Agree with your comment about Metricon. Great place to watch the game, and the whole place has an excellent atmosphere. The amount of young kids at the game indicates to me that the Suns are going to be a success off the field as well as on.

A nice touch was how they have a supporter raise the club's flag just before the start of the game. They're building some traditions that bind supporters together.

I was also surprised the players didn't go to the crowd, as there was a large number of Carlton supporters there.

A great day, although it did mean not being able to check the Essendon** thread, which took the gloss off the occasion.

Nothing great about this performance other than getting the four points.

I can see why MM wants us to play wide ... we can't kick ... too many of our plays hang the ball too high and also very few can kick to advantage ... our short kicking is poor.

Too many of our players fall over in marking contest.

Could lip read MM when he gave Mitch a spray ... told him to get to the ball first.

I thought it was good to see Murph at least get a bit more of the ball today. Slowly he will find his mojo.

If you are happy to just make the eight then you will be thrilled by today.

Some of you just don't understand that if our foot and hand skills, decision making and tackling is off against teams like this, then you can forget getting those areas right against the top four teams.

Thought Robinson's positives outweighed his negatives today, however often it's the other way around.

Kreuzer dominant in the ruck, as you'd expected against a weakened division.

Curnow good on Ablett - he didn't really chop us up.

Very poor in terms of marking inside 50 - need to prioritise a key forward with our first pick at the draft.

Really don't have the quality of tall forwards required.

It has and will prevent this team from going all the way.

Jamison not bad one on one but once again very poor decision making, very poor awareness.

Team missing their CHF (Lynch), FB (Thompson), ruck (Smith), lost another ruck early (NIcholls), Prestia (top 5 in the B&F atm), Swallow

Should have won by 9-12 goals but lack of quality key forward and poor conversion hurt us.

I got the impression that Gibbs was sent back to quell Brown's influence in the second half which I think was a big tick.

Again are you serious?

A quality key fwd??

Hendo bagged 4.

What we lack is a quality second ruck/fwd

We have a quality key fwd mate in fact we have two but ones injured a lot

It always should've been Carrots as Captain......the whole World knew that....but not the CFC.....

..he's currently injured, but i reckon hammer as 2nd ruck/fwd is still a chance, but only if Hendo plays as KPF leader..

We're giving it a crack with a middle of the road list.

Enjoy the wins when they come, try to suffer the losses against the best sides, count down the days until ASADA reams Essendon**, enjoy the first week of finals when we finish ninth, and then hang on to your hats during trade and draft time.

That's 2013 from here.

Hampson is not the answer neither is Rowe nor Cas nor 206 nor Mitch

How long have the players been telling the cameraman he's not welcome to film from the middle of the song? Noticed it the last two weeks.

Yes I wondered what was going on with that, Mitch quite deliberately pushed the cameraman out of the circle just before they started singing....

G coast at full strength we dont win.