jnrmac

Yep, they pantsed us for a decade. Happy if we [censored] them

Well, it's true that we have been searching for forward connection for a long time. We managed it in the finals of 21 but outside of that it is still a work in progress. And I am sure that Goody bangs on about it week in week out. So there that...

AFL is the only sport in the word that I can think of where officials require a skill and have to run so far. They prep a lot Having said that I was shocked the AFL chose the worst possible umpires for a marquee game in prime time. Disgrace

Ground ball is where teams like Coll, Syd, Ess try to beat us. If you kick high to our defence you will lose so the simple plan is to do what Rich did last night for 2 qtrs. Overlap h/ball, running and short kicks or dirty kicks to the Fwds. We need to get better at recognising when teams are trying that. And then combatting that tactic. North did it last year against us but most teams cant keep up the pressure for 4 qtrs.

Highest rated quarter? JVR at 11.0. Next highest Dustin Martin 8.9 Well done JVR

I feel certain that the rule on handpassing used to be a fist hitting the ball from a stationary hand. None of this hand and palm both moving in the same direction or over the head two-handed 'throws' or worse, the Adelaide/Western Bulldogs 'flick' pass. Does anyone remember seeing that written in the rules ? And if so when was it changed?

Probably works just as well as the other one.

It's illegal to knee players in a ruck contest pzzzpoor umpiring and match review.

Grundy is clearly still finding fitness. He was out a long time. Exposed how we rely on max going back to help out the defence against tall fwds.

True but we have had trouble in the past against really tall fwds. Mason Cox, Reid from Sydney, Draper and Philips, Hipwood, Sampson Ryan in the pre-season game and even Lobb on occasions..

Probably up there with one of the worst comments on this forum Congrats

When you play a team defence everyone looks bad when it breaks down. But nobody lost as many one on ones as Steven May. Love the guy but that was his worst game for the club Teams have also worked out how to decoy May and Lever. Sydney does it with Buddy running up the ground trying to expose Lever one on one where he isn't at his best. When we are playing at our best May is the goal keeper, Petty takes the high half fwd like Cameron and Lever is floating. Gus and Bowey and Hibberd tale the smlls/mid-size

Grundy looked shattered at times. And twice when he ran into the fwd line he refused to hit up loose men and cost us goals. I get he was under pressure - particularly when his opponents were scoring - but he had a shocker.

How Draper is not on report for jumping and kneeing TMac is beyond me.

Because Port was playing later all the port fans snapped up the tickets and didn't turn up for the earlier game. A bad look

Schache and Laurie played well today. Schache 12K 7H 8M 4 goals 2 beh 7 HOs Laurie 16k 16h Harmes got a lot of the ball but from what I saw wasn't super damaging. Dunstan his usual self. Jefferson 6Kicks 1 point

Disgraceful performance. Grundy is being smashed, the defence is being torn apart. May, Petty and Thommo are all having shockers Oliver is unsighted, Sparrow - is he even playing? - TMac was straight up kneed in the back by Draper in a ruck contest - play on. He should be rubbed out. This is truly a pathetic display

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Unless I am in an aeroplane!

Just like how they bragged about shutting the entire State because one person supposedly caught Covid off a pizza box. Not too smart over there. Turns out the one person was a chef from a city hotel picking up some illicit substances from the pizza parlour and unsurprisingly lied about it to the 'contact tracers'.

Yes we certainly don't want any flappable stoppers.

Never in the history of 'Calm Down' has anyone being told to 'Calm Down' actually Calmed Down. Just sayin....

Agree thats why they didn't announce the Gus deal until they were pretty sure Jackson was leaving.

This appears as a one off payment, not a permanent increase so not sure it helps the kozzie deal - unless they give him the $500k upfront and say we'll front end your deal.....

Maybe not. Last year they didn't announce the Brayshaw deal because they wanted some flexibility around the contract until they heard from Jackson. Well in the end they announced the Brayshaw deal and lo and behold 5 weeks later Jackson leaving became public