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Given the rugby-heavy market they are operating in, NSW-Vic rivalry, and the age demographic they'll be trying to reach, this is pretty funny trolling from them.

The TV coverage literally showed footage of Gawn's on field pre-game rev-up to the players, where he was saying (paraphrasing) "after everything we've had going on this pre-season, give me everything you've got for the first 5 minutes. The first 5 minutes. The other 115 minutes we can worry about when we get there." Seems he got the desired effect.

Do you really think Tim Lamb and co haven't been exploring the possibility of trading in a key forward since 2021? Hell, we brought BBB in that year to fill that precise need, which was a key part of our flag. We have drafted multiple tall forwards since (JVR, Jefferson), clearly conscious of BBB and TMac's injury situations. Dermott seems to think we've been sitting back in banana lounges oblivious to this need. It turns out, quality key forwards are [censored] hard to find, and teams that find one tend to pay them well, making it extremely hard to pry them loose.

It might surprise some on here, but it turns out that thermal comfort is not solely a function of air temperature, exhibiting an appreciable inverse correlation with humidity. Refer to the table below. The air temperatures of 23 to 24 deg C and humidity of 85-90% straddle the "uncomfortable" and "very uncomfortable" regimes.

Not if we don't play him.

...top 4 got a bit harder.

1) Billings was match fit, played well in the practice matches, and was promoted as one of our three debutants by our media team. Yet come game time he's warming the bench as sub and we see an ineffective and underdone Spargo take the field following an injury lay-off. This follows a litany of perplexing selection decisions going back to late last year (dropping energetic Turner on eve of 2023 finals, Schace as sub, etc.). Was this the right call? 2) do we have any insight into what alterations/initiatives McQualter might be bringing - what changes to our game play have you seen that might reflect his input? Could our generally atrocious kicking skills be counter-productive to changes we might be trying to implement?

Hoping just a stinger for Bowey. Fingers crossed.

Watch fritta kick 7 now

This read differently out of the corner of my eye as I scrolled past.

Absolutely. Billings is an experienced composed skilled player. Exactly what's needed out there in greasy high pressure conditions. It's a slap in the face.

It's so ridiculous. They seem to be being tricked by the lighting changes as the hand and fingers rotate as the ball passes, plus there's the shadow from the ball. A terrible blight on the game to overturn decisions on such inconclusive evidence.

Disappointed that we debut Billlings as sub, particularly after our media team made a big deal over our three debutants this game. Surely he deserved his spot after the praccies over a couple of others out there.

We just need to elevate to 6 times their scoring shots and we'll win this.

Why the [censored] did an underdone spargo get picked ahead of the class-machine Billings?

Liking some of the efforts by Schache. Sparrow looks stronger than previously.

Jeez we are good at turning an advantage call into a mess.

Gods sake fritta. Take a second.

And Viney's handball to Trac defied physics. What a magical passage of play that was!

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They can be deathridden down to 9th. I don't want to see the filth enjoy higher draft picks than that.

As it happened, so were we.

He looks hungry.

David King is redoing his predictions and is penning us as flag favourites now.

Deary me. Koz trying to get himself rubbed out with another Bailey Smith-esque torpedo bump with 2 mins to go in a praccy.