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How can someone with 85% disposal efficiency "constantly turn the ball over"?

Skills, turnovers. Got a bit to go, but the kids are holding up OK. Alongside us, Eagles look incredibly well-drilled (has been pointed out already). Last quarter blow-out not ideal, but we're just a bit under-manned. Losing Bradshaw didn't help.

Tragic news whatever the causes. Still digesting it. The Crows also lost Dean Bailey last year. Brought home at the moment because he almost certainly would have been interim coach, and then ... well, we'll never know. Cruel, hard times.

Great to see Stretch and ANB hold their places. Probably a bit ahead of time due to injuries, but it can only benefit their development.

Cue Picket Fence ...

Why stop there? Whiteboard Wednesday?

Armstrong never faced any courts, anywhere in regards to his PED use. He was charged by USADA, charges he never contested through CAS (which was his right). BTW, CAS criteria is the same as the Tribunal. Comfortable satisfaction. End of.

Or even contribute to the wider cut and thrust on DL. e.g. Who makes way for Garland and Hogan? Toumpas? Watts? Colour of the jersey? etc. etc.

Not so much about dissenting opinion, more that in the feral world of football supporters, and even more feral world of club internet forums, you're seen as persona non grata.

In terms of what he brings to the side in terms of balance, experience, and a bit of spark around the place, Vince is irreplaceable, and the trade was a master stroke. Watch how many times Jones/Vince exchange the ball - a midfield that stays together, plays together.

Imagine you're pretty close, Bail and Riley probably bring the least, neither do enough damage on a consistent basis. Dawes won't be dropped. He played a key role in Geelong in getting the forward structures right, keeping the forward line open, and getting ball to ground for our smalls. Goal assists for a third of our score isn't to be sneezed at. Maybe: - Fitzpatrick for Spencer ... Fitzpatrick would be better than Dawes as second ruck, and can also do double duties down back. Was best for Casey on the weekend. - JKH for ANB if they really feel that JKH deserves a place. In spite of the 3 goals, feel that ANB is still a bit of the pace in general play.

Worth repeating. That was a hard lesson - but thanks to the coaches and leaders we have in place, one that was well learnt. Also, you could see in the last quarter, gone was that nervousness that comes with not being used to winning or being in a winning situation ... which has cost us the odd game in the recent past. Steely resolve.

Sure, it's only one game, and we've only won 4 - against that, 3 of the 4 wins have come against teams that are above us on the ladder, and to win against Geelong at Geelong is more than solid, no matter how you read it. The return matches against St Kilda and the Giants will be interesting, but surely 4 wins from the remaining 10 shouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility.

On a day like this, we can all dream a little.

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Another pearler from PF. You don't look at what happens over 3 weeks to decide what to do with a player, you look at what happens over 3 years.

Did well in the second half. Still a work in progress, going to be some misses along the way, but the upside is enormous.

Was out all morning (I'm OS), no wifi, no news. Couldn't believe the result. Fabulous. Don't have the time to hack my way through xx pages of the Gameday thread, but wondering, did anyone promise to leave Demonland if we won? Just checking.

Not sure. He is being set up as a KPD, so not sure how having him as a lead-up forward or ruck works.

Weep.

One of the benefits of having had to sit out an entire season. God knows we would have loved to have had him around last season, but Jesse and the club have obviously put the time to good use. Hopefully Petracca can come out of his year off older and wiser as well.

Decent loss ... Melbourne aren't the only ones bearing the consequence of all our injuries/outs.

The 51% doesn't mean what you think it means ... it works in the athlete's favour, not against them. In the case cited, the ITF/WADA appeal was dismissed because Gasquet was able to show, to this minimal standard (51% probable), that the cocaine he'd tested positive for came from kissing someone called Pamela. WADA still have to meet "comfortable satisfaction". As they always did.

Can you?