Did anybody at the ground pick up that Syd used their physio in the last qtr to relay instructions to Heeney?
It may have only been to tell him the time remaining...but again, Newton's third law comes into play...

Reading the first 5 pages of this thread was probably more disheartening than the actual loss.
Yes it is frustrating that we are not better but the hysterical negativity on those pages is ridiculous.
I'm a green shoots person about the Blues but it is challenging at the moment.
How do some of you get up in the morning?

Yes I saw that 99.... from memory it was at the time Heeney was lining up to kick the sealer. I suppose they would say he was checking him out after that "brutal" attack by Plowman in the marking duel

Well you're twice the man this guy will ever be:

Yes. Great consistency from the umpires. One of our players was cleaned up by front on contact earlier in the game. When quizzed the umpire stated "he had his eyes on the ball".
Plowman also had his eyes on the ball but apparently it was irrelevant in the Heeney incident.

Reading the first 5 pages of this thread was probably more disheartening than the actual loss.
Yes it is frustrating that we are not better but the hysterical negativity on those pages is ridiculous.
I'm a green shoots person about the Blues but it is challenging at the moment.
How do some of you get up in the morning?

Firstly, thank you Teddy for the response. I will just list the points so we don't make this a multi coloured mess.

1. No I don't, because:
a. We are on the back of a three year rebuild of the playing group.
b. We have one of the youngest, least experienced and matured bodied lists in the AFL.
c. Last season we had the most amount of injuries of any club and mostly to key mature players showing how shallow our depth was.
d. This will be the first season of full team development in the very publicly stated rebuild.
2. A subjective response was apt, no facts required. Please refer to point 1 for clarification.
3. Yes I agree, it would be nice to know of all injuries but from what has been said on here it might only be a 1 week injury.
4. We and many other teams before us with higher than normal skill errors have and have paid the price in a big way. Although we do look good when we switch it up and go down the corridor, if we did this all the time the better teams would drop players back and spread to the wings and kill us on the rebound even more. All without the protection of the boundary. Because a young team will always have clangers, fumbles and go missing, like we did on the weekend and better teams will make them pay.

But in summary I am happy to only have small losses as the team confidence will not be shattered and they will be more driven to follow the processes the coaches ask them to do. And hopefully the tides will turn and we will get some wins on the board, soon.

Zak Jones would look good in navy blue. Half back and through the middle. Exactly what we need. Think he may be out of contract at the end of the year and would hope he is one of our targets.

McVeigh must love looking at the fixture to see when he plays us. Always has a good day out.

Interestingly (or maybe not) the 24 scoring shots we had on the weekend were the most we have had in a game since Round 18, 2017 (27 vs. Brisbane). In no game last year did we have more than 22 scoring shots.

wow ... that's a horrible stat for us