The heart beats true

Carlton look dreadful

Is that Bailey Fritsch? I can’t tell under all that ridiculous political nonsense being shoved down my throat.

He’s been on the ground ever since.

Elliot smacked his head on the ground there. No concussion test? WE NEED AN INDEPENDENT SYSTEM.

He looks devastated

Just to be clear we beat Carlton. That was a goal.

Murphy looks very dejected. If him and Moore aren’t fit they basically have a backline of flankers.

Scotchmans Hill Pinot?

Surely that tunnel on Murphy was reportable?

I know for a fact they don’t hide anything at club land. It’s just nobody comes out because why would you put yourself through the horror show you see aimed at indigenous or female athletes if you didn’t have to.

Yeah, we are Melbourne supporters. Is that news to you?

Brian Taylor is insufferable.

Collingwood’s defence looks super ordinary.

So that Collingwood don’t have 15 games at the G. I think that’s literally it.

Centre clearances have never been more important than they are in the current game.

Speak for yourself.

No Brett Lovett? What! He’s the greatest half back flanker in the history of the world. I’m offended.

I was asking because I was trying to figure out our MCG average. So it’s 9 games at 438k our average is just under Richmond’s at 48,660. I really want the club to ditch the NT, and healthy figures like this make a good case. Selling games, giving up home ground advantage, and forcing a team in a premiership window to unnecessarily travel makes no sense to me.

Is that including the absolute horror show that was the 3,000 people in Alice Springs?

Is this another camera (circled in red)?

This is my constant frustration with the ARC. It’s actually been turned into a court of appeal. Why is the ARC told the umpires called? The onus is then on them to overturn someone else’s decision. If the ARC looked at the footage without any precedent from the available angles on Saturday night they’d say the ball was clearly not touched. Instead they were tasked with overturning the on field decision, instead of looking at the footage objectively and making an independent call. That shouldn’t be the ARC’s brief. Their brief should clearly be ‘look at this and make your decision with much more available information than we have’. Then if they say ‘insufficient evidence’ it goes back to the umpire to make his (until now unknown) call.

I will say that I felt the umpire’s positioning in the forward line of both teams was much better on the weekend. I noticed them (Chamberlain in particular) working harder to be on the boundary side of the contest and award obvious free kicks to Curnow and Smith by being correctly positioned. I think forwards and defenders rely too much on the umpires being central, so it was good to see an adjustment by the umps. Also, while we are talking about the umpires, they are dirty cheats and costs us the game. Carry on.

That’s actually a really clean, simple idea. I wonder why they don’t implement that? It makes it so much easier for all footy fans to understand an infringement. We got rid of third man up and everyone adjusted. We should definitely implement this.

I reckon the Suns might catch Carlton on the weekend. Suns midfield is very good, and they’ve been super impressive up there. Carlton have played a lot of footy on adrenaline and atmosphere. That’s not exactly a calling card for Heritage Stadium. Will be a good watch. Miller will go to Cripps and they’ll back in Anderson and Rowell.

The fitness was glaringly obvious at the ground. Honestly they clung to that win for the last 10 minutes. It was an admirable effort, but they were shot, and we looked much fitter. Why I’m disappointed not to win the lesson for our boys is obvious. We have the legs, but we need a better plan for pulling teams out when they flood back - especially when we don’t have more contested marking players ahead of the ball. We also would be furious at the centre clearance goals we gave up to start the 4th. One less of those and we win. I’d be really surprised if Carlton can keep this up for another 6 weeks. They had 7 scoring shots to 10 after half time, but managed 6 goals (we went 5.5). That game goes for 1 minute longer in either the 3rd or 4th term and we would have won. Also, just to be clear, we did win. I still can’t believe there was ‘insufficient evidence’ that the ball was touched. If the ARC weren’t told of the umpires call they’d say that was a clear goal. They had their opinion swayed by the goal umpire because the angle that shows the ball wasn’t touched was the angle the goal umpire saw. If you showed that goal line footage to 10 people and asked them to say where was it touched all 10 of them would say it wasn’t. That the ARC is made aware of the goal umpires opinion is a clear fault in the system.