Almost forgot! Bad boy!
McGovern playing forward.
Williams returning as a forward.
2 excellent kickers, 3 inside 50's found a mark inside 50 resulting in a shot goal.
Need elite kickers inside 50. Makes a huge difference.
Boys are on tonight.
Hopefully we can kick a way before the bombers work their way into the game.
8 interecept marks (to 2) with still 5 minutes to go in the 1st quarter.
Bombers doing their best to help us out early. Our defence (and TDK) doing well
Something you don't see everyday. I deliberate rushed behind gives us a shot on goal.....and kicked.
For those playing at home.
Fantasia hasn't got a stat thus far. Not even a tackle.
He did have a mark taken off him from a holding (it was there) against Cincotta that allowed him to mark it.
Debutant Hudson O'Keeffe 2 touches, a mark, tackle and hitout doesn't look out of place. Could be the missing piece of the puzzle long term, especially if TDK leaves as expected.
Either everyone is at the game. Can't watch the game or don't want to watch the game.
Never seen an in-game thread so quiet.
Where is everyone?
Great work from Fantasia. Laid a big tackle in defence only a minute ago. Reward for hard effort.
Yes.
Thankful he had Setterfield trying to defend him though. Had he half a brain he would've turned to face the ball and get an easy intercept mark.
We chose not to give Cerra a concussion test. Not sure what punishment we will get but I think it will be big.
Memories of rd 1 lol
Isn't their an independent doctor from the AFL who has the ability to do the same if deemed required?
....and right on cue, he's taken down to the rooms.
Must be on break this qtr. Starting to look slapdash.
How was that not a mark to silvagni?
Midfield just isn't tough enough for long enough. Fwds cant hold marks they should and kick the goals they should.
Well done Motlop
Someone tell G2C we are winning....and holding a lead.
TDK is just dominating. If we lose him, we have to recruit an A grade midfielder.
Lost the 2nd qtr by 5 pts. Should be 10 goals up.
Playing against a 58 year old, he'd wanna be.
At the game.
Not feeling excited at all.
We are just not great unfortunately and too Amy dumb decisions.
Doch was good last game but now seems ‘old’ again.
Frustrating game tbh we should be 10 goals up.
If Saad kicks it out deep in d50
Directly to an opponent again I will scream
Afraid so. We should have them totally destroyed by now. Could come back to haunt us.
They must start the 3rd like we started the first. If we dont, we are at risk of them running over the top.
I'm comfortable we will win the game, good start and we are known for slowing to a halt but Essendon dont have much firepower and our defense is well on top imo and TDK will run Goldstein ragged after half time. It's a low quality standard game but we look the better team and I expect to win by 20-30 points.
and we've gone to sleep again....
Why do you have to anger the footy gods.
Getting chopped up on the outside. Same story all year.
Looking very shakey
Docherty and Acres are embarrassing now.
Doc is finished, losing his feet and kicking has deserted him.
Acres is pretty much a liability now. You would rather him not get the ball.
The ghosts of recent failures are back.
What have we got?
doc is far from the issue.
bloke with 30 on his back is again invisible when its hot. gets the cheapies when it easy but and looks a star.
been saying it for years hes a fraud
you were saying?
lol....and he missed
yeah i was saying mate!!!
missed it
and then laughed cause he DGIF.
Walsh. Gets the ball, has a player in his own at centre wing, kicks its to a contest. Explain that.
Re charlie - Playing a 2nds defence has a chance to kick a very kickable goal misses then laughs with an ex team mate.
sums this bloke up perfectly
Yes, I'm afraid Doc, Saad, Acres are becoming liabilities, they have the hot potato syndrome. As seniors they are the ones we need to be calm, cool and precise standing up under pressure. Too often they are putting team-mates under the pump with long, slow bombs around the body and poor execution.
It's time, sadly.
Cripps needs to get in the game
Shocking kick from Gov finds Motlop
Weak As Piss
I am more convinced than ever these players stand for nothing.
McGovern, Dockerty and I think Acres need to be dropped. We can't carry them anymore.
