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Can someone explain how May could only be missing a week with fractured ribs and part of a Vertebrae? As in, wouldn’t it mean if a similar incident happens again (not improbable considering he’s got blokes jumping all over him all game), that those fractures would turn into breaks? Thank you in advance

May and Lever out messes up our game plan as now we can’t depend on intercept marks as a given. If Petty goes back, would this be the first time TMAC and Petty start a game together in the backline? Which means they will essentially be a new backline team? Which means up the ground both in the middle and our F50, pressure acts and ANB type defensive running will have to be the norm across the team. They’ve got great kicks delivering inside 50 so we have to make sure those players aren’t given any space. Gonna be a tough game but IMO this will be won by being defensive up the ground with hard running more so than our D50.

ANB had a ripper game. Our kicking overall looks to have improved!

The game has shifted and full forwards are going to be worth their weight in gold this year it feels. Geelong have bloody two of them. Will get them into finals easily. I [censored] hate Geelong.

Death sentence. And murder all their families.

David Kind now jumping on the saints as how ‘amazing were they last night’ Were the saints amazing??? I thought Collingwood were awful more than Saints were good. Lots of saints goals came from Collingwood players making BAD errors that other top teams aren’t going to make.

McRae going to have to drop some players. Pretty big pool of players to choose from.

Sidebottom needs to come off

Pies also just not laying tackled like they did last year. They’ve lost their edge.

Man Sidebottom is having the worst game I’ve ever seen him play. I’ve never seen him play anywhere near this bad.

They get to half forward and then look like they don’t know what they’re supposed to be doing

Saints cannot keep it in their F50 for more than 10 seconds. Just comes straight back out

Do the pies look much slower than they did last year? They look like a different team

Wow, what was that handball

I thought it was like Sue mentioned, that a defending ruck can’t hit it through for a behind in a ball up as it’s a free kick?

Huh, yeah I didn’t even think of that. Only thing I can think of is if Gawn taps it through for a point (even by accident, but being right by the goal line, it means he can only tap it one way without being penalised) it’s a free kick to the dogs? So going to the top of the square gives more room range for him to tap too? Dunno, just speculating. Didn’t look right regardless.

Someone mentioned on Demonland that the increase in score reviews is being said to be related to advertising time. Well David King on SEN basically said the same. He has a suspicion that advertising is playing a part (as well as goal umpires seemingly being afraid to back themselves in) I wonder if the memo to goal umpires has been something like: ‘if there’s even 0.0001% doubt, go to score review’

I only saw it as it happened, but Harmes definitely leans in and hits May on the chin. Still haven’t seen a replay but to the naked eye, it did look like he head butted him.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Brisbane steal this. Does Freo have a bench??

Ohhh no way, O Mac

Losing Kiddy Coleman really screwed up their ability to use the ball quickly and calmly off half back. He’s probably their most important player to their set up and I reckon it shows, like you mentioned,

Someone else posted on Demonland that 0-2 to start a season means only 18% chance to play finals. So historically, one of pies or lions probably won’t play finals going off that, which is interesting

Freo have stepped up the pressure big time. Lions look rushed in their disposals since quarter time.