spirit of norm smith

Trac injured Oliver was average. Handballs to no one once again on show

It was a shocker Clear … kick it Handball to nowhere

Rivers fumbled badly !!

Rivers turnover 🤬 Rivers fumbles turnover 🤬 Freo goal 🤬

Completely agree DD36 I think AMW and Heath will likely get promoted soon. Also liked the energy of Tommy Matthews and his goal smarts.

Tommy goals. 👏👏He is a ripper

Stanley goal 👏👏 End to end 👏👏 Bonner run and link up and run 👏👏 AMW setup with direct clean rebound too 👏👏

Hard to the beat the Dogs and the umps 🤬

I did mean before that!!

AMW and Bonner are a step above. Bonner would’ve been a handy player still at senior AFL footy. AMW will be back in the 1sts very soon. Clean with his possession and composed Agree young Tommy Matthews has some energy. Just needs to get his hands on the footy. Treloar is above this & enjoying his run. I think they are restrict his minutes.

Need to get Melksham into the game

Dolan drops the mark. Mark paid !! Umpires are third rate.

@Nascent agree seems like it’s kick kick kick. But moving it downfield quickly is a nice change from the over possession footy game.

Craven. Nice. Two goals. Quick ball movement and crumbs a goal. Back to 4 points. Bonner doing well.

Kicking to mid sized forwards with no targets Dogs poor goalkicking is keeping us in the game. Billings 1.3 already and missed two definite chances.

Wish we had AJ & Kentfield up forward. Need some targets.

Dees 14 Dogs 30 Dogs with Treloar and Billings are on top. Lots of quality AFL listed and VFL regulars in their team. Cross goal after the siren was much needed. 👍🏻 ANW and Mentha looking good so far. 👍🏻

Bulldogs. Relatively light injury list. Unavailable: Cody Weightman - knee TBC, Zac Walker - ankle 6-8 weeks, Latham Vandermeer - concussion - Test, Riley Garcia - hamstring TBC.

Who will the Dees take as the travelling emergency to Perth? Assume they take Laurie as a cover for Langdon. Typically Dee’s have overloaded in travelling emergencies, taking 2 or 3 players and leaving Casey light on. Not sure if Tom McDonald will be WA bound or play for Casey.

@whatwhat say what context was The Tribunal found that May didn't intend to bump, but Gleeson said his actions were "unreasonable". The AFL Tribunal imposed a three-match ban. Unreasonable ? By whose standards Melbourne appealed the decision, arguing May was solely focused on winning the ball, but the appeal failed, and the three-match ban was upheld. Pendlebury had no intention to play the ball. His intent was to physically bump the Crows player. He got it wrong. He made clear contact with the head (remember the AFL once said that the head was sacrosanct!!). Yet Pendles gets cleared of any suspension and gets a fine. No rational person could ever equate the decisions the Tribunal makes, except to conclude there is bias and that explains the decisions being made. @Demonland

Jeff Gleeson, the current Chair of the AFL Tribunal, is a 35-year member and coterie member of the Collingwood Magpies Football Club. That’s true. He is BIASED. The tribunal is a JOKE. 🤬 Maynard incident. Free to play May incident. Suspension Pendlebury. Free to play It was off the ball, careless bump, high contact, medium impact. The ball was well away when he made contact. That deserved suspension, at least 1-2 weeks. As we know with something like Kozzy bump on Moore, it’s 3 weeks instantly!!!

Clearly was a tough thing for him to leave the Saints, but they moved him out the door. Their loss, our gain. He is a leader. He is composed. He will be a great asset to guide and develop our young mids like Langford and Windsor. V Saints in round 1, he was a strong contributor not just with the footy. 21 possessions. 9 contested. 7 score involvements. One goal. With the loss of Clarry & Trac, we were blessed to be able to add Steele and for virtually a packet of chips in the trade. A good positive first game. 💙❤️ Ps @binman Jack’s worthy of a few comments in the pod. Thanks.

AFL WEBSITE Cal Twomey “King's influence on game style showed the Demons kicked more and were more direct, with the numbers seeing their kick to handball ratio on Sunday lift to 1.64 – up from a competition-low 1.23 last season. Their ball movement from defensive transition was also up significantly on last year”. Agreed. I didn’t see much of the overhandball that existed across the Goodwin years. Nothing more frustrating when we saw slow ineffective static handballs

6 - Gawn 5- Van Rooyen 4- Windsor 3- Steele 2- Jiath 1- kozzzy Honourable mentions. Petty, Mihocek & Turner.

Misses crucial Langdon Windsor Fritta Crucial misses !!!