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Because the second drank hydrogen peroxide or H2O2?

Don’t know what you’re talking about.

How many dives in 1 qtr of footy?! Really annoying to watch

I’m not surprised, there’s a lot of unknown quantities with us. New coach, new game plan, new midfield group, more reliance on our younger brigade, May’s influence absolutely waned last year but he was still the glue of our backline, Tracc and Oliver were pretty consistent week in, week out (i.e. below their best but still ‘good’) so we knew what to expect by the end of 25. Is JVR dependable as a KPF? Is Petty dependable as a KPD? Lever, Petty, Disco in a backline not working off May? Will the new midfield group gel together from round 1? Forward connection fixed? If not fixed, better? IMO, there’s a lot that needs to go right from so many changes in key parts of the ground. If King has us ready to go and is able to address our previous shortfalls and we win Round 1 then bloody hell my hat is off to him. But I think that is a lot to ask for in one pre-season.

That’s ok this is fine nothing to worry about all good no worries just a hiccup she’ll be right no stress

To your edit - the AFL bought Waverley from the hawks for about $20 mil last year, could be that?

The paddle pop lion look really suits her

Traccs game was awesome. If he keeps hitting leading targets like he did in that game, he’s going to be incredibly damaging. He didn’t do that at Melbourne with anywhere near the same consistency. I don’t think I saw him hit leading forwards 2-3 times in a single game. On the other hand, to say that could be one of Oliver’s best games, is literally insulting to his earlier career, haha.

But… Galileo? Magnifico? Bismillah? Who will Bismillah?

Just out of curiosity anybody know how has Heath gone in the Saints 2’s?

This is what I don’t get. What is the downside of the other teams playing their day games? How is 4 extra day games changing anything?

Yeah noice. I’d exclude Brownlows personally as Tom Mitchell won that award and he isn’t a shoe shiner compared to Pendlebury. Bontompelli hasn’t won a Brownlow either so it’s a bit meaningless in the larger picture IMO. The X factor is a good one. He might have more X factor. Danger definitely only needs a quarter to completely change a game. And danger might’ve been quicker over 3 meters, but I’ve never seen a player like Pendles be able to evade players that are within a couple of meters from him whilst he’s standing still. He does it multiple time a game even now. I did ask sincerely who was better so thank you for your answer.

It’s totally a spectrum. But for every Daicos ball user, there’s 20-30 congested ball winners.

Not having a go at you, but this confuses me a little bit. Why is winning the ball the main metric people use to define if a player is good or not? It’s important for sure for a team perspective, but if you have more worth being on the outside and then disposing of the ball (Daicos is probably the best) why does it matter? We won a F load of contested ball and couldn’t do anything with it.

Agreed. Both teams have crazy skilled players in Saad and Hill, but the criticism of these players is they don’t have composure. Skill without composure and you’re just another player.

Interesting! Why do you say that?

What are your top 3 reasons Mr. Fence?

That’s a good way to put it and I agree. I remember Hird had about a 4-5 year run where I’d watch him and he seemed to never make a mistake. I feel like Pendles did that for well over a decade.

Who’s better out of Pendles and Danger?

Messy game, but with good pressure. It’s a grind but there’s intensity to it

Dangerous business going to a packed out pies game

I thought the roles reversed, opposed to Lions slowing down. Doggies missed a lot early, Lions scored goals early. Doggies started nailing them and the Lions started missing. Final qtr lions kicked 3.7 and dogs kicked 7.1

16th season for GCS and 14th for GWS, but they don’t fill small stadiums. Sydney and Brisbane both get good crowds consistently. Does the AFL care about crowd numbers for those clubs? Or do they care more about eyeballs on the tv/streaming? I don’t actually know what metric the AFL concentrates on to determine GCS/GWS being a ‘success’.

What a flippin’ game

Pretty sure Dale either couldn’t hear the umpire or thought he was going to the mark with that 50. Seems confusing between umps and players