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As bad as it is seeing Carlton, Collingwood win, they beat up top 4 contenders which evens the ledger. I reckon the top 8 and even top 10 is gonna be super close this year. Lots of teams winning 4-5 in a row and also losing 2-3 in a row. I reckon 3 games max separating 1st and 8th.

Then it will come down to whichever team plays the best finals football. We have really struggled in past years, I reckon Carlton and Brisbane will go very deep. Everyone talks about GWS, they haven't done anything yet.

We have looked very good this year but our games vs Geelong and Carlton will tell us everything. 

5 minutes ago, Jibroni said:

Port v Fremantle has become a borefest.

Most games involving either Port or Freo generally are.

10 hours ago, DubDee said:

Bevo has never finished top 4 at the end of H&A. 

Didn't realise this. No way he is still coaching if they don't win in 2016.

7 hours ago, layzie said:

Just like in Round 2 last year, anyone trying to take anything seriously from the last quarter needs to go back to school. 

I'm actually a bit tired of these flattering scorelines when we lose. They mask a lot of problems.

How could you not? Brisbane absolutely smoked and outbodied us everywhere all night. We were in Adelaide for two weeks, two very tough games, are completely banged up, lost Salem, a few kids running around, and we comprehensively beat them in the last quarter. It's a huge positive how they ran out the game because that could well have been a 10-15 goal loss the way it was tracking. Brisbane looked set to open the flood gates all evening and we never let them. Richmond lost by 8-10 goals multiple times in their flag winning years. Teams struggle to beat us by 4 goals despite domination. You just have to take a positive from that given how we've started the year.

Listening to Max on Channel 7 after the game yesterday, he was so harsh on himself and the team. It seriously looked like they'd lost the Grand Final. Which is great that it impacts them so much but people are slitting their wrists over a 4 goal loss against a genuine premiership contender. Not saying there aren't concerns but I've never felt so indifferent about a loss before.

Play like that against Richmond and I'll eat my words.

5 minutes ago, demon3165 said:

Did you sleep throughout the game with that analysis.....

Yeah it was tough to watch but we defended well considering. I mean, we kicked 5.5 in the last quarter. If that's 8.2 we almost steal the win lol My point is that our worst looks really bad because our best is so good. But tonight really wasn't that bad. If I'm Brisbane I'd be pretty [censored] about that last quarter especially given we were a man down and came from a double trip in Adelaide and without a bye yet. We honestly soldiered on until the end. It's a long season.

I honestly don't even think we were that bad. We were slow and battered and Brisbane absolutely came out firing. If our worst equates to a 22 point loss against a full strength Brisbane then I'll take that. Richmond and Collingwood both had far worse outings in their Premiership winning years.

Petty has been average for a while now. Definitely has his foot out the door. Typical body language and performance for an average player that's gone. 

Not surprising loss. Brisbane is good and we look stuffed. Margin minimisation now.

Petty is actually pathetic.

Petty is actually pathetic.

Petty is actually pathetic.

This is looking like a comfortable 10 goal loss.

Petty, JVR, Brown have been nothing short of useless. 

1 minute ago, Nascent said:

There's our Kingsley

Can we give more than one award for the night?

Raynor's quarter:

12 disposals

7 contested possessions

7 inside 50s

6 clearances

2 goal assists

Just now, Demon Disciple said:

Dominating hit outs, yet getting spanked in clearances. Need to sort out that disconnect

You could post this in every game thread every week and it would make sense.

Put some body on Daniher and Kent Kingsley and we win this.

Kolt's positioning so far *chef's kiss*

25k. Max.

Thought this was going to be a thread about how one finds time to get to the football whilst balancing one's parental obligations.

Um yourself, pal.

I don't mind Brisbane supporters. Their Melbourne contingency has got a grunt about them probably from the old Fitzroy crew. They bring good energy and support to their games in Melbourne. And smarter and more knowledgeable about the game than whinging SA and WA supporters.

18 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

Collingwood are putrid. 

For three years they have gotten away with their dead ball gameplan whenever they're threatened. It is putrid football and Carlton does the same thing. It doesn't work without good ball users which they have. But if you stop their outside runners and in particular Daicos as Hawks did to some degree tonight, you can beat them. Hawks should have won that and would be hitting themselves over throwing that away. I reckon Pies are in for a rude awakening when they play GWS, Melbourne, and even GC.

lol here comes the free kicks for adelaide.

Crows will throw everything at us this quarter. Far from over.

Kozzie gone at least a week for that hit imo.