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No it isn’t but I guarantee some Geelong players felt uncomfortable watching that game. Who can say who will win it .. but it’s the start of the finals and fair to say the dees are right up to our neck in it now.

against that I remember well when Barassi went there in 73 and they, using the newly adopted 10 yr rule, became a powerhouse fr a decade. Which is to say, occasionally a messiah is the real deal. Clarko feels pretty real to me.

Hird to the bombers is like Trump to the Republicans. Doesn’t matter what he says or does…he’ll be the one to “rescue them”. He’ll do nothing but polarise the club and everyone within it. “I see a bad moon arising “ But in the bombers case it does bring a smile.

Big stakes aren’t they. Tiges at the G is not a game I’d be looking forward to. lose and we well could be out in week 1. Gotta come with all guns firing in this one.

The ABC call is the only one to celebrate it from a melbourne perspective!

I’m sure you’ll get to it anyway but.. does struggling to get over the line against the blues and struggling to put away pies and doggies mean we aren’t really in contention? Last year we felt like clearly the best team in it, albeit with some shock losses along the way. 2022 has a v different flavour. As exciting as Sat eve was I have no idea where we genuinely stand at all.

I’ll just let my self out 🤦‍♂️

as in accepted the offer??

If he gets off this then there’s no point in the rules re head high contact and no point in the tribunal.

I’d feel a bit shattered if Todd left. I love having him back.

“ one or BOTH of the first rounders we get fr Jackson” go F yourself with that deal.

Feeling genuinely proud of the club is a whole new world .

Strange night for Max. I had him BOG also, but his kicking for goal cost us the game.

what disturbs me is that so many seem confused or misguided about their run up to kick fr goal. If It’s obvious to me and I’m no coach then how is this unaddressed?! Max runs a mile out to his right and either hooks it thru the left points or kicks straight thru the right. If he was kicking from 50 or 55 then maybe i can see the point re going fr extra distance, but at 25metres it’s plain wrong. And obviously so. CP is doing the same. just go bk and kick it over the man on the mark like the good old days. Absolutely you could not do worse than the current method. trying to avoid kicking over the man on the mark isn’t serving it’s purpose. NIbbler has no idea and spargo is unreliable over anything more than 30 metres. Kozzi is another one who’s wasteful but not in the same league as the 4 above. We need to either get a new goal kicking coach or pull the current one in with a heavy “ please explain” We can talk about game style, loading, Tmac, injuries or internal distractions inn2022 but the fact is we should be sitting top of the ladder now with 3 more wins. Goalkicking has killed or is killing our season. If I can see the error in the run up then it must truly be as obvious as dogs balls. Has anyone got any info at all on who guides the at the club? or if anything is being done.

Be great to hear your opinion on whether our game style has been surpassed in 22? long to the pack in the pocket suddenly feels very outdated.

I feel angry about the loss, the umpiring and the pies hypocritical and self righteous barking . However in some sense Howe is right.. really dumb from Langdon to give ammunition pre game. It in no way affected the result imo but I hope he and the whole playing group don’t make a mistake like that again.

well if this were true the pies would win a high % of the close games across all seasons. which they haven’t. A brief glance at just the grand finals lost by close margins would reveal something else. They’re riding a wave this year. They were peaking as a team on Friday eve and I strongly believe they will not be able to sustain it and that that wave will collapse come finals.

It really was. horrible decision. Nothing said about it on the commentary either.

yes. i’ve woken also with a sinking feeling . A./ when u lose a game u should have won . But also, and worse, B./ recognising that when push come to shove, and the whips are really cracking, we’re really just not that good this year. Hunger? luck? bad kicking? umpires? a bit of all of it = just not that good. ie close but no cigar in 2022.

We consistently miss too many easy frikn critical goals . Gawn missed 3 of them FFS. Can’t have any player doing that let alone the skipper. But trac missed two he normally would get, fritta and kozzi an absolutely critical one. I just can’t see a way to fix this now . we’ve become a team that is consistently sloppy and wasteful in front of goal and have been fr a while. it’s prob costing us another decent shot at a flag.

Its a round 20, 2 v 3 clash! Sides separated by percentage only. Its a huge game. Not so much one to be worried about as much as pumped and excited for...we get to prove ourselves (hopefully) on a Friday night with a crowd of 80k plus. These are the games that define the season. Id be "worried" if we were playing say the hawks or the bombers... this one Im just pumped for.

… and they looked super impressive last night. Biclavs in the ruck or a tagger at the centre bounce is giving them a whole new look.My only query is whether they’re peaking too early.

that final sentence says it all.

There’s no need to even ponder that. It’s not enough… end of story. I’m quite sure they’ll try that but why would we accept it? there offer is say pick 14 and pick 15 or worse . maybe if north get a priority or a cpl father sons it’s more like 16 and 17 or worse. If Cerra was worth 6… jackson is worth more.

Love yr work and yr analysis. King might not read it but we all do!