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i...don't? the team have been at pains to say we base our game plan on contest and defence i think one of the things that they don't say is that we also base it on good decision makers in the back half and pressure in the front half the likes of the three talls plus salem, mcvee, rivers, bowey mean that we have 'smart' players behind the ball to set up the play as we bring it forward and then the two talls and the three smalls to bring it to ground and keep it there in the f50

for the first 15 mins or so brisbane could not penetrate our zone, but once they 'worked it out' they sliced through with relative ease, until the final 15 mins what changed?

q for @binman - what does he have against "holy grail"?!?? i take it he's more of a the jaws of life kinda fella over ghost nation, but surely human frailty is numero uno? kiss my art his go-to for p&d?

nathan buckley will never win a premiership, as a player or a coach

based on what i saw his defensive workrate was one of the best for vic metro, and his i50 kicks were to the advantage of the leading forward he didn't look as small as he did in the highlights video previously shared - i don't think he'll ever 'fill out' but his body shape reminded me a bit of dean laidley

Kangas are - according to the Age - applying for an exemption to the draft to pre-list Sanders in the same way that gc17 did Joel Jeffries and Alex Davies when they were considered first round talent It would be so nice if the draft was not compromised by decisions made by suits

what jvr did for a big stretch of games in the middle of the season as the #1 tall forward in our set-up was extraordinary for a kid of 20 years of age i'm expecting him to become a serious target, if he's not one already

tasmania have their first larke medalist in 33 years; ryley sanders won for the allies, while colby mckercher - also from launceston - was runner up

p&d vs h&c

much better since going on-ball

they'll get better offers than that would love to go into this draft with two picks in the top 10

levi ashcroft should be at #1, just like his brother should've been called out ahead of cadman too reid looks like a clearance machine; be interesting to see if he can execute the fend-off as easily at afl level duursma excellent second half of the second quarter - got moved on ball and was heaps more influential; a little bit like patrick cripps around stoppages

watching bits and pieces of vic metro vs vic country under 18 championship game in between exciting things like doing the washing kynan 'pup' brown doesn't look as small as per previous highlights, and his defensive workrate is good, he hits targets going i50, and wins clearances looks a prospect to me - gotta love a father-son

written by one of the dudes from the cat empire

gw$ are building around defence first - great base to build from

the best thing about this is that it feels more and more likely that we're getting pick 4 or 5 from freo

never

josh kelly loves a long goal

put the other game on; toby greene is brilliant

crom vs gw$ very entertaining game

mckay in all sorts - landed hard and seemed to jar his knee

some choice bigfooty quotes: We play to win to the end and only and I mean only, do we start saving a game when heat is really on and its in the dying minute....no more. Playing the saving game with approx 5 minutes to go was totally ridiculous and cost us. When the going got tough - Melbourne's leaders stood up, Gawn and Petraca took the bull by the horns, threw themselves into the battle and did the things that lifted their team mates, gave belief, showed it was possible. Well done them. When the going got tough - Lions leaders found holes and crawled into them, gave up, hid behind team mates and whinged. The most gutted I think I have ever felt after a loss. I feel like I need therapy Devastating loss. Will put me in a filthy mood for remainder of weekend. Maybe we need to start wearing Brisbane Lions colours at the MCG to get over the hoodoo. And rename it the 'Gabba. Fagan should expect some tough questions in the presser around what the gameplan was in that last qtr. He got absolutely nothing of the sort. As limp as you could imagine. Afl journalists are not real journalists let’s be honest. It's actually the opposite of reactionary. It's the status quo. We still can't get it done in big games away from home. We're still heading towards a 5th straight failed final serious. We still can't run out games. We still can't defend transition. We still go to sleep in the midfield 4.2 to 0.1 in the last 7 minutes. The opposite of clutch. And another psychologically scarring loss for this group to carry.

Ashton Moir was touted as a terrific prospect but has fallen way down prospective orders - I presume he’s had a poor year?

his defensive workrate and ability to read the ball in flight is outstanding

we were dominant for two 15 minute periods at the start and the end of the game other than that, thought the bears controlled the balance of play when we were on, we smoked em