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Leaving ball drop, ball spinning aside, Max kicks the ball hard and high when he's not far from goal. Recipe for a miss IMO.

Perhaps they are just trying to confuse any planning we are doing for Saturday.

It's got to the point I'd rather him bring it to ground rather than mark it. (I don't really mean that. Or do I?)

Good luck with that. I expect the tribunal will overcome that key issue by simply saying he wasn't electing to bump, merely trying to get to the ball. Hopefully (for us, if not for the game) they'll dodge being honest by compromising on a 1 week ban.

It's not over yet. Probably will be reduced to 1 week. And if you are paranoid you might think the AFL will invent a new rule interpretation for when we play Carlton this week. Like full backs who kick-out to the left more than twice in a row will incur an immediate penalty.

Some seem not to have seen this: https://www.afl.com.au/news/814108/blues-skipper-banned-for-ah-chee-bump

Don't agree. The ball can bounce oddly, but I'm not hoping it will always bounce badly for us so that we can be really tested.

If you need an example of an outstanding performance by a player that subsequently doesn't go on to deliver what was then expected, look no further than Weid in a final a few years ago.

Nah. They’d jump on a no name player to show how virtuous they were.

That's not quite the new rule. It has the proviso that all that is fine only if the player being attacked has made a controversial comment during the preceding week.

Only in AFL with AFL commentators could a player not get a free for either the initial tackle or the pile on just because he had said something 'insulting' during the week. What a circus.

If we are still loading to get ready for the finals, I have only one comment. We should have stopped loading already. With our draw, we have been effectively playing finals already.

If so, it's time for them to re-think. 😁

I can't comment on an individual player but I have some sympathy for Jaded's comments taken generally. It is a bit like food allergies. Lots of people jumped onto the glutin intolerance bandwagon (for example) but had no real problem. The only good thing to come of it was that as result there is more warning labelling of food and menus. That must be a great boon to the genuinely glutin intolerant. I'm not sure that sort of benefit applies with mental health. Perhaps it does.

Of course you can argue these things both ways. E.g. this is motivation for us to win so we don't look stupid. Fugazi.

One of my pet hates is that about 30 years ago journalists who didn't know when to say effect or affect took to saying impacted in every case, thereby consigning the meaning of impact to the dustbin of dictionaries.

More worried about Harmes' attempts to dance.

I see your disinterest and raise it to being uninterested. But then why did I open this thread?

Here's an equalisation strategy for the AFL. Simply force the better teams (based on last year's performance with maybe a mid-year review) to play at Geelong (applies to C'wood etc too). That way Geelong are more likely to be beaten at home and the top teams are more likely to lose playing there. A win-win for equalisation. 😃

My cynicism suggests the rules were written to allow Geelong's ground to be legal. Or at least not updated since 1880 to conform to what would be reasonable for a modern professional sport.

For the first time I looked at the satellite view of the Geelong ground. At first I thought it was a velodrome. It looked so unlike any footy ground. That should not be allowed in a professional sport.

OK EO. Only one. JVR plays even worse than Weid and loses confidence. Furthermore since he then wouldn't play again this year, it means we've fiddled with what little forward synergy there is by not playing the established players, however iffy they are. ' So it would be a big gamble to play him. If it came off it would be wonderful, but only the club internally would know the real risk. If he plays I hope he kicks 4 goals.

I don't think it is the time to play JVR, but there is a big difference between now and when Watts was thrown to the lions (sorry wrong team). Outside of keen Casey watchers, no one in the broader AFL community knows JVR from a bar of the proverbial soap. So the #1 saviour pressure is not there. C'wood wouldn't feel especially keen to rattle him more than they would for any debutant. But this being a big match with a huge crowd it does not seem a good moment for anyone to debut in a key position.

Looks like the mergencies did get back. JVR goals

But what about the emergencies? They could have left earlier.