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That is a very nice highlights package.

No Petracca, May, Lever, Oliver, Windsor, Sparrow. Who actually thought we’d win this game? Throw it in the bin and let’s go again next year.

As I said in the game day thread, it was an accident. Zero malice and he barely had a moment to react to Moore going to ground. Didn’t brace. Didn’t choose to bump. It looked to me that he was trying to kick the ball. If it’s suspendable, then it’s three weeks. Which would be a joke. His history is irrelevant.

Kozzie vs Moore was an accident. Zero malice and he barely had a moment to react to Moore going to ground. A lesson to footballers that if you go to ground you’re putting yourself at risk.

Umpires absolutely ruining the showdown

Umps trying to win it for Port

Dan Houston will not play a final this year. At least 4 weeks for that, should be 6

Playing in defence

Saints should beat the blues. They are decimated by injury. West Coast should beat them too. It may also be a double benefit as saints might get first round compensation for Battle. I do think we are a chance to win either of our games, though won’t be favourites.

Exactly this. This is been forgotten in the rush to sensationalise. It was clearly not easy to diagnose. Young people compensate well when they have significant injuries/blood loss so it can sometimes be difficult diagnose the severity of the injury immediately (I am a doctor). The level of criticism at the club over the injury has been unfair and disproportionate to the errors. Having said that, they should have immediately been suspecting spleen injury due to the location of the impact and could definitely been more cautious in their management of him. But they were no worse in their management than the hospital docs.

The eagles game was when my grieving for the season started. King’s birthday was the final nail.

If that’s the case, we simply can’t let him go.

Family reasons (recent baby). Still contracted for two years. Hopefully we can talk him around. Port and Adelaide playing cool for now.

You do not trade pick 6 for a 27yo half back flanker, unless their name is Corey Enright. Dan Houston isn’t in the same universe. Future first and change or they can get stuffed.

Looks like the kind of player Taylor loves

I think they are very close to clicking. I was impressed with them against us. Put money on them this week for the flag as I expected them to at the very least get narrowly beaten today. They will only get better from here. Sam Taylor and Josh Kelly are still well off their best, Coniglio and Briggs to come back. They have shown they lift in finals. There is a lot going for them in a very open year.

Paxy, Tayla Harris, B Mackin (and A Mackin who is gone for the year with the ACL) and Gab Colvin all missed the game. Jess Dal Pos and Kerryn Peterson were the main outs for Carlton.

Heeney’s last quarter was unbelievable!

It seems we lost by two points after a “late surge”.

Very one sided umpiring to Hawks benefit

Hawthorn and North both looking ripe to rise but they still have major holes in their teams. Hawks have Sicily and Meek, then a bunch of mediocre talls, while North’s defence is rubbish. They will both win lots of games in the next few years due to the quality of their smalls but it’s not easy to rectify those issues and it will cost them in finals. Much easier to rectify the issues with smalls that we have.

I’d take him in a second

Agree with most of your points there but wanted to point out that GWS weren’t that depleted. From their best team they were missing Coniglio, Kelly and maybe Cumming. We were missing Petracca, Salem and maybe Kolt, while Gawn was hampered. It was a good effort by the team and we only needed a little bit of luck to get that win.

Exactly. The sky is falling brigade have no perspective. This is 2019 again. We will be back next year and beyond challenging as long as we play things right this off season. It’s a big shame how this year has gone because the season is so even. This year will be the weakest premiership team in years (yes, worse than the pies last year). But predictable, after losing Brayshaw and Oliver at 30% capacity.

Crazy. He’s too old for 2 firsts