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We are playing 4 qtrs of defensive minded strangulation of teams as they slow the game down in a misguided attempt to bore us into making a positional mistake. It rarely comes and when we pounce it is only our execution and decision making that stops us slinging the ball through middle and deep into the forward line. Sometimes we are pure and sometimes we get away with it and sometimes the other team loses patience. And sometimes all three things happen in 6 minutes and we have kicked 5 and the game is over.

We hate Geelong.

And maybe turn up to games while you support a generational team…

Happy to try and cross that rubicon… Seriously though, we are great and hard to score against but there will be a team that backs themselves and runs through us enough times to kick 90 points like Adelaide last year. We are not infallible.

Don’t you dare ever mention AF score again - it is not a judgement on what he did with the footy - only that he got the footy. He would be disappointed in himself and his execution. He would never be dropped as a leader of the team but god his standard is so much more than what he produced.

There were a couple in that first quarter in the QF…

He still ball watches and finds himself out of position because of it. And there was a moment that was telling where he was facing our goal 60 out under pressure and hand passed a metre sideways to someone else under just as much pressure - take it on yourself, Sam. He has a long way to go in my view but he will be carried a long way by this team if he plays his role.

Yeah, well done to Jayden. Was evident at the ground that we had a hard ‘tag’ on Bolton in our system whenever he went forward of centre. I have an awful feeling that Jayden might miss out when we have our best backline but if he does jobs like that then he is a chance to stay in the team. I would prefer Jayden be able to play on a Charlie Cameron in September and get him thinking about defending Hunt and not just finding the footy.

Fremantle look very good. They are fast and play team defence. Their midfield is not as good as ours but it’s talented enough to get the ball and use it against anyone. Up there with Brisbane now IMO.

We are moving away from the MLB Network/NBA League Pass with the AFL app no longer streaming games as they did a few years ago. And this would be the vehicle for what you are describing - broadcast aggregation and choice. Were not getting that. That would be a dilution of the market and evidently something that the AFL doesn’t want to fight for.

Lol. That’s the point. Murdoch will have to pay if you want to pay him to watch the footy. Crowds might go back up again…

That’s abuse of the Queen’s English. Tex should apologise through a video with the Queen awkwardly sitting behind him…

This may be rhetorical but a handful this year. We can carry him against most.

I think if the finals started next week, TMac would be in the team - but they don’t and he is not. Ideal world - we would not have both our key forwards as 30 year olds with long careers behind them. So Sam gets more opportunities to earn a place in this team.

No he shouldn’t. He is an established senior player who was a performer in a premiership 6 games ago. I don’t know why you are so obtuse and naive with Brown.

Maybe he is playing a defined role that he will replicate in the seniors?

Makes sense to me

Would you like to bet the motel room you are now living in?

Yes, let’s wait until then for well thought opinion and also on whether Demonland takes @WERRIDEE’s house as agreed earlier in the week if Brown is playing. But my bet is Andy needs to go and organise the locksmith…

Yes we do. Lever was out earlier in the season on the quiet and pulled out ‘at the last minute’. We’re a footy club, not saints.

I doubt that that team is set… although it confusing and it leads one to think that we are playing all three tall fwds.

Yeah, he is signed through to end of 2023.

Not if the price keeps going up

David King has pointed out that they have 5 mids who dominate the time in the middle. So that may be a depth issue or a ‘hardening’ and ‘resilience’ tactic but it means that fatigue from Walsh, Cripps, Kennedy, Hewett, pittonet, and Cerra will arrive more than most teams - especially when not used to that workload. We have 3 that have played 80% or more in the middle which I would guess to be CP5, CO13, and JV7 - hardened stars.