RalphiusMaximus

NikNat is killing us at stoppages.

They're tearing us apart running it out of HB. Howe dropped the mark and they just walked through us down to the far end for a point.

And the ball went down the other end for a Darling goal. Who'd have thought?

Hogan is The Man! Great mark, shocking kick. Barely a point.

Goal to Toumpas. Sadly it's a goal to the Eagles.

Umpire at the Eagles' end is determined to get them a goal. Ignores a HTB/Throw from Darling then pays it against Dunn two seconds later. This time they get the goal.

ANB is on. 20 minute sub rule for Gus. Sounds like he's hurt his neck.

A "Special" free to the eagles 45m out. Missed to the left.

Awesome chain ends with a mark and goal to Dawes. HB, switch play and good pass to the lead.

Sounds like Gus is gone.

LOL. Watts miskick into 50 marked by Tyson.

Gus is down!

I ate one of those egg and bacon rolls at Casey once. Once. Gave me the nastiest case of the shits I've ever experienced. I had to pull into a shopping centre and make an emergency dash for a loo on the way home. There are few more nightmarish situations than rushing through an unfamiliar shopping centre with your buttocks clenched desperately in an attempt to keep anything from escaping while trying to make sense of the signage that says that there is a loo somewhere down there, apparently in the middle of a flower stall. I count myself fortunate that I did manage to find it, and more so that apparently nobody else had managed to decipher the signs as the stall was empty when I go there. The less said about what followed the better.

I'll be at work

Bartel has been given permission to play.

Like the Hawks? Burgoyne, Lake, Gibson, Frawley, Hale, McEvoy, O'Rourke, Spangher.

Best players for Brisbane and Adelaide are both ex-Demons. That hurts.

If they were to adopt the NRL's high contact rule as well I think we'd all benefit.

WAS. She was gorgeous. Then she married an old man and let herself go.

As I understand it it's all about whether the player has chosen to take the advantage or not. Hogan was deemed to have taken the advantage on offer, so it's play on. They are assuming that the call had come early enough for him to have registered it and halted his action but that he chose not to do so. I think this is actually fair enough given how he reacted after the miss. Had he kicked as the whistle went then a case could be made for bringing it back and letting them take the kick instead.

Darcey Moore looks like he'll be good. Playing for the Pies VFL side today.

As things stand right now, we have three LTIs and only one elevated Rookie. Given that we can also elevate one rookie at mid-season (as in now), we could play every one of the rookies in the senior team this year. Who do you think is likely to get a call-up at some point?

Minimal changes. Hogan to come in is about all I see. You don't reward an effort like Sunday's by dropping the players who made it happen. That's not the culture they're trying to build.

The shine still hasn't worn off. I think it'll be a couple of weeks at least.