Dr. Gonzo

Cancel my September holidays

Yep the first quarter was brilliant Oliver's pass to Spargo a standout. After that I just wanted to make sure we got out of the game without injuries to key players..

It was a tough crowd if you were there. I couldn't believe the amount of whinging going on when we were 70-80 pts up!

"Yeaahh, good call ET"

Having a look at the ladder predictor if we win our next 2 games we should be safe

Game looks a lot better without navy blue and white on prime time

Can anyone explain to me why Brisbane are favourites against North? Easy money isn't it?

I find them boring to watch though. No long kicks just handball and short uncontested passes. Their momentum footy is frustrating to watch if you want the opposition to win as well, if you were playing against them you would just want to absolutely crunch them.

That's part of the price for getting the Anzac Eve game. From the other teams perspective it's a bit rich to lobby for Anzac Eve and then complain if we don't get a prime time game the week prior to allow us a longer break. As long as we get the same break as our opponents I don't see the problem.

320 isn't twilight it's late afternoon

If he couldn't get named this week with Melksham out he's unlikely to get another senior game.

Wellman was a massive loss - turned Frawley into an AA then after he left went back to being just a handy player

Does that include the Saints $1 memberships? Is it the AFLs final figures or just those reported by the clubs?

I agree although one thing I hate about him playing that far downfield is we lose a guy with legitimate goal sense up the other end. Unfortunately we need him down back but I'd like to see him further down ground in future (or float forward more for some goals ala Lewis last week).

I think people forget/underestimate how injury/illness interrupted his career has been. If nothing else I'm just glad he's managed to put a consistent season of footy together without being injured (fingers crossed!) Another season like this next year and he'll be primed to enter his peak and step up a level in effectiveness.

So he's gone

He did drop two simple uncontested marks on the weekend, just went straight through his hands. I'd be playing him deep and let TMac be the roaming half forward against the Suns and see if he can kick a bag and get some confidence back.

Oliver started at FF? No wonder we got smashed in the clearances early. We've got TMac and Hogan in the team and Oliver starts the game at FF?

We better get the Sunday game or I'm going to miss it again as I did last year due to my son's birthday party (my older son is also invited to another party that day). This floating fixture sucks and is irrelevant now as there is a bye pre-finals.

Even if he kicked it we would've won

If youre not happy after a win like that why would you even follow the game? Surely you got some enjoyment out of it.

It was pissing down rain for the last quarter and we stacked the backline and played the boundary for the whole quarter trying to defend our lead. So it wasn't as much a repeat of last week as an attempt to try and protect the lead. They probably went too conservative and made it too hard for us to score but we got the goal we needed right at the death.

Gutsy gutsy win so proud of this team tonight. Win next week and if things go our way we could be sitting in the top 4.

The presentation by channel 7 is a farce, I have no idea what they're going for. I used to junk they were trying to attract the neutral audience with their inanity now I have no idea. The presentation of the game is a definite issue, the whole thing is treated like a joke and feels like it's presented by a bunch of out of touch morons cracking dad jokes.

You can add to that stop scheduling [censored] teams in prime time slots in the hope they'll one day come good because they had a large supporter base 30 years ago.