Chook

Hallelujah! Jack Watts did something. And where did he do it? In the goddamn forward line! Why? Because he's a goddamn forward!

A game like this so close to the end of the year will be a death knell for anyone Paul Roos wasn't sure about. If you value your career, you will do anything you can to be competitive for the next hour.

Jack Watts doesn't seem to understand that you can't have the same intensity you have at training during a game. He had five metres on his opponent then; but because he was jogging with the ball instead of running, by the time he figured out who he wanted to kick to, his opponent was right up his clacker and he had to handpass it instead...and even then the handpass was so poor that the ball got turned over.

My kingdom for Luke Hodge's kicking skills.

If Max Gawn could mark half the balls he almost marks, he will be very very dangerous.

Jack Watts is irrelevant at the best of times and a flat out liability at the worst. That time he was only irrelevant. Even Brad Johnson has cottoned on to it now.

Tom McDonald kicks the ball like a five year old.

Matt Jones turnover goal. Any half-decent AFL player should be able to bullet the ball 20 metres under no pressure. Players like Matt Jones who neet to sky it to get that distance have no place in our side.

Why do umpires use a different definition of 15 metres whenever we've got the ball?

Dom Barry is looking impressive. I'd say Nev Jetta is the perfect rolemodel for a player like him. Barry is not a natural inside player, but if he can learn Jetta's pressure and intensity he could really become a complete player for us.

Huddo trying his best to get his fellow commentators to do their jobs. That bloke is wasted with this lot.

In years one by we would have been six goals down by now. We're no chance to win, but anyone who thinks we haven't improved is flat out wrong. OUT: Watts, M. Jones; anyone who can't kick. IN: Hogan, anyone who CAN kick. Things will be better from now on.

He's staying.

Can we find somewhere on the ground that Watts can go where he is the least detrimental to us? Put him in the forward line. At least the ball isn't going to go there very often.

Amazing handpass from Cross.

This is so goddamn embarrassing to watch.

This is men vs boys stuff.

Five thousand Melbourne players contest the ball ten metres out from goal. Ball inevitably spills out the back and Roughie picks it up as easy as you like. It only takes one to spoil the ball.

Commentators praising Hawthorn's beards. Facial hair must be okay as long as you're winning.

Everyone is inside defensive 50, and yet David Hale is able to take an uncontested mark. How is that even possible?

What do you have to do to Mark Jamar in a marking contest to give away a free kick?

Neville Jetta is a gun.

With a vacuum cleaner.

It is a coach's job to predict, not assume.

I'd rather swallow than take it in the rear like we have been doing these past eight years.