Chook

A lot of hopes were pinned on Sam Wiedeman I think.

Carlton smacking Casey in the midfield. A few Dees playing well, especially Spargo.

Jimmy J I hope.

Spargo's touch is lightyears above this level. Rolled gold lock for next week.

Great scrubbing effort on the ground from McDonald to get the ball out of a contest situation and cleanly handball to a free player ending in a goal.

Spargo a class above Casey's VFL mids, who are having a collective shocker.

McDonald is able to ruck and is clearly a better forward than Grundy. Get him in.

In for Jordan for sure.

Tomlinson is playing pretty well imo, and a bit more aggressively than usual, taking the game on. Interesting. Casey is being dominated though in the midfield so we're unable to see Tommy McDonald much.

Tommy's moving ok, but not being kicked to effectively as usual.

Don't make me do it Jaded.

I hate to give up on Grundy and I worry about JVR's ability to back up Max in a final, but assuming I'm wrong about both of those I think we ship off Grundy to Port, never to be seen again and we bring in whoever is our best genuine forward, because Grundy gives us very little in the ruck and absolutely nothing forward. JVR to ruck as he's actually quite good at that.

The human asked to adjudicate it in the moment said it was a behind, and that's the end of it for me.

You will never do away with human error. Given that, adding technology to the mix is just asking for trouble. Get rid of the ARC. What good has it done for footy? None.

Just do away with score reviews. We have umpires for a reason. They should be asked for their opinion and that should be final.

The best team won...

When?

Out the back (and van Rooyen once he stops missing them).

Quality game. I think if we're able to get out the back Carlton are vulnerable but aside from that it's going to be about who wins the most contests.

God I love Eddie Langdon.

Jesus Carlton are good.

Damn. The Blues are good. Looks like a grand final quality game right now.

Another [censored] bounce not recalled… sick of this. I'm a fan of the bounce but if they can't bounce the ball properly just throw it up.

Well done Adelaide. Didn't win but stopped the lions from gaining any percentage.

France is looking the better side, as are their sister side Brisbane...