Terrible from Saad
If we lose that will likely be the case
about to put a fking foot thru the screen. cant take this mob anymore.
Made up for it. Saved a goal
It's not how he contests, once he's got the footy is when he hurts us.
How can the senior players like Doc, Saad and Acres, be almost incapable of hitting a target except by chance.
Notice the long bombs are back, I'm not sure what the coach can do, I doubt we are coached to play that way.
voss still thinks hes on a banana lounge in fiji.
Walk to his car and fark off home, these players are beyond help.
How does charlie get pinged there?
Have they changed the rule of prior opportunity and not told anyone?
Reckon there was 1 about a minute before that too which i wasn't sure what it was for. Based off of that, it was for the same thing (incorrectly!)
Really, we are becoming panic merchants and the opposition know it.
If BT can see it, then blind Freddie can see it.
Still backing us to win, can't lose to this mob with half their team out, our blokes have to have some pride and stand up this quarter..
We can’t handle pressure. We fail to win contests and continue to turn the ball over. Our skills suck. Heart in the mouth stuff.
We are barely hanging on.
When we turn it over (often) the bombers torch us on the way back. Our lack of pace exposed badly.
Agree writing on the wall for Doc Acres
Good thing Gresham had a brain fade.
First 17 seconds of the 3rd qtr defined the game, lets see the start of the last.
If we can't win this from here, we don't deserve to play finals.
Acres went to pass it and scored a goal lol
Sheriff of all people from the boundary.
Fantasia subbed off.
White on.
Great goal Acres, owed us that one 😎
Going by the afl website, carroll has been off for 4 minutes, with a couple others.
Fantasia has been off for 11 minutes.
EDIT: Apparantly Fantasia is back on now, and it is Carroll.
Not sure why Fantasia was off for so long.....but so be it.
Think it was Carroll subbed out?
Yep. I'd already edited that post.
Welcome back Willo
HOK picking himself next week.
Give Harry time off to recover.
Unforced errors kill us.
mate we are not playing finals.
Oh Motlop.
Jeesus
Didn't realise the season is over.
Funny how you are waving the white flag and giving up when that is what you are constantly complaining about with Charlie Curnow.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Motlop laughs with teammates and misses. Two on one contest and Guelfi wins a free for the HTP. Martin going nuts.
yeah that a lot of sense 🥴
Holding the ball is the biggest lottery in world sport.
I would love to put a compilation together from this match and get the umpires to try and explain them.
Zero consistency....unless the consistency is incorrect decisions.
I can still hear Eddie McGuires voice commentating on the radio in 1999 vividly in my head.
"Carlton are going to win by a point.....Carlton are going to win by a point"
Feels like that tonight
The fat lady begins to mount the rostrum.
Along with Doch and Acres and Saad I think Walsh and TDK have been non existent…
We are 15th for a reason. I just keep thinking we may be a tad better than we are and may be able to get over an average team with half their team out - When will I learn.
even if we win we have a crape full list
Umpire....stay out of the game!
Cerra hammy. Cold night theory lives on.
Sam "Too old" Docherty.
Experience has its place.
What a struggle that was. Live to fight another day.
I dont know what to say
Doc, Saad and Acres are also the reason CheatsFC got within 10 goals of us!
Fans will forgive them for doing the late hero stuff, but that is forgetting how CheatsFC got back into the game in the first place.
Don't be celebrating that sort of rubbish win, they are rabble and we scrapped over the line like wounded prey.
Listed as 'injured' on the afl website interchange bench. :(
Phew! I’ll take a win but………
I'd much rather a team that wins playing ugly than loses playing pretty.
Take the win.
The longest of runs always starts with a first step.
Nothing to say. We beat a crap side. We will win the next 2, hopefully get better for when we play a real football team.
23 scoring shots to 15. No 2nd half fade-out. Progress.
Re think that Pauly, we lost the 2nd by 5 pts, the 3rd by 17 and the last by 3. Thats a 3 qtr fade out if Ive seen one.
Move the discussion to the post match thread and we'll lock this one up.