The heart beats true

So very brave of Rod to tell his story. My Year 8 coordinator at High School is serving 40 odd years for molesting over 50 boys. Our local priest in our very small town will die in jail for abusing over 65 kids. As a kid I knew something wasn’t right, I just didn’t know the scale and audacity of it. Don’t raise your kids to be compliant. Raise them to be aware, and to have the confidence to know they can tell you anything. Watch them like a hawk. If something doesn’t seem right, it might not be. And to those families, and individuals, impacted by these crimes thank you for telling your stories. The courage it takes is truly heroic. You’ve helped make our society a much safer, and more just, place.

Alan Johnson was a gun.

Fatigue is playing a much more significant part this year. I think coaches are more intent on having the ball in any players hand in the 50 so everyone can catch their breath, than they are worrying about deeper entries (the focus of the last few years). Be interested to see if this is backed up by kicking for goal position stats.

As an aside, I’d be furious if I was St Kilda paying Bradley Hill 800k+ a year to get meaningless kicks in the back pocket every week. He just doesn’t get enough ball where it matters.

Honestly we arrested some serious momentum and changed the game. I can’t remember when we last did that and went on to win. We have some talent on the list. If we manage it well we are going places.

Yeah, if by interesting you mean cheap and one sided.

How the actual [censored] are we being criticised for absolutely smashing a team that played finals last year because senior players are abusing junior players for not doing team things? This commentary is an embarrassment .

That’s a really composed goal by TMac

Great kick from Petracca to McDonald, great kick from McDonald to Fritsch, great kick for goal by Fritsch. Footy is easy if you have the skills.

Fritttttttttaa!!!!!

Great effort to hold it in by Spargo

Keep talking trash then!

Baker

Calm down. He often gets the ball in some tough spots to kick from. Having another leading forward will really help him in terms of where he gets the ball. He has to go wide often as he can’t compete with the big guys in the air.

Well Demons fans we have been praying for years for our players to shift momentum in a quarter. That was great to watch.

100% we tried something else around the ball and it worked

Go Dees!!!!!

12-4 free kicks ?

Kosi!!!!!!!!!!

Midfielders getting torched

How is that not chopping the arm against Gawn but is for Mckernan? we are getting a bad run with the umpires!

Ask the blokes that gave their full forward 2 free kicks that resulted in 2 goals. That’s the difference.

Weak freak kick. Umpires being sucked in by crowd. I honestly think they are lucky to be this close.

Am I the only one who think the jury is still a long way out on Sparrow? He seems an almost footballer to me.

I forgot how much I dislike Eagles supporters. It’s was one of the only upsides to COVID not having to hear them clap in unison.