Smokey

Very little confidence this week unfortunately. Hope I'm wrong.

"What could Maynard have done differently?" For a start, not making a largely unrealistic attempt at a smother by leaving the ground at speed and then turning your shoulder inside to knock someone in a completely vulnerable position into next week, causing the likely end of their AFL career and potential long term detrimental health issues? Amazing how we see players smothering the ball 100's of times week in week out yet only (to my memory) have we seen such a catastrophic outcome in this case alone. Huge line in the sand moment for the AFL, they've done the right thing by grading it appropriately. Footy act or not (what a stupid term that is by the way), severe impact is severe impact and it must be punished.

Of all the guys this could have happened to, why did it have to be Gus? Genuinely upset over this. Maynard is a dog, and he’ll cop his 3 weeks here. There is no way a hit with this sort of outcome can be excused, regardless of intent (which isn’t necessarily a defence these days anyway). Maynard knew damn well what he was trying to do and he succeeded.

I predict we’ll win our next 3 games.

Always loved Jayden, so happy for him

Weideman?!?!?! We have very different interpretations of what doing well means.

It’s actually hilarious

Such an overwhelming lack of intelligent discussion and insight is on offer on the Collingwood boards. I loathe the filth and cannot wait to smash them so hard that they won’t recover mentally and will go out in straight sets.

Have a good feeling he’ll be with us next year

Could've been worse, such as using "get" instead of "go".

Patiently waiting for the "What they're saying in line at Centrelink" thread

As opposed to not winning a final?

Cheating implies intent. It is possible someone can be mistaken in the heat of the moment. But hey, I’m all for removing “cheating” from the game. How do you propose we go about that? If your plan is to penalise players for calling touched when it isn’t, your now saying we need to add yet another grey area which needs interpretation and relies on flawed review technology. No thanks!

It's human nature to advocate for point if you believe you got a hand on it, calling for it to be removed from the game only adds to the overwhelming complexity of how our game is adjudicated. Umpires should just be ignoring the players when they do it (which I'm sure they've already been instructed to do anyway).

@KingDingAling Hilarious

Hawthorn will play finals next year

@WERRIDEE this is it. The moment you've been training for all these years. The ultimate 22

“Worst top 4” is an oxymoron. The top 4 can’t be good or bad, they are just the top 4.

Max Gawn is a hero, a legendary MFC player. He’s in the same conversation as Ronald Dale for mine. Flags are so hard to come by in this day and age, and he delivered one 67 years in the making.

It's all well and good to have state of the art cameras, but the cost to have them at every ground around Australia would be more than people think. Then you have discrepancies from ground to ground where said cameras can be mounted, which changes the angles etc. I get the argument for better investment in the technology, but if it can't be equally applied across all grounds then it's going to create issues of its own.

Good to hear from you!

Thought JVR played his heart out tonight. Such good signs of things to come. Still backing us come September.

SPP = Aldi Viney

I don't necessarily hate him but on the other hand he does play for the filth ... Darcy Moore

I for one hope we never get desperate enough to recruit a basketball player who's never touched a footy before And before someone mentions Cox, he's so overrated ...