Chook

That makes no sense. How do we stop Collingwood and Essendon from playing at Kardinia Park by making them play at Kardinia Park? Do you even hear yourself? You’re talking crazy.

How else do you expect to give Geelong the required number of home games at Kardinia park while also ensuring Collingwood and Essendon never play there? If you've got any ideas, please send them to AFL house because they clearly need them.

I just reckon he's completely unfit, like "not AFL standard" levels of unfit. You could visit any random farm in SA and find 3 brothers as fit as Petty, which actually makes sense once you think of it and remember his injury history. I suspect he won't have a long career in the game unless he undergoes a serious turnaround in this area.

haha what a classic.

Whatever happened with Essendon having the wrong players on the bench to prevent play from getting underway should be a free kick against to start the quarter. You can't be delaying the game by over a minute with no penalty.

Interesting how you never see Clarry whacking other players in the tummy. Weird, that.

He needs a mini-preseason, like Ben Brown did in 2021. He needs to not play AFL or VFL for about 6-8 weeks and just get super-fit. Come back in late in the year and play full-forward from there on in. Worked once, why not try it again.

Great goal Windsor. I thought they changed the ruling on balls that hit the umpire, where if the ball was going to go through for a goal it would be a goal, but otherwise no change in the rules (the ball hitting the umpire is an act of god - play on).

Harrison Petty's marking touch has absolutely disappeared since last year.

Plugger Turner?

Clarry's hands right now remind me of this guy:

Love to see Turner kick a couple of snags. Which defender will we throw up forward next? McDonald was good for several years and a flag, so he's the club house leader. Petty was more sizzle than sausage, but was good for a novelty. I'd like to see Maysy have a go. He'd probably kill someone though if sent forward.

Never seen Clayton Oliver drop so many footies. It's like watching Caravaggio drop his paintbrush.

Every now and then we'll use Christian Petracca as he should be used and I remember, wow we've got a pretty good player there. One day, I hope we use him again.

Well I'm no expert but usually when I miss kicks it's because of a lack of skill. I'm an amateur though so take the lack of skill as a given.

Petty in defence? Is the forward experiment over?

I'm not a doomsayer, but I see doom right now, and am saying it.

Looks like a bottom 8 clash right now. I'm seriously worried about this season. I thought we'd fixed a lot of what undid us in 22 and 23 from rounds 1-4 but the last 2 weeks have been a real step backward.

How many 1st rounders for Petty again there Adelaide?

Maxy must have been in rare form in September 2021 because he's tried an on-the-run from outside 50 goal multiple times since that prelim goal vs Geelong and never made the distance let alone been on-line.

They're playing poorly, but I'm not sure we can say they're leading poorly.

OK that Roo, Petracca, Turner chain was something relatively good for a change. Boy we need to do more of that.

What leadership would you give?

Why? We have midfield names that should strike fear. Instead we're constantly on the defensive. I think it's part of the gameplan but it's garbage and will fail in finals again.

Sorry to say, but I think we're really bad. Our midfield is awful - every one of them out of form or injured. We have a good backline but the gameplan is all wrong and overly reliant on a couple of important defenders and the opposition playing into our hands with high balls into the backline. EDIT: Really bad is an overstatement but we're no chance for the flag playing like this.