layzie

I honestly don't know what thread you're referring to WCW so I'm not potting that one specifically. I must not have seen it. There are a couple on here each year and even more everywhere else where people go to town on personal appearance smack so it's much more general.

I just feel for the common footy fan that pays their membership year in year out. Not gonna get high and mighty just because we were there once, I think they owe it to their fans to not fold faster than superman on laundry day after half time. Crap effort Saints, really crap effort. On the other hand I love watching the Swans up and running. The good thing about being a general footy fan is you're able to separate emotions and not hate a team just because they beat us a few weeks ago.

I'm not talking about a specific thread but in my experience they are usually 100% exactly that. Find it hard to believe it's ever just soley behaviour when nearly all the people in it are redheads..

Blakey just taking the pi5s

The Saints have been shocking this half. No run, no heart, open Sydney players everywhere. This was a big deal game for them in the scheme of things and they've totally bottled it.

We need to be the hunters for a while, or at least pretend to be...

EO, without knowing exactly what comments you're referring to I do agree. I'd even take it further, I've got no time for personal appreance smack talk or "Most punchable head in the AFL" threads. Some people need to grow up and if they don't like it they can kick rocks.

Umpires need to call it as they see it

Really like watching the Swans when they're up and going

For sure and a lot of those premiership players came to the fore last night. Well deserved win. Good to see Essendon have the performance of a lifetime last week and then bottle it this week.

Jack Henry take a bow.

Carlton need to get a few losses.

Alright, happy for a Carlton win today but I wish nothing but losses for them from here on out.

Yeah no chance!

Thursday footy is crap.

West Coast get a win and everyone is excited

Sure is!

Bloody beaut..

He's a regular Mr Fix It.

Might tune in to this one, hoping to see Tommo monster it.

Need to not rush Gawn.

Even I could use a bit more of your patience trust me on that!

Couldn't agree more and I do think we'll have the challenge ahead of us but like you said if we can just get it done then we'll be past the worst of it and ready for a tilt. I don't want to go too hard on the people who were losing faith. Yeah they probably shouldn't have but it's natural I guess when you go on a losing streak I guess. I certainly had my frustrations (even though I feel I've got a decent understanding of our condition) We're in this together!

I like it, but I think Weitering needs to be CHB. Max King a bit stiff as well. Greene is a bold choice but I don't hate it, he's been THAT good.

I felt a bit like last night we were back to our manic pressure and hard running because we really had heart and that overcame any tiredness we had from loading. Hopefully someone buys that. But seriously this is where I don't buy into the theory that it is 100% about loading and results/every kick, mark and handball being directly affected by it. Getting a run on with momentum, getting the heads of steam up from that and piling more pressure on as a result, being able to play a regular intercept game because the big man is back allowing Lever and Petty to do what they do, winning back the footy and scoring on turnover, entering 50 in a less one dimensional way and having the nerve to lower the eyes. All these things contribute to getting a team through even if they are still slightly off due to loading (which I do believe is a factor). People also may not want to admit it but at one point this game could have gone either way too and were were slightly fortuitous at times. We know that we were extremely inaccurate but there were moments where the game was in the balance that Bris had some key set shots and let us off multiple times with bad misses. Had they kicked those it could have been a different game. So for me it's what is happening with mentality during these periods of loading. A nice run on with a few goals in a row and the heads are up and willing to run that extra 5% harder which we saw in spades last night. Smashed them in contested and uncontested possessions, you do a lot less running with the ball than without the ball. So many factors involved, loading exists but it's how you get through and nothing is an exact mathematical equation as to how a game will turn out because of it.