Undeeterred

Just when we need a captain's goal....

Fair enough. That surprises me, it hasn't looked that bad. We looked fantastic through the middle for about 30 minutes there. Oh well.

LOL. I've come in late. I'm just responding to that specific comment. And we've been ok in there.

Except the bit where we kicked 8 in a row. Sheesus.

What is most painful is that this Port team is dead set rubbish

I've said this before - absolutely correct.

Except we've been 40 points up in this game.

Jesse, Jesse, Jesse.

If you're social skills in the real world are anything like your social skills here, I think the only reason you're allowed to talk to the players is because it is too expensive and inconvenient to move the whole club's training sessions each week to a secret location that you don't know about.

It is.

Would love to point out to them that changing their name from Kangaroos back to North Melbourne cost them a finals berth...

Oh this is gold.

I hate the way that Bernie waves his elbows around and gets rubbed out. But I absolutely love it when Oliver lays really clean, strong tackles, or when Viney attacks the ball when it's on the deck. There's nothing wrong with playing hard footy. And there's nothing wrong with bumping per se, but it's not on to shirtfront someone who is going for the ball and has no opportunity to brace for the impact. And it's definitely not on to get them anywhere near the head in that situation.

Have a quick Google - he was pencilled in as the next captain right across the footy world, but I thought there had been some internal stuff which meant that he didn't get it. I could be remembering incorrectly!

Geez he played a good game if he had a corkie in the first quarter.

No, he plays on the edge and hits harder than everybody else, which makes it exactly as bad as it looked. Total cheap shot on a player who had eyes only for the ball, was fumbling it, and therefore had completely opened up the front of his body and wasn't expecting to be ironed out. Why should we let players get away with crap like this because they 'play on the edge'. It's just complete nonsense. There's just no place for that in footy.

He was their last captain too, until there was a player revolt and they gave it to Mundy.

Nonsense. We got exactly what the formula said we should. And the rest of your post has absolutely nothing to do with my original point.

Which is relevant to the level of compensation how? The discussion is whether we were compensated for the player we lost. Your random point about how lazy he was and whether he would fit at another club is a complete red herring.

This. Such a huge difference between playing hard footy and being a dirty Hawthorn sniper.

Which is 100% irrelevant to my post.

Frawley was one of most important players and, for all the whining we used to do about Sylvia, he was easily first 10 picked each week when he left.

Essendon would do their nut. Won't happen.

Loved that play - Petracca looked majorly p1ssed and chased Gibson down no worries. Was hilarious.

I'd take two goals from a tagger every day of the week. Interesting that apparently he was rested against Gold Coast so he'd be fresh for this one...