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The tackling especially! Just no intensity today

Brad Scott was the main factor (not the only) in why we were beaten today. Completely pulled Grundy’s pants down and exposed that he has virtually no defensive impact. I think we can cope with one of Gawn/Lever/May out of our backline, but not two of them. Took out the confidence of our backline to even attempt to intercept, which is our biggest strength back there. They also just worked way harder than us. Had options every time they got the ball and just like the Brisbane game, they also had time and we had none. They basically ran harder and played harder around the ball. Our kicking into F50 mostly to their defenders advantage and the fact that they ran so hard meant, even if they didn’t mark it in their forward line(which they did a lot) there were more Essendon players at the drop of the ball than Melbourne players. Mostly disappointed that we were so outworked.

How many times have we kicked it to a pack of 1 of us, 3 of them in our F50 and they STILL win the ball at ground?

That passage looked much better. Finding connection. Go dees!

I could be being pedantic, but those are lions. Haha

Collingwood beat St Kilda just, we beat Essendon by a few and we’re back on top. Let’s gooooooo

Get there Dees fans. Should be a brilliant night.

Papley is only a [censored] if he’s in the opposing team. Every club supporter would go from hating in to loving him as soon as he signed on to their team. Absolute gun.

Weirdly, Papley is keeping Sydney in the game even though they’re winning

Brave call.

Now that you say that, Because Freo and Suns played at a capacity of less than 10,000, would they get any compensation from the AFL considering they don’t have the ability to pull 20,000+ at a larger ground?

Yup. Sydney are nowhere near their skill level by foot or hardness around the ball thus far this year. I think they have quite a few players out of form as they’ve lost their ruthlessness or something? They should be a much better team than Richmond.

If that was done to Jack in that contest, he would’ve been awarded the free.

The AFL royally screwed up the set up of that club. Unprofessional/drug/party culture to start with which by all accounts took a decade to undo. If you were one of those players to which AFL is just a career and you don’t feel a burning passion to succeed like others do, GC is your club.

Has Jake Stringer ever been AFL fit whilst being at Essendon? Feels like his best years were at the dogs and his time at Essendon has just been Meh

That was seriously impressive by the crows. Great skills, fast paced style and the forward line looks organised. Looks like they'll be a handful at home but will have to see how they travel.

Did you know? There’s studies on the correlative relationship between trolling and what’s called ‘Dark Tetrad’ personality factors (the levels of psychopathic, narcissistic, Machiavellian and sadistic traits a person has). What’s been found is that the levels of these traits a person has, is shown to be positively predictive of whether they’ll engage in trolling or not. On top of this, levels of loneliness are also another factor that is shown to be positively predictive. The more dark traits and higher levels of loneliness a person has, the more likely they are to troll. There’s also a social factor to online trolling which is driven by a desire for attention from others. The emotional reward is a sense of power and (saddest of all) feeling successful. So when someone engages in trolling behaviour, it’s indicative, that they’re most likely somewhere in what the above describes. Make of this information what you will. Dees by 23. P.S. It’s ‘Coober Pedy’ not ‘Cooper Pedy’.

Yeah fair point. Was thinking today, if I had known about this round earlier in the year, I probably would’ve done just that!

I'm quite interested to see how many people they end up drawing to Radelaide considering it's the round after Easter when a lot of people already went away for 3-4 days. Also (high chance this is just a me thing), I only found out this time last week that this whole 'gather round' was even a thing. Have the SA Govt been spending ads in places I haven't seen??

I'm really glad this is a topic as I can't [censored] stand Channel 7. When BT/Richo/Brayshaw/Darcy are commentating in any combination together, they regularly stray away from talking about the game in front of them. The 'trash talk' with each other throughout the game, is just dumb and annoying. None of them have any charisma and their collective chemistry is non-existent. Feels forced and unnatural. They will talk about other players in other games that are yet to happen, in the middle of live play. I remember watching a neutral game years ago with a mate, two mid-tier teams were fighting for a spot in the finals, it was a close game in the final quarter and BT starts talking at length about how excited he is for some other game that Dusty Martin was playing in. They ask each other irrelevant questions throughout the game like 'how many times did you do that in your career Richo?', 'Geez, don't think BT would've reacted well to that, how many weeks would you have gotten if someone did that to you BT?' blah blah blah. Or BT will just go off talking about some fish and chip shop in some country town somewhere, where some old player he played with from the early 90's is from and then they have a conversation about fish and chips whilst there's literally passages of play happening. The amount of times I've heard James Brayshaw say something like 'let's get back to talking about the game' whilst commentating is ridiculous. They detract and distract from the game as they make it about THEMSELVES and even worse, even when they focus on the game, they don't generate any energy. All of this put together comes across like the game in front of them is just boring to them so hey let's be hilarious and just talk absolute [censored] whilst the game is on. Sucks excitement out of the game.

Ahhhh right. I thought he was saying he was eating them for breakfast.

Whatever number a crowd or mob is.

Seem to remember when Daniher first started at the Lions he played the same up the ground role he did tonight and people were talking of an improved Daniher. He looks like a better player when he’s not just sticking around the 50.

Daisy is one of the best special commentators out there! It’s the main commentators jobs to build excitement.