4 points banked. Thank you very much. Winning ugly is better than losing any day of the week. The draw opens up a little for us now reckon we could go 8-2 rd 10.

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" -Winston Churchill

L.M 35-06

This. Eddie in the midfield was brilliant in the third.
Welcome back Walks.
Five changes worked too. Brave MC.

Well done Blues. Rack 'em up. Enjoy it. Learn from it. Move on.

Apologies for any typos, I blame the iPhone

Really good, gutsy win with an undermanned side, away from home and on a short break - have to be happy with that. Just about makes up for last week. I think that most, if not all of us would have taken 4-1 after 5 and that's where we are.

Nice that for once, we made the most of our chances and the it was the opposition that was wasteful.

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WTF why go to Lyon's presser when Ratts is talking? Bring back Channel 10. I miss Wallsy!

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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.

We will be flying fitness wise when we get to the saints game. Training loads are carefully managed with the fixture in mind. Most teams will start a heavy load a week or two before they play GWS. Bombers certainly were loading up before they got to us & pies. We will taper off after gws and be fit and firing for the next month. Just a theory but it is something i am really watching this year.
Didnt think we would win tonight though.

Great win.

we licked our wounds from last week, re-focused and got the desired result. Many things to work on and a few players will be rested next week as part of our player management strategy

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For some silly reason, you people want to assassinate him, and it's just rubbish. You people. All of you, ALL of you!

Tbh now that we've beaten freo away I'd be disappointed if we didn't win our next 5 considering our draw.

@ Ryan Crowley if you want to grab jumpers all night suggest you take some lessons from the Collingwood Cheer Squad and spend the rest of your life in Target and you can grab as many jumpers as you like.

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This. We should play Geelong only one loss down, and really, we should be able to beat them.

Toinght sets us up to go on a run where we should be aiming at being 9-1 when we come into the Cats game.

Quality performance from Walks for a bloke back for game 1 this season.
Simpson, Scotland and Henderson superb down back with the ball as was Gibbs.
We created and took enough up front to have the solid lead we needed heading into the last break.

Take it and move on to next week.

Where do you see the loss?

GWS
Saints
Crows in Melb
Melb
Port

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Have I run too far to get home?

1 week at a time people FFS.
This happens after every win, calm down. Lets focus on GWS and GWS alone.
Getting ahead of ourselves last week got us where? a belting at the hands of an inferior team

ahhhhhh F#$k it
we should be 21-1 and ready to smash the e-girls in the first final
Play Judd and Murphy alternate games for the rest of season
rotate warnock hammer and K each week

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The Judd holding the ball decision late in the second quarter is one of the greatest travesties of the night - Judd takes possession of the ball with one free arm (as Crowley already ga possession of Judd's other arm ) - then Judd gets pinged because he manages to break clear of the illegal tackle.

Seriously where is the so called protection for the ball player Gieschen????

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

Winston Churchill

The last time we met the saints knocked us off
We beat the crows by a goal in Melb last year
ONE WEEK AT A TIME

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and didn't it show in that last quarter.
what does a visiting team have to do to get a fair go late in games over there?
becoming a real blight on the sport

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

thats the spirit!

we should win 5 from the next 5. anything less than that and i think we'll all be disappointed. i think thats all were saying

From official AFL site:

SUBSTITUTES
Carlton: Lachie Neale replaced John Anthony in the third quarter.
Fremantle: Kane Lucas replaced Zach Tuohy in the final quarter.

http://www.afl.com.au/tabid/16931/Default.aspx#fixtureid=7697&tab=Recap

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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.

Not sure why we subbed him. I though Anthony was one of our best.

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