BoBo

Maybe one of those 3 Essendon players should have marked that ball.

I remember when I was about 8-9 being at La Porchetta in Greensborough and Spider Burton walked in and stood next to me. I couldn’t believe a human could look like that in real person. He really was like a spider, incredibly long limbs and thin looking even though he was so large.

Billing’s is a bit like Watts, the expectation of the position he was drafted is greater than the realistic ability. Saints were waiting for billings to turn into a superstar but it just didn’t happen. When he has a good game he is very good, but then he’ll have 2-3 in a row where he’s just ok. He isn’t a player you build a team around, he’s a role player that has always struggled to put consecutive games together. He would also dip in and out of form at Saints. He is what he is I guess.

If he gets a week melbourne should appeal as Maynards was way worse.

Bloody wrapped. Two away wins in Adelaide. These two wins are worth their weight in gold come the end of the season.

Oh boy

Mmmm, had Petty screaming for it then and looked to be in space. Not team footy Kozzie.

Hahahahahahahahaha, so dissent IS still a rule.

Silly Billy

This game is for Adelaides season survival essentially. They aren’t good on the road so can’t really afford to drop many home games. They’re coming hard but we got this.

I have to start work at 5am tomorrow, so if we could be up by 100 at half time so I can go to bed that would be great….

Push in the back for me is the absolute worst. I don’t know why or how it came to be so confused, but it honestly gets paid at random. There’s Ginnivan as an issue yes, but Tom Hawkins has been gifted probably 50+ goals throughout his career for pushing in the back. It’s maddening.

The defender plants the feet before laying the tackle, so he had stopped his momentum. Then he moves forward with small steps after that towards the player. Not sure what else they could do to limit the amount of force. Then again, I don’t know if the Carlton player propelled himself forward either, he seems to be moving at normal motion of picking up the ball then lowers his head just before contact (that video is slow motion so it would have been a fraction of a second). I still don’t think it should be a free kick to the the Carlton player, but this one is closer than I thought it would be. That one is 50/50 for mine in the context of…. if the AFL is protecting the head, and lowering the head happens every time you pick up the ball (you probably don’t want to be smashed in the face by a tackler either, hence lowering the head), then that is tricky to write a specific rule for that will work. Especially if you don’t ‘propel’ forward into the tackle. AFL is going to have a hard time being a full contact sport and eliminating concussion. Just not going to happen.

I know a few Scottish people that would be upset at me if I didn’t mention that Jimmy Barnes and Bon Scott were both born in Scotland.

Honestly Adelaide aren’t as bad as they’re currently playing. They look low on confidence so a quick start by them and some belief and it’ll be a slog. As you said, just take the win! Go Dees

Just play the same team oriented way we have been playing and we’ll win by 5 goals. We played what felt like was a big emotional win for the club so hopefully their minds moved on quickly considering it was a 5 day break. We are at our best when we’re team orientated!

Speaking of Howes and Mcvee, they look so similar on the ground! I can’t tell them apart at all

I said it somewhere else, but I watched our frees closely in the first qtr on reply and they were all clear frees. The 2 that we got goals from were Clarry being held so he couldn’t run in to the next contest which is 50m and Allir looking at and jumping into BBB to stop him going for a mark. Clear as day. I was just surprised they paid them at Port but that’s the ground bias coming into it.

Touché

Personal opinion: I think the hawks should start marking the ball.

After re-watching the game, basically all of the frees we got in the first qtr were absolutely legitimate. None of them were even 50/50.

I looked it up as I wasn’t 100% sure, but ruckman have to stay in their defensive half of the centre circle, until the ball is bounced or thrown up. Should be a free kick to the oppo ruckman if the ball hasn’t bounced or the left umps hands.

100% agree about the false narrative. It was just a bloody good game of footy. I generally dislike when supporters, including us, go down the road of ‘IF only X did/didn’t happen we would have won’… that applies to every disposal and decision throughout the entire game. IF X player kicks this goal at this time, we would have won. Yes, but they didn’t, hence your/our team lost. I worked with a bunch of Collingwood supporters and they would talk like this ALL the time after a loss. They were never outplayed, always hard done by the umps even if it was only one bad decision. Drove me nuts. Always If only X, if only Y, if only Z had happened, we win. At no point watching the game did I feel like we were ‘lucky’ to be in it. We played really well and absorbed a lot of attacking footy especially in our D50 (I could say, IF May was in, we would have won by 6 goals), our forwards kicked the goals they had to kick and Port didn’t. Pretty simple. The word ‘IF’ does a lot of work sometimes that can paper over how hard and well a winning team has played.

I’m gonna watch the game again. What a win. Bring on the crows and have a bloody good Easter everyone!