The heart beats true

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?

I’ve owned Pit Bulls, Bull Terriers, French Bulldogs, and Tibetan Terriers. All loving, all very well behaved - because I trained them. The most lethal? The Frenchies. The farts. Unbelievable.

You’re brave @No. 31 I have a hard rule of never watching the replay of a loss.

Freo can’t win. Their strategy is about not losing, but when it comes down to it they get rolled. 2 weeks in a row.

Umpire didn’t even play a free kick. Was incredibly dangerous.

That was 50. I don’t understand the 50 anymore. A player goes near an imagined space and it’s 50, but a player tries to hurt someone who’s trying to mark the ball and it’s not. The AFL has that wrong.

It’s good for footy, and by good for footy I mean good for the Dees, because that’s the only footy I love.

He’s going to be a great player. They’ve got some real talent to work with.

I like footy again.

Carlton fans booing the umpires when they’ve had one less free for the game, but 4 goals from very questionable frees. My least favourite supporters by a mile.

It must be nice watching tight Carlton games safe in the knowledge that the umpires will go to work in the last quarter.

They do not understand the rules. It’s a byproduct of not going to the footy for 15 years.

Pathetic free kick in front of goal to Carlton.

Nobody misunderstands the holding the ball rule quite like Carlton supporters.

His pace is noticeable at this level.

Shocker.

Gee the Giants look good.

That Sam Taylor incident doesn’t look good at all.

Anyone know what Gus is up to? I haven’t seen him on the bench since the game against the Dogs. Is he still doing this?

JUH isn’t going anywhere. If anything I think that’s good for everyone else, as the dogs have a lot of talls on good money, but they still don’t have anything that resembles an AFL standard backline. Just on Jamarra, he looks an absolute superstar. He controls the ball at such height, and it all looks effortless. I was skeptical at first, but he’s going to be in the top 5 players in the comp. Goes to show it takes longer with tall forwards. Hang in there Jeffo.

"He's fine. For some reason, he lost his footing and stumbled, but he's fine. He's been looked after and there's no concussion or anything like that," Beveridge said of Liberatore. https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/western-bulldogs/afl-2024-tom-liberatore-collapses-video-what-happened-explained-tweaked-ankle-concussion-western-bulldogs-v-essendon-bombers-luke-beveridge-press-conference/news-story/30412f1b878b09187533510d63e4ebf0 I call BS.

This situation with Liberatore collapsing towards the end of the game is very interesting. He and the club are claiming it was a tweaked ankle, but the vision clearly shows him being very groggy, and then collapsing into the ground. Parish was clearly concerned about him, as was Duryea. He took 2 hard knocks in the last quarter. Surely the independent AFL doctor needs to investigate that.

I legitimately think that the umpires are so focused on whatever it is headquarters wants each week they forget to umpire the basics. That non play on to Langford, after he ran off the line, was as obvious as the non 50 last night when Daniher threw the ball well over Lever’s head.

I’d suggest not a great look for the club, given our recent history.

Koz was a huge loss. They just walked the ball out of defence, and within 10 seconds it was in their forward 50.