Gawndy the Great

Isn’t it the 2nd Tuesday of June? Nonetheless your logic is sound - we are much less likely to get screwed when one of those clubs can suffer a similar fate.

The victims / accusers are not prepared to give any sworn evidence. In any public trial , the case would have been thrown out, so I’m confused as to why the investigation continues. When this initially broke I was heavily against the the way this was ‘leaked’ to the media for this reason alone. Nothing has been achieved, nobody has been sanctioned and two notable figures have had their reputation tarnished based on a review that failed to interview the defendants? It is mind boggling how grossly unprofessional this has been.

It wouldn’t be helping one iota that the team is completely uncompetitive. If Clarko has been a little off in his demeanour/ intent or instruction as a result of the mental stress the allegations have caused , it’s not a long bow to draw that this has also impacted the team. Then there is the internal speculation/ judgement of the playing group on Clarko himself.

That is beside the point, coaching a rock bottom team is hard enough - add to that these allegations that are being drawn out, any normal person would have buckled a long time ago.

Smoke and mirrors. I hear he didn’t train Even if he does play, it’ll be a major roll of the dice that they would be silly to take such a risk during round 10.

I have no issue in accepting Sparrow's 1 match. What is going to be the real story is when a higher profile player is put in this situation and there is the cumulative precedent (Sparrow, Close, Kozzy, Merrett and others) that is overlooked by the MRO. I get umpires are out-of-bounds for club scrutiny, but there needs to be visible (public) pressure / displeasure that can be directed at the MRO if this situation were to arise (by the clubs). I think he gets away with too much inconsistency - unlike umpires - he has ample time to get it right. The JVR citation was an outlier and im now of the belief was probably more the AFL than MRO, so happy to let that slide (for now).

It’s an option for sure he has the defensive prowess and can work off him.

Trac said not made the bench of team of the week. Some people in the media just have NFI.

Left field - Melksham comes in to play defensive role on Allir Aliir. They’ll have a tough time playing on Gawn anyway.

Can you not recall the uproar when Merrett was suspended for his tackle on Sparrow?

Then how can you reasonably charge someone with the offence. The footage is there - I’m sure the AFL will release it to MFC 15 mins before the appeal cutoff, such is their integrity.

I call BS (based on this vision). Christiansen unhappy that JVR got off. Sparrow is trying pull him down in the tackle - not sideways. The sling is a result of two players moving in different directions initiated by Day’s rotation trying to break the tackle.

Collingwood miles ahead of everyone else and they’ve got multiple players to come back. The only thing going for the rest of the comp is that they have peaked too early and will run out of gas.

So that’s why you go tall and clunk em. It can go both ways.

They are also undersized down back so we can look to stretch em with BBB or TMac coming in For Petty.

I agree that it’s intent is to preserve our players as much as possible, but I think we can overplay its impact as we did last year with loading . Our stoppages, particularly in the centre square needs a bit more planning and training irrespective at who is in there. Personally having Kozzy in there to me is key as he is dynamic and can read the play better than most. Unfortunately he lacks size and can be neutralised very easily unless the team sets up to enable him to get free.

Crows making a mess of the Saints defence. They look the goods.

I’m with you. Yes we won and I get all that good teams find a way to win stuff and bank early win etc etc. But there are obvious gaps in our game, which is ok given we don’t want to peak now. I think my concern is I’m not sure how good we are. We haven’t really beaten anybody that is contending for the flag so it’s hard to get a read on true form. If we were to knock off Power next week I think I’ll start to feel better about our Sept prospects and that we are probably being a little to unrealistic on expectations on our performances.

Could you imagine others in here (inc me) commentate a Dees game? I think it just shows how passionate he is about the club and that he probably suffers from MFCSS as do most of us.

I noticed as well. A few folks a couple rows back copped a fly by gift.

6 Trac 5 Viney 4 - Clarry 3 Rivers 2 Hibbo 1 May

May was back to his usual self… looked to be moving much better today/tonight. Grundy and the connection to the midfielders is still an issue for mine. Gawn had to spend a bit too much time in the middle. I noticed that he elected to grab and kick it in multiple occasions - perhaps suggesting a lack of confidence on our stoppage work? thought bowser covered the ground well today and worked well with Hibbo and Riv on the rebound. Still feels like we are in 2nd gear, which is ok at Round 9 I suppose - just as long it’s not a 2022 2nd gear scenario.

It was evident today we are being out hunted in the contest. Whilst we dominated, a better side would have punished us more. Port will give us an honest assessment of where we are and we rate against the top 4-6.

Looked ankle. Was hobbling bad

This should have been a 100 pt win and yet here we are letting the bottom dwellers stay in the game.