I don’t understand how our club doesn’t raise this every week. I would hate to think if we were to try and hold (like Walsh last night) or shepherd (Cripps), how many times would we get pinged? The Scott’s or Clarko or Hardwick would be having Laura Kaines drives and discussions daily……….….speaking of which, dear god……

We have lots of work to do but I think most of it is in our minds and second most is with fitness.
You take 9-10 first 22 players out of any team and I have no doubt they would be doing worse than we are.
I think that after a month of playing the top teams, plus our injury list, when Weitering went down it was the straw that broke the camels back, both mentally and talent-wise.
Just too many of our first team off the park, and just too many knocks to the gut.
It is way too early to write us off from the premiership race.

I am sure that the club is working on improving the quality and resilience of the playing stock (like the Swans did over summer bringing in Grundy, Jordan and Adams).
But there is still a long way to go this season as we’ve showed that our best is as good as anyone - we have to crack that nut which is playing our best for longer.


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happening for years our team is to SLOW there is no quick ball movement just u12 footy boot the ball ,if only E hollands and caroll had speed acceleration but they are much same. i am afraid that winning those close games was covering up the problem .

yeah fair point. dees he was good. pies, crows, cats and swans he was poor (by his standards)

cats gave the template to beat our stoppage game. tag walsh. apparently, that's it!

Interesting that we were 4-0 without Walsh and 2-4 with him. He's been brilliant, but have we become too predictable in our method since he returned? Should we be rotating him through the wings and hf/hb flanks more? Or is it all about The Fog?

If you look closely at Warner in the last (I think it was) he was running away from a few players and laughing at them

We played pretty crap against Richmond and North. I think that 4-0 wasn't a real 4-0. Would have won them two by more if we had Walsh and lost all the other 6 without Walsh.

Id be looking at the two rucks and loss of run with injured players as a reason for our crap last 6 weeks.

Our team hasn't got any urgency.
Mosey on to the mark, the player with the ball, the next in line.
Slack team starting with curnow and the small forward line

I won't head to Japan any time soon.

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Congratulations CK95

A lot of talk about our lack of pace and slow midfield but that’s irrelevant to what happened. The swans players were just harder at the ball and first to the ball on the inside. Everything flowed from there.

The Carlton players simply weren’t committed enough, and because they were second to the ball they constantly gave away frees and became tentative. To the extent that by the middle of the third quarter the awns players became overconfident and arrogant and started running through the Carlton players, they just ran where they wanted whether or not there was a Carlton player in front of them or not. And we let them, it was pathetic to see.

I'm going straight to hell for laughing bluehammer

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#DonTheStash

The tackling was pretty much non existent ...... Look how lily white these Swan jumpers were? We're talking end of the 3rd quarter.

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"IF YOU FAIL TO PREPARE, YOU'RE PREPARED TO FAIL" - Mark Spitz

Good job shotgunning him in the solar plexus though

It was embarrassing.

new baby blues? lack of real sleep?

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my last one was rubbish

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Sounds right, a hard tackle you get three weeks, an elbow to the face you get a fine.
I'm surprised pittonet didn't get sent straight to the tribunal for trying to bite his arm

Can anyone explain to me the difference between the Fogarty and Warner incidents? Aside from Fog getting a long term injury, I mean.

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Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Well, one plays for Sydney and the media weren't interested in crucifying him

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Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.