The heart beats true

I’m 0-6 in my tipping. Unbelievable.

Don’t do it @WalkingCivilWar I’ve heard weird things about how they role over there.

The good news is that one of these teams will lose. what a weekend. 💩

You sound live every partner, parent and boss I’ve ever had.

The AFL has the downfield rule wrong. There’s an incentive to push a player in the back as they are kicking. It’s gives your defence time to set up. It makes no sense.

This is weak from Port. Really bad.

Port don’t have talent behind the ball. They’ve got size, but no natural footballers. Ratugolea, Aliir, Zerk-Thatcher - they all look like big blokes, and they can all do athletic things, but the basics allude them too often. Collingwood’s theory here is just bang it in and one of them will panic, and it’s working.

Collingwood’s back half look really average.

Ugh. Brad Scott makes his brother seem likeable.

Crows still can’t win the wins they should though. Learnt nothing from last year.

That was a few kick at the end. Crows robbed.

Why is everyone assuming Clayton doesn’t play? Has that actually been spoken about anywhere?

This is classic Dogs under Bevo. Needs a ‘backs against the wall, us against the world’ mentality to get them up. It’s consistency that’s there issue.

I saw that. Disco’s got a lot more exposure to what we want from him, and has had a taste of AFL pressure. I think he’s going to be useful, and I believe the club is very pleased with his progress.

The footage of him turning the bloke on the mark inside out and kicking a goal suggests he knows he’s too good for VFL now.

Ok, thanks. I should have got my [censored] together in February when I got the email. I might follow others advice and rock up for a GA ticket, and stand.

I put my barcode into Ticketmaster and it’s not being recognised. Not sure it matters anyway does it? The tickets left for this game stink from what I saw. I was hoping my membership might unlock something better, but that’s just magical thinking isn’t it?

Now we are doing character references on tackles? This is a joke. It’s a split second movement when it suits them - but now also one of the contributing factors in that split second is that 3 years ago the tackler facilitated a youth workshop. Well, that should be easy to manipulate at their discretion in the future - which is exactly what they want. The social contract of equity and justice between the AFL and its audience is starting to tear. They’ve become obsessed with public rhetoric, that they then have to find increasingly inane ways to work around to support their broader goals (making money). It’s becoming so transparent that it’s damaging the relationship I have with the sport.

I don’t know why anyone is surprised at this. The AFL is only in the business of making money. They spend their time and effort creating a facade of equity and fairness - but neither of those things are actually in their best interest. Cameron doesn’t play = less money. Therefore Cameron plays. Ditto Maynard. Ditto Cripps.

North should move to play at Geelong. With the population growth happening to the West of Melbourne, Geelong, and Surf Coast it makes a lot of sense, and also… It would really annoy Geelong, and that’s always a good thing.

Get him a haircut and sign him up.

Harley Reid is going to be a player.

The whole thing stinks. It’s the biggest advantage in the AFL, and by some margin.

Geelong kick the ball 8 metres and it’s called a mark. That rule is the most inconsistently adjudicated law in our sport.

Every time I watch a game at GMHBA I wonder when we are going to get $500 million to build a stadium at Casey that accommodates 40,000 people, of which we allow only 500 opposition supporters?