Jaded No More

My husband who was watching from home kept texting me to complain that they keep holding Fritta in the marking contests. And also to ask how he can make it as a 39 year old AFL player since Mason Cox appears to be getting a game and "I can do better than him". Moore is a gun player, but he is also very much a protected one. I saw a fair few holding of arms going on inside our forward 50 for no frees. Having said that, other than about 9 HTB calls that were ignored, the overall standard of umpiring was far better than I've seen in as many weeks. The game felt like a final in many ways, including the minimal interference of the umpires (until the end when the Pies got a few they didn't deserve anyway).

All duck no dinner

Hibbo is aging like a fine wine. Has not lost any of his speed off the mark. We need to bubble wrap him in the lead up to finals, because especially against sides with good medium forwards like Pies and Brisbane, he is absolutely critical.

Don't even get me started on the farce that is our continued forced trip down to that dumpville of a ground. A combined membership of over 130,000 members, but certainly lets play this game at a ground with a current capacity of 6.

Goody said post match they have 4 days off then back to it. Our players really got the rough end of the stick again with this pseudo bye. Why couldn't we play Geelong on Saturday night FFS?

The most important leg in football. White as the pure alpine snow too.

But are we better than Freo yet David? 🥲

He lives for the big games. If we meet Pies in a grand final, I really hope he puts Cox on his [censored]. Would be worth the suspension for the laughs.

The fact that we got kicked out of the top 4 for goddamn Freo is what made me laugh. Like fair if he put Dogs, Saints or Essendon hell, Adelaide would be passable. But Freo???? 😳

Just a tin foil hat and a crack pipe

The most important thing now is, will David King have us back in his top 4 contenders after we lost out last week to Freo? 😂

May has to play him and Tomlinson on Hawkins Just keep your goddamn elbows to yourself Hawkins, you oiled-up fatarse

I thought for the first time maybe ever, we were louder than the Pies fans. We certainly drowned out the Grundy booing (they truly are a braindead lot!) with cheering.

Apparently he’s a WA boy making a bucket of money. So sadly no chance. I mean I’d take Jeremy Cameron and Charlie Curnow too, but we need to be realistic here.

He loved playing on his best mate today I reckon. I swear I saw him yelling at JJ to sit down when he came off 😂 Glad we subbed off Spargo. JJ was very clean in the last quarter. He’s too good not to play senior footy.

I’m going to save us all a lot of time by letting you know that ANB will not be dropped this week. Carry on.

Of course. I hope Viney nails him. Also they have a very hard game coming up next week. Go for the jugular Port!

There you go Collingwood basically bang on for expected score. Us, well… not so much

Totally disagree on JVR. He was very good. Rarely lost an aerial contest and nailed the most crucial kick for goal of the match. He is a baby. This was a very good game from him playing near and sometimes on one of the best FBs in the game.

If anyone tells me Oliver isn’t a better player than De Goey and Sidebottom I will fight them to the death!

Cry me a river

For mine is Spargo out and Clarry in. We are playing one too many smalls up forward who aren’t giving us enough. Hard squeeze with Bowey unless we want to rest Hibbo again. Petty is obviously a walk up start too if he’s fit. But he may not be? Tough selection week.

We won this game the way we like to win. Hard contested footy. Won clearances (without Oliver!) and contested possessions and dominated defensively. That is pleasing as we know this method wins us a flag.

The BS frees didn’t help

Incorrect. Tomlinson needs to play a role. He can concede 2-3 goals a game and we can still keep the opposition to under 10 goals because it allows May and Lever to play their natural game. If he keeps this form up and we can play Petty forward, we will win the flag. Yes, I said it.