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11,873 at the game. Not bad and im sure we get more money than if we played at the G in front of 20,000. If we can win up there its not a problem. For us supporters its not a bad place to go for a few days holiday. Get some warm weather. Maybe instead of us playing strong teams like freo, port or wc we could play GWS or GC. We may have a chance of winning. But it better not affect our performance next week.

In all reality we are playing a team that is 3rd on the ladder. They should put away a team like us. But Id like to think we have improved and at least stuck with them. Maybe having the bye wrecked our momentum. Instead of going into this game the week after our win against geelong we have the week off and lose it. I just hope our players arent stuffed because we need our energy to beat the bummers next week.

Oh well im off to watch federer and groth on the tv. I'll come back in 1/2 an hour and check how much we lost by.

geez I hope we can dig deep in the final quarter and do something.

who is on priddis? Only the 6 possessions so far. I hope Gus is right next week. We need him against the bummers. Based on Jamars form today could he come in next week?

dam brayshaw is a massive loss and so early in the game. Nice to see dawes nail one. Hope he kicks a few more.

Is Gus ok?

Well as I dont have foxtel i'll be checking the afl website and getting updates from ch7 footy. I was in darwin 3 years ago and enjoyed the game even though we lost. But enjoyed darwin the warm weather the food and the wave pool up there.

what does the crowd look like?

wow you cannot tell me that the suns have been missing there captain to straighten them up over these months he has been missing. 62 points up. Did not see this coming. Nth may have the heat on them again this week.

Yep ablett just kicks another goal to give them a 6 goal lead. This would be an embarrassing loss by nth.

I read yesterday in the herald sun that Gillon had made the booking to attend our match. Not sure if he will still make the trip after yesterday and the tragic circumstances but maybe he was going to have a look to see how the game goes up there and if people are interested.

Amazing that Gold Coast get there captain back and suddenly they look good. 22 minute mark GC 29 points up and nth still have not kicked a goal. Just got 1. Only took 25 minutes into the 2nd quarter.

Geez 5min into the 2nd quarter and nth cant kick a goal yet.

Apparently the AFL has asked the clubs to do the huddle after every game this weekend.

Well 2 weeks ago I gave us no chance and would have been happy if we lost to the cats by 7 goals or under. Im not sure what to expect. I hope we can take nic nats influence at the centre bounce and I hope Tommy Mac can get back to his old form and hold Kennedy and we hold our own with there midfield. Dawes needs to find form but I hope we bring our tackling aggression and just start well.

geez bartel is not a bad player to throw in the 2's.

Unfortunately police are looking at an ice link to this tragedy. Ice link probed in slaying This drug is just nasty stuff.

Yep how good is our sport when 2 teams can come together like that after playing each other for 2 hours. Great stuff by Clarko and Bucks. I love our game. That image will be beamed around the world. Apparently at the nrl game tonight they did have a minutes silence and they stayed silent for the whole minute.

Ive switched over to the tennis. But I hope the hawks hold on. By the way nice respect shown before the game to Phil. Nice 1 minute silence unlike at the G two weeks ago when the rubgy clowns yelled out.

Just heard Rob Chapman the crows speak. Hard for him receiving that phone call from the police then having to ring the leadership group to tell them there coach has been murdered. News reports were saying he has been stabbed to death but when you hear them say he was murdered for some reason that word just hits you differently. The game on sunday had to be cancelled. Phil worked at geelong as well even though it was awhile ago but there is now way the players could run out on sunday and play. They wouldn't be able to go out there and focus for the whole time. I'm guessing the boys are going to be spending a lot of time together talking about things receiving counselling and basically supporting each other. But its Phil's wife and daughter I feel for. His wife now has to deal with losing her husband in tragic circumstances and also coming to terms with her son doing what he did allegedly and a daughter has lost her dad and the relationship with her brother will never be the same.

Its wrong to speculate the circumstances on how it happened. But geez we have lost players before ie Broadbridge and McCartney in tragic circumstances but a coach murdered. Holy hell. Im not really sure how this whole round can be played. I mean im sure it will still go ahead, but im sure other coaches are in shock and players that knew him. Certainly im not sure how the geelong adelaide game can go ahead. Geez Gill thought his biggest problem was the drugs code. This will hit the AFL hard as well.

Are footy players really this dumb? http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-07-02/hawks-illicit-drug-prank-ends-in-afl-investigation

According to the melbourne site in the team chatter Lumumba's foot injury is precautionary and is expected back next week.

I wonder if our midfield has been working on rucking to nic nat and roving his tap outs. We know how good he is at the centre bounce. Maxy and Jake will have there hands full but if Maxy plays like he did against the cats then he can get Nic around the ground with his marking. Its 2 pretty good ins. I just hope we can put on an awesome show.