RalphiusMaximus

I queried the AFL as to why I wound up sitting in a Geelong section at the last game. They replied with the following: So basically, you SHOULD be seated in your club's section, but they make no guarantees and I was just unlucky.

I have a possibly silly question. Given that we buy tickets by following a link the club gives us and entering our membership number, are we supposed to be allocated seats in a Melbourne area? I wound up sitting in a Geelong bay and I don't see how that works. It's not like I had the option of picking seats. I just selected the area behind the punt road goal and that's what the system gave me. If there are not bays designated for each side, then how did all of the Geelong fans wind up in the same spot? I'm confused.

A bit harsh on Petracca there. If Salem gets a seven with his cervine tactics, surely Petracca rates equally with his six tackles and one brilliant assist to his captain?

He contributed multiple uncontested marks to the Geelong stat sheet.

Home now. Bloody Hell that was awesome. The noise when Jones kicked that goal in the last... Incredible. Loved the Weed's game. Not just that he had 24 disposals and three goals, but he also racked up four tackles. For a young KPF, that's awesome. I've done my share of bagging Lewis during the season, but he was immense tonight. If there's one knock n his game it's that he didn't get a tackle to his name, but he did everything else, including putting himself in Harm's way taking intercept marks. He was everything we needed from a veteran tonight. I don't think I can go through everyone who was amazing tonight, but I've NEVER seen the team attack the ball and their opponents like that before. If they do that a few more times this year we'll have a pretty silver cup. I should also point out that we have 18 players in that side with a 100% winning record in finals. ? I would have Salem in that sentence. He had some shockers. He was the only player out there for us who looked like he was overwhelmed by the occasion.

We were pretty poor for two quarters. Well, maybe not poor, but we dominated the game while being almost entirely ineffective in attack. They could easily have pinched this one from us with a five-minute burst in the last because our ball movement going forward was terrible after quarter time.

I have never seen the Dees tackle like that. It was Richmond-like. Absolutely epic effort.

That quarter was bad Demons. We stopped looking for targets forward and started kicking long to the contest. Mental lapse. Hopefully they get their heads sorted for next quarter.

Did NOT see that coming! What the hell? Geelong ferals are frothing at the mouth.

Just got to the MCG. I see an awful lot of Geelong jumpers in our members' area already. Pretty sure you needed a Dees membership to buy these, so how did they get access?

How many times have we said that? We come in with all the momentum, the Hawks playing like rubbish, and they take a scalpel to us and win by 50 points. It's not a matter of them being rubbish or us playing well. Their game style takes us apart every single time. We just don't have any answers to their precision kicking game.

I have to say it. This is frightening. Richmond are looking awesome. Also, if we win tomorrow we get the Hawks on the rebound. They've torn us apart every time we played them. It may seem odd, but they are the team I least wanted to run into as we seem to have no answers to their game.

I think the last decade or so has shown us that it's not top draft picks that make a club successful. Melbourne tried that trick and fell flat on their face. Carlton has had more no. 1 picks than any other side including the two expansions, and look at the good it's done them. Our own example shows that the back-end needs to be properly run before things come together on-field. Rather than worrying about the loss of talented but unfulfilled players, GCS need to get their act together off-field. That is where the AFL can really help them out, just as they did with us. None of this Priority Pick rubbish that both GC and Carlton are asking for.

Interesting. This is one of the stats that Roos was always talking about. We needed to win more quarters. Amazing what happens when we do.

I don't know if it helps, but i had success with their mobile site. Never got past the queue on my pc though. I do plan on writing to whoever it is that keeps inflicting these muppets on us to strongly urge them to take their business elsewhere.

Good to see they have the most boring fixture on during the day. Given the history, we should have a close, high-scoring game, so it's only right we get a decent timeslot for it.

It was very noticeable at the ground how little support they had. Their cheer squad basically took up the two rows directly behind the goal. Other than that, nothing. They really are The Spice Girls.

6 - Harmes. It says something when your tagger is being held at the bounce. He is becoming a genuine star. 5 - Gus. Just plays a great all-round midfielders game. 4 - Gawn. Thought Lobbe showed him up early on around the ground, but Max dominated the ruck and worked hard to counter Lobbe's forward running. 3 - Frost. Could have been higher. He's really settled into the role as last defender, using his pace to close down space and generate counter-attack. 2 - Salem. Not prolific, but he rarely wasted a touch. 1 - TMac. Got us on the board early. Had his kicking boots on today.

Mostly ok, but those two free goals they tried to give away are a big problem.

Incidentally, there are maybe 50 GWS supporters behind their goal. Virtually nonexistent cheer squad over there. If supporters count for anything we should get over the line.

Umps gave them a couple of free shots to end the half. Fortunately justice prevailed and they missed. A little worried we'll have a one man bench in the second half.

Words to live by.

Port are pretty bad. You'd have to be a shocking side to drop a game to them. ? But seriously, with the amount of talent they have on the park, there's no way they should be this bad. They have absolutely no confidence and their defensive zone is being torn apart by the bombers' pace. Interesting to see how well Francisis playing given nobody wanted to touch him this time last year. Also interesting to see Watts. He's gone backwards this year. Zero contested work, not even close to winning his own ball. He has however been good when others get the ball to him.

That's not a bad side at all. I agree Dangermouse and Rance are in on reputation rather than performance, but Martin is predicted to be leading the brownlow right now, so you could say he's having a decent season. Oliver on the bench isn't the end of the world, and with Cripps, Mitchell and Martin as extractors in the starting side you can see why he'd be left out.

I'm still hoping to see two meter Peter in red and blue. He's got the skill-set, he's got the size , he's friends with Lever and he's a dirty bastard.