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And there it is. One kick, Eagles mark.

Jeff again. We need 1 more before the end of the quarter. In it.

Kicks this and we're done.

We are still in this but passages of unaccountable football kills us. Two minutes of brain fades. Do they believe they can win? It's within reach.

Get it to within distance and then stupid, unaccountable football blows it out again.

[censored].

We are superb at shooting ourselves in the foot.

Jeff's goal.

This will blow out to 8-10 goals. Bookmark it.

Every single time. What's plan B? Going forward kills us. Too high, too stacked.

We're stacking the forward line and I don't know why. No freedom to move into. Structure has been poor. He's been good up the ground.

Eagles are pretenders. We can snatch this. We need to stop playing into their hands. Give them the hitouts, just don't give NicNat an option.

We need to get numbers behind the ball and open the forward line. Leave Hogan and Garlett there. Zone up to the center from fullback. Let them run that far and hit a brick wall. We just kick it forward and they have too much space running it out. Severely outcoached atm. WC are not that flash.

I don't rate West Coast. I think they'll eventually come undone, if not during the season then in the finals. But we are playing straight onto their hands. Roos needs to change the approach. Accept the areas we're getting beaten at. We're playing a futile brand atm. Lucky to be so close.

Have to change the way we're playing the middle. Give NicNat the taps but restrict his options. We're playing like we have a chance and it's futile.

We go from being top 4 quality, to being undeniably one of the dumbest teams in the league.

We make turnovers in the worst possible positions.

We have got to lead the league for kicks across into the middle cut off by the opposition. Fmd.

Midfield letting us down. Our games are won and lost right there. Doesn't look good. Let their rucks get 50 hitouts. We need to stop their run. Their hitouts to advantage is embarrassing.

Backline can't really do much. We go forward, they crumb it, two kicks and they're immediately forward. They are reading our move forward: long kicks and hoping for the best. One direct kick to a forward for the quarter. They are too quick and we are too tall and heavy. Can't see us getting within 5 goals.

Went to the game, decided staying home in this weather was too depressing. Giants got a lot of easy frees, most were there but calls didn't go both ways. [censored] thing about that sort of umpiring is that it usually evens up at the end of the game at a crucial time. Yeah, the frees were there. The problem was that it didn't go both ways on critical, obvious free kicks. Umps were too involved all day. Richmond fans boo more than anyone but a lot of it was warranted today. In those conditions you're going to get a lot of high tackles and in the backs but you let them go and call them loosely. Which they did, but Giants got calls at times when Tigers wouldn't in identical (sometimes worse) situations. A lot of the boos were warranted. It was inevitable that Tigers would get gifted free kicks in the last.

Holy wow! That's quite shocking. Do the Crows play this week?

Damn, I've missed these. One next week?

We have more members than the Bulldogs and Saints, who played finals, Grannies and Prelims in the 00s. We are close to North, who has been playing finals football. Close to Geelong, who needs no introduction. The numbers are disappointing, yes, but it's a revelation than we have 35k, make no mistake. Kudos to the off-field team for selling a turd. Closing the year out strong is very important. If we can get 8-10 wins, we'll crack 40k easily next season. Make the finals in 2016 and we'll be on our way to 50k. No one thought Port had close to 60,000 fans let alone enough fans to buy 60,000 memberships.