Chook

JKH, Weiderman, Wagner, Trengove. On this metric, we're probably at least 3-4 players off premiership contention then...

JACK WATTS (incredulously): "It's enjoyable playing footy after all these years."

I love you Jack Watts! Massive goal after the Dogs responded.

I tell you, Hannan is a nifty small forward, and we get another straight away. Loving this match. It's a shame we haven't been able to keep them goalless this half though.

God I love Neville Jetta.

Oscar's looking seriously legit today.

I reckon Oscar became a man last week.

Why are they making him play a role that we have a 4-time premiership player playing? I mean, it's almost like they don't WANT Trengove to play AFL any more.

The Lions are actually giving a fair account of themselves tonight against Port Adelaide. Maybe there's hope for an upset yet.

Against Brisbane coming off an unprecedented 1-match winning streak, anything's possible.

I prefer to have the teams above us lose and back our boys to win and make the top 4/final 8 than to hope the teams behind us fall over.

Swan's are gonna do it. Win by a few goals tomorrow and we're top 4 right? EDIT: Forgot about the Power...and they're playing Brisbane next.

There's arguments both ways, but our top 4 chances rest on the Tigers collapsing, so...I'll go for that one.

Gotta love 'em. They're the gift that just keeps on giving.

Clutch goal from Reewold to bring the margin back out to 9 for the Tiger.

Even with Jesus Rance on their side, Richmond are in serious trouble here. They've turned a 5 goal lead into a 3 point lead. I THINK we want Richmond to lose, but we also don't want a rejuvenated Sydney taking a spot in the 8. Can't they BOTH lose?

How's that for a stage from Rance there?

"Thirty points is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!" screams BT hoping for the comeback. North's score sits at 31.

One of many many many pox stains on this club over that period. You want to go into all of them? Suit yourself. I propose we accept that the past is the past and clobber the Kangas next time we play them.

So you don't care what they "were" and yet you for some reason are telling me that we "were" rattled. You're about as consistent as the Kangas.

Er...no. I'm disagreeing that you think one team's form in one game is a good guide to their performance in any other game. Especially this year.

They're a team that went 10-0 last year and lost by a combined 4 points to the reigning premiers and a top 4 side (Geelong) in the first 4 weeks of this year. Clearly they can play a bit on some days. We just happened to hit them on their up day when we played them...and every day for the past 11 years too. Don't get me wrong though, I hate North and think they're the most irrelevant team in the competition. Doesn't stop them from playing ok every now and then.

The fact that I'm disagreeing with both of you blokes at once makes me absolutely certain that I'm right.

On some days some teams play better than on other days, and some teams match up well on some teams but poorly on others. Pomposity has nothing to do with it.

Thought I'd jump on here and see a stream of people complaining about how we "shouldn't have" lost against the Roos. Turns out I was wrong. Maybe Demonland is maturing.