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Devon shire-tea is ok too. ”stop yelling at me Devon!” Best line of the night. richo is a special type of tool.

I just popped into Bomberblitz for a laugh. Now I feel dirty. Not enough hand sanitizer for that. All about the umpires and how bad we are. Ha ha! Suck a sav you loser booing clucks.

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We saw the lions use defence to smash the cats. This is our model. Keep the ball in front of us and halve contests and we win. Let them get out the back and that’s where they get their run going. Our back 6/7 will do fine if we support up the ground. Need to minimise our turnovers going inside 50. they run fast, but we will run for longer. Gotta take all the wind out of their sails, and their supporters, with tough uncompromising footy from the first bounce. We need to win the middle and keep therm under pressure. They will wilt. Stringer plays only one good game every now and then, so not expecting too much from him. Tippa needs to be kept out of it. Line on line we have the better list. Lets not mess this one up, demons! Dees by 37 points.

Agree completely with your review and analysis…. Especially the game style on grounds like the SCG (probably cattery as well). LJ was a much better choice than Max in the middle, and we simply were off all over the park.

Players were trying to do too much. Happened again and again. Either the system works, or the superstars do super things. We look like we didn’t trust the system, and all the superstars were well down. When have yo seem max, Clarrie and Trac all have such stinkers on the same day?

That was insipid. lost the middle, no two way run, poor defensive efforts, players trying to do too much. max Trac and Oliver all below par. worse than Adelaide game. no answers to pressure, no overlap, expecting others to do the work. weids - who? A good ff would demand the ball from the square. Brown has to come back in. im shattered. That was not 2021 demons.

The stats say the pies are taller, heavier, older and more games experience than us. if we win the middle and disrupt their kick to kick setups we will win big. Can see them running on emotion (like 60/40 green cordial) for a bit. Gap them early and break their spirit. Otherwise the flogs will hang in there till early in the third and we put a stamp on it. Gawn to dominate, Weids to deliver. Go Dees

Got 3 different pubs booked in 2 hour slots so I can get from the big freeze to the team belting out the song on licenced premises, with a few well timed short stumbles in between….

This aligns with what i thought. He had agility and speed off the mark issues. A six week mini program sounds a great way to sort this

Do either team know how to defend? Geelongs rubbish hb possession game and port still can’t set up. Geelong holding and cheating all game (got called start of the 4th). Port letting its two key oppo targets roam unmanned. High scoring but little system wide defending.

Since he went out, bbb has barked like a dog. Maybe if he was putting even a marginal case, it would rate a conversation.

Bbb was on the rails run until injured. He has to work hard and kick the door down. No free passes in that forward line. If he doesn’t understand that, then he will never get selected. It’s the system he has to work to deliver. to me, he didn’t look like he could get separation from defenders. Needs to build agility and fast twitch sprint capability - he should chat to TMAc, who cut his lunch.

Wonder what the ferals are saying now?

Try can play as hard as they like. If we turn up, we win.

Appreciate your share, and your clarity in the nature of the info.

The numbers are still interesting, always love your work Rusty.

I think it’s lions not doggies Rusty....

Commentators making a fuss about Sparrow being in trouble for a hit on Rich. my take: Sparrow turns his body to block Rich from the contest, not bump him directly (a la Hipwood on Max in the first). Rich flops for the free and gets it. I doubt there was a) intent b) contact in the incident. Later, Rich flops for a head high free in the forward pocket in the last. Example of how he plays for frees. no case to answer. Zorko, on the other hand, lunges at TMac with an elbow. Intent and contact are clear. Impact is low-medium (thanks to TMAcs chiselled jaw). Suspension.

What are they saying now?

No player on the ground got 30 touches or more. Is that a first for any game this season? Shows the bipolar nature of the game- each side dominated for a half. We stuck to them better when we were down, and cut through them better when we were on. their talls looked so dangerous early, and went completely AWOL later. In the pregame thread my barometer for this match was contested marks. It held true- smashed in this in the first half (and all other stats), much improved in the second. Brisvegas, more than most teams, have to be stopped getting contested marks. thought they came out to play dirty,too. Hits on Max , holding Trac in each contest, Zorko hit on MacDonald, etc. we don’t get sucked in,which is great.

What a spud he is. Sale gets legged - htb. ‘Brilliant tackle’. Same thing happens to dickinher later on - big fuss about being legged, no htb! So many times his bias leaks through,always ready to talk us down and talk himself up,

So hip wood and Daniher went missing, should they be dropped? Thought Sam did better tonight (apart from his kicking). Clunked some marks, made good position (gave that front and centre goal to Kozzi) led solidly. Keeps his place for mine. If he finds his kicking boots there is 4-5 goals in him per game.

I think whoever wins the contested marks wins the game. Two cracking sides going at it. If we win the contested marks/ stop them taking them we get it done.

And isn’t he having a jolly time of it right now?