Bring-Back-Powell

Yeah he’s a dud off the field if the reports are accurate.

Shades of our 2018 game down in Geelong when we couldn’t hold on in the dying seconds. Anyone who continues to bag Gary Rohan has no idea. He’s a far better player than given credit for.

Full credit to the Dogs. Won’t go away. Back in front. 4 mins left

Does a draw help us?

I’m currently writing a book on BT’s gaffes on Friday night footy. Tonight’s entry - “7,000 packed into the ground tonight” WTF is this man doing calling the premier game of the weekend?

I wouldnt get your hopes up. Geelong bat at about 90% down there. (Strangely Carlton beat them there last year)

So the VIC government are paranoid about having crowds at games. And when they finally do allow crowds they put 3,500 people on each wing with absolutely no social distancing. Makes perfect sense.

Absolutely agree. It's totally irrelevant having separation from 1st to second but hugely important to have separation from third. Tipping 3 boil-overs this week in Dogs to beat Geelong, Carlton to beat GWS and Hawthorn to beat Essendon.

The ins and outs are very easy. Viney for Sparrow (Melksham for Sparrow if Viney not ready yet.) One of the Browns for Mr 4 handballs.

Fair point. The Hawthorn of the mid 2010's would scoff at the suggestion of being sent to NT as the away team. Anyway the point stands that I doubt the club would be interested in being on the road 3 weekends in a row. Adelaide then Alice then Gold Coast. As Pert touched on, it's time the club re-engages with the faithful at the G and therefore Alice Springs can wait until next year.

We won 16 games in 1956 which equated to an 89% winning record in that 18 game home and way season. A 20 win season would be our record best in terms of winning percentage. Onto our next opponent, we have a surprisingly poor 1-4 record against Essendon at the G since 2013. The last time we won finals in consecutive years was in 1991 against Essendon at Waverley. Aside from GC Suns, we have the longest streak in that department. Hopefully that can be rectified next year.

Agreed, BBB's next 100 games would be a 100% improvement on Weid's output last Monday, I would really like to know the circumstances behind Brown's 4 possession/0 mark game against Sydney's VFL side? Was he injured? Did he have the sooks? In any case, if BBB isn't ready for Essndon, Weid will make way for M Brown.

I wouldn't be surprised if the club does not pursue a later Alice Springs game. The GWS game is too short notice. Hawks won't have a bar of playing in the NT. Plus that would mean 3 consecutive weeks of travel to Adelaide - NT - Gold Coast. No chance they'd move a potential Friday night MCG blockbuster against the Dogs to a 5,000 crowd. The Adelaide home game is a possibility but that would mean we'd be playing in Perth - Alice Springs - Geelong to end the season. We can't afford the players to be fatigued coming into finals. Let's write off the NT game, and be disappointed that the state of NT didn't provide any flexibility or finances considering it was them that cancelled the game, not us.

This is the one game where we can clearly say the umpiring cost us the game. Nothing to do with the fact that we played like arrogant billionaires, didn't bother to man up, provided about 10% of the pressure we normally do, displayed skills not seen since the Neeld era and had our key forward former top 10 draft pick and potential generational talent had a whopping 4 handballs and 0 marks. We should demand a royal commission into Monday's umpiring.

Just watch from the other side of the fence if you're keen as mustard. Nobody can stop you from watching in a public area.

Lucky buggers. Sutton refused to commit to MCG and Marvel games next weekend but Metro has followed regional in pretty much every setting. I think there is a chance we could get 20-25% to the Dons V Dees games next weekend. The bad news is that barely any MFC member would be able to attend and probably 2,500 AFL members tickets to fight and scrap over I think there is a good chance we could get 20-25% to our GWS home game the following weekend which would pretty much cater for everyone who would like to go that day.

If we're to win a flag, history (from 2010 onwards) says that the premier goes at least 6-3 in the last 9 games and goes into a finals campaign with rock solid form. Richmond have gone 8-1 and 9-0 and 7-2 in the last 3 flags, in the run home to finals. The average record is 7-2. Even the Dogs who had a patchy home and away season in 2016 went 6-3 in their last 9 games before finals. A 5-4 record would suggest inconsistencies and not the very strong form you'd want to carry into the finals. It's fantastic we've banked the wins but we need to maintain this rate, and most certainly not drop games to Hawthorn, GWS, GC and Adelaide on the run home.

Prefer Dogs to win. Absolutely no difference between finishing 1st and second. We need to keep an eye out for West Coast. Don't want them to get on a complete roll and finish top 2.

I found yesterday's loss easier to accept than the Adelaide game. Whilst we didn't bring the usual defensive pressure in the Adelaide game, we did play good footy at times and a few things conspired against us late in that game. Yesterday we simply stunk it up and played a lazy game of football and got what we deserved. Unlike the Adelaide game, yesterday's opposition was by far the better side and accordingly lead for about 75% of the game. Our defensive intent was non-existent and our skills were simply atrocious. We were willing to accept the 4 points but weren't willing to work for them. We've had a fantastic start to the season, particularly against the better sides. However I'm most frustrated that I can't confidently pick us to beat Essendon or GWS. These games should be regulation wins for an 11-2 side. A mid season examination needs to be made as to why we can't play a consistent and focused game of footy against the poor sides of the comp. On a side note, I like it that Lever referenced twice the fact that we've achieved nothing in his post game presser with Gibson. We will be the laughing stock of the comp if we fade away badly in the second half of the year.

Fair point re: Geelong’s first home game in a few weeks. I would hope that when we play GWS, we don’t transfer it to NSW, regardless of the finances.

Good on Geelong for standing their ground and utilising their home ground advantage. A footballing over finance decision. Doesn’t paint a rosy picture for many restrictions to ease on Thursday, if they’re already calling the interstate transfers.

This game should’ve been played at the MCG irrespective of fans or no fans. We’re playing for sheep stations at the moment and playing a game at a venue that a) clearly didn’t suit us and b) where we won’t playing in September did nobody any favours. As I said during the week, we need to play as many games at the G to prefect our game plan and therefore the out of town home games need to finish, while the VIC government allows us to still play at the MCG.

It’s been a great year so far but I’m getting pretty sick of not turning up against garbage sides. A clear pattern of behaviour has been established in the last 7 weeks, starting with the first 3 qtrs of the Hawks games in round 5.

Jackson - 6 marks in a quarter of footy. Nice.

Sounds like a typical Weideman quarter.