Dee Zephyr

Anyone know if Casey played a practice match on the weekend and if not why not? There were at least a couple of VFL practice games over the weekend.

Seriously AFL, I get that there’s a game still to be played this round but get your priorities right, like informing us about ticketing for our huge game next week. Really enjoying our start to the year, there’s a spring in the step every Monday, the kids squabbling is now entertainment and how good to have a team most of us can start trusting that when the chips are down they will fight it out. There will be down days, hopefully few and far between.

MFC - Older, wiser, undefeated

Loved it when I saw the headline last week and in case a few missed it ...The Kozzie Show is...

Work rate has to be the main reason Sparrow continues to get a game, although he’s ok when he actually gets the ball. Looking at the Tracker stats, he’s our leading player in the first three weeks for average speed in both attack and defence. Stats for tonight have him down as 5 contested possessions but 4 disposals. 4 intercept possessions, 1 goal assist and 3 score involvements. Not bad for a quiet game.

6. Hunt 5. Gawn 4. Langdon 3. Pickett 2. Viney 1. Tomlinson

Nibbler with the dribbler

Last week was a win and a good win, not many wins are perfect. Not sure why people are trying to take the gloss of it just because the Saints got smashed by Essendon. Saints played a hell of a lot better against us than what they did yesterday. There’s no way Essendon are a 13 goal better side than them, it just shows you how quickly the game can change week to week. Port and Saints both got smashed yesterday but for different reasons. Port tried hard but were just outclassed by a unit I believe has the best foot skills in the league and they couldn’t break down the Eagles’ system. Blind Freddy could tell you the mindset displayed by the Saints was very poor. I’ll be happy if we keep beating what’s in front of us, continue showing a level of maturity and team ethic that was on display last week and you go a long way in winning games.

Hunt

It’s obvious that most of us really dislike the ritual of Thursday night teams vanishing. All because clubs think it gives them better flexibility to name a team the night before. That’s pretty much the answer I got when I contacted SEN to find out the exact reason although the host did agree with me that it’s rubbish. Like mentioned above teams pretty much know their final 22 two to three days prior to a game, the NRL clubs announce squads on the Tuesday before and there’s nothing wrong with that. At least give us an extended squad on Thursday nights so we can argue on here for a good two days about the final interchange.

Maybe we will see a 100 goal season by a forward this year. I’d like to see that, any chance it can happen?

Let’s all look at Bruce’s efforts as 15k to the Royal Children’s.

With goals like that no wonder the headline from the Round 2 ‘Nine things we learned’ read The Kozzie Show is must-watch TV No pressure Kozzie, just go out there and keep having fun.

McCluggage was unbelievable in the last quarter. Might have saved their season

They were talking about this on SEN yesterday t_u. The ‘Stamina Men.’ In round 1 four players (didn’t catch the names) across all games played 100%, in round 2 that number increased to 7 and as you stated 3 were ours. It will be interesting to see if the number keeps increasing league wide.

Sub switch. Baker out Melksham in. Hibbo probably has still a bit to offer, but I wouldn’t want to change the back 6 at the moment.

That’s awesome work by Spargo and ANB, this stuff is infectious. The hard work is evident early this season. When the Saints had their little patch in the second quarter I saw a lot of finger pointing at the ground from our boys, instantaneously I thought here comes the blame game between them, but i since read on here it was all about working out how to restructure. Really pleasing to see some maturity creep in.

I reckon it’s the increase in the price of beer. Make the beers $2 like the pies at Marvel and watch them flock in. Couldn’t even take a sip in the main walkway before a Covid coach tells you to move on and get back to your seat.

6. Salem 5. Oliver 4. Petracca 3. Pickett 2. Tomlinson 1. ANB

For years we’ve sat and watched gun opposition smalls destroy us with their skill and turn games with something out of nothing goals. Last night felt like it’s our turn again now, watching Saints’ fans shuffle in their seats every time Kozzie went near the ball was a beautiful thing. Just amazing awareness and when was the last time we had someone snap a goal from nearly 50 out. So much to look forward to and a nice support crew building around Kozzie with the hard work of Spargo and ANB. Might not be a big thing but I liked there were no over the top celebrations post game, just the boys getting around each other for a great team effort. Lovely Sunday coming up.

Jones bench pressing Butler as Ling called it was even better on the replay. Very important time to break a tackle and start a goal chain late in the third quarter. Thought Jones was more than handy tonight. A lowlight was the lack of security in the stands, heaps of Covid coaches walking around and wiping hand rails, but no security anywhere to be seen in our section when four Saints’ fans got into a fight amongst themselves.

So happy, Saints had the better of us for about 10 mins in the second but very impressed with the way we swung the momentum back. One of Salem’s best games, he was unreal today.

Salem very very good

It seems momentum changed since they swapped Jackson and Max.

We have no one to kick to. Our forward 50 is empty.