Very Jaded

I hope for once our club sent in a scathing medical report as opposed to being the nice guys. Photos of Gus’ shiner, documents about his previous condition, impact to his and his family’s well being following this nasty collision. Bury this thug and bury his club. Hope he misses finals and it burns in his guts forever. Payback for all the cowardly thug acts he’s committed over the years, including this one that could end the career of an actually BRAVE player who plays the ball. Not the man.

If this piece of dog [censored] doesn’t miss the rest of their season I’ll be dead set ticked off. Because chances are, Gus will miss ours. No doubt he will get off because #bigclubbro

Dane Swan is the poster boy for why drugs are bad

I once reported a Pies supporter at a QB game who was calling Nev Jetta a *insert incredibly insulting racist slur* They said “we can’t do anything about what he says”

All these love heart Instagram posts from our players referencing Gus is definitely not comforting me or leading me to believe that he’s ok. Fingers crossed he will be fine and this won’t impact his career like it has before.

No doubt the process is muddy and rubbish and inconsistent. I think it's hard to argue that Maynard's intention was not to hurt Gus. As I said earlier, did he want to concuss him? Probably not. Did he want to hurt him? Absolutely. He has form, a lot of it, he said during the week he is going to go hard and hurt us. Did he hope to impact the kick? Sure. Did he see an opportunity to smash into Gus hard at the same time by turning his body into him? 100% yes.

I'm giving myself a self imposed ban this weekend. I am not watching any games. My mental health needs a break.

So Hunter got a week for 'hitting' Butters who went on to have 900 touches and win the game. Maynard should get off tho because we should be letting players just play the game? Plenty of spoils occur in footy every week. We had about 10 last night. None of them ended up with a player getting knocked out.

This. We lost Gus which meant Trac had to move into the middle. It threw everything off. He is an enormously versatile and important player who has been incredibly dominant in the midfield. His loss was costly and really hurt our plans.

He should have landed with his arms outstretched across Gus to protect his own fall. The minute he chose to get off the ground, he had to avoid turning his body and tucking in the elbow. If you choose to leave the ground, accept that if you collect someone high, you better not be doing it in a twisting motion.

Watch the MRO grade it as accidental, not high and medium impact and he gets a fine. Never mind that Gus has a black eye according to Goodwin and was knocked out.

Because it was their home game. There should be no home games in finals. You get the home ground advantage, but beyond that it should be neutral. I hate all this pre and during game entertainment anyway. It is loud, obnoxious and completely irritating. Please some music at a normal level, call out the players names pre-game (I do like that because it gets the crowd going), and just leave us in peace during breaks.

Of course he did. We are having a seriously good year on the injury front. No doubt Gawn, Trac and Clarry will somehow all fall into a well this week.

Well he's going to have to check himself back in. He can still win a flag, and he's getting a hell of a lot of money to perform.

Hard to cheer for Mason Cox when he's getting destroyed by a player he is trying to illegally hit. One of the worst blights on our game is Cox. Nice little forceful tug of Trac's leg and high hit on Clarry too. The sooner he departs back to the US the better.

Yep, but of course the same old posters who are the first to get stuck into any Melbourne player, are out here defending that piece of [censored] Maynard and the inbred club he plays for. Anyone who doesn't think McRae, who played under one of the dirtiest coaches in the history of AFL, did not give direction to his players to come out and hurt us, is as delusional as they are stupid. Players with form, a club with form, and supporters with form of being the lowest scum of the earth. Imagine chanting and cheering while a player is out cold, but having the audacity to cry because opposition fans boo Ginnivin for being a duck and a cheat. The mind [censored] boggles.

I fall out of love with football just a little more every season. Melbourne being a good side is keeping me going. But I am holding on for dear life.

We dominate territory for 3 quarters. We executed that dominance like a dog's breakfast. They got a couple of quick breaks and unlike us, actually converted their opportunities. We fought to constantly win the ball back, but could not do a single useful thing with it going into, or once inside 50. And still, that pathetic first quarter effort is why we lost the game. We came out flat, and timid and we were -10 at the contest at 1/4 time. That is inexcusable.

He knows he's our only forward. He tries too hard when he has no support around him. The pressure got to him IMO.

I hope we get an update from the club today about Gus. I know it’s early in the recovery process, but would be good to hear that he’s feeling ok and expected to make a full recovery. Really heartbreaking to see him on the ground for so long. He is such an important hard at it player, who always goes in hard no matter how dangerous it may be to his own health.

Agree with all that. I too have no idea who the sub should be. Woewodin? Maybe Spargo in for Chandler as sub as you say. Unfortunately the forwardline will remain an issue and without JVR it will lack even more pack splitting power.

Quite honestly anyone who thinks that Maynard didn’t see Gus running wide open and unable to protect himself and didn’t think “I’m gonna nail him here”, is delusional. Maynard has always been a dirty thug masquerading as a bog ordinary footballer. Did he think I’m gonna try and impact the kick? For sure. I have no doubt he did. Did he also think he can nail him at the same time? Absolutely. Did he try to knock him out? Probably not. Did he try to inflict pain? Yes he did. A player has never tried smothering a kick with the point of their shoulder. Never in the history of the AFL has a player gone from running with arms out to try and defend a kick to turning midway in the air with an arm tucked in “accidentally”. It’s not a natural movement or reaction of someone who thinks to himself “oh gees this has gone a bit wrong I better try to limit the damage here” The reality is that Maynard knew exactly what he was trying to achieve. It was a ridiculous attempt at a smother. I was very strong on Kosi getting suspended for a very similar action. It was poor and dangerous. Smith didn’t even get a graze tho. Gus was knocked out and is facing yet another career threatening concussion. If Maynard isn’t suspended then I’ll just about be done with this game. You cannot keep protecting your [censored] agenda.

It wasn’t even wet. It rained pre game and not a drop throughout. The ball and ground were only really soggy for maybe the first quarter. The wet is not why we lost. We lost because we can dominate time in half forward but we have absolutely nobody capable of scoring consistently. If Fritsch doesn’t kick a bag we are basically relying on random midfield goals to get us a score sufficient enough to win. We kept the Pies to 9 goals. That’s it. 9. And yet with 32 more entries we couldn’t manage 11 goals total.

Yep some very disappointing performances from some vital players. Viney with 0 clearances is unheard of. Salem again just did no damage. Trac too little too late and blew chances going for goal yet again. Langdon was horrible on Sidebottom. Hunter not enough involvement. Even Nibbler was not his usual brutal self. I don’t expect the likes of Roo and Chandler to stand up. They are kids. They have no experience. Chandler especially plays such a hard role when the ball is just being bombed to 90 Pies players inside 50. But I actually thought that Bowey, McVee and Sparrow were all just fantastic today. Which is great to see. Lever was only ok and again it’s because we didn’t have another tall there to help him peel off and intercept. May was so so good. His will to win is next level.

Once again our backline delivered. I swear they must pull their hair out. Kept Pies to 60 points and watch our forwards blow 30 chances to score two measly goals in the last quarter.