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I’m normally pretty good at not losing it sue, but this one stung, a lot. For a start my blood pressure was at heart attack level for pretty much the entire game, and we had a golden opportunity to show the comp we’re serious by knocking the top team off. The high I was setting myself for was ripped away from me. The come-down from this one will be lengthy.

Max knows he f’ed that up and he knows May knows no other way than to say how it is, at the tone in which he’s feeling it. They’re big boys. They’ll be fine. May was outstanding today by the way.

Effort has been there all game. We’re doing a LOT right. I feel quite sick.

My take: as long as Goodwin is at the MFC, Kozzy will be too. We’ll hear the murmuring of homesickness every year, because it will be true and he’s been open about that. But the club, and specifically the coach, will give him the support, the space and the visits home he requires to manage it.

Yep. Lever always takes a while to get going after he returns from injury. He’ll find his touch in the seniors like he always does, and everyone who’s had a crack in this thread will have to eat humble pie. Again. We’ve seen this movie before so many times.

What a shock that the best key defensive pair we’ve ever had were selected.

Teams are announced on a timeframe dictated by the AFL. What a completely ridiculous thing to pot the club over.

People who like footy want the stadium and people who don’t like it, don’t want it. 🤷‍♂️ I highly doubt Nick Riewoldt would rub shoulders with too many anti-footy commoners given his background. Most of the friction is around the location and the cost. The conversation gets swamped by highly emotive but low in sense arguments like health budgets etc, when the cost to build equates to about 3 months of health budget. It’s also hard to get sensible economic numbers on it because the planning council intentionally hired anti-stadium analysis on it - that’s why the government tried to bypass it, and would have succeeded if the (pro-stadium) opposition hadn’t just skittled them for unrelated reasons. Another part of the aggravation is the reason the cost is so high is because of the AFL’s requirement for a roof, which as far as I can tell is based on some suit at HQ going to Bellerive Oval once and being really cold, rather than any kind of analysis on weather patterns in Hobart, because it rains here less than any other city where AFL is played other than Adelaide. This is causing the cricket bodies to say the current design is unsuitable for cricket, which is muddying the economic waters further. I went to the Hobart Hurricanes cup winning match at Bellerive and it was one of my favourite sporting experiences ever. If it had been at a new stadium with double the crowd, it would have been amazing. And anyone who’s been to Marvel Stadium in the middle of winter knows the roof might keep the rain away but it doesn’t do much for the cold. Anyway, this is the one opportunity we’re going to get to bring AFL to Tasmania full time, and it’s about to be blown by a hostile AFL and an incompetent government. Cool.

Robertson miraculously curing his technique to become a dead-eye for the rest of his career is one of the great Demon fan myths. His 73.30 in 2005 is a complete outlier on his stat sheet. The three years subsequently were 44.28, 42.28 and 20.13. The three years prior were 32.28, 41.29 and 30.29. Robertson had one outstanding year with freakish accuracy, but other than that, was consistently in the 50-60 range for accuracy, before and after 2005. His 2006-2009 score was 135.100 at an accuracy of 57% - so please don’t lie by saying he was over 60% for the remainder. He was not, he was well and truly back in the territory he was in before his one big year. If anything, Robertson is actually a really good example of how you can’t sustainably improve goal kicking over the duration of a career, even if you make it your absolute focus, which Robertson did.

I agree that it’s the right outcome, but I think it’s harsh to call it idiotic. It was a split second decision by an inexperienced player, who is trying to impose himself physically. It’s a fine line to tread when that’s the brand you want to play and it was clumsy.

Sadly West Coast are pus, and Geelong are Geelong.

I would LOVE to see Geelong kick 0.9 for the quarter and lose. Wishful thinking I realise.

Eagles right in this. Hoping they can snaffle it.

I know. He focused on the real issue, which was the fact that we had no control over the game whatsoever in the first quarter. I think that’s more what will be focused on during the review. I was just poking fun at the couple of posters wanting to write letters to the club, seemingly thinking the club was unaware and required feedback that missing goals is bad.

Just watched Goody’s presser. Those of you who were going to write furious letters to the club will be pleased to know that he’s aware that we find it frustrating when the team doesn’t capitalise on scoring opportunities.

Out: Johnson (susp.), Laurie In: van Rooyen, Viney I’m gutted with that outcome, but I don’t think this warrants an overreaction at selection. Whatever our problem was in that game won’t be fixed by moving magnets.

I did really enjoy Disco’s game. He’s really come on in leaps and bounds as a defender. Gee it would have set us on fire if he’d drilled that goal when he swung forward.

1.12 in the second half, including 0.8 in the last quarter. I can’t recall an occasion where we’ve so blatantly given a game away like that, with so much on the line. I’m gutted.

Really? We didn’t kick goals. That’s it.

That’s where I’m at too. Left the ground and got him square in the bonce. 1 week normally, 2 for the frequent offender penalty. 4 weeks if he was concussed. Silly.

How many weeks for AJ?