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Don't PANIC ROOM I'm not going to WILLIAM HURT you, just give me your TANGO AND CASH and PAY IT FORWARD so we'll all be HAPPY GILMORE.

MCC tonight, forgot you need to book a ticket so I've ended up in row quadruple Z with no one around until I saw a tigs fan coming up and yes he's sat right behind me. It's OK though, very small problem to have in games of this prestige. Bring it on.

I can definitely see the AFL selling off the Thurs or Fri to one service and maybe the rest on another. Why would they make it easy for customer? No one else does. I've had to get the free Stan trial just to watch the last month of the Champions League. Football codes are king in TV deals and this one will go down that path.

Need a Freo win

Yeah it's turned pretty sour, hasn't given a reason why and we won't know anything for a while other than where he lands. If it has anything to do with how he's been used in the offense then I can kind of understand and we have to take some blame for that. Heard the Cowboys linked this morning and I really can't see that happening. Whoever gets him is going to have to make him the highest paid WR in football most likely..

Devastated about the Howes injury, was loving seeing him in training. Really hope they take all the precautions and get him cherry ripe for pre season.

Isn't there already one of these somewhere? 😝

I'm with you on the Harmes run with role. Think if we can nullify their danger mids that's going to help our backs a lot.

Makes sense, get it ready for peak growing periods. Learning all the time 🙂

Gee slow burn this one. I'm no curator but trying to grow during winter would be tough with a lack of sun? Novice thing to say though surely.

Next man up, in Goody we trust!

Anything today? No? Ok. #Seeyoutomorrow

Give him a 7.5

Fat chance, people have been crying out for down the ground footage for years. I don't even think coaches have had access to it very long. I would love to see it and would pay for a service that includes it but it seems too hard for some reason. Have to rely on the odd occasions fox footy show some footage.

This is my default view as well Macca, as a team you aim to focus on what you can control and never leave things in the hands of a force outside of your control. Our game is about execution, athleticism and toughness both physical and mental. Obviously there's been more than usual frustration lately and there are some serious issues to be ironed out. We do need to aim to fix what we can but ultimately that's what I like my attitude to be when starting in neutral watching a game.

I watched this and I thought he started very well before everything turned into pure hyperbole. I like the idea of having umpires in teams who would know each other's game, but I think it should be a team of field umpires and nothing else. Having field umpires rotate through to goal umpiring and vice versa is absurd to me as they are specialist skills. As for getting rid of boundary throw ins, the bounce, touched off the boot, hit the post well sure. Let's take everything unique about our great game and jam it fairly and squarely in the hard rubbish bin. I appreciate his concern and trying to make the game easier to umpire, but we can do this by fixing general in play rules and interpretations. It's hard to see how the two or three score reviews for touched off the boot or boundary throw ins contribute that to the stress of being an umpire as much as is being made out. If any umpires out there disagree then I welcome that but he's looking at the wrong things here and grabbed a nice headline for it.

A friend in one of my game day message groups expressed his displeasure on Sat night at players ducking and driving head first into tackles for free kicks lately and suggested that if this happens there should be a free kick paid against. I'm sure there are many who agree with this but I think this kind of thinking is exactly what gets us in this situation in the first place where we just keep layering up the game with more interpretation for the umpires who have enough to deal with as it is. Seriously, so we should now ask them to make judgement calls on player's motives? And what if they slip in the tackle and the umpire now has another means to pull out the whistle and therefore a potential mistake? In my time watching the game I've never heard so many potential scenarios where experts are saying "This could cost a team a grand final you know". We need to make this game easier to officiate, plain and simple.

This wasn't at the Anglesea newsagent by any chance? I saw this on the shelf there and was half tempted to check it out :)

Having that buy in and work rate obviously doesn't just happen over night. It's every game, every training session, every moment on the job. The attitude is set from the coaching and you make it a lifestyle. And like La Dee-vina said it's the willingness to work to get back and keep our defensive shape that forms the basis of why we are so successful.

You never want to bomb in any quarter but if there is one where I don't mind a slight drop off it's the second. Our 3rd quarters in recent times have just blown the league away.

Awesome article. We're going to hear the phrase 'holding the width' a lot now and each team will need competent runners in this area. I think a few on that list do have other rotations going through but it's good to see.

I'm good with that. Or: - We're playing Chess while everyone is paying Checkers - We're Phar Lap while everyone else is Mr Ed And so forth..

Was gonna say that's quite an abrupt ending to that phase of the article.

I like the design but I don't know if it fits for us. Little too much in the way of other colours, it sort of reminds me of the logo we had in the early 2010s where there was just too much happening.

Great article, it's what the stats don't say as well as what they do say. For the moment it seems this team has broken football and the others are looking for a way to survive.