Pressure is good.
Skills are woeful
Dogs punishing every mistake.

Thomas not going for that running goal was piss week. He's a dud.
Casboult zero confidence kicking
Docherty tries hard but too often turns it over in dangerous areas
Rowe is a spud. McLean out bodied him in one contest
Kreuzer and Phillips are liabilities
Sumner is nowhere near match fit
Cripps decision making is worrying he instinctly chose the best option every game last season and has struggled to play near his best this season
Charlie Curnow show more every week, realising he belongs
Weitering continues to hold strong

Forget the scoreboard..........

some nice stuff from Charlie, and Weitering. Wright is a solid citizen.

Gibbs, Murphy and Daisy, hang your heads in shame. All three players look done. All three look like they have slowed up considerably.

Casboult cannot play!! Phillips and Rowe are two other that cannot play. Haven't seen much from Plowman, will watch him closely this quarter.

The score reflects the class gulf between the sides (currently), not the differences in effort or competitiveness.

Every shit truck team manages to show something today, Brisbane, St Kilda and even Essendon* and we can't show a whimper.

We're not a shit truck team we're a team where the shit trucks dump their shit.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Good to see Bolton giving it to Thomas about him pushing and giving away free kicks

The best match threads are when you are getting pumped then turn it around and win...lol.

Gibbs has to go to the reserves.
So far he has about six possessions of which two are effective, 1 or 2 frees against and the easiest miss you would ever see.
My thought when he missed that goal were what he said last week about getting deflated when their efforts down field went unrewarded.
I don't care if he never plays for us again.

Kreuzer's only two clean hitouts tonight have gone straight to Dogs players. He has not taken one single mark even though he has been the target several times.

Murphy has about seven possessions.

Cripps is getting beaten around the stoppages. It would help if our rucks weren't giving the Dogs mids an armchair ride.

Weitering must be daylight in front of second so far for the B&F.

For the first time in my life I actually don't care if we win or lose games.

This draft and trade period we should try and get someone who can run and can actually hit a target by foot or hand.

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

I was barracking for both Essendon* and Brisbane today. We need another two picks in the first round, and that includes the number 1 pick.

not at all
our forwards are flourishing

just not in the navy blue
but we have the flower, for another two years

Hopefully Cripps, Docherty and now Weitering have the maturity to realize the task they'll have ahead of them.

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

It's all that bald maggot's fault I tells ya...

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“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” ― Richard Feynman

Weitering and C Curnow have both been good. Just need Cripps and Byrne to iron out their turnovers and we have a quarter of a good side developing right there. If by this time next year we have that number up to 8 and 12 the year after then we'll be on the way to competing for a spot in the finals.

Whoever is the midfield coach, they'd better pick it up pronto. Our stoppage work is disgraceful and has been for a few weeks. Flogged at the clearances.
The Dogs are walking the ball out the middle of the ground.
We can kick the defenders and forwards but you're playing reactive footy if the midfield are getting pumped.
I'd like to see Weitering up forward this half

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

Would be less embarrassing if we folded

hello baldy my old friend

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

Barker

Hardly a senior player that shouldn't be culled at the end of the year. Walker, Simpson, Thomas, White, Kruezer, Gibbs, Rowe, Armfield, White, Jones, Casboult, Jamison. We really aren't AFL standard now, nothing to lose in giving them all the flick, back to ground zero.

Really, what is the point of playing Thomas? Obviously doesn't give a shit, completely undisciplined. Like a lot looks like he's just waiting for the end of the season already, no heart, no hunger. Give Cripps a rest he looks cooked.

Well and truly over these umpires

Actually, select Jones and Jaksch, drop Kreuzer and Phillips and let Casboult ruck all day. Mightn't win many tapouts but he'll take a crapload of marks well away from goal range, whcih can only be good. I am half joking there of course but we need to do something.

I think Thomas does give a shit , he just cant play anymore

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

good courage sumner

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.