Earl Hood

6 Lever 5 Petracca 4 Gawn 3 Fritsch 2 Langdon 1 Oliver

Loved the holding the ball against Oliver in that quarter. It followed about 6 tackles on Geelong players in the same passage of play which were all called a ball up.

Dumb ruckwork!

That last tackle on Isaac Smith in our goal square, a case in point. No prior but he was also making no attempt to release the ball and we know why. That is often a free.

Yes they made a quick diagnosis so it’s not concussion or something they can stitch up.

What the hell is he going on about? Cats gifted their last goal by the umps and he has been getting his usual head ducking frees.

Are we watching the same game? Yes there are errors but look at the frenetic pace and intensity of the game.

This is some game, surely it can’t keep being played at this frenetic pace in the second half. Port should be 5 goals up but for poor set shot kicking. Richmond is living off intercepts and running the ball all the way to the goal square thus their accuracy that is keeping them in the game. Second half will be interesting.

Not a great result really, if we are a serious threat and the jury is out, we want the top sides losing.

It does not get any more obvious and all 3 umps would have seen it clearly and decided to ignore the rule book. Expecting a response from the AFL on that one.

Yes but the gates will be closed. Just joking but it would not surprise me this year. Members/fans have been treated like [censored].

Strewth do Casey ever play away? Would have gladly travelled to Willy.

And historically Geelong loses the next week after they beat the Hawks. If we show to play this week we can win.

Anyone else having issues with ticketing? I am second priority with a level 1 reserved seat and was slow to log in this evening but have been in about 5 times and choose a seat area but can get no further, as in I get no actual seat and option buttons to move on. I doubt everything is sold in our reserved area yet?

Yes all those and then thinking about the recent Rod Owen story, we recruited him in 1991 but shopped him off to the Bears in 92. Why did we do that, oh yeah think 1991 and we discovered Jakovitch with 70 plus goals in 12 games, we already had Bennett and Lyon and then a young Schwartz appeared on the scene. Talk about forward talent.

Might be like Howe, a coffee with Bucks and there you go it’s a done deal.

6 Gawn 5 Kossie 4 Hunt 3 Langdon 2 Viney 1 Petracca

Basically [censored] poor efforts from the club this year in regard to us, their paying members. Hiding away at Casey all preseason, with ****all coverage of training by the club, all the while denying access to fans who did make the trip out there. Apparently 42,000 plus of us have paid up for membership this season but do we exist in the calculations of the club management? I am not sure. Denied access to training but [censored] all club coverage, a few photo collages occasionally and then there are the unpublicised VFL practice matches with no coverage and no club reports. Remind me why I am paying a premium club membership this year for our current Administration?

6 Oliver 5 Salem 4 Petracca 3 Tomlinson 2 Gawn 1 TMacc

Petracca needs to stand up in the second half.

I noticed late in the second you can hang off him in marking duels, no free but don’t try that on King. It must be an age, experience thing with the umpires. You know I always thought the rules applied equally to all players regardless of age.

Amazing the umps put the whistle away in the first 15 minutes. That’s okay if they stay consistent but no by second quarter they are picking frees out of their [censored], mostly to the Saints. Again we are own worst enemy with our goal kicking, should be 2 goals up at least. I am a great fan of Fritsch but if you can’t kick a goal from 30m on a 30 degree angle I think we have to look at alternatives once we have our big forwards available.

Well if every time you touch him he gets a free any backman is going to struggle. Which rule was that last free? Blocking apparently when you are bodying up on your man. Can’t chop the arms, can’t hold, now can’t body.

Marvin?

Interesting watching the Hawks match. Wonder how our backline would function if we still had Frost playing for us, say instead of Tomlinson. Working in with Lever and May would be interesting. Why is it the Hawks with a young side, saying they are rebuilding, look more organised than us and showcase better skills overall and of course they nailed nearly every set shot for goal. That accuracy kept them in the game. What was our set shot conversion rate today? Less than 50% for shots inside 40m I suspect.it is a problem we have had for the last 3 years but the usual suspects continue to struggle to nail set shots from 30m. And not helped by the fact that Jackson has the total yips.