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Clarry has wound back the clock this week. Couldn’t be happier with his game so far.

That took the edge off my mood a lot. Less dominant but more hurt factor that quarter. Put them away now boys.

Clarry has looked a lot closer to his best all game. Great to see.

It’s been a complete and utter annihilation in every sense except the scoreboard. If we’d delivered on scoring potential, we could have recovered all our bunk percentage in one game.

I’m with you. The darts might at least calm the nerves a bit.

This is absolutely torture. We should be 50 up at least.

I enjoy watching Tristan Xerri as a player. Just a gigantic lump that only knows 100%. Has the potential to be one of the league’s premier rucks if he has the appetite.

Making a big call only counts if it’s dropping Fritsch.

I don’t see any universe where TMac gets picked ahead of May. There is literally no facet of the game where TMac is better than May. May is bigger, faster, tougher, has cleaner disposal and reads the play better than TMac. I say that as a TMac fan and I was legitimately shocked to see him out, but it’s just reality. I reckon because May hasn’t been at peak this year, you’ve lost sight of how good a player he is, even at 85%. He’ll never play a game at Casey.

I’m stunned that TMac has been dropped, but the arguments that he’s more important or should be selected ahead of May or Lever are a bit over the top. There’s no way that was ever going to happen. Come on people, be realistic. I am surprised they’ve backed Turner in over him though. I thought Turner would go forward or out. It’s a huge endorsement of Disco as a defender.

On that extended bench I’m going with in: Lever, out: Johnson (omitted) Disco to the forward line, Petty to 2nd ruck. I don’t see any point in bringing in Laurie or Culley unless to cover injury concerns.

I have absolutely no recollection of Carlton players named Lamb, Graham or Rowe. Probably why they lost by 109 points. Gosh 2018 was a fun season. The first time in ages we actually got to believe. Pity it ended the way it did, but we’d probably squeezed every drop we could have out of that season. Hannan running in to the open goal in the EF against Geelong is still one of my all time goosebumps moments.

AJ reminds me of the class of player our lists were full of in the bad old days in the 00s and 10s - players we appreciated because their efforts stood out in teams where effort lacked - but ultimately weren’t good enough once the improvement came. I don’t see him with a role in the long term but I’m happy to enjoy the ride while he’s having a dip and getting it done.

So, was the Melksham over the shoulder kick that went to Langdon an intentional pass, or a shanked shot at goal? I reckon it happened as intended.

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Jefferson was a passenger and van Rooyen hasn’t looked even remotely close to having an impact at any point this year. The team can not afford to have players learning how to play football in the senior side. Kade Chandler was on our list for 4 years in the selection revolving door before he matured and was able to really cement his spot in the team. It’s fine for players to not be ready and need time to focus on development. But you don’t play in the ones unless you add something. At the moment these guys aren’t.

He’s there as a playing ruck coach/mentor. Wasn’t expecting to play any games this year but Bryan and Draper are both out with season ending injuries.

Jeffo might make it, but he hasn’t yet and shouldn’t be in the team. Good on PF for backing the kid - I definitely prefer that over “supporters” that mercilessly rag on struggling 20 year olds - but he’s going a very early crow. Hopefully he gets the bragging rights in the long run.

Essendon giving Sydney a thrashing in Q1 is the third game today to make me furious. JJ running too far with the ball, FMD. The second game needs no explanation. The first game was my son’s Div 5 u14 basketball team that lost 97-0 thanks to the club submitting a second team, made up of Div 1 and 2 players who turned down playing in the champ comps so they could “all play together with their mates”. All arrogant elite private school flogs too obviously. Way to make the game not fun for kids who are just having a dip. Might just call the day a bust and go to bed.

As I said in the match day thread, the only way the Kozzy trip non-free can happen is if the multiple umpires in the vicinity weren’t watching the play. It’s plain incompetence and just lucky it didn’t affect the result in the end.

Both teams supporters would be filthy about that game.

The only way it’s possible to get that Kozzie trip call so wrong is if the multiple umpires in the area weren’t watching the play. That’s just plain incompetence. Speaking of incompetence: how’s our goal kicking going? If we lose this match it will 100% be because of all the misses in Q2. I can’t see Hawthorn allowing the dominance we had in that quarter to continue, so we may pay very dearly.

No mention of the other half of that incident that resulted in Petty being concussed. Oh well, take the win. The pitchforks and torches can be put away for another day.

I enjoyed Goodwin’s carefully selected words: “you have to look at how Petty got in to that contest”.

Notwithstanding Crisp not being the greatest bloke, I loved the Collingwood team’s reaction to his miss, to get around him no matter the result of the kick. From a team culture point of view I thought it was great to see.