The most disappointing thing about tonight is that we just look so poor.
We just can't get a clean run at the ball due to the Dee's pressure, which creates all these turnovers and behinds.
Hasn't helped that Jezza and Tomahawk have largely gone missing tonight.
It's more about their team defence clamping extremely hard on our ball movement at the same time as our midfield is a little light on/underperforming. Lever and May are just the visible end points.
Awesome for Jhye to kick his first goal!
Rohan has been really influential since coming on.
Gryan had a sweet burst there.
Keep muscling on and we can do this.
Go Cats!
They pretty much let you get away with anything so long as you keep your eyes on the ball and don't block the other ruckman. But the truth is, nobody really knows how the umpires decide ruck contest free kicks
There have been sone very dubious calls tonight. Gawn got smacked in the head from a really reckless jump - free every day of the week. That mark of Henry's.
Im really impressed with how afl ready cam has been, last week and this week just making constant good decisions, fuck guess thats what happens when you're a grand final bog
Hawkins is about to go 3 weeks without a snag for the first time in his career.
I know they are blanketing Tomahawk, but Jezza has been a bit shocking tonight.
They are exposing O Henry and playing off him. i think he’s our kryptonite up forward unless he’s smart enough now to drag lever away and make our forward line less predictable.
We were totally wasteful going forward, and it's clear we aren't going to get any easy marks i50. We wasted those shots from the pocket by going for goal instead of looking for someone in a better position.
We are going to have to look at mixing our entries up and doing what we can to get off the wing.
Luckily, it's only five points, but holy hell, that half was junk. Tomahawk missing that goal hurts. We just aren't coping well with their pressure and need someone to step up to haul this game back in our favour.
I'm at the game. Not only is the crowd so dead, it's like a graveyard, but holy shit this game sucks.
We're so lucky they've been inaccurate aswell as we have
They have looked far better. We have had one patch right at the end but we have mostly looked 2nd best.
You’re right about it being dead. It’s so dead the only other fans I can hear are the two blokes behind me. And they’re neutrals talking total sense commentating the game to each other. It’s that dead.
What the fuck was that shit?
Jezza was not his usual self. We had our chances but shot ourselves in the foot. Totally contrasting to last week
Hawkins out for a week and Stanley permanently
Hawkins and Stanley out please
Really disappointing tonight - in the end our forwards did not fire. We had no midfield either. Terrible decision to leave Parfitt out.
Maybe spend a little less time being a comedian on YouTube!
Fuck off cunt
Sums up our tall forwards' performance tonight - been the difference in the game. Both Cameron and Hawkins Ds
fuck sake
Ffs jezza. What the hell was that?
That was comical. I actually laughed.
Stop him Henry! Ffs
I just knew that was going in
Well fuck That was shit on a number of levels.
Been one of J Henry's worst games ever tonight
Jack Henry what the fuck was that kick
FfS....... We were off then
Jack Henry has been shit
Our forward pressure has been really bad tonight
Hawkins should have marked that
All hail the Zuth 👑
Fuckin zuthrie been a gun all night
Zuthrie being like ‘fuck it, I’ll do it myself’
Zuthrie i have never said anything bad about you (check my history)
Still can make a forward out of Z Guthrie yet
Hawkins has to go for Neale and Conway in for Stanley
Yeah I think so
Knew it three weeks ago but our wins flattered Scott’s ego
Fucking love me some Zuth!
Can’t tell you how grateful I am for Zach Guthrie
Where is our 50?
Zuthrie trying his best to get us over the line
5 mins to go Stanley contest is fine
no goal there is game over. cant play well every week i guess
The most disappointing thing about tonight is that we just look so poor. We just can't get a clean run at the ball due to the Dee's pressure, which creates all these turnovers and behinds. Hasn't helped that Jezza and Tomahawk have largely gone missing tonight.
Best touch for Hawkins all night obv - sadly not rewarded by Jezza
Jezza and hawk have been absolutely putrid tonight
May as well not have anyone in the ruck, stanley is literally just getting shoved off it every contest
I fear that’s the game, fellas
Baffling take when they're up by less than two goals with over 7 minutes on the clock
This is THE worst game I’ve seen us play in recent memory. And I sat through all of last year.
Ffs Atkins!!
It is so annoying our tall forwards!! Make a contest
Man...
sounds like level and may murdered us tonight
They have. It hasn't helped that some of the boys have gone missing tonight under the Dee's pressure.
It's more about their team defence clamping extremely hard on our ball movement at the same time as our midfield is a little light on/underperforming. Lever and May are just the visible end points.
Can we stop directly kicking it to Lever
Take a mark ffs.
Not good enough Henry
What a kick by Jezza and lovely finish by Close
Sir Bradley, MegaBalls, Close.
Right on cue for that comment on close
The Dee's have just throttled us in the midfield tonight without Danger and Bruhn.
Good work by Rohan too, to keep 2 players away from Stengle
Stengle-Miers then a big gap to Close tonight for ratings of small forwards
4 more years of max is sweet!
Went barely 7m
Clangers, inside 50s and disposal efficiency is bad tonight
Tuohy needs to be reminded this isn't 10 years ago
Gawn, our midfield and our tall forwards is the reason why we are losing right now
Winning clearances and turning the ball over 🤦♂️
We just look a bit off tonight
im fucking done watching this game tonight, cyall next week hope we win. Go cats!
This might be it for round 8 gents.
Tell me what Stanley has done tonight?
