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The rule served us well in the 2021 GF, especially the 3rd qtr.

I remember on the night I woke the whole house up when TMac kicked that goal. Looking at him gesture for everyone to get back makes me think the 6, 6 , 6 rule wasn’t in play yet. Pedo played well and Gawn was beardless. Got goosebumps watching that again. Thanks for posting that.

Big miss from the Weid.

Is Daicos that good? Is he better than the Bont or Dawson or Butters right now? Is he just racking up cheap possessions of half back? I have no doubt he uses it well but is he rightfully the Brownlow favourite? I personally don’t think he’s the best player in the game.

Some great points. Out of interest do you remember about 5-6 years ago when we played the Eagles over in Perth and TMac kicked the winning goal with about 20 seconds to go?

I think most supporters understand it’s a long season but to give ourselves the best chance in September a top 2 finish whilst not a necessity is highly desirable. Considering our list it’s not an unrealistic expectation. Petty played because it’s the best thing for his individual program? Last week was rd 15, still 9 weeks of the H & A season left. If it was rd 21-22 yeah I would understand but selecting him was a mistake, Goodwin needs to own it. Winning wasn’t the sole goal there were other objectives? Well winning should be the sole goal and other objectives are to fall in around it. What are the other objectives, game plan sounds like important one, yet we went back to playing dumb predictable footy like we did in the majority of our games pre Collingwood. Getting games into players / working out our best line up, great idea, we’ve been trialing Smith up fwd which is starting to take some shape. Bringing players back into the side to regain form? Last week was the wrong game to do it, that loss has most likely cost us top 2 and if Geelong won last night could have also cost us top 4. I still believe we are a massive chance this season but we must settle on our best line up, fix our set shots and get back to playing smart unpredictable footy. Anything less than another flag this season or next is a massive failure. Edit : The Petty selection wasn’t the sole reason we lost against Geelong but it didn’t help and was a mistake.

I’m the same. I’m over most stats, regardless of your view on any aspect of our game you can find a stat to support your case unless your the WCE. The game is over analysed for many reasons, but I don’t need stats to tell me that if we played against the Cats like we did against the Pies we win. We didn’t even need the “flick the switch” factor, we just needed to play smart and kick straight.

But it’s happening to often. So we either change the way we play (deliver the ball better and open up the fwd line) or don’t play him. He does apply himself defensively but it is limited.

Question for yourself and those that have liked this post. You reference flicking the switch, understandably it’s hard to be up all the time, the only games this season I think we’ve been on and ready for the fight have been Rd 1 v Dogs Rd 3 v Swans Rd 13 v Pies (our goal kicking halting what should have been a 5/6 goal win against a supposedly unbeatable side) Why can’t a team that only won the flag two season ago and is stacked full of talent just flick the switch for a qtr / qtr and a half to either put a lead on the board early in the game or later in the game to get some separation from a team that refuses to die? At times throughout this season we’ve been caught playing some really dumb predictable and some might argue arrogant footy which has resulted in losses. Against Port we had one good qtr which was the 3rd but other than that it’s all or nothing with us. I said at the start of the season as far as the H & A season goes we should really only be judging ourselves by how we perform against 4-5 other teams. Wins against lower placed teams are a given in most cases regardless of our mindset due to our talent.

Here’s where we differ then, if his one handed attempts were purely in pack situations I agree but it was becoming a trend.

Cats are arrogant [censored].

Cats bringing the heat. Swans still a bit too casual.

I just had trouble getting up off my couch and I could of kicked that.

I’m having difficulty buying that, wouldn’t we rather him mark it considering how good a set shot he is?

McDonald > Amartey Amartey has had a few attempted marks go straight through his hands.

I’ve gone swans. If buddy was playing I was going Cats. The all about me factor is massive.

I love BBB and I’m glad he’s back. Like others I think our fwd is still a work in progress. But I can’t cop anymore attempted marks with one hand in the air. Looking fwd to the game.

Losing to who Bin?

Was a long weekend and a tough week after that performance against the Cats…. Looking at our remaining games we can and should win all of them but that’s not what I’m looking for. I’m more interested to see the make up of the team and how we play. What happened between playing the Pies and the Cats? We can win the flag this year but as we know we are our own worst enemy. Can we try Bowey as a small fwd?

I honestly hope this is not the case, one of them yes but not both. If we kicked straight against Collingwood we win by 5-6 goals, neither Brown or TMac played in that game. I do hope BBB can regain some of his best form. We need to remain mobile. But as always it comes to down to our delivery.

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Most games at Kardinia Park in the AFL era (1990-2023) Melb 25 Bris 24 WCE 24 Adel 23 WB 23 NM 22 Syd 22 Freo 20 StK 19 Port 16 Rich 15 Haw 9 GC 7 GWS 7 Carl 6 Ess 5 Fitz 4 Coll 3 Copied of a Demon FB page, I’m assuming it’s correct.

Collingwood and Port? I must be wars differently game.

It took me 3 days to be able to open DL back up. I was livid on Thursday night turning the game off after Rohans goal in the 4th.

I know I’ve said this before…. 19 and 20 teams anyone?