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Joe the goose is out… nit sure that is a positive or a negative for us…. Wish I was confident, but a bit of trepidation creeping in.

A big band of rain heading your way, too…

Cheers, will try

Accidentally bought double the tix I need. Damned Ticketek. In premium location, 3 tix. Pm if you want heavily discounted tickets.

7:50 is a crapola time for getting home, but I will be there regardless. the crowd noise was good when we were up and about, but dropped when we started to screw the pooch. Sydney fans got noisy and we dropped off. i hope this week we show up en masse, make noise and help set the tone for the team and the umpires. We hated not being there last year, let’s show them how much we appreciate them getting back to the pointy end again.

Would be interested in your thoughts on the 3 50m penalties, the Buddy flop and general ‘discipline’. also we lacked overlap run and bombed into f50. Was this forced on us by Sydney, or was it an unforced strategy? too many key players were down, do you think with all the ‘new season’ talk, open training etc we got ahead of ourselves? What changes will we make (or should we make) this week?

Without the Dees result, was a great first weekend of finals footy. Surprised so many were shootouts - can see things tightening up in the rest of the series. Are we good enough? Not as confident as I was a week ago, now wondering how much our system will hold up to extreme pressure and fast break styles employed by Cats, Pies, etc. Dogs and Tigers = good riddance.

Wont happen, but… Jackson out for Weids. Can be better forward, and Bris are second stringers in ruck only. Max back in the middle rather than starting at ff. Petracca a watch. If he isnt 100%, dont risk him. ANB - what gives? Think he could easily be replaced by chandler or bedders. too many played poorly.

September owes us nothing. We had a terrible lead in by smashing Brisbane and were perhaps ‘ahead of ourselves’. Sydney came to play, and put us under pressure - and we folded like a camp chair under Clive Palmer. We did not take our chances, and they did. They smashed us post contest - at one contest they had almost 10 players up in the scrap, who then spread fast and we failed to cover these outlets. Bombing to the forward line is not effective strategy. We were difficult to watch last night. Our inability to hold the ball in our territory or to take good defensive positions on their players inside their forward 50 were lethal for us. Time to put down the ‘back to back’ memorial cheese boards and start fighting for what we want, rather than expecting it based upon last year…

Apart from us, dont give a crapola who wins, as long as they kick the bejeesus out of each other.

Where does the panel think the game will be won or lost, and what is the way that Sydney will try and beat us? I cant really get a handle on their game so would be interested in your take.

Good luck to OMAC, whatever his next step is. Would be behind Turner and Tommo at the dees, and the Blues gave him a shot. Another AFL gig might be a stretch given his recent injury history, but I Will remember him as a demon who tried his heart out week in, week out for us.

I hope I never hear the USA USA chant ever again. Almost as bad as the moaning answer to the question “which body part of your most often holds your daddy’s willie”? Colon Would, Colon would….

Interesting that Sammy Weid played 1st ruck yesterday at Casey. Maybe the club is testing out a ‘Silvagni’ style ruck/forward option as potential LJ replacement? If he goes (no idea either way) maybe this is our backup plan?

Swans need to be 80-35 at this point. Go Aints!

I was impressed by Weid in the VFL. Would have him in, and sparrow out. Rejig the lines (melk to hf). Bowie is close, Harmes - got a heap of it but looked like he tried to do too much too often.

Interesting… here is a counter view. With 3 mins to go we needed 2 goals. All of a sudden we kick to the top of the square! Melks marks and goals, Kozzi roves and goals. Kozzi said after the match we had been ‘training it’ during the week. I think we have a defensive entry (pocket) to soak up time in half, and an attacking entry when risk/reward suggests we need quick scores. Think this is quite a bit of tinker.

‘Aggressive, and foul mouthed, he was scaring a group of kids who kept looking around nervously at him”. The sentence after the one you bonded perhaps answered your question….

He should be fined at least, Kozzie was a few weeks back….

I was too exhausted after that to comment last night. I received an email saying no oppo supporters would be allowed in reserved seats, yet I was surrounded by Carlton FLOGS. The one behind me was a limited intellect example of the worst sort of football fan. WOOF every time Saad kicked the ball, “he’s going to Freo’ any time Dogga touched it. Aggressive, and foul mouthed, he was scaring a group of kids who kept looking around nervously at him. He goaded the crowd all night, and when confronted as to why he was sitting in Trident reserved seating said “I paid my money to get in”. Sank low in his chair when the siren sounded, though… Don’t mind oppo supporters who cheer their teams, HATE oppo supporters who need to get a rise from the crowd to validate their existence.

Rain and storms moving through. Dog hiding under the coffee table. Lets see if it sets in or blows over.

Interesting email from the club re non members in reserved seat areas. Must have been some real drop kicks last week, as i have never heard too many complaints about ‘sneaky guests’ from other clubs. Whilst you get the odd peanut, most understand and cheer the footy. for people to complain and the club to react, the filth supporters must have been really bad.

So Grundy replaces Daw…who replaces Dogga?

In his presser, Goody seemed both phizzed off and also very confident. Shootouts don’t suit us. we can win, but not like that. When we allow them to move the ball so easily and crumble under pressure we are stuffed. We won almost all the important stats, but lost the game. That won’t happen too often. time to get this stuff sorted and line ourselves up for a finals campaign. We can win it from anywhere in the 8.

I think its funny that the Toothless brigade are keen for a little gingivitis…. Why can you never solve a crime in the Pies cheer squad? They all have the same DNA and no dental records…