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Fantastic goal by Bate from 55

Sorry, but I really don't go for this umpiring whinge. Yes, there are bad decisions that go against us, but I'm certain that if you were an opposition supporter, you would have almost exactly the same complaints. One reason we get so many frees paid against us is because we are always behind the man and rarely in a position to warrant a free kick.

Also, looks almost like Clark has become a "de facto" captain... he was standing there hand-slapping his team mates as they exited the rooms and giving each player words of encouragement.

Loving the half time footage of Jack Viney having a go at Wojcinski... he won't take a backward step.

Fair enough to get upset over some of the decisions, but take off the blinkers please... that Sylvia "tap" as you put it was actually a scooping action... in other words, a throw!!

Birdy num num!

Maybe it is Peter Sellers... "I like to watch" (Being There)

And another free to the opposition dead in front!!

Easy to look good when you don't have an opponent.

Can someone please give our players a clinic on how to hand pass a ball... my 10 year old does better than a lot of the efforts I am seeing today.

Why is it that we give away so many free kicks that gift the opposition goals?

But if he can always follow up with a goal soon after I will forgive him :-)

I hope Clark is not going to make a habit of playing on when he is in no position to do so.

No man is an island!

Howe managed to break loose of the treacle and take a nice mark Pity he couldn't finish well.

How on earth are their players managing to find so much space??? We appear to be running in treacle.

Tappy may be leading possession winner, but his disposal has been not much to write home about.

The negative talk is reasonable when we see a lot of play that warrants nothing better. Support does not mean blind acceptance. We say good things when they do good things and bad things get the response they deserve. And for what it's worth, I think they they are doing very well considering where they are coming from... but if the Cats were kicking better we would already be in a lot of trouble. We seem to be plodding a lot.

I wish we wouldn't go to sleep following a goal... twice now they were able to respond immediately.

Clark doing well... set one up and got the other

It's that man Jones again!

McDonald is looking good in defence... just wish he didn't have to see so much of the ball.

So far only Jones has done anything remotely workmanlike... fortunately the Cats don't have their kicking boots on.

Fair enough... the following was tweeted by MelbourneFC: "On the Jack Viney bump, it appeared Wojo collected him in shoulder/head region. Looked hard but fair at time."

As was said, how about we wait until someone who actually saw the incident can fill in the details. A broken jaw does not necessarily mean a high tackle... it could be a hip making contact in a contested ball situation, could be an attempt smother gone wrong, it could be any number of things... so why immediately assume it should be a reportable offence?