leucopogon

Gold coast have all the momentum. Besides the first 10 minutes, we have been extremely poor. The tackling pressure finally lifted in the last 5 mins of that quarter, but I can't see any way we win this game by losing 75% of the clearances.

Precisely, out system only works with pressure from the forwards and mids, which is severely lacking. We'll get smashed by Collingwood and lose a heap more games this year if we don't lift the tackling intensity.

We're a team of corrallers and smotherers. Gone is the tough pressure footy of 2021.

Bruise free football, midfield not putting enough pressure on the suns. Same as last few games

If we don't lift our tackling and chasing effort considerably in the second half we're done for. Too many players are playing bruise free footy, looking to smother and corral instead of tackling.

We've been found out, another loss coming

I reckon we need to draft some more genuine midfield bulls at the end of the season. Can you imagine if Trac or Clarrie were out for an extended period? Need to get some better depth.

Yeah Petty is a shadow of himself

Body language of Gawn is telling, season over.

Careless? Certainly. High contact? Barely. High impact? No way. It was stupid and a bad look, but if we aren't fighting this to be downgraded to a one week or a fine, I'll be very disappointed.

On another note, but same theme as the OP, I'm an interstate member in WA and the ticket allocation for Melbourne members at Optus is farcicly small, sells out in minutes. Also, my email from the club advising me of the ticket release came the day before they went on sale and my barcodes were missing! Not happy. Had to pay full price for my family's tickets.

The story behind the avatar is that it was meant to be a send up of Clayton Oliver. I had Photoshopped an avatar of Darcy Parish as an oompah loompa (as he used to have the Oompa loompa hairstyle) in anticipation of us drafting him way back when, but had to come up with an alternative when we picked Clarry.

My username is the same one I use for every website that requires one. Those with any botanical knowledge will recognise that it is a genus of Australian native plant in the heath family Ericaceae, reflecting one of my long held passions: native flora. Incidentally, the Latin translation means "white beard", which has become quite appropriate as I near the half century in age.

Well i hope we pick up a pacy elite ball user since we just traded and delisted probably our three paciest players (Hunt, Bedford, Baker).

Well I for one welcome a left footed natural winger to the side with open arms. Fills a big need. Wobder where Jordon plays next year?

Sad to see him go, will never forget the torp in Darwin.

Would be gutted if he does a Scott Thompson on us. Certainly one of the shining lights of season 2022 was Mr. Petty.

Agree 100% Such a boring style of footy. Makes me angry AF!

This season has been just freaking foul. Truly like watching a car crash in slow motion. We are seriously the most boring team to watch in the comp. Brisbane are probably the worst tram to ever make a prelim and we let them do it. How embarrassing.

After what I witnessed last night, I'd prefer Tom Hickey to Grundy, seriously.

MFCSS from our home crowds infecting the players, the anxiety of letting down your long suffering supporters. Who knows? I'm 100% more confident when we play away, just seems to galvanize the team for some inexplicable reason.

out: ANB, Melksham In: Eliza West, Tayla Harris

Like Praha said, it was a rent-a-crowd, nothing at all like a pro-Pies packed MCG. There were fools decked out in full Bulldogs costume celebrating with our players as they did their lap of honour with the cup FFS.

Spot on. Certain members of the playing group seem to have big issues handling the pressure of big games in front of big crowds. We aren't a serious contender this year.

ANB is not strong enough in any contest and kills our momentum 8 times out of 10 when he goes near it