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Thought we were doing alright at HT and the Dogs kept us in it. Was shocked to see them come out in the second half the way they did.

I think he was shocking tonight, ball movement non-existent.

Doesn't excuse 16,000 in a prime slot. Not even a quarter of the member base. That's just embarrassing, if it were Richmond a quarter of theirs would be 25,000 and I'm pretty sure they would get much better than that to a game like this.

After the hatchet job he did to Carlton? No thanks.

Not quite as simple as that but these things are all true.

Match of the year might be this week.

Don't know who these other posters are but my posts have nothing to do with trolling. You're obviously passionate and do a lot for the club so it's not about hatred. Admittedly it has gotten frustrating when you refuse to answer any perfectly valid questions and tell me to 'jog on' or devalue it because according to you 'I've been here for 5 seconds' or some other kind of bullying behaviour, they have simply been questions, not trying to give grief. For instance when you said the football department and cheer squad work very closely together, I genuinely wanted to know how this was the case and was all ears and open to what you had to say. I could understand the marketing department and the cheer squad working closely together but the coaches, list managers, sport science people etc.? The non-answer to me came across like this was just a hyperbolic statement designed to get people interested.

16k on a Sat night is embarrassing

Bombers are terrible

Agree really poor taste. There's no point being elitist about it especially when the cost of living is so damn high that people can barely afford to take their family on a holiday let alone every single interstate football game, a lot of people have jobs and other commitments so it's a unrealistic comparison. I'd have liked to see more fight from our fans tonight, even 10k more would have made a difference.

It also builds your tank and gets you match practice in the best environment that they train for, the game. You're sounding like someone who has never played or followed sport before, still waiting for links to these so called studies.

Ok then, link us to the study that says closed training sessions and running is better for match fitness than actual game time.

So you think playing the sport for 4 quarters week in week out does nothing for your match fitness? What total nonsense. Do people really have any idea what they're talking about when it comes to fitness and preparation or is it just another chance to give Clayton a pass? I thought he was very good for the most part to be honest.

Yeesh, I'm sorry, no need to be like that though. I rate Petty's set shooting highly and was just disappointed with that last effort. Thought his earlier one was beautiful

Well we'll agree to disagree. I feel you can't lose fitness by playing more games and would like to think it has helped him. Otherwise why play him?

When you play nearly 20 games, yes it is.

A bit of fight would be nice, some hunger. It sometimes seems like our fans are too nice. We needed to win tonight and this was for all the money.

Anyone else think Petty's last shot at goal was pathetic?

He should be fighting fit by now. 3 quarters of a season is enough time.

Not enough passion tonight. From the players or the supporters. Even the cheersquad looked really thin. Where is the fight from Demon fans?

How exactly do the FD and the DA and work very closely together? Apart from greeting each other on gameday it's hard to see how there would be any real crossover in work.

At the break of Gawn

This first paragraph sums up everything we know about you in a nutshell. Do you actually follow the sport of Australian Rules? It seems like 90% of your posts are about criticising people on here for being too negative for you. I've never seen one post from you commenting on the actual game, it seems that you are much more interested in attacking people on here than the sport itself. The fact that you are willing to blindly agree with someone who didn't watch the game just so you can get another swipe in at everyone who doesn't think like you underlines this. It's starting to make sense why you can't understand people's negativity if you don't understand the sport. A lot of people here do and that's why they bring their critiques and observations to the table. It's like everyone is talking in a language different to yours and you're annoyed at them for it.

Looking forward to a good performance.