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Come on Dees, I don’t even care about the 4 points anymore just make these [redacted] commentators eat [redacted]

Kozz 10 disposals @70%, 1 goal, 2 score involvements, 4 tackles but yeh he’s the problem guys..

Press ‘red’ for [redacted] heads

Having to listen to this west coast [censored] fest commentary team isn’t helping my mood here

If the rest stopped kicking it behind him or over his head he’d look better

16 points closer than we were at QT last week, should win by 15 once we get started

😂 I’m not Luke Parker by the way, you seem confused about my role in this. I didn’t bump anyone so what you put up with or don’t doesn’t really concern me. I said I thought Parker will get 4 or 5, he’s chosen to bump, got the guy in the head with obviously a fair bit of force so he’s going for an extended break. My separate point was that while players have a duty of care to each other I think players also need to have a duty of care to themselves - if you run around a football field expecting that everyone will get out of your way that’s not going to go all that well. Not excusing Parker, it’s just a reality.

If anything is building up in your inner sanctums for more than a day or two try some more fibre in your diet

He should probably assume the bloke coming straight at him is going to bump him. Maybe he can also think “he shouldn’t really bump me here” but he’s gonna get bumped.

4 weeks, might be 5 if it was in the AFL. Not as bad as Webster on Simpkin imo as Simpkin had kicked it and was open. I'm not sure what the Essendon bloke was doing here, you might not expect to get knocked into next week but you’ve got to expect some contact surely? Seems like he didn’t even see Parker when he was running straight at him

It’s time we admitted to ourselves that this is our own fault, through our superior physical preparation and the natural physical attributes of our players “potential to cause injury” only applies to Melbourne players, other players just aren’t as inherently dangerous as we are

38.16 is ridiculous goal kicking in these conditions

The live ladder is making me feel a lot better about missing out on the 4 points last week, but I’m also feeling ever so slightly less chuffed about beating this rabble (I know they’re missing a few from the team that played us). Best viewing of the night will be Scott chewing through a [censored] sandwich in the post match. He’ll be fuming 😂

I think BBB instead of Fullarton but otherwise think this will be the lineup. BBB was emergency last week so I think they’ll play him, and I think if Fullarton was in for his club debut they’d name him and do the announcement (but maybe not..)

Fair, didn’t know about the preseason one. Still don’t think he’ll be at Casey though.

This is the problem, and they’ve also either done away with or stopped enforcing the protected area so if you’re on the wing there’s usually a man on the mark plus another one on the 45° angle guarding inside so you’ve got to kick long. Defeats the purpose. Knowing the AFL nothing ever goes back to the way it was, they’ll just layer more interpretations on top to try and tweak things. While we’re asking the AFL to consider their ad hoc changes can they take a look at players leading with the head, flopping, ducking and diving to get free kicks rather than protecting themselves?

Interesting comment from Goody about McAdam going back to the start with his body to get fit, sounds like they had to put some work in to get him going. I think Salem’s in a different situation, his previous issues were thyroid not hammy, plus he’s already had extra time over a regulation hammy recovery. I think if the hammy is fine he’ll straight come in like others in recent times, not via the vfl. He’s best 22.

I think BBB is the easy in, he’s been emergency last few weeks so is next in imo. Salem if fit is best 22 so comes in as well. Hore and Laurie were the other emergencies last week, Marty’s out so maybe Laurie in if Salem doesn’t get up - or the other option might be Tholstrup. He’s been in for a game and also named emergency a couple of weeks ago which is closer than I think Fullerton has got.

Hoo boy. Time to walk the dog I think..

Don’t rate McGovern, Turner & Petty should be able to run off him pretty easily you’d think and as you say if we don’t kick him the ball he isn’t much use

Absolutely this. If the pies want to spend $50k per head of their own money they can buy all their players runners-up rings this year too after we beat them in the granny - the league gives the winners on the day a medal, no need to change that imo

Toss up between Laurie and Billings to go out for mine - Billings seems to be considered in the best 22 ahead of Laurie and Woey Jnr but his form hasn’t been great last couple, Laurie though seems to be only in to cover injuries so I’d say he goes out for Bowzer. Blues aren’t coming in riding high like they were when we played them in the final, and it seems we’re less reliant on dominating the centre square this year so we don’t need Trac, Clarry and Viney to dominate Cripps and Walsh to win it, I think they’ll have trouble moving the ball against us like they did against the Cats at time and like the Cats had against us. Quietly confident though we’d want to be fresher than we were against the Lions. 5 day break is the price we pay for being a big club now, we’re prime time every week - not hidden off broadway like Hawks, Norf and co

Union is better referreed, but it’s a different game with a different culture. The afl tried zero tolerance and everyone’s brains melted because 1) we all love to yell at the umpires, 2) there’s so much grey area in our game that some decisions are legitimately 50-50 and 3) it’s never really zero tolerance (some chosen ones always get tolerance). We’d never cope with the 15+ 50m penalties that would come about from zero tolerance, it’d have to be a 25m penalty

Really happy with that game, more so after a couple of days to think about it. Before the game I thought we’d need big games out of our big 3 mids to get the job done but it turns out we didn’t. Clarry came into it after half time, and Trac & Viney had moments but they didn’t dominate and we still beat them pretty solidly. I think this speaks to the change in style that isn’t so reliant on Trac streaming out of the centre bounce for us to score. One question I had was whether we’d be able to slow down their ball movement and we did that very well with pressure on the ball carrier and our organisation across the ground. Pressuring each disposal disrupted their run as it made it hard for cheats like Close and Miers to run forward of the contest all the time and not be accountable. There was debate around whether Petty needed to be dropped or the plan to run him into form in the 1s would work and clearly it did. Makes a massive difference having him clunking marks and he was also putting pressure on at ground level (very important spoil that led to the Fritsch miracle). Big tick for the fitness and coaching staff. Scott and every Geelong fan telling themselves they nearly pinched it which is true, but we could’ve also had it over by half- or 3QT if we’d taken our early chances. They’ll know internally we had them on toast. Can we do it again against the Blues? Will be tough off a short break but the cats move the ball better than the blues do, we should be able to stop them, and if we can’t so be it - a loss here doesn’t end the season, just need to keep building on it for September. Signs are good.

It’s not a good stat or a bad stat, it’s just a stat imo. For teams like Port and the Dogs it indicates to me that they’re doing a fair bit right and creating good chances but not executing. For us on the other hand we’re probably overperforming on conversion at the moment. Does it mean Port and the Dogs “should” have won more games and we “should” have lost one more? No, executing under pressure is part of the game, if you can’t do it on the night you don’t deserve the win on the night.