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The Giants and Donald Trump have got one thing in common ... they're both orange.

They did have two brainfades in the backline that cost goals. One where no one went up to compete and watched Carlton take a mark 20 metres out, and another where they all turned their backs on Motlop near the boundary, expecting him to go back and take a shot. He just played on, waltzed in and kicked it.

1. Of course we choked. 2. We probably would have choked less if they weren't missing, especially Brayshaw and Petty. 3. Injuries at the wrong end of the season are cruel. Carlton, Collingwood, GWS and Brisbane have hardly got any.

So you're saying that Brayshaw instead of JJ, Petty instead of TMac, Melksham instead of Spargo, and JVR instead of, say, Chandler, wouldn't have helped? At the very least they would have kicked straighter.

Yep, that 10 goal loss was very disheartening.

Put Brayshaw, Petty, Melksham and JVR into tonight's side and we win.

Did the AFL's counsel even question Maynard on this implausible rubbish? Seems like he didn't.

"The likelihood of a collision changed because of what Brayshaw did." What was that ... run in a straight line and kick the ball?

Goody says they want to stay positive and get on with it. That's not something they need to be reminded of.

You don't need intent to be careless. It's like having an intent to be an i d i o t

All this stuff about "what could he do?" as if he had no choice once committed to the jump. He had an opportunity and time not to turn his shoulder. An Olympic diver can change from a pike to a somersault in mid-air and control their fall to enter the water head and arms first, all in fractions of a second.

Pickett attempts a smother towards the end of the 2nd quarter. Notice how he aims to miss Hoskin-Elliott, rather than charging straight at him. Nice Pickett. 😄 pickett smother.mp4

"Bombing" comes about because sides are too slow moving the ball in transition after a turnover. The opposition gets all their players back in the defensive half, and then when the ball carrier looks up (often under pressure) all they see is a congested forward line with no space to lead into. Port Adelaide had the same problem last night. Move the ball faster and the forward line will open up more.

This "footy action" talk, as if it automatically protects the reasonableness of the action, is just a load of bollocks. A tackle is a "footy action" but if you don't do it properly and sling a player to the ground so they hit their head and get concussion, then you can pay the penalty. An intercept punch is a "footy action", but if you don't do it properly or are late and hit a player in the head and cause concussion, then you can pay the penalty. A smother from front on is a "footy action" but if you don't just try to smother and then run into the kicker with your shoulder and knock them unconscious, then you can pay the penalty. What's also irrelevant is bleatings about Christian's bias as an MRO being an ex-Collingwood player. He has no other option but to refer the incident to the tribunal, and he won't have any influence on the matter.

It's interesting though that so far we haven't missed a beat without him and they haven't improved with him.

Georgiades re-signed with Port.

Good. Let's now lobby to get treated on an equal footing to other teams in terms of fixture, prime time television and playing at Geelong.

This whole thread has jumped the shark.

Sounds like Melbourne fans with ANB. 😄

When the video review shows it clearly wasn't touched, give them a week for staging, the same as diving or flopping for a free kick.

That was the other 5%.

The only thing Daniher and a ruckman have in common is being over 200cm. He loses about 95% of ruck contests.

"AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan has backed the League's score review system and said a goal umpire's failure to refer a game-defining decision to the ARC during Adelaide's one-point loss to Sydney was "a mistake" and would have been overturned if it was reviewed. Really? I'd wager that if there'd been a review, the decision would have been "insufficient evidence" because of poor or insufficient video, and the point would stand.

Don't agree with the "Probably one of" bit. He's the best ruckman I've ever seen and that includes players like the Maddens, Dean Cox, Sandilands and Naitanui.

Quite a few people here did.