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Casey and training watchers : is Bull Smith big and strong enough to fill in ruck work? Haven’t seen much of him at all.

Ah, 5 Loved watching the Ox, but an even better memory was a much earlier #5 ? kicking a very timely goal in a very big match in our history.

They could follow EssUndone’s lead and take it to Geneva.

Does that include the contents of brown Visy (or similar) bags???

All covered by the new rule 2018:9:HFC to be announced later today which proscribes blocking any Hawthorn player in round 9, if the umpire feels like it.

Simplify it .... only one per team up. (Clue for umpire - one means one; therefore two, or three or four or even more, not being one, is more than one and is not allowed.)

Slowly getting through the replay The first half of second quarter where we seemed to have 90% of time inside 50 only to score behinds, but Suns scored a couple of goals is exactly what can and has cost us games. Scoreboard pressure is absolutely essential if a team gets a run of possession against a better team. We got away with it this time but will not against good teams. Needs finessing.

⬆️⬆️ Great writing by Ernest in his inimitable way

And never forget, a fish rots from the head. And who is the head?? Clarko’s Coffee buddy.

31 for me. And for about the first time since RDB left I am getting excited by a player wearing the number playing with passion and enthusiasm. Can’t off the top of my head recall any in the intervening 53 years. Ray Groom may have been the closest.

The realist in me agrees No doubt Gil spin and hype. Maybe he asked Clarko what to do over coffee? Who? Integrity Commissioners?? ?????????

Didn’t hear the exact quote. But if Gary questions the selectors’ judgement, maybe we could question his selection of our ante penultimate coach.

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We can only beat those whom we are ‘drawn’ to play Hopefully the confidence, and more importantly belief, gained from the past weeks can carry into the remainder of the year. A most unfamiliar feeling of confidence is about: I hope the team feed off it but don’t let it engulf them.

Dan. You sound like a golf coach. Similar considerations and in golf every shot is a set shot......no snaps. So often too long to think about missing. And they could all have a good look at Weed’s set shot routine, though I must say I now cannot recall too many of his being form a tight angle.

Birds of a feather in this context. Not sure that this is the type of blocking they are referring to. And it certainly will NOT be the blocking of the man on the mark.

tiers - your last paragraph is based on a false premise. Gil didn’t ever have it to lose No. That was ok last round, so it won’t be this round (depending on of course what jumper they are wearing)

Like umpire contact, it will depend on who you are, who you play for, and which tribunal the AFL in their infinite wisdom happen to set up to try your case, or which umpire, or panel of umpires Gil's mob decide to send to your game and which club you are playing against.

Too true. It is NOT the CEO's role to actually have anything to say about the way the game is played - it IS his job to run a clean, unbiased, even handed, corruption-free competition where all clubs are treated as equals and are given equal opportunity to progress and equal opportunity to make money to sustain themselves. He has been a dismal failure on all those counts.

Fantastic summation. Consistent inconsistency. Not really .... jokes are humorous. This Magpie is not. (And, actually, this was not Christian's doing for a change. It is the tribunal)

LOL And how nice is it to hear Slobbo bagging one of his own, Mr Likeable who has zero tackles the last 2 weeks - a senior team member leading the defence in a beleaguered team? ZERO tackles in two games played largely in EssUndone’s back half. I wonder which of his teammates he berated this week, and how many M&Ms he petulantly swiped from the bowls on the table. Garry Lyon also had @ bit of a go at him on SEN.

That is not a news item, chook

At least they are consistent in their inconsistency

Double standards are core values at AFL HQ. How many hundred dollar bills can fit into an average Visy brown paper bag? Now, at least for us, time to move on and crush these bastards this weekend.

Pretty poor. I was watching and getting excited but .......... Don’t forget that our most recent “defender-turned-forward” became our greatest goal kicker and one of our greatest leaders. #9 DN