Undeeterred

Bloody brilliant. I actually reckon the terrible umpiring has geed them right up and we're going to roll over the top.

What the hell is he supposed to do? He was running out of the area, with his back to the player. Should he Disapparate?

VANDERS! That's why he's there, haters.

He's been good. Give him a break.

What's annoying is how the commentators pretend things like his throws are quick hands and his sniping high bumps are fair etc etc etc

Of course he is. Who said he wasn't?

Rioli - one of the best marks of the season, says Dwayne. Completely ignoring Pedo's, of course, which was exponentially better.

This too. Infuriating, especially given they paid a stupid cheap one against Viney when he was just running to man the mark.

And he's kicking the ball. Clearly, they've told him to focus on gaining some territory and being a bit more damaging with his disposal. He's obviously worked on it, and he's killing it.

When we have Hogan leading up the ground and making himself a big, strong marking target across half forward, with Watts and Weed back, we'll be unstoppable.

And just quietly, the reason everyone is so frigging angry about it, is because we have a fantastic young team, who desperately need a big scalp, and who would be five goals up at half time against the probable premier but for some absolutely disgusting, unfathomable decisions. If you don't like it, nick off to BigFooty and talk about the game with West Coast supporters or something.

Good on you, Mr Insight. How bout stop whinging about our players whinging and contribute something then?

Haha weird - I meant Gawn of course. Must have started posted something else and forgotten to delete it

I'd say he's sick to fucken death of playing the ball and not getting anything.

As opposed to a loopy one that sits up and gives the other team a chance? It was both a bad decision and a bad kick.

These umpires are disgusting.

He sat it up, going backwards, into the centre when there was nobody back. It was a terrible kick.

One day in the next, say, 10 games this team plays, the dam wall is going to burst and it's going to be amazing.

Definitely this is helping too. I think there's been a slight structural shift too, though, because earlier in the year we were pushing up much higher, with much less protection, and getting completely smoked on the rebound. Tom McDonald is the perfect player to play the sweeper role and the fact he has a couple of very quick players to get to the contests up the ground can only help. I actually really like the way the backline is coming together and the injection of one or two older heads next year (be that Melksham, Hibberd, Vince going down there full time etc) will only help.

Yep. Tom McDonald doing a fantastic job with this and those immensely frustrating goals where there were 2-3 free players over the back have basically dried up.

Precisely!

That's just wild, ridiculous speculation. SWYL - linking Dean Bailey's death with Hardwick's decision on whether to carry on coaching is up there with the best nonsense I've heard on this forum. What about Leppitsch? Should he quit, just in case he gets cancer? What about all the other, literally, hundreds of VFL/AFL coaches who have coached through shocking pressure and not got cancer? Saty - 'Mitigating' means to reduce, not to increase.

Completely agree. And when it comes off, it's fantastic because the ball goes through a few pairs of hands and they can all get around afterwards and circle jerk each other. But it's so frustrating when it doesn't come off, which should be really rare, but isn't.

Wow. Ok. That's a fairly big call.

Come on. Honour has absolutely nothing to do with it. This is the response that every single one of us would give.