Straight Sets Simon

Grimes was a liability with ball in hand but he didn't give up.

I'm currently watching the replay and I'd forgotten just how good Jetta was yesterday. He's such a smart footballer and quickly becoming an important leader at the club too.

He did a similar dance earlier in the year, I like it.

This.

6. Vince 5. Gawn 4. Viney 3. Hogan 2. Watts 1. Dunn

I would have been if I could see, Fox Footy zoom in so bloody close to the ball it's hard to know what's happening.

In his defence the umpires forgot about the chopping the arms rule, or it wasn't in their weekly email from Wayne Campbell.

One of the top five games from Watts I've seen.

Credit to Nasher for calling this when we were all slitting our wrists. Gawn, Vince, Viney, vandenBerg and Jones all great. Grimes terrible.

Nasher called this.

Dawes has had his arms chopped a lot for no reward.

Grimes has been nothing short of woeful, Tyson as lazy as ever. vandenBerg needs to take the first option.

As soon as we got 23 points up we got too cute.

This game just shows how important pressure is. The amazing thing with pressure is it requires no skill, it's just if your players can be bothered or not.

Clearly touched.

Richmond aren't just running, they are sprinting at all times. Melbourne just jog.

What this whole episode has shown is there aren't two sides to the issue, there's dozens and if anything it's creating good robust discussion for the most part.

Let me revise, I would say racists contributed to the increase but not entirely. As I pointed out, two weeks before the incident with the girl there was a lot of media attention and angst towards Goodes based on how he played which would have contributed to the increased booing. You're second paragraph is rubbish and should be deleted immediately as I said nothing of the sort.

For me it's simple, only pay the free kicks that are clearly there. If they pay every little technical push in the back, too high, chopping the arms soft free kick then they simply open themselves up to being less consistent. If they only pay the obvious ones then they less likely to miss these ones and be more consistent from the first to last games of the year.

Because there were racist people booing as I have stated, but not everyone was doing it for racist reasons. How many times do I need to write this?

I want to put on the record that I totally support Adam Goodes in all that he says about Indigenous Australians and the work he does. It is brilliant and more needs to be done. How he reacted to the "ape" call was completely appropriate, even if the girl was young he needed to make a stand and he wasn't to know she was so young. I have no issue with him being Australian of the Year (for a start he didn't elect himself into this role) and I totally support his speech which I only recently heard in full for the first time. He's one of the best players, most talented, durable and versatile players we have seen in recent years with and should be remembered as such. Anyone who boos from here on in is a disgrace because like it or not he has now stated he interprets the boos as racist. But, outside of all of this he does have a reputation for being a bit of a sniper and thug and seemed to get away with a lot with the MRP (not his fault). Two weeks before the incident with the young girl there was a lot of media attention on Goodes and the way he played, sparked by comments made by Dermot Brereton after he crudely slid into Josh Gibson. He was also booed in 2010 during the Melbourne game and 2011 during an Essendon game, not as regularly but it did happen. This is where it gets messy, a lot of people were upset with Goodes for how he played. The fact that he was a star of the game probably escalated things in this regard, then two weeks later we have the incident with the young girl. My point, as it has always been we cannot assume that all previous boos were for standing up to the young girl, for being Australian of the Year or what he has said regarding any Indigenous issues. Like it or not a lot of people simply didn't like him and how he plays. The booing is of poor taste and has escalated to bullying levels, but was it always racially motivated? I don't think so and to label all people who have booed him in the past as racist is unfair and a gross generalisation.

What if racist boos are mixed into the boos he could get for being an ex player? I hope he isn't booed by the way, I didn't like it when he was booed earlier in the year.

it will be interesting to see whether Lumumba gets booed by the Collingwood supporters (again).

I've not really noticed this lately but I know Trengove used to do this all the time.

There's more than one forward other than Hogan. If teams drop numbers back you just match it so they don't play loose (see the Geelong game).