Billings had a reasonable game for three quarters last night, setting up a couple of goals and helping to save one or two in defence. But he also produced one of the worst set shots on goal that I have seen in a long, long time. He's lost all of his confidence when kicking on goal: he looks like som...

Hats off in particular to Wilson, Hayes and Sinclair (who I would still prefer to see playing in the backline, but his two goals made up for it to some extent).

Did we miss Higgins at any stage last night?

Gee, Methuselah/Scollop has a long memory.

I have been negative about both all season. However, there is far more upside to Bonner than Byrnes, who is just one of those low-skilled players who run around all over the place and tries his guts out. Sort of like Bradley Hill without the skill. Bonner has grown on me. He makes some mistakes unde...

King looked to me like he was playing injured.

Owens was being molested Umpires put the whistle away when we are concerned A defender, I think it was Wilkie, was held before the Roos' last goal. Also, earlier on, the umpire pushed the mark for Simpkin about 5 metres closer towards the goal than where he marked the ball. However, this was partly...

Teflon wrote: ↑Sat 04 May 2024 7:36pm

meher baba wrote: ↑Sat 04 May 2024 7:03pm It's going to be a pretty important second half. If we drop the ball and let them back in, it's going to be highly detrimental to our young players.

Case in point …
“It’s going to be an important second half…”
Thank you Leigh Matthews …

Oooh, a bit sensitive are we? Can't take a joke?

It's going to be a pretty important second half. If we drop the ball and let them back in, it's going to be highly detrimental to our young players.

Re the game. I think we're doing well given our relatively weak midfield and how many changes we've had to our lineup lately. Apart from Hayes, I've been really impressed with Windhager and Wilson. And Hill and NWM are a great combination. And, as the commentators have pointed out, Howard has belied...

Scollop: I heard that there was a guy who died waiting for Teflon ever to post anything critical of Ross Lyon.

His name was Methuselah. According to the Bible, he lived for 969 years.

The Fireman wrote: ↑Sat 04 May 2024 6:16pm Good by pou then

Nick Daicos-like

Mr Magic wrote: ↑Sat 04 May 2024 6:08pm

The Fireman wrote: ↑Sat 04 May 2024 6:07pm We just got a bulls*** free-kick curly

And in a nutshell that shows the incompetence of the umpires

I thought it was funny. LDU was having a hissy fit about the Saints player deliberately pushing the ball over the line. What a surprise he got!

We are clearly the better team, but we need to calm down and focus. Not a hell of a lot better Their defence is giving our players a massive amount of room to run around in. And their forward thrusts have a fair amount of hit and hope about them: two out of their three goals had a fair amount of lu...

We are clearly the better team, but we need to calm down and focus.

We've started badly. We don't have enough midfielders IMO.

What a load of cowardly BS. I’m glad I’m not standing next to any you lot in the trenches.

A lot of the problem is in the forward line. That’s a problem area in general. I say put Boris in charge of it.

Much like Brayshaw changing direction into Maynard's flying bump/attempt to smother ... if he doesn't change direction Maynard may only just clip him Great argument, except that you're wrong about there ever being any possibility of Maynard missing Brayshaw. Watchthe front on replay (1 min 14 into ...

CURLY wrote: ↑Sat 27 Apr 2024 1:18pm Media haven’t held back in the umpiring this morning.

One expert said he found a lot of interpretations that went Ports way more than a little odd.

The main thing I saw was Hinkley whinging about the holding the man calls against them. You’ve got to admire his chutzpah.

Winning football games is not about whether or not you “deserve” it, or whether or not your opponents were unlucky with injuries, or moved the ball better than us. We have received half a dozen simply dreadful umpiring decisions against us that either gifted them goals or denied them to us. Without ...

B.M wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 11:18pm The youth today

Phillipou 2 kicks
Garcia 7 possessions- as a mid
Caminiti 6 possessions
Sharman 6 possessions

Hastie impacted 8 in a quarter

Hastie did some good stuff, but he looks a little slow.

The Fireman wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 11:14pm Blaming the umpiring is a weak as piss cop out.

some teams win the close ones unfortunately for us, we lose the close ones.

Teams are always going to lose close ones with the home town umpiring we saw tonight.

The Hawthorn team of the 1980s would have struggled to overcome it.

We probably will say something. And we'll get a response along the lines of "sorry, the umpires made some mistakes. We'll try to make sure it doesn't happen next time." It's happened before: I remember a game against Port in 2006 where the AFL admitted to 10 umpiring mistakes against us af...

Winmore wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 10:52pm Howard, spud.

He didn't do anything there.

Even I'm starting to believe the umpires are corrupt.