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Freo’s run home: Collingwood at the G Sydney in Perth Geelong in Geelong Lions in Perth Eagles in Perth Port in Perth Hawks at the G At worst we’re getting pick 7 at best, 4!

This is beautiful but it’s also so frustrating. That Freo loss is hurting us in so many ways, we’d be basically safe in the top four and Freo would be 15th giving us a number 4 pick!!! Argh!!

This Essendon Crows game looks like what Basketball would be if every score had a ball up. I wish we scored more but I’d hate to see us play like this, there’s no discipline or contest. There’s a middle ground that produces much better football.

Looked a hip flexor thing to me. Strange outwards twist of the whole leg.

Nice goal to AMW. Casey doing something our seniors need to learn to do, putting them away early. Howes looks a player, I’m interested in why he’s being played at HB, a crowded position on our list and not the wing. He has attributes we lack in our current two wingers he’s tall, a good mark, beautiful kick and tough. Is it a tank issue?

JVR takes a nice chest mark at 50. Misses an easy pass to Chandler who passes to Jefferson who gets punched in the head. No free, Schache gets a free in the ensuing throw in and goals. We’re on top atm.

Blake Howes classy. Beats two on the wing then a perfect kick. Jefferson taking two great marks and delivering a good ball to Schache who lost it in the sun. Laurie creates a good mark to AMW who misses. Getting back on top. Good experience for Verral in his third game playing on a genuine AFL ruck in Cambell.

According to Goody in the presser copped a knock to the ribs in the 1st that got worse as the game went on and as he wasn’t covering the ground well they subbed him. Says they’re very confident he’ll be right for next week, given Goody’s record with Clayton we’ll see him next year then 😈😈

We are now 3-2 against the fellow top 6 teams. Beat Brisbane next week and we will have beaten all except Port, who we lost to by 4 points, in Adelaide, in a storm. We’re not in great form, many of our best are well down and yet we’re a game plus percentage inside top 4. If we can get it to click against Brisbane next week we could lock away top 4. I’m backing in Gawn, Grundy, Pickett, Lever to bounce back after sub standard games for them. Hoping JVR kicks ten in the VFL tomorrow and replaces a small in the forward line. Hope Petty’s ok. The negativity around here is a bit over the top, yes, we’re not playing like a premiership team, but it’s July, just bank wins. Oliver, Fritsch back for finals, find some form who knows what happens. We used to lose our game after NT every year, we managed to win the last quarter by a goal coming back from a slog in the rain this year. I’m betting if Taj and Brown kick straight in that last quarter to kill the game and give us an easy 6 goal win there’d be a lot less anger in here. It’s understandable MFCSS after our last five weeks but we weren’t losing that game.

Threw it away, three teams have beaten us this year, three times we’ve beaten ourselves. It’s so hard to watch, we dominate the play for so little return, the opposition plays for five minutes and win. This season is slipping away. Lose any of the next three and we are fighting to make the 8. So disappointing and yet so predictable, it’s the same problem as last year and selection was bizarre. Drop JVR for Brown in the wet?! I’m realigning my expectations to hoping we can make finals three times in a row for the first time in the modern era. This is not a premiership team.

And another to Woey. Brilliant goal out of a pack. Howes, Woey, Laurie, Jordon, Turner all getting involved.

Verall looks a player. Might have a good developing ruck for the first time in a long time. Good start with two quick goals (Jefferson, AMW).

In: Bowey, Tomlinson Out: Hibbo(kidney, ouch) Jordan Spargo(sub) Petty forward, Brayshaw rotating through the middle/wing, Tommo back to full back, never should’ve been dropped. JUST WIN FFS!!

Shoulder?! (Please noooo!)

That was an easy kill, no Dangerfield, no Guthrie, no Cameron, we should be winning that. It was a chance to end Geelong’s season and cement ourselves inside the 4 if not chase top 2 and we threw it away. I still have belief that our best is good enough but we are the most inconsistent we’ve been for a long time. This and the Freo loss will hurt us, if only as they have kept those two teams alive. Gutted, we better rock up and show something against GWS!

Lower I reckon. I hope Freo only win two more games for the rest of the year. If Carlton beat them down they go! Suns will win enough games at home to eclipse Freo.

If only Sydney had got up this would’ve been the perfect weekend for us. With Brisbane and Saints playing next week as long as we beat Geelong next week we’ll either be a game and percentage in third or two games and percentage off fourth. Perfect.

#spoonmatle I believe! (How on Earth did we lose to them?! As Gawny says we really need a mulligan for that game)

The umpires are so one-sided towards Brisbane in this game it’s shameful!

If it hadn’t got so close late I wanted to start a mighty ducks style “quack quack quack” chant in Ed’s honour, sadly Max and Maysie dropped those marks and they kicked goals so I was too nervous to try it.

Or Salem who last played in last year’s finals campaign before coming back in on great form in recent weeks. If Petty is fit he plays seniors, don’t know where or for who though…

Agree with you 100% except we got within 4 points of Port in Adelaide. Sorry, I’m a pedant!

If GWS and WB can win the next two I think we’re home. Freo would struggle to rebound from that and a top 7 pick could be back on the cards. Particularly if Sydney and the Blues get a run on at some point. Go Giants!!! (Eewww I feel dirty saying it). If only we’d rocked up and besten Freo! Argh! They’d be 12th-14th and we’d be on for pick 4,5 or 6. Dammit!!!

Yes it’s rubbish we play Geelong at Geelong every year, yes it’s rubbish no where near the number of fans that would’ve attended will be there (I’d suggest this game gets 50k at the G next week), but let’s just win! Should Geelong lose to Port and then us then their game against Sydney in Sydney becomes a de facto elimination final with Geelong as many as three games out of the eight! It would be simply beautiful to put them out of contention. I think this was part of the reason for our angst after the Freo game, we had the chance to put them down where they belonged, we’ll still make top 4 but Freo outside the 8 when we have their picks would’ve been simply stunning. Let’s do it to Geelong! I’m waiting for the injury report before even trying for selection. Atm Spargo out Oliver in looks likely, Bowey, Petty, let’s see if there’s a mystery injury of the week, hopefully not but it would make selection easier…

That’s a narrative they create purely because they don’t like us. We are on track for record average attendees (43210, 1100+ per game on our previous best, even in spite of playing Essendon in Adelaide) and home attendance (52367). We are 6th in the league for average attendance and 3rd for home attendance (although a few teams are a game behind). Our membership is closest to 9th in the league so in terms of our fans turning up we punch well above our weight, but according to the football media and some on here we “never rock up”. Never let the truth get in the way of a good beat up!