Big Col

Let’s see if we can 2 weeks in a row of goalless halves by our opponents.

Nah. I have every intention of being a smug arrogant pr..k around Hawthorn supporters and supporters of most other teams. The same way that Hawthorns supporter 'friends' have behaved all my life. The exceptions are if they support the Saints ,North, GWS, GCS or Freo in which case I'll just be condescending. I've waited my whole life to behave like this. I'm going to enjoy it.

The change became official at the start of 2021 - so it's been about 15-16 months!

I'm in the Weed camp on this. Although I also share everyone's frustration at the lack of follow up to last week's game, I don't think it helps to have Weed constantly worried that one bad game gets him dropped. While Macca played a (slightly) better game on Thursday night, Weeds game last week was far better than anything Macca has done this year so far. I want to see how he combines with BBB.

6 Gawn 5 May 4 Langdon 3 Jordon 2 Harmes 1 Brayshaw

Rd 1 2013 they killed us and set us up for a horror season resulting in the sacking of our coach. It's about time we returned the favour.

Me too. Daicos is looking good tonight though - boo!

He's got 200 games written all over him. He's our Brett Lovett of the 2020's.

Mitch Brown!

try this link: https://www.afl.com.au/afl-tv/stream?streamId=State League CH14&player=arILJvH9PY

6 Dogga 5 Trac 4 Bowey 3 Oliver 2 ANB 1 May

I'm incredibly relaxed. IMHO It's all just good prac for our defence. Meanwhile Bowey on target for a Rising Star nom. Hoping Brown gets a few more. Multi of mel/oliver/brown/bowey is on the table!

yeah, he's outa control. Needs some Viney attention, I reckon.

Dogga BOG so far. Big tick to Bowey - no second year blues for him.

After waiting 2 weeks between the Prelim and the GF, I've learnt patience. I'm enjoying watching the competition to see who will be this year's runner up. It's an open field!

Your wife sounds like a keeper

I've been watching most games this weekend - and texting mates along the way when their teams are playing - and I've realised what a pr*** I've become. I've dreamed of being in this situation. To my Carlton friend: I think you guys have something this year, you might make the 8 if things go well. Good on you. To my St Kilda & Essendon friends: It's only round one, don't stress too much. I'm sure you'll win a few games. To my Collingwood friend: Maybe you guys won't finish bottom four. You're looking like a 9-12 side! To my Hawthorn friend: Impressive given your outs. I think you guys are building something (this text was given with particular glee) To my North friend: Looks like you guys nailed a no1 pick with Horne-Francis, you need one or two more high picks though, so don't worry too much about this year. I could get used to this.

It's on Kayo. I just watched it.

Premier: Melbourne (for the first time ever it seems like an honest prediction) Runner-up: Essendon Wooden spoon: West Coast Moving up: Fremantle Set to fall: Geelong Brownlow Medal: Oliver Coleman Medal: BBB NAB AFL Rising Star: Horne-Francis Best new Demon: Van Royen Demon All Australian: Gawn, Petracca, Oliver, B Brown Demon B&F: Oliver Big call: Carlton to win their first three games (Rich, WB and Hawthorn) and have their supporters delirious only for them to go on a losing streak and finish bottom four below Gold Coast. Ladder prediction: 1. Melbourne 2. Essendon 3. Fremantle 4. GWS 5. Western Bulldogs 6. Richmond 7. Port 8. Brisbane

Carl 10-3-63 Mel 4-6-30 Goals: Fritta 2, Brown, McDonald Easy Dropped Marks: Fritta, Lever, Jordan, Brown, Viney, Hunt, Smith

That half was more of a stinking pile of sh*t than The Phantom Menace.

Finally Fritta hits the scoreboard. There's 9 minutes left in 2Q, so that's about 26-27 goals.

4 x 50m penalties as we slip to 29 points behind. How much of a lead are we giving them?

Another Carlton goal, 4:41 to go. Carl 4-1-25 Mel 2-2-14

FMD! Another 50m penalty. That's 3 in just 1 quarter.