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6 May 5 Gawn 4 Smith 3 Spargo 2 Lever 1 Petracca -1 viney (undid great work with shockingly predictable last kick) -2 Fritsch (needed more) -3 Chandler (great early season but faded) -4 Pickett (so costly undisciplined acts) -5 TMac (sadly not physically able) -6 JJ (saw him maybe twice and did f-all)

Boo hoo.

If he doesn't they need to pay him out. We can't afford to plan around him up fwd.

Worth it.

I'm on the verge of laughing because that outcome was virtually inevitable. Danger signs all year - the Brisbane debacle in rnd 2, the essendon debacle, etc. But in the end the weight of losses of personnel, the inability to get the Grundy combo working and our widespread lack of foot skills did us in - exemplified by Vineys clanger in the dying minutes to turn the ball over and gift them a goal.

Tmac and JJ worse than useless

Because they like it.

Sub him off already he's been in dry dock this game.

We will wear them down. They were pathetic in the 2nd half last week.

THAT WAS NOT TOUCHED!!!!!!!

Pretty fkcn good with that goal just now!

Lever. So good then so bad.

Clean bump. Hit cripps in chest.

[censored] off Luke hodge.

We look (dare I say it) ... possessed!

Grundy gave a hug to a couple of our players including Gawn just now. Good to see.

Terrible what Collingwood does to a person.

And then there was George.

In a rational world this should be an absurd post, but experience tells us this is an entirely plausible scenario.

Looks like Ray Comfort.

On one level, yes, but acts like that will happen when a naturally physical and competitive player is young - last week we saw examples of our forwards wilting from contests - JVR doesn't. He'll "take learnings" from this and will be better for it, be it this year or next. Frankly too he's looked like he could do with a bit of a mental if not a physical rest and reset.

Sadly I rather suspect an identical incident with one of our players as the perpetrator would receive an entirely different narrative from the media, fuelling a tribunal hearing with damning interpretation of the actions and instructions to the panel leaving a guilty verdict as the only possible outcome. And virtually no one in the media would question the disparity. Disgrace.

... and it'd be on a weekend where there would have been multiple such instances, the others involving "big club" players that the commentators play down so the MRO can pretend they never happened. What a joke. And how can the AFL have the match review officer and tribunal chair both allied to the same club, let alone presiding over a case involving said club? So sick and tired of our players being made examples of. In recent years ANB, Chandler, the JVR one they tried earlier this year, May in that practice match where he literally just stood still while someone ran into him, Hunter this year, etc.

Lord how many square metres of fabric went into that suit jacket?

That will be good for their round 1, 2024 side.