The heart beats true

I think Gus was keen to play more midfield minutes and assumed that had to be somewhere else - but then saw what Jack Viney delivered on Thursday night and thought ‘Actually, I don’t want to play against that. Sign me up!’

Mods, please merge 👍

That’s fascinating about the Eagles. Didn’t know that.

Freo won’t have the picks to get LJ unless they bundle a LOT and can move up the draft order. You simply can’t argue he’s worth less than pick 1-5. Only one WA club really in contention - which I think longer term is a better business decision for Luke. You can’t compare the Eagles and Freo in WA. If he wants to go home, we get a big draft pick and use it to score a gun key position forward. Makes me wonder about Ben King. We’d have to ask, and ask hard. Regardless, I love Luke and the way he goes about it, but I think if he goes he’s going to be playing for a team that’s going to struggle for 3-4 years.

2 minutes after it occurred. Honestly AFL, put me on the pay roll and I’ll get it done in 5 minutes and save your $250k.

He missed a trick here. Should have said… ’Don’t go overseas and do anything Jordan De Goey wouldn’t do - TWICE!. Thanks everybody you’ve been a great audience. Try the veal. Good night!’

You said sizeable contract, and I just think it’s worth pointing out it wouldn’t be beyond what we should have paid given North wanted him gone. Why you so angry today Nev? Seasonal affective disorder? It’s warm up the top of the ladder. Let the sunshine in.

And now he’s a Melbourne supporter, so he’s got to manage the myriad of emotions we all know comes with that.

Browns contract isn’t sizeable. It’s about par for what it should be for a bloke whose played as many games as he has, and definitely unders for a Coleman medallist. I thought Ben looked great early. He was very mobile and giving the Lions defenders something to think about. At the ground I thought his energy was brilliant. It’s not his fault that our game style gives him difficult shots - in fact it’s part of the reason we got him and he’s in the team. I watched the replay and saw 3 separate players point down to teammates to indicate to them not to put the ball in the air after the first quarter. It’s a team sport, Ben definitely played his part on Thursday.

I heard Noble say in the post match that Tarryn’s Nan died during the week and he wanted to play for her, but found it really difficult to focus during the game. He flew back to his family after the match instead of back to Melbourne. I kind of find Demon supporters piling onto North a bit confusing. They are essentially us circa 2012-13. We turned out ok.

They said last night on the news that Stewart is friends with Jack Riewoldt, got Prestia’s number from him, and called Dion to apologise and check in on him on Saturday night.

I was very willing to give Ginnivan a shot in the face iof the criticism of him enjoying his goals too much. After watching that game against GWS he just flops around far too much to be admired, and even though it only works 20% of the time it’s just not an admirable way to play. He’s essentially playing for a free kick 85% of his game time.

Agree. Often times the Brownlow winner is the best midfielder in a half decent team without a lot of midfield peers to take votes off. Matt Priddis was similarly a good footballer, but wouldn’t have been in the top 20 players in the comp the year he won.

Noble was giving the players a spray at 3/4 time and none of them were eye balling him. His career has a stink about it. Imagine coaching for 30 years and then inheriting that side?

I think Rivers is feeling the impact of an interrupted preseason. We need him up and about but he just looks flat and struggling with the pace. I also think Hunt as the sub could be a game changer for us over the coming weeks. He can play forward or back, and when the game opens up after half time if he came on fresh he could be a real advantage. Bedfords pressure was fantastic on Thursday. We just looked better equipped to apply the necessary forward half pressure to give us consistent looks. I also think with a smaller forward line we used the ball better, and forward handball from stoppage more efficiently, because we knew we couldn’t bomb it forward from the back of every clearance like we have for the last month. I don’t see any changes this week.

Saints are clearly loading (or just not very good).

100%. Terrible mistakes. Tom Lynch, whose entire job is to be the deepest forward on the ground, takes a mark at half back, turns around and plays on, and is shocked to find there’s no one in front of him. No Tom. No.

David King said 5-6 weeks if the AFL is serious about concussion. Stewart played a good game, but you can very easily make the argument that his hit on Prestia was the difference in the game.

Richmond are dreadful. They made so many mistakes in that last quarter.

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Ok, so this is where it gets interesting. Geelong said they were loading last week. Let’s see how they are after half time.

He was knocked out on the ground and lay down for 2 minutes, the umpire saw it and reported Stewart straight away, Prestia came off and was immediately subbed out for concussion - meaning he misses next week. Theres absolutely no way that doesn’t cost him more than it costs Prestia - which is 2 games.

Shhh! 🤫 My outrage about this has nothing to do with our draw. I’m outraged! We all should be outraged! It’s outrageous!

The fox footy boys going after how poor it looked and there’s nothing Stewart can do but fall on his sword. Trial by media done. Minimum 3 weeks.