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"See the Bombers fly up, up and not win a final for 16 years.." "Oh the premiership's a twice in 60 year cakewalk.." The reaching, my word the reaching! By the way Port Adelaide's song is the worst in the comp by far. That stupid trumpet at the start, the whimpy exclamation of "Power" at the end. No thanks.

I'm not totally sure what it is Waltham but he seems to be playing a half back flanker role a lot of the time (at least that's where most of his possessions are), hard to see without being at the game and focusing on what he's doing but there's definitely been a shift. I think he's a guy that relishes covering territory and running his backside off, may even feel like he's wasted when he's unable to play that way.

Harmes is our best gut running midfielder, I'm sick of seeing him down half back and large parts of the Bris game half forward. Give him some run with roles and get back to what he does best.

I don't want to say it but he is in trouble. In the blink of an eye he's on the back 9, can't move anywhere near what he could. It can happen though, not all footy careers are linear projections sometimes you get bad luck.

I know you mentioned back at the Bartlett interview that sometimes interviews are recorded because less things go wrong etc but this is good, he'll be great for the discussion.

Looking forward to it, I listen to Adrian's podcast 'The Deebrief' regularly. Extremely knowledgeable and I'm really looking forward to what he has to say about the making of the No Merger pod. If it's recorded today I'm sure he's going to be flat as after last night like all of us so hopefully it wasn't haha.

Very very tempted to bunk this one off. However this is a serious award and deserves serious effort unlike what the boys served up. 6. Hibbo. Purely for touching that kick on the line to save us from another laughing stock blooper to add to the ever-growing MFC reel. At least he showed desperation at times. 5. Lever 4. Lockhart 3. Petracca 2. Gawn 1. May Get stuffed

I'm really starting to feel like that position is just total lip service and being seen to get the help around Goodwin. Obviously that's probably not the case but I'd love to see what a day in his schedule involves.

Wonder if he plays a mean pinball?

We just hurt and hurt. Soft underbelly and it's been there for years.

We stink. No other way to put it. That was a dog's breakfast of the highest order, I would rather stick thumb tacks through my eyes than watch a second of that game again. Just an unmitigated pile of crap.

What a joke

The umpires!

Just night and day between our tackling pressure two weeks ago and now.

We stink, plain and simple. 1 step forward 5 steps back. Hard work carefully building that house of cards and then Port come and flick it all over. I've had it

The last little bit of pride in avoiding a goalless half is restored!

Laughable. Just laughable

How long till someone reaches for the 4 day break excuse?

I don't know any other club that can slowly build expectations up and then just rip them at the seems so quickly

Sure why not, let Westoff have an uncontested run at that mark

Wow, another false dawn.

Just tuned in. Insipid slow ball moving crap

There is a lot going on with Gus right now and I don't claim to understand fully what the issues are. I'm sure he'd love to be at the coal face but you need to adapt to some degree and he could still be providing more on a wing. The game time thing has me stumped. Maybe a straight swap with Salem could be the answer, not totally convinced though. Possibly a tagging role where he can beat an opponent to get the confidence up? I dunno

Good bit of business if we can get it done. Excellent hands and uses it well, the set shooting will come.

Yeah there seems to be a lot of hatred for the umpires this week and that's fair enough but the wide range of incidents being focused on as to what cost us is numerous. This one was a 50 in my eyes. I was more annoyed at the score review on Lever's mark as we were out down the right wing. I don't feel like arguing and requesting please explains is going to help matters, the Clarko scenario can't be applied to everything I'd rather just get on with it. But that's just my opinion as someone who doesn't pay as much attention to umpiring or individual umpires.