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Fn hell An Ablett throw is a free to him > a goal FMD

Once again goalkicking has let us down enormously. Will definitely cost us a top 4 and possibly 8 position

Goodwin presser ”our brand is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and of stabbing our supporters in the heart”!

MFCSS!! Kick a bloody goal when you get an opportunity. I don’t want to hear Goodwin ramble on about “bumps in the journey as a footy club” and “our brand is to kick goals not points” etc ???????

Umpires coming 8nto play when needed.

Geez Suns have pulled one out of the hat. Come on Dees ..... this is your opportunity. Are you up to it? (Will need to beat 25 vs 22 tonight).

Doesn’t read very pretty to me. Thanks for the updates. Is there a wind favored end?

Ethan. Why do I get the impression that you are not taking my suggestion seriously? The captain is (or should be) the on field leader and would have to find a way. Yes, it would entrench mids and on ballers as captains.

SWYL sounds a lot more exciting than tonight's game

I must say that every time I have spent a week, or two, in Alice in winter I have come back to cold Melbourne invigorated. Absolutely NO sapping of energy. (Can't speak for Darwin as I have only spent a few days there in Spring).

OMG the Friday scheduling has hit rock bottom, thanks Gil. There was a time that I hardly missed a Friday night game on TV: this year hardly ever. Tonight watched a bit of the second quarter then totally lost interest. What a farce.

Well done Neville Shows what dedication and hard work can do. Next task - mentoring Dion Johnstone to become a worthy successor: by all accounts some inroads have already been made. Some symmetry perhaps: Nev was dropped to the rookie list and thrived, whilst Dion looked to be gone but a change of role (like Nev from forward to defense) may make the grade, perhaps.

What was our half time score in 186? If Richmond pull their fingers out one of our shameful records could be lost.

OMG the more I watch this the worse I feel about us allowing Saints to bath us. Really angry.

Firstly I hate the word 'conference' - first used in the contact of AFL by the US sports addict, Vlad. But I could see fairness in having two 'divisions' or 'sections' or 'groups' based on the previous year's final ladder: 1,3,5,7,9,etc in one group and 2,4,6,8,etc in the other. Play everyone in your group twice and in the other group once. It would (according to my rudimentary maths) 27 rounds. But of course fairness is an anathema to AFL HQ. Keep the rich rich, and the poor dependent. And regarding prime time allocations, given Gil's penchant for. high scoring, how about allocating them on the basis of the highest scoring teams of the completed H&A season? Plenty for us and none for Carlton, GC$, Saints and Ross Lyon's boring mob.

Gil has an addiction to changing rules, most to the detriment of the game and only to the benefit of his giant ego. Here is a worthwhile one. A runner may go onto the ground say three times per quarter, deliver ONE message to ONE player, and leave the ground within ONE minute. The runner must never be closer than 50 metres from the play / the ball. Not allowed on the ground during the time on period. Any breach, including staying on the ground for 61 seconds, results is a free kick at the top of the goal square. This would result in a very dramatic change of coaching tactics. Waterboys have similar restrictions and penalties re closeness to the play / ball, and must not speak to the player other than to offer them water. AFTERTHOUGHT: A perhaps more radical option would be to have the captain wired with an earpiece, allowing the coach to communicate with him and him alone. He can pass messages on when as as he finds a way. Good for on field leadership.

IF we win by more than 187 points even those well known posters here who cant allow themselves to be happy about anything may nearly be happy, though no doubt they will find a load of negatives.

"......again look to reward on-field performance when completing the 2019 schedule....." Again - like Carlton and StKilda getting prime time games gifted to them this year? Pull the other leg.

Does Nathan Jones post here ? :-)

2018 - big win, running away in the second half Didn't see that coming (to quote Mark Neeld) ... we actually destroyed them and they played under cover at Doglands to previous week. And interestingly, Freo won after Darwin too (or perhaps one could say their opponents lost).

Are you serious? I realise that many here, myself included, hate the Darwin game for potentially causing fatigue the following week [though interestingly whilst I was concerned that we may have faded out in the third quarter v Doggies it turned out to be one of our best third Qs in a very long time.] But to say that a Darwin game caused Viney's foot to flare up is bordering on the ridiculous, and the same goes for a quad tear at training (on a very cold day) nearly two weeks later. If anything playing in warmer conditions could be better for the soft tissues than playing in the cold and hail and rain like Casey did the previous week, and how the guys have been training. And doing an ACL, recurrent at that, a full week after an Alice game in warm but dry conditions - how can one attribute it to the conditions? NikNat did his knee one week after playing in Perth then flying further than Alice - Melbourne - BEWARE OF PERTH!

Long may Carlscum delude themselves into thinking that SOS is the Messiah, and not as is more widely accepted an appeal for help when in dire straits. Let him lead them down deeper into the paths of darkness and doom..

daisy - are you suggesting something to do with the poor evolution of the quadriceps?

Do you actually know that it is the same as Jones injury, or are you speculating? There are spectra of soft tissue injuries you know. As an agnostic I don't believe in gods, or didn't but maybe I will change and believe that there is a god, and not a particularly nice one ??? Oliver and Brayshaw are OK (touch wood).

... and bruise free