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Brisbane used pick 2 on the Schac-attack in that same draft - everyone makes mistakes. Both have all the physical attributes, just haven’t gone on with it.

A couple of frames before the bump, ball is about 3m from Parker, he’s seen the bloke coming and he’s decided to put a block on. One frame before the bump, ball is still in the area, max 10m from Parker, in front of the umpires knee in the picture. What I don’t get is how that bloke is not expecting contact here? Parker is stationary between him and the ball/players contesting the ball and he just does not see Parker at all. Now I get Parker is liable here, he’s elected to bump, whatever damage is on him and he’ll get 4-5, but I think his mistake is due to him not being used to playing lower level footy. There’s no way an AFL player in that scenario doesn’t see him, they would either meet him with their shoulder or take a step and try and go around him. It’s pretty standard if the balls gone past you and you aren’t in a position to get after it you block an opponent, it’s gone wrong here and he’ll get weeks but that’s based on the unfortunate outcome, not any outrageous action by Parker - he’s stationary when the impact happens bracing for contact against a taller opponent who flat out has not seen him.

Come on now, this is his 7th season and it’s the first time he’s cracked 20 goals - JVR did that in his first year. He’s having one out of the box but he’s not Ablett Snr or Dunstall

There’s evening up and there’s evening up though. If the other team has a 30point lead before you start evening up it’s not much good - similar thing to the Blues game, we evened a lot of stats out after we let them kick 6. Better to not get so far behind on either the key stats or the scoreboard.

Wouldn’t have expected people wanting to rush back to the Neeld era but here we are.. should we make Laurie and Taj co-captains?

After he’d kicked 5 goals in 7 games in 2020? Demonland would’ve melted down if we’d signed him then

Swans look the goods now but it’s early and being unbeatable in May doesn’t always translate to September results. I do think them and the Pies will be in the GF if I had to put money down now. Pies are building nicely unfortunately. Bombers and Port are flakey (as are we obviously). Blues & GWS underperforming at the moment imo. I think we’ll be around the mark for 3rd-6th just on the basis that none of the others are that much better. The unfortunate stat is that since 2000 no one has won it from lower than 3rd, except the dogs winning it from 7th. That year was strong though, there was 2 wins and % between 1st and 7th. We’re already 3 wins and % behind first at round 10.

Chandler and Kozz had 12 tackles combined this week (7 & 5)

Since 2000 4 teams have won the flag after losing 7 H&A games, no one has won it losing 8 or more. We better go on a fair run from here..

Yeah nah. Team has finished top 4 last 3 years, we’re entitled to go into a game against a bottom 4 team expecting a win. Do you think pies or cats fans wet the bed in the lead up to a game against a bottom 4 team? Can’t blame supporters for the team being no good.

Don’t buy into that asterisk rubbish, any team would’ve taken a flag that year and be lauding it over everyone. We were the best team in it that year by far and smashed all comers. Should’ve won another one in 22 or 23 but now we look cooked. No depth and couldn’t get the key forward we needed.

I’m sure the Naarm name is why we’re losing to this rabble.. it’s definitely the woke. Well spotted

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 😂