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Mick finally took Mithen out of the middle in the final quarter, and put Goldrick in there. Small wonder we started getting the ball in the final quarter. Lily was simply pushed aside by the big Adelaide mids for 3/4's. We missed Paxy big time. We fell into the old trap of insufficient ruck coverage, again against the best other side in the competition. Pearce cannot run out a whole game, and we have to pilfer Harris from the forward line to cover. Campbell should be an automatic in. And we run the same silly tactic of playing the ruck a kick behind ( same as the mens side) when defending instead of rucking. It meant Gillard had to take the ruck in the backline, leaving the Adelaide FF free to operate unattended. Great game from Eden. Especially against the best defenders in the league. Even more so because we had to use Hore and Harris up the field to cover the other holes.

The Podcast team will be there....

(from the 'Red Fox' by Ben Collins.....) After defeating Collingwood in the 1955 GF the team sang the following: " Hugh McPherson also changed the lyrics of Collingwood theme song, Good Old Collingwood forever. 'When I sang this to Noel McMahon', McPherson recalled, ' he loved it and soon had every Demon singing it". The altered words were: Good Old Collingwood if ever they knew how to play the game Side by side they fell together To the might of the Demons fame Hear the barrackers a 'squealing Like their barrackers do For the Premierships a cakewalk For the good old Red and Blue

This comes up every year. Because it is a survey about which team you support, when the survey is run through NSW and QLD guess which team everyone claims to support.......surprise, surprise Sydney and Brisbane! Those numbers are then converted into Australia wide percentages. Trouble is in both those states, the people who are surveyed have NO interest in AFL....they just answered the survey question. That is why the conversion rate for both those clubs is so pathetically low at 5 & 6%.

Amazing that in a 10 game season, and having played only 4 games, that we could be 1 game clear of 3rd and 2 games clear of 9th spot!

Some of the most amazing things actually sit outside the ground. Walk through the car-park and there are aboriginal scar trees ( a couple if you look hard). The Wwurundjeri used to camp there, as the swampy areas where the rail yards and Richmond station lay today provided fishing, food and water. More intriguing is that Tom Wills used to have a property on the Jolimont hill, just behind. Aboriginal people were still camping there during his time, and there is a suggestion that he first observed the game of Marngrook there, while other scholars suggest he encountered it when he moved down Geelong way. It is fitting that the first rules of the Game that Wills wrote are inscribed on the walls/ceiling in the Olympic stand, and not far from where he may have first seen the pre-cursor to the game of Australian Rules.

1964 Premiership side.avif

This is the poisoned chalice handed out by the AFL. Need to get 6K to a game or we don't expand the season. Not much chance of that when teams are sent to Frankston at 5.00 on a Friday night, or Mordor on a Thursday, or Wigan oval in the Adelaide suburbs, or Warnambool.......

I think it more to do with the strapping she has had on her calf in the past 2-3 weeks. Probably been kicked there, so has not had the free movement, that she is renowned for.

Blaithin has been absolutely fantastic with her run and carry....and Aimee is supposed to be better! Wow!

How much easier if it is a goal if it goes through the goals. No touched, no posters, no guessing. Would also force defenders to keep the ball in play rather than try to put it through. I have never worked out how a "touched goal" is a point, but a "touched behind" is also a point.

Disco isn’t Kye!

Maybe he saw you on the big screen at the match, like we all did?

Why are you euphoric?

Allocations are 50:50 to competing clubs.

Great report @Meggs.....after the game, I heard comments by Bec Goddard, the Hawthorn coach. She noted the interchange cap of 60 really limits most sides who only have 2 or 3 mids of quality. This means they will have to spend longer on the field and as a result tire. Importantly, she noted Melbourne has 5 or 6 quality mids unlike other sides.....Purcell, Hanks, Mithen, Paxman, West, McNamara and even Hore and Heath were run through there in this game. Combined with now 2 rucks in Pearce and Campbell ( a revelation in this game). It means we can keep running fresh bodies through the middle without taking them off the ground. This game was the perfect example with Davey and Bonnici tiring badly, and Taub-Frederick unsighted in the second half, apart from on the bench.

....and if you don't receive the email, how will they know? If you do receive the email but don't notice it, how will they know?

Pies will be much stronger this year with the return of Davey and Bonnici. Good to see Eliza McNamara back to strengthen the mids. Our side is looking particularly strong as well, given Gabby Colvin can't get into the side for her return after injury. She was definitely one of the first selected in the past. And when Rhi Watt and our super smokey Aimee Makin aren't in the running, it makes for a truly competitive unit. We just have to stop Livingstone controlling the backline for them, so someone out of Hore, Harris or Zanker has to make her accountable, particularly in marking contests.

Why? He certainly isn't going to be playing AFL level any time soon, and is not going to be playing in a Premiership side any day. He hasn't been used without TMac, BBB, Petty & Fritsch out injured, so what is the value? Just get another kid in the draft

Why does the team need 3 FF's and 3 FB's while they name only 1 ruck ( English)? Curnow, Walker and Larkey. FF's Wilkie(wtf!), Stewart, Moore. even Sicily? FB's It just means very good players in other positions get denied. e.g Rowan Marshall is a far superior player to Callum WIlkie.

Let one go through to the keeper??

Finally.....we have someone running the show. This position, while temporarily filled by Laura on a part time basis since only May, has been vacant since the departure of Brad Scott nearly 12 months ago. All while she has been doing other tasks. It is no surprise that the furore around umpiring, goal reviews, fixturing and biggest of all the CBA ( still not agreed after nearly 2 years) are tasks for the GM of Football. A fine mess you have left for the lady Gil.......

Any chance we can get a couple of copies then. We seem to be running out of forwards.

Also covered by Pink in more recent times. Alice was Alice Liddell, who urged Charles Dodgson ( Lewis Carroll) to write the story of Alice in Wonderland.

The difference between pick 8 and pick 6 is nothing. There are multiple examples of good/better players being selected behind others. Geelongs next pick in this draft is pick 82. They have more problems than trying to gain pick 6 instead of 8. You cannot rebuild with 1 player. Tanking used to be all about gaining EXTRA picks under a defined formula. That disappeared years ago, so there is no longer any incentive to tank.