Jaded No More

It’s not surprising how we constantly find ourselves with outbreaks larger than any other state

So long as all cases are linked it’s good. If we get random cases in the community we are faarked. I too suspect we will go into a snap lockdown over the weekend but the game will go ahead with no crowds. It’s minimal risk as it’s a controlled environment. Everyone can get tested pre game and tracked and traced.

Totally agree. Problem is we don’t have enough Pfizer vaccines so all of us young ones can’t get vaccinated anyway.

Hey I would get jabbed if they’d let me. It’s the old people letting us down. Eligible but super low uptake. What’s a little blood clot between friends? ?

Don’t think he’s tall enough. Bont will kill him in the air. Lever to Bont.

What the fudge happened to Viney? I will continue to bang on about giving him a 5 year deal. Silly decision given his body is forever breaking down.

Harmes needs to go to Libba. He is their best extractor. Too hard to tag Bont. I would let him go head to head with Trac. Lever to take him up forward? Oliver head to head with McRae. Caleb Daniels is IMO one of the best players in the competition. If we do not put a purely defensive player on him like Spargo or ANB he will destroy us. Fritsch and his 0 defensive efforts are a bad idea. I think this is going to be a hard task for us at Marvel. The Dogs are deadly by foot and very fast. If they dominate clearances like I suspect they would, we will be in a world of pain. It is much harder to defend a quick clearance at Marvel which is smaller, and if we turn the ball over the way we did against Adelaide they will really hurt us.

Apparently 4 more positives already today. Crowds look very unlikely. I'll be thankful if we don't go to lockdown!

It is actually mind blowing that umpires are not full time professionals, when so much money goes into betting on games. It is also mind blowing that time and again 'home ground' umpires make blatantly wrong decisions against the away interstate club. How about we make a rule that when a team is visiting from interstate, all umpires must be neutral, that is they must be from a third state. Also lets get the umpires better security, so they aren't scared to make correct decisions. Feral crowds should not ruin games. Umpires should have influence the result of a match, but its been happening for years. The AFL admits mistakes but does nothing to rectify them.

To be fair that only happened in WA and we know they are panic merchants. As much as I want to go to this game, I want to avoid lockdowns more. A wide long lasting lockdown would impact the season far more than one game with no crowds.

If capacity is heavily reduced it’ll just be a Bulldog centric crowd which will not help us at all. I prefer no crowds than less crowds. I think no crowds make sense and as much as I want to go, I think it might help us. Thankfully it’s not our home game.

We need to play ANB on him. If he plays on Fritsch we are stuffed.

Yep doesn’t sound like crowds will be allowed. Mother[censored] Covid.

We played poorly and were 16 points up with less than 10 minutes to go. We should have won it regardless. But the standard of umpiring is getting so bad it’s now ruined 3 matches and we are not even half way thru the season. Embarrassing stuff.

The competition doesn’t appreciate Oliver because he is not a poster boy. But my god he is an elite player and I don’t give a flying f who does and doesn’t rate him. He is a star and he is ours.

Yep and instead of getting wrong they’re not making calls and getting it even more wrong. They go a whole game being hot on absolute random [censored] each week. One week it’s 15m kicks and play on, one week it’s deliberate, one week it’s holding the ball. Then with 5 minutes to go and the game on the line they completely change direction and call nothing. I know umpires are humans. But this is a multi million dollar competition with millions invested into betting. Can’t we afford to employ umpires full time and get them to a level that is acceptable and consistent? Or I dunno use a video ref to overrule decisions?

I don’t think we will make too many changes. Goodwin will give the players this game to redeem themselves. Salem and Viney automatic ins but otherwise everyone at Casey seems to have had an average day.

Nothing went right for us this round. Port losing would have been very good. At least Sydney and West Coast did. It’s gonna be hard to catch the Dogs on percentage. To their credit they have that killer instinct and know how to destroy weak teams.

I don’t think Fritsch is why we lost. Far from it. Too many players were down and played lazy selfish football. Trac tried to do too much. Harmes doesn’t play to his obvious limitations. Hunt was woeful. ANB and Spargo had zero influence. May had his worst game maybe ever. I think Fritsch has had a few very poor outings this year that have been skimmed over because he is a good player who can kick a bag. But we pick on Melksham who is poor defensively, and yet we don’t raise an eyebrow when Fritsch lays 0 tackles. I don’t care if that’s not his primary role. Every player should play with a defensive mindset when they are not in possession of the footy. It’s what makes us such a great team. Fritsch averages 2 tackles a game. Tmac is at 6. That’s all I’m saying. He has to play more defensive, especially when he isn’t having a great game on the scoreboard. Because he isn’t tall and because we have brought him a host of talls recently, he is now playing on a much more attacking defender and it’s been costly.

Fritsch is probably the most selfish player in our side. He is a very very good forward who is hard to match up on and has a great goal sense. He’s also very lazy, insipid tackler and an awful set shot. He goes from sensational one week to a liability the next.

Harmes did a really good job on Sloane. But my god he has to know his limitations. He and Trac tried to do far too much with the ball. Too many dicky handballs and idiotic kicks. They were not alone but I expect more from them.

Oliver gets even more points for his post match interview. Asked about his own game he said “it doesn’t matter we lost”. Players like him make good teams into champion teams.

I actually can’t believe Tmac missed his set shot last night. He hasn’t missed those all year. So costly. And Fritsch’s set shot was an utter disgrace. Didn’t make the distance or even landed anywhere near the goals. They kicked accurately and won. Our woeful goal kicking is just another area that is starting to hurt us badly.

Would not be surprised if BB doesn’t play today. Keep him fresh for next week now that Weideman has had two poor games. I would be shocked and frankly very annoyed if he doesn’t play against the Dogs. He is a weapon at Marvel.