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The slightest inkling of opponent pressure and Brayshaw becomes a huge liability. He and Oliver come from the same School For Lazy Kickers.

Oufff that would have been a great goal.

You wait and see Clarkson put Frost in the ruck in the second half.

The quintessential Petracca game now would be for him to go missing in the second half. This is arguably the best half of footy he's ever played. For him to truly turn the corner now he needs to bring it in the second half.

Scully with 5 throws today.

Bennell having a great game. Question: is it pronounced "Ben-nell" or "Bennle"? I always thought the former.

We are smashing them. That goal hurts because we should be further ahead.

Did Oliver get the memo about his hair yet or what. Jesus...

The players we want looking good, are looking good. Except for Oliver. He looks terrible these past 2 weeks. Loved see Trac smoke Scully.

Hawks a player down. Guess we're not winning this one.

Nice kick Hannan.

Our kicking efficiency (or lack thereof) is 50%.

Frost's goal.

Our kicking is [censored] awful. Sending helicopters forward with every second kick.

Oouff. Their pacing and spread is killing us.

Weiderman needed to clunk that. He looks like Jake Spencer sometimes in contests.

lol Oliver ffs.

Well they have 1 of 6, a mere 30 seconds in lol

Damien Monkhorst turned into a meat pie.

Scully's career was always destined for the toilet when he was offered $1 million a year after 2 seasons in the league. Accept it and play with the burden of pressure. Decline it and you're that "guy who turned down $1 million". I do believe he'd have been a much better player had he stayed at Melbourne. If not for a Sheedy vendetta, GWS may have thrown their coin elsewhere. Anyway, Dees by 12. Goals. Seriously, we should pansy them. Much better on paper.

jetta and McDonald out for Jackson and Jones.

If we beat Hawthorn by 150 points this weekend then maybe we can start making that clear comparison.

He would have struggled regardless. I can't see him making the top 22 even with ANB and Spargo ahead of him.

interestingly a recent defamation case actually holds organisations to account for comments on their pages. individually it's obviously different but it is a step in the right direction. My recommendation is that any organisation that is public facing with public facing employees that are in and scrutinised by the media, everyone has a verified profile (blue tick) with all content moderated and signed off. Players can have their personal profiles, but on private and only for close friends and family. Community and social media specialists are hired exclusively for the moderating and managing of these profiles. From a branding perspective it is a no brainer but also for the sake of PR, publicity, AND player wellfare it controls the story, the imagery, the message, and the engagement. As a society we still see social media as a "private" thing and thus people and players should have a "right" to engage safely, free from toxicity. It can be approached that way but atm players basically for the most part have free reign, and they are opening themselves and the club to all sorts of trouble, as we have seen recently with these racist posts. In essence the club is liable here because it hasn't fulfilled its obligation to both prepare and train players for this sort of stuff, and basically allows it to happen. Relying on government and social media outlets to protect them from this stuff is futile. The resources are there to take full control and to shield players from this stuff. The approach needs to change.

Yes. We're just complete racial segregation away from apartheid. So close I can taste it...