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27 points, can already see Goodwin’s presser. “Had some great opportunities early to put scoreboard pressure on, they capitalised on a 5 minute lapse at the end of the first quarter, we weren’t efficient with out ball use. At the end of the day that last patch in the first quarter was the difference.” He won’t be asking for accountability, he won’t be honest that there are players that are just not doing enough. FWIW Viney, Bedford, and Kozzie made that sh—show worth watching.

Bedford and Pickett, great stuff.

Spargo is a ?

Goodwin should be telling the players this is your last hit out for ten weeks, how do you want do go into this period?

Langdon has actually been decent, his basic accumulation disposals (short kicks, handballs) have mostly been good but it’s the penetrating danger kicks that have let him (and us down). Petracca has flashed in and out, similar to previous seasons. I think he needs to be pushing forward more though. Gawn’s been well beaten by NikNat. Brayshaw extremely disappointing. Needed to nail at least one of his kicks on goal.

Viney only player showing something solid today, Kozzie has given some fun and hope.

F— off Spargo.

HIBBERD!!!! Stop kicking in hope!!!

I’ve been a fan of Hibberd for a long time but what is his kicking efficiency today? Awful, and poor decisions as well. He’s not alone though, I’d like one of the tasks (call it homework) of the players to be to do some simple maths. Like, “what are the odds of player A winning the contest against 2/3 opponents?” Frittas going to have to get a lot better delivery if he’s going to take out Maxy’s Coleman prediction.

Better but still wasteful.

Oliver that was a disgusting effort. I hope Goodwin drags him to the side for that. Again we dominate territory for no reward.

I’m glad Jack kicking that goal because he didn’t turn inboard at all with players available to him. Is that a directive to the players?

Training drill for the eagles.

I remembered watching the Adelaide game and thinking what have they changed in terms of forward set up and tactics, the answer watching that quarter is absolutely nothing. Still long bombing it to outnumbered contests instead of lowering the eyes. Are the forwards leading to space, demanding the ball? (Question not criticism) Seriously we are playing against one of the best defences, don’t drop it on their heads!!!

Jesus we were actually in the contest and probably playing the better. But no reward for effort. Now we are completely f—ed.

Kicking ourselves out of this.

Poor kicking hurting us right now.

Hope it gives us wings on Sunday! ?

Hearing that the pies won’t be singing the song is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard. By all means don’t lock arms (even though you’ve been doing it all night anyway with tackling) but for crying out loud every stand around and sing the bloody song. If the Dees win on Sunday and don’t sing the song I’ll be filthy. EDIT they sung it after all ?‍♂️

Missing Salem, Jones, and AvB. Sucks but they are can be covered, we've had a strong pre-season and early goals can build confidence. It looks like we're going for a smaller forward line compared with the past with Bedford, Kozzie, and Spargo in there along with mid-sized forwards Melksham and Fritch. For me those last two could be the key to our forward line, either one of them getting lose could force the Ealges to move their better defenders onto them freeing up TMac and Weid. Getting the ball to ground has never been more important with our smalls around the ball and I really hope the coaching staff show them the clip of Riewoldt tonight spoiling the ball into a dangerous area. To make life hard for their forwards, but as always a lot depends of our midfield putting in strong second efforts to make it hard for them to deliver with time and space.

I wonder whether to make up for it they will do some kind of scratch match every week between the teams. Obviously very difficult to compare but then again if positions are on the line you would hope they would go all guns blazing.

It's hard to control in the moment celebrations and all that but after the game surely they can have a little bit of control.

Lol just a suggestion! Lots of companies are going to be battening down the hatches for a while, only web-based delivery companies are going to be ones doing good business so feel free to propose another one to approach!

I'm absolutely gutted for AvB, the fact it's a broken foot but not even related to his previous recurring problems just makes you wonder what he has to do?

I’m not sure if this is being discussed anywhere but we should be getting in touch with Amazon, Netflix, and other online based companies to offer sponsorship tarps to cover the empty seats in the ground. It will cover the bizarre look of the stands and will provide addition cash into the club, there is literally an entire ground that we could cover in it!