Grr-owl

Get Saad if possible.

I just wanna add my observation that we ran hard against Hawthorn, and last night we plodded around like trees. And trees don't plod.

Agreed. The difference in the running between last night and the Whorethorn game was unbelievable....

I truly believed we’d bottomed our a few weeks back. Surely the noise can’t be ignored any more. You have to try your guts out week after week to win in this competition. Is that noise?

I’ve got some advice I know he’ll take: ignore the noise.

No energy. No skill. No hope.... Where the f#@k is the desire to win?

There was an interview with Burgess shortly after he joined the club, maybe on SEN, where he discussed this very issue. As I recall, he said the soccer players do 11 times more accelerations than footy players, but otherwise the games were roughly equivalent in terms of the demand on the body, apart from the length of the game, which doesn’t count this season... Anyone interested might be able to find it. With Garry L and Tim Watson if I remember correctly.

After I left Aus I paid zero attention to footy for fourteen years. Then I discovered the watch AFL app at the time of the final series of 2015 and thought I’d give the kids some Aussie culture. Well, I was blown away by the change in game style. It felt as if at some point, while my back was turned, a team of scientists had been brought in to work out how to play the game.

Get 'em in. One forward, one back?

We need Oscar in there. Balances the team.

With the talk about outside run and wings and all, what happens to Tomlinson?

He’s the quick one on the last line..

Cheers. The answer probably couldn’t be better than that....

Off topic somewhat, but could anybody close to the club give us some information on Sparrow? Is he ready, and if so, how are we going to get games into him with a midfield as settled as ours?

Garner was a change bowler, remember? OMG.

Hope you’re right.

Time to get some games into Sparrow.

Yeah, maybe an opportunity to get some games into him.

I reckon he's the archetypal FF for the next age of footy. Super-mobile, super-agile. Can pinch-hit all over the ground. Give him time and we're good to go...

It looked good and sure felt good. There were options that paid off and when they didn't someone to limit the damage, mostly. Hope restored.

Flowering beautifully.

Totally agree.

Feel compelled to respond to the emoji avalanche. I wasn't complaining or arguing that the kind of racism I experience was somehow equivalent to that suffered by black Americans or indigenous Australians. The point I was making is that racism in not exclusively practiced by white people. Where I live one tiny ethnicity discriminates against all others and not equally, and they are not white.

Perhaps because he was showed doing it. If so, a perception can form...

So good to see the team put in a performance that we can’t really complain about. Sure, there was some poor play, but it didn’t define the game. Keep up this kind of footy and the future looks bright.