RalphiusMaximus

My favorite was a Dunstall goal. I can't remember when, where or who against, but he went charging out at a ground ball near the HFF with the FB right on his tail and another opponent coming in from the opposite direction. In an act that would be entirely illegal now, he dived into the legs of the oncoming player, catapulting him into the FB coming the other way and dropping them both, came up with the ball and calmly slotted it. From there we have: Watts beating the Pies, Jackovich kissing his brother after kicking another goal on him, Neitz's disallowed goal where he slapped the ball out of an opponent's hands and slotted it from 50 on the boundary only to have it called back as high contact because the ump was an [censored]. Tony Lockett, not for anything he did but the footage of the umpire seeing the ball flying at him, realising what was coming and dropping flat right before Lockett flew through the space to mark on the lead. 🤣

Mate, don't jinx it. 🤪

Eight goals to zip that quarter? That was brutal.

Well, did not see this quarter coming. Amazing effort from the team.

McDonald - Important to Structure

Loved that hard groundball clash he had with McCarthy. They both went in hard and neither one went head-first looking for the cheap free. Perfect technique from both players, great contested clash and Sparrow damn near killed the guy when they hit. 🤣

I want to see the footage on that little camera.

I love how we just lock down on games. It starts out tight and we just grind them down and take the game away.

That was awesome. We just need two more wins and we're laughing.

Dude led with his elbow right at Gawn there. Still trying to injure people. Not amused by Brisbane's terrible sportsmanship here.

So now every team knows. The way to beat the Dees is to beat the hell out of the Dees. The umpires will look the other way.

Jackson's front teeth knocked out... No call from an umpire of course. Nothing to see here.

Because we do it so often and it gets boring?

So the tactical change for Brisbane at half time is try to injure key players.

Does Spargo have a bit of an invisible mustache going on there?

According to the commentators Salem had Cameron for those goals and Smith has been shifted on to him after the third.

How is Charlie Cameron on his own AGAIN?

Geelong playing an interstate away game and they still get those ridiculous free kicks going their way. What does it take to make the umpires call a fair game?

Possibly just means that they are limiting travel and he'll be doing the WA combine instead. Not a big deal, although if it means he drops down the order I'm all for it.

I have never seen a Melbourne flag. I missed by well over a decade.

That moment when Hawkins looked around for whoever was supposed to be covering Gawn, only to realise it was him? Solid gold.

Honestly, the number of people from other clubs who have told me that if it can't be their team this year they want it to be the Dees is ridiculous. There is so much good will towards this team right now. Everyone can see how hard they have worked and how much it means to them. If it means that the neutral crowds interstate are going to be cheering them on, I'm all for it. Jump on the bandwagon and help lift them to a flag.

We've seen in another thread that Jake has the most Intercept Marks EVER in a H&A season. Other than that this season we have... Max Gawn - 1st for hitouts, =2nd for contested marks Tom McDonals - =6th for goal asists Fritta - =7th in the coleman with 47! (Just ahead of Dixon, Daniher and Darling) Christian Petracca - 1st for Inside 50's, 1st for score involvements, 6th for centre clearances, 9th for metres gained, 10th for clearances, 11th for stoppage clearances Jake Lever - 1st in intercepts, 9th for 1%ers AND Clayton Oliver - 1st for contested possessions, 1st for clearances, 1st for stoppage clearances, 5th for total disposals, 5th for centre clearances, 6th for score involvements, 7th for effective disposals, 12th for tackles. Looking at that, it's been a hell of a year for a lot of these guys.

So given he played every game, that would also be the highest total intercept marks in a H&A season. Just putting that out there.

They ran out of gas. There's a reason Scott keeps wanting shorter games. He has the oldest list by a fair whack. They can't match the fitter sides for four quarters.