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Surely you could figure out on your own that the poster meant after the H&A season?

The straight sets motivation should be huge. It's one of the most embarrassing things an AFL club can do and the media and fans of other teams won't let any one of us forget it for many years to come.

It will always feel like an opportunity lost, but looking back through history, there are many far worse premiership defenses than what we put up. Lots of teams who have won one then missed the 8 entirely. And for a team with a 5 decade history of flakiness and failure, finishing 2nd really did buck the tend. What's impotaant now though is how the club responds. The competetion has risen to our threat of a dynasty and has made it clear we will have to earn it. It is now up to the brains trust within the club to interpret the mountain of information and data that none of us are privvy to, to find out what went wrong and to begin to address the areas we need to improve in to take what is still on offer; a period of on-field success than many of us perhaps gave up dreaming about.

Perhaps it also wasn’t super smart of some of the players to train through their break also. We all lapped up the stories of them doing extra sessions, but perhaps they should have switched off and given their bodies some time to recover.

Come on Dees!!! It’s not over yet folks.

Historicity hasn’t been that accurate with things like that. They saw him limp off and ticked the injured button. Doesn’t mean more than that.

Brayshaw doing a good job on Neale. 9 disposals and not a heap of influence. Would love to be further ahead. Looking sore again, but time to dig deep and get the job done this quarter.

Not a super dedicated NFL fan but after decades of mediocrity, I’ve come to love watching my Buffalo Bills the last few season. Josh Allen is an absolute freak and pleasure to watch. Defence is looking better this season too.

It will be tattoo time I think

Amazing first week of the finals.

Geelong getting the run of the umpires this quarter. Some horrible non calls.

I agree but we look quite banged up. The group next us spotted Trac struggling very early and mentioned it a lot. That got me looking and when you start to notice the limping and strapping where you haven’t seen it before, you can’t stop seeing it. On top of a Trac, Kozzy looks very sore with heavy knee strapping, BBB too. Dogga’s knee also strapped. Salem looked off. We live to fight another day.

The camera angles are time synchronised, so when 3 different angles show the ball over the post at the same time, for me that’s definitive proof it was a behind. Basic triangulation (geometry). The goal umpire did not get into the perfect position to see for sure (no fault of his as it happened so fast), and I think there needs to be a change to the rule when this happens. They should not have to give a soft call if they know they weren’t in a position to make a solid call. Make a null call and let the ARC make a call.

Great read. He's clearly done a lot of work on his mindset and finding the approach to the game that works for him.

Tigers had the easiest draw in the competition so no one should be surprised they go straight out.

Wow, wow, wow. Epic game. I hope tomorrow isn’t like that or I’ll be going home in a box.

It will be controversial but I agree with the goal review outcome.

Bailey becoming very important. Time to hang ‘‘em up Mitch..

Yet again a stupid play on without thinking by Brisbane turns it over for a goal to Richmond. So dumb.

Poor Prior is having an absolute shocker. Just a kid but gee he has had some costly mistakes and fumbles.

If Richmond get 5 goals up late in the game it will be on..

Yeah, they’re their own worst enemy at the moment. Trying to play fast footy is playing right into Richmond’s hands.

This was addressed at the time. The CBA rules that go with the bye make it the perfect week to plan a deload week. If our bye was 14 days long, we could have very well also begun and completed the next load week, and would have played fatigued for that game. However, we only had a 9 day bye break so there was no time to do do a full week of load in two days, therefore we played looking fresh.

Any disposal (kick or handpass) that goes out of bounds between the arcs without a player touching it, is a free to the oppisition. Takes out the need to judge if it was deliberate, insufficient intent or on the full. Inside the arcs, it is the same rules as per the AFL.

For those who aren't aware of the strange "oval" shape down in Geelong, here is Kardinia Park compared to the MCG. Kardinia Park 182m x 126m (and it's asymmetrical) MCG 174m x 148m