The heart beats true

Weirdly the Carlton fans around me didn’t seem that disappointed, or shocked. They just seemed mildly annoyed it was happening again, and sure as hell weren’t sticking around until the siren.

I’m typing from the stands of the G, and surrounded by Dees fans, and we just don’t wanna leave. That was epic. I love our footy club.

He’s been great

That last Cartlon goal was as a result of just losing contest after contest. It was really poor

Can someone answer something. From level 4 of the G Checkers kick to Windsor look to go 20-25 metres. Was it just the angle I was on, or did it look ok on TV too?

For me I can handle that we are way too light on around the ball. It was always going to be a problem, and it’s proven to be. What I think we really need to coach is how we want to move the footy. We seem to have stagnated after the first game (and what I saw in Preseason). It feels like with the step up in pressure the players don’t have the same confidence to run, and aren’t honouring the short 45 angled kicks. Koz is trying but he wants to bang it forward instead of going short and challenging the zone to press up. I don’t care about getting beaten, but I wanna see what we want to be in 3 years - even just a couple of times a quarter. Haven’t seen enough the last few weeks.

Mate, stop clogging every thread with this dull garbage. If you don’t want to do 12 seconds of research to find out why Clayton HAD to go to then that’s on you.

We have nothing in the middle. Absolutely nothing. It’s hard to watch.

There was a couple of really young players playing last night for The Bombers that had the ‘deer in the headlights’ look of being asked to play when they were nowhere near ready. It really reminded me of us in 2012/13.

Will be really interesting to see how the tribunal respond. Would not be surprised if it’s multiple weeks. He’s got recent tribunal form, and that is just a bizarre, ugly thing to do.

This game is so bad. Gresham went to kick the ball back to his teammate from 15 metres away after play had stopped for a free kick, and he missed him with the kick by 10 metres.

The crowd at this game, and us suckers watching at home, are exactly the problem with the AFL. We are so rusted on they can provide such a poor product - and we still watch.

Do Freo have the worst club song in the AFL?

You said it. I asked you to prove it. You couldn’t - but it’s my job to prove your, completely incorrect, point? Lol.

Still waiting for you to enlighten us with examples of people who got cancelled because of ‘social media’.

I suspected McVee was phoning in a lot of his efforts last year when he requested a trade, but based on his 2026 form I think he’s just pretty average.

Name someone that’s been ‘cancelled’ because of social media, and not because they said or did something wildly inappropriate?

This is why I don’t know what to make of last week. Freo are so inconsistent, and they love a downhill ski.

This is a really weird game of footy.

Stinker of a quarter

Giants going with the ‘go and make it up on the fly’ game plan, with fairly mixed results.

Geelong with 3 free kicks in a row to take the ball from defence to attack. Making it a casual 19-8 free kicks for the game.

Sadly it currently does matter ET. Statistically 3-6% of the population is gay. So given there 800 AFL listed players you can safely assume, on the very conservative end, that’s 25 players currently in the system. If nobody comes out, nobody feels it’s safe too. Essentially, if you can see it, you can be it.

You, evidently.

Never played AFL. Was playing local footy in Melbourne at the time.