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[desredandwhite]

Was she looking over your shoulder when you posted this post,by any chance?

No, but she DOES have her sources....

[ScottH]

Does that mean Bevan is a better farter than Bolton?

I'd say there is more chance Bevan will improve than B1.
B1 seems to have plateaud.

[stellation]

Yeah, but think of the ressies team. I reckon he ought to fly up to Canberra tomorrow afternoon and back up.

Only 12 listed players last week, no-one to come in (except maybe Vez, depending on why he missed last week) and two extra players on the club injury (bad boy) list. Someone's going to have to play a blinder for them to be competitive tomorrow. Why not Davo?

You know, he's such a good club man that he's probably already offered to do it and paid his own way to get to Canberra!

[Nico]

LOL ...It all depends on what he had for tea last night.

I had Indian last night and was a little worried about getting throug the game today.

[swantastic]

Does that mean Bevan is a better farter than Bolton?

LOL ...It all depends on what he had for tea last night.

[Nico]

Yeah a little bit of sarcasm there.

IMO Bevan's been better than B1 this season so fart.

Does that mean Bevan is a better farter than Bolton?

[Nico]

Was she looking over your shoulder when you posted this post,by any chance?

1% is very generous. When we were walking up a side street after the game there were some very strange people wearing Geelong scarves.

How big is the bandwagon. You can tell them in standing room, they are the ones wearing Tiato T shirts and only know Ablett and Mooney. Well I think they know Mooney as they go Moon, Moon, Moon when he runs for the ball. The amount of people that didn't know jack about the game today was mind boggling. 2 years ago you couldn't find a Geelong supporter in the outer.

[swantastic]

I'm back, your worst nightmare. Do I note a bit of sarcasm there. Yes I thought we were right in it when Moore missed that goal with some genuinely tough and at times brilliant running football.

I think you perhaps misunderstand me. I have only seriously sunk the slipper into Jude this season with a little left over for Bevan.

Yeah a little bit of sarcasm there.

IMO Bevan's been better than B1 this season so fart.

[Nico]

Is that you Nico or is some body else using your user name.?

I'm back, your worst nightmare. Do I note a bit of sarcasm there. Yes I thought we were right in it when Moore missed that goal with some genuinely tough and at times brilliant running football.

I think you perhaps misunderstand me. I have only seriously sunk the slipper into Jude this season with a little left over for Bevan.

[swantastic]

They will bitch about anything down there

I'm married to one of the 1% of them who is rational, apparently.

Maybe this last quarter will help to bring on the baby, who is being quite stubborn at the minuet.....

Was she looking over your shoulder when you posted this post,by any chance?

[swantastic]

I reckon we got back into the game in the 2nd Q with some darn good footy.

Is that you Nico or is some body else using your user name.?

[Nico]

NMW, Mattner takes too long to kick out. He missed a couple of players on their own by being too hesitant. He had the time where he stuffed around, was told to play on then back tracked for a point. Then he kicked straight to Geelong player in the last Q. He kicked out to Mcveigh who gloriously put it out on the full when if he was quicker he had a player on his own for an eternity further up the ground with a paddock ahead of him.

To a point I thought our backline played OK until late in the game when they seemed to be way off their men when they got those quick centre breaks.

[dimelb]

I wasn't the only one at the game perplexed at Ryan O'Keefe's refusal to have a shot at goal. First Q marks on 50 metres and tries to kick to Davis on the point post. 3rd Q wheels onto left about 40 out and dinks a little one to nowhere. Last Q at least 5 times tried to bob little kicks to nothing for turn overs when he was on his left inside 50. Last time I remember he was a forward, forwards are paid to kick goals so why in the hell is he so gun shy. Top of the square at least Ryan or even better get yourself to the top of the square occasionally.

How stiff was Jack with that charity to Ablett when he was over the ball and Jack did the perfect roll tackle. That and Jolly going off were the turning points.

Strongly agree with these comments. Our accuracy has not improved and we are paying for it. And I felt sorry for Jack; Gablett was outstanding today and at that point played the ump as well as he played the ball. As for turning points I'd add the free to Bartel miles behind the play - perhaps the ump saw what happened to Baz last week and decided to give the forwards a turn?
But overall we just didn't play well enough. The thing that worried me most was that Geelong seemed to have more legs than we did in the last ten minutes. I like to think that shouldn't happen.

[NMWBloods]

I thought we did improve by taking a few risks and being a bit more creative.
Caused Geelong a few headaches.

I think there was a bit of a mix, but overall I don't think we played particularly well, but rather we applied good pressure to choke the game down a bit. Still, I thought we looked a bit more attacking than we used to slow the game down (like the Hawthorn game early last year).

[Nico]

The other option is to improve your own game.

I agree with Deadly, I reckon we got back into the game in the 2nd Q with some darn good footy.