Don, you can't be serious.

We were smashing them at that stage, we smashed them after it. It ended up a low intensity game....if our players didn't get out of first gear you can't blame tghem for it. I dont think Judd even got into first gear.

Have a look at the report on the AFL site: No Jeffrey and no Curnow amongst best payers......

Just calling it as I saw it Brad. If it was a coach-initiated strategy that's one thing, but another thing altogether if it was players slackening off, which has been an achilles heel against better teams for a while. It was just for a quarter, so people are making too much of a big deal of my annoyance, but against decent teams that's all it takes, as we've seen time and time again.

But really, it was hard to gauge where we stand based on this. It was clear within 5 minutes we were a 10-time better side and perhaps I was a tad spoiled. But if we dish up next week what we did in that qtr, we'll get murdered. That I can promise. So I hope that it was just strategic for this night only.

You might have a point, stewie, but your avatar has been displaying a kind of a double irony, of late. That old 'Next Generation' chestnut has been traditionally used as a kind of 'whinge about the whingers' which kind of cracks me up. What's your take on it?

Only con would be Carrots brain fades in the third to give them half their goals nearly.

Thornton must play fwd if he wants to play throughout the year.

When I whinge, I at least try to back it up, and still happy to admit when I'm wrong. Many do not, and just continue to spout cheap rhetoric without anything to justify it. People that can't (or won't) back up things they say that others may not agree with piss me off to High Heaven. Hence the avvie.

Also, it's in response to how the media and other supporters portray us, it's cringeworthy at best. 'Only Carlton...' etc.

Hope this explains it

Don't get me wrong, on the whole I am happy at the result, and found it utterly satisfying to stick it up the arse of those who were praying for us to lose (like Quartermain). I just think there were times in the game where we could've done things better, and better sides would've made us pay dearly. If that makes me part of the 'Sakc Ratts' or 'Slit your wrists' brigade then so be it. But it's totally unfair to tar people with that brush IMO.

Anyway, enough of this... GO BLUES!!!

Hard to base much on that game, but IMO WATTO should play next week. Dawes and Cloke need big backmen. Jamo will come in, will bower??

Watson would get soundly beaten by both those players at this stage I think... But he doesn't deserve to be dropped either....

A question for all those trivia buffs out there, and it's one that's done my head in overnight. When was the last time we beat a team by over 100 points, or by close to what we won by last night?

Cheers