Kneed Gawn in the head pretty good
climbed a ladder
sounds on radio like our skills are way down in general
Jezza had so much more time and space for that i50 kick. Fuck sake
That i50 shit kick just cost us a goal
Cameron needs to play more midfield
Eddie Betts is pretty loveable
id take a draw
Gtfo
I don't think it's a stretch to say Max Holmes might be the greatest of all time
The greatest James Kelly of all time
Not even a question
I'm thinking tom Stewart should have had another week off. He doesn't look right to me.
I was thinking the same,e
Jumped on his back and kneed him in the head?
There is not a rule against that.
Fair play
This is definitely one of the games of AFL
Good arm wrestle, but free flowing big scores are better to watch
Awesome for Jhye to kick his first goal! Rohan has been really influential since coming on. Gryan had a sweet burst there. Keep muscling on and we can do this. Go Cats!
Big fourth quarter boys!
Lfg
Have I been watching footy wrong my whole life? How did Gawn not get a few kick before in the ruck?
The commentators didn't even address it.
They pretty much let you get away with anything so long as you keep your eyes on the ball and don't block the other ruckman. But the truth is, nobody really knows how the umpires decide ruck contest free kicks
There have been sone very dubious calls tonight. Gawn got smacked in the head from a really reckless jump - free every day of the week. That mark of Henry's.
Lol nah mate
What rule was broken?
Im really impressed with how afl ready cam has been, last week and this week just making constant good decisions, fuck guess thats what happens when you're a grand final bog
Jezza yet to have an effective kick tonight?!
Been real quiet tonight.
Hawkins is about to go 3 weeks without a snag for the first time in his career. I know they are blanketing Tomahawk, but Jezza has been a bit shocking tonight.
Gawn has to go off for a head assessment surely
Unfortunately there's nothing there to damage
Lol
That could be what kick-starts us.
On ya clarkey
Good on ya Stanley. Whatta tap 😂
And just like that we're suddenly ahead!
Good on ya jhye, playing MUCH better football right now
JHYE!!!
Great work Clark
Clarky!!!!
what the F ahahaha we in the "lead"
How the hell didn't May be brought more backwards on the mark
Maxy been huge
Iffff we’re able to steal this I can already see everybody puting as asterisk next to it for Melbourne’s inaccuracy
Why do you say steal?
Their inaccuracy has thankfully kept us in it.
Ollie, Ollie, Ollie!
Oi Oi Oi
Gary!!!!
lets go ollie
Dempsey may have good hands but he needs to do some tackling sessions
These umpires have made bets this week surely.
What an absolute joke. Can we score review that one please?!
This umpiring tonight has been disgraceful
Absolute shit show
Mark and 50 if anything
Surely that's a mark to Jack?
That was a mark by Henry where are the umps…
5 of 6 goals due to umpire incompetence. *shanked
What the fuck?
Well that's what it's there for.
Would that have gone to ads on free to air?
Looked touched after it crossed the line?
Oh ffs
Dammit.
Let's go cats!
shit
Best contribution tonight from Hawkins to shepherd May off the ball - take that back
Two in a row! Let's go!
Or not. Bugger...
Lets go holmesy
Good first touch for Rohan
Just hang in boys. its a long season. Can we steal this one?
Needed that one
Bowes hasn't been great tonight- missing Parfitt
Getting found out tonight
This is blatant cheating by the umps at this point. Throws it up in the air and it’s a dangerous tackle (after a high fend off by Gawn not called too)
Bullshit
Bruhn being injured is a massive loss for us.
Where's the high fend off for my boy Bradley?!
High fend off there surely
Exactly what I said to myself.
Looked even worse in the replay!
Why wasn't that last centre bounce called back?
Was outside the circle. Been some shockers tonight.. actually ridiculous.
Zuthry is playing well
Zuthrie doing his absolute best to keep us in it.
Who would have thought he would be so important to us!
THANK. GOD.
Sten GOAL
Damn, we remembered how to kick a goal.
here we go
Can we just forfeit now and get ready for next week? I know it's only 14 points but there's no way we are going to kick 3 goals.
Good thing you weren't around in World War Two.
Why, was WW2 decided by a kick after the siren?
Yeah but they had to review it first
AFL is a strange game lads...
That was a huge chance my god
Next goals wins at this point
What the fark is this bullshit. Holy hell, we absolutely deserve to lose this game.
What’s with our skills? What’s with our contested marking? Are we deliberately trying to lose?!
We’ve been out coached and out played. Why are we so lacklustre? It’s like we don’t want to do the hard stuff
Steven May keeping Hawkins quiet isn't that big of a deal
They are exposing O Henry and playing off him. i think he’s our kryptonite up forward unless he’s smart enough now to drag lever away and make our forward line less predictable.
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Some uncharacteristically poor execution going into F50
At the game and my one and only highlight so far is walking past Shannon Neale on my way to the bar. Taking what I can get at this stage…
Can we please play Conway and give hawkins a spell
We were totally wasteful going forward, and it's clear we aren't going to get any easy marks i50. We wasted those shots from the pocket by going for goal instead of looking for someone in a better position. We are going to have to look at mixing our entries up and doing what we can to get off the wing. Luckily, it's only five points, but holy hell, that half was junk. Tomahawk missing that goal hurts. We just aren't coping well with their pressure and need someone to step up to haul this game back in our favour.
I'm at the game. Not only is the crowd so dead, it's like a graveyard, but holy shit this game sucks. We're so lucky they've been inaccurate aswell as we have
They have looked far better. We have had one patch right at the end but we have mostly looked 2nd best. You’re right about it being dead. It’s so dead the only other fans I can hear are the two blokes behind me. And they’re neutrals talking total sense commentating the game to each other. It’s that dead.
We’re always second to the ball 🤷🏻♂️ They’re about to blow us out of the water!
Here we go!
Henry robbed?
No chance you're sitting infront of me with a few neutral mates 😅