to win more than I did tonight.

Weid looks focused, and pumped. Really like his attitude tonight. Maybe tonight's the night we look back and see the beginning of a great forward. We're calling out for one, maybe he's already here!?

Phew. THANK YOU, KOZZIE! Not a convincing win, but it's a win, and the alternative of being on the same wins as the Pies truly terrified me. Going to be a tough run home, but the only way we'll make it to the business end is if we win (at least) most of the games ahead. Now is the time to do it!

Man Kozzie had his Weet bix this morning.

If we win this it's because of Kozzie, and pretty much no other reason.

Port aren't great. I honestly have no idea how we're going to win any of our remaining games, let alone the flag. What the hell happened to us?

Uh oh we're sh*t again.

Tommo has been good.