Chook

Did anyone else just hear Dermie say “That was Brendon Goddard’s worst kick since his last one."

So are Adelaide. But WCE are the ultimate soft downhill skiiers.

I guess it was all part of the plan...

That last minute or so was a thing of beauty.

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This Selwood masturbation session is nauseating.

…or high.

I’d be pretty mental if I got Selwood in a tackle and the umpire told me I’d got him in the back.

Jesse Hogan’s left testacle would be a better pickup for the Doggies than Tom Boyd has been.

Some people don’t even go to games (preferring to watch them on TV or not having time to see them at all), but still want to support the club when asked to. The MFC did a big membership drive to get to 40,000 and I know a few people who signed up then, even though they don’t go to games.

Ironic. Edit: Entertaining thread though. Would read again in order to escape my reality.

That was fair though; Carlton was the 8th best team that didn’t cheat with drugs.

What a grizzled old war hero you are. Teach me your ways, master sensei, before your light goes out of the World.

Yeah. It says we’re grasping at straws...

I’ll just leave this here.

Even worse than that are the Melbourne “supporters" who spend all game bagging our own players. I’m not a physical person by any means, but my Lord do I want to punch those blokes when they start to get on a roll.

I have a lot of relatives from South Australia (practically a 50/50 split of Port and Adelaide fans as well, if you can believe it). Personally I prefer the people of Adelaide to the people of Melbourne. The Football sides however? There’s no comparison. Demons all the way. But if I were forced to choose, I’d always pick a real club over a fake one; so I’m never gonna support Adelaide in a showdown, no way.

A Melbourne supporter sweared? BAN HIM FOR LIFE!!! THIS IS NOT WHAT MY CLUB STANDS FOR!!! Heh heh…nah, carry on.

If only the AFL would schedule us in more away games. Will the pro Geelong favouritism from AFL House never end?

Skuit was here.

It's perfect!

I don’t like it because it means Richmond are top of the ladder.

After getting all my uni work done a little earlier than expected tonight, I’m going in for the replay now. Giving the first half a miss though, as I want to get to bed at a somewhat reasonable hour and I don’t really want to watch those awful umpiring calls again... 3rd Quarter: Good tackle from Weiderman in the first 30 seconds of the 2nd half, and another from him 1 minute later So glad Hunt didn’t break his jaw going in like that on Sam Jacobs, but he knocked the ball loose and we gained possession to get the goal that sparked the run Clearance by Petracca and quick entry gives us a 1-on-1 which McDonald marks and goals with the first of his floater goals Mark of the night from Bugg after Frost sprints through the middle and we have loose men in the forward line; this means our two-way running from defense to offense was superior to Adelaide's defensive running Adelaide’s structure 1 kick their offensive side of the play fell apart in the 2nd half; they were obviously shitscared of our offensive tackling pressure and wanted to neutralise contests in our forward-50, but the ball just kept coming back in because they didn’t have any marking targets outside our f50 OLIVER!!! Tom McDonald’s ability to make a contest as a forward and then gather the ball at ground level and hit up Pedersen with a 15.1m kick (who goaled) was fantastic; short marks inside 50 have been something we can never seem to get but TMac figured it out One of Bernie’s greatest strengths as a tagger is that opponents know he’s dangerous if he gets the ball; Sloane was obvously scared of that so he couldn’t be totally offensive all night Hannan did enough to earn his spot Watts needs to learn how to extend his arms and take a mark in his hands That Frost/Jetta/Salem tag-team goal saving defensive job with 4:30 to go in the 3rd quarter was something special Soft free to Garlett running back, but again our offensive running is superior to Adelaide's Watts was spare man in defense when Jenkins took a sliding mark and goal; OMac was his direct opponent but Watts didn’t position himself correctly to influence that contest A great contested mark from Tyson (sticking the boot out if you don’t mind) leads to a Petracca-to-Viney goal; I loved Tyson’s increased physicality in the 2nd half Jayden Hunt be like: “Ooh! FOOD!!!" Vince is like: “Slow it down Jonesy! There’s a minute to go!”, and Jones is like: “Yeah, I know mate. I’m the captain for a reason." TMac’s tapdown to Kent was superb; Kent bangs it in and Garlett takes an all-too-easy mark in a 1-vs-2 situation; love those last minute goals (when they go our way of course) 4th Quarter: Salem’s tackling pressure and silky disposal is a wonderful combination Kent is just barely best-22; he needs to kick on soon or he’ll be trade-bait That deliberate rushed rule is a joke Does Kent run hard all night or is he a junk-time specialist? Either way I like players who kick goals Wagner’s disposal reeks of “OH CRAP I’M PLAYING AFL FOOTY” but his tackling is top-notch. Oliver’s tackling pressure is beautiful; he’s basically the perfect inside footy player Again Adelaide’s two-way running is found wanting when compared to ours; they have absolutely no-one forward while we have a few back, and a good chase from Hannan stops their flow forward Watts is turning into quite a capable negating backup-ruckman, and his ground-level ability is far superior to full-time rucks like Jacobs and Co. Oliver, Kent and Hannan combine for a junk-time goal; make of it what you will Petracca is a bleedin’ bull! Yep. He’s a bull. Weiderman goes ok; he’s still very raw and shouldn’t be in the team ahead of Pedersen (if Gawn is fit), but he’ll be something one day I think I’d pay a lot of money for Clayton Oliver to teach me how to handpass a football like he can

One other thing that I really loved from last night’s performance is how we targeted Sloan physically but didn’t do anything that would get our players suspended. It’s one thing to be a physical team, but we have to play within the spirit of the rules and keep our best players on the park.

I said the the Game day thread that Bugg would probably get a ton of the ball but cost us about 3 goals from turnovers. I reckon I ended up about -6 in my predictions there...