Jaded No More

I was behind the goals and so I saw him quite a bit at both ends. He looked ok to me. He wasn’t his usual self at ground level, but for someone coming back from one of the most serious injuries you can have, and with little pre season, he looked ok. I think May and Lever going down didn’t help our plan to possibly sub him off. He will be better for the run.

Really? He looked pretty good to me. Shame he missed those two early shots on goal. He slotted nicely down back too.

I’m more disappointed that McAdams is still not fit and Turner is injured.

I reckon his footy life has been pretty good to date and $1million a year would make it even better.

Why? He may prefer to play defense. Adelaide are wanting him to play down there.

Slap yourself twice for saying that beating Hawthorn by over 50 points is nothing to get satisfied about. Need I remind you that it wasn’t long ago that they were smashing us and we were the dreadful side? Never take success for granted.

We have a choice to make. We either push Petty back to defense, or we persevere with our ideal forward set up and hope for the best with a backline of Tomlinson, McDonald and Hore as the talls. God speed.

His goal celebration was putrid given his side was getting destroyed. Smells like Ginnivin 2.0.

That second quarter was Hawthorn giving everything they had to shut the contest down, after realizing their only option was to keep the margin of their loss to a minimum. But playing all out defense is never sustainable against a side that is smashing you in contested possessions and clearances and when you don’t have the forwardline nor the disposal skills to punish the opposition on turnover. They’d be very disappointed that they managed only one goal with May and Lever both off the ground. They are hot garbage and it gives me great pleasure to watch them get destroyed.

Because he actually played in his role as an inside mid. Salem didn’t play midfield today at all.

I knew he’d do much more rucking. We needed to give Gawn more breaks as we head into 2 games in 5 days. I love how he competes at ground level, and frankly it gets him involved. It’s definitely not the worst thing for him. Thought he played well. And how important it is for him to have Ben Brown to take the space behind him when he’s inside 50.

Did they send him to do run throughs last time? There is a very specific ACL test they do. It’s either negative, positive or inconclusive like it was with Gawn last year. An inconclusive test would be treated as an ACL.

How bad is our medical team that they would send a player with a suspected ACL to do run throughs and strap him up hoping he can get back on, in round 3 🙄

Fritta making Sicily wish he was suspended, is worth 6 votes

Lever has not done his knee ffs. He’s got it strapped and doing run throughs. In what world do you treat an ACL with some strapping and a run thru? 🙄 They probably won’t risk him. Could be a low grade medial.

Hore on. He’s on the field. Faaaark. Hope May is ok

Anyone watching at home; any updates on May?

You’re using too many big words. Pies fans are still reading at grade 1 level. This post will go straight over their head

One of my favourite non Dees of all time. Champion player!

I’ve gone to this away Hawks game we seem to have every year for years. I have never not found a seat to the right or left of the cheer squad by just walking in around 30 mins before the bounce. M32-M35 generally has free seats. I don’t think Hawks fans are filling up the MCG at the moment, so I would be shocked if today is any different. If not, I’m coming to find you and we can share a seat 😂

There are no wrong answers… unless you didn’t pick Collingwood or Geelong

My hatred for Geelong has subsided with the rise of my pure unadulterated hate for the Pies. Geelong are insufferable, the Magpies are a dumpster of hellfire

Good news about staying put in Adelaide, and I am sure our large brigade of SA boys will be especially happy with that. Good time to remind Petty how far away he is from his family in Adelaide too 🙃

Their start proves to me once again that I was right all along, and they are a middle of the road side who snatched a flag via umpiring bias, AFL help, vile fans and a piece of [censored] thug who took out a key opponent in a final. They did not deserve that flag and nobody will ever convince me otherwise. There were at least 3 sides last year who were better and deserved that premiership more. Steven May, YOU WERE RIGHT!