pitmaster

Sorry, saw this is covered elsewhere. Mods feel free to junk it. (Pretty much how I'm feeling about the year.)

According to SEN it's four ribs, lacerated spleen and a hole in the lung. That's a long stay on the sidelines. ADMIN EDIT (13/6/24):

There was no capitulation. The effort was there but skills failed us. Our skills didn’t seem up to the game we’re trying to play.

Not for one moment will I underestimate the tragedy of how Angus' career came to an end, robbing him of another five seasons with the Dees. But something that is overlooked in these discussions is that he played 167 games, is a premiership player (who played one of his finest games in the Grand Final) and that he was among the top ten club players in his final year. Now recall when he was first at the club, when he suffered repeated concussions and missed long stretches of training and playing. At that time it seemed he would have no real career at all. But he recovered to take part, and play a key role in a ground-breaking premiership. I am triggered by the Maynard incident as much as anyone. Don't let that detract from an understanding of the fact that Angus was almost lost to us and the game years earlier. Awareness of that is, for me at least, some solace whenever his name comes up. What he gave us can be seen as a bonus over what might have been, had he not taken on the helmet to keep his Mum happy.

Yes. It's been worrying me recently since I notice myself doing it. I think it happens because we begin speaking before we know exactly where the sentence is heading or before we realise our subject will be plural. I think a millisecond's thought should prevent it. Can we manage that?

It was pretty clear given how flat he looked in his one appearance on the bench all those weeks ago. This was just confirmation.

McCluggage - just great pack bursting straight ahead defence into attack dynamism.

I thought that was the idea but then 2021 happened.

When I was last at training, six weeks ago, he was moving and kicking sweetly. Looked ready to go then so hopefully he is only a few weeks away now.

Totally. Coming after injuries to Fritsch and Petty, losing Melky was the killer blow.

Stop projecting. (This was your initiative. And as for rude: try blah, blah blah.) With pleasure.

Well I did say it was from memory...

Here's the four previous meetings to Sunday: Round 1, 2023 MCG Freo 79: Melb 72; LOST Round 20, 2022 Perth Stadium Melb 85: Freo 39; WON Round 11, 2022 MCG Freo 94: Melb 56; LOST Round 1, 2021 MCG Melb 80; Freo 58 WON Don't you just hate it when you correct someone, mock them, and then it turns out you're the goose? I guess not, because from memory you have form in this regard.

The only thing I would add to this is that it was an opportunistic hit entirely. It started as an attempt to smother - legitimately - but once the ball beat him Skunkhead saw a chance to take out an opponent and did so with intent. Turning of his body was the give away.

Caleb Windsor?

Never let the facts get in the way eh? Freo's bunnies? How so, since we'd won 2 of the previous 4, and 4 of the previous 7 going in to today's debacle.

The problem is we have plenty of tall defenders. Tommo covered well for Lever today but when Lever's fit Tommo will be straight out. Unless TMac is going forward again there'll be no room for Petty down back. However, as he has not fired up forward TMAC forward to go alongside JvR is probably all we have left. Then yes, Petty can be banished to defence.

Unlike Daicos senior, who carries on like a two bob watch in a kind of look-at-me way when one of his kids does anything, Darcy senior behaved like a mature and serious observer of the game when his son put a dagger through the Magpies' black hearts. I loved everything Darcy junior did last night, from hitting Maynard to sealing the win. He is going to be one heck of a player and there will be a time when he gives us cause to hate him, so when that time comes I'll need to remember this game as consolation.

Responding from afar (have only seen the stats) but six tackles from McAdam suggests he was making a defensive contribution.

Loving the anguish over a free paid against Cwood because they didn’t return the ball correctly. Seen it paid against us plenty - most recently when it was returned to the wrong player - and no commentator gave a hoot.

The G has been cash free for yonks PF. When did you last get to a game?

Everything they tried against us worked. Even the ball ran for them. Average players played the game of their careers. Even Hipwood impressed (briefly) before fading back into irrelevance in the second half. Even without considering our lead-in work load, it was just one of those games. Let it go.

21 disposals last week and 20 tackles. Seems he knows what is wanted from him, and he's just been given a 2 year extension from memory, so clearly not on the move.

One of my all time favourites was Adem, so much so that I installed 13 as the first two numbers for my PIN in my bank card. (That card has since expired, y'all.)

That HTB against Draper at the finish is not clear cut as it might first look. Watch how Tex hurls himself into Draper's back. It's potentially a free to Draper as well, but what the incident highlights is the really crummy tactic of jumping on a player to lock the ball in. Why is that rewarded when at any other time we look down on teams playing for frees? In any case it's not clear from the vision that it is Draper who pulls the ball in. Hilarious to see Tex mouthing off at the finish. I just wish the umpires had the strength to umpire against the crowd when we're playing the Crows over there. They have cost us two wins in the last few years with cowardly non-decisions or outright blunders.