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Brother, you’re embarrassing yourself so badly here, please seek help. I’d say things will get better for you, but considering your team of choice, I think we all know that’s not true. Anyway, I’m here if you need to talk xoxo

True, it's less about the sign than the mindset. Whatever the cause of the park the bus mentality, we need a circuit breaker

When Collingwood put up the "Presti Mode" sign to signal it's time to go defensive, we legitimately become the worst team in the league. We turn what would otherwise be comfortable victories if we continued to play our natural, attacking brand into needless heart stoppers where we invite the...

Good gracious, VP, this is a work of art. I might get this as my next tattoo.

Probably not. Yet we're still beating you lot for fun. And we're still reigning premiers for another two months. And I'm backing our culture to get us back up before too long, as it's done with impressive regularity since the turn of the century. So all in all, life is pretty sweet. But...

I love how (a) Coxy being a seriously limited player who lifts BIG TIME in finals, versus (b) Curnow having all the God-given talent in the world, but disappearing on the big stage, is (c) the perfect microcosm of Collingwood vs Carlton in the 21st century. We might not always field the most...

Reckon we might have Carlton's U25s covered

We are desperately crying out for a role-playing KPF, though. In his absence we've had to run Johnson, Reef, Frampton and Howe through there, all of whom are undersized, no good, or undersized and no good. (Other than Howe, who is needed back behind the ball). That's the case with most of the...

Please please please play Moore as first ruck. They won't. But he'd be so much more valuable there than he's been in defence recently.

I'd give him his birth-right position of brownlow-winning ruckman now that we're short both Cameron and Cox. He's having a mare of a season down back, so why not let him follow in dad's footsteps and become the best player in the game in the middle?

Checkers was spanked by Laverde. Jayden ****ing Laverde. Meanwhile the actual Essendon KPDs in McKay and Ridley alternated between Kreuger and Howe. Checkers got the third string defender tonight and couldn't compete, Kreuger got top banana more often than not and made a fist of it.

Kreuger's defensive work at ground level is very strong, so you could definitely get away with playing Mihocek, McStay and Kreugs in the same forward line. They're all so mobile for big men, and Kreugs has great agility and a tackle-to-kill mindset. Occupying the three tallest opposition...

Impressed with his tackling today. He won the HTB free kick which allowed Schultz to goal on the quarter time siren, and he crunched McDonald and Comben a couple of times. He's stupidly athletic for a big man, so he still poses a threat even if he's not marking it. And he's big enough not to...

Didn't think anyone could pip Hodgey for hating the Pies in the commentary box, but Huddo and Riewoldt are ****ing disgusting.

Funnily enough, I've played golf a few holes behind Steven May... and he cheats. Used the foot wedge to kick it back into a decent lie from behind a tree while his mates (including Dom Tyson) weren't looking. Twice! Garbage bloke all 'round is ol' Steve

Wondering if you've revisited this take jmac. Freddy's always had the competitiveness, stoked to see him get some results today

I don't despise the idea of Frampton playing a defensive forward role on a creative aerial threat like May, a la Harris Andrews last year. What I did despise was last week's idea of having Frampton play a defensive forward role on... well, nobody in particular... while a 208cm key forward was...

The ol' Lynden-Freddy Effect huh (harsh on both of them, I loved Dunn and still love Freddy despite the new and exciting ways he finds to get injured)

Yeah aside from the differences in ability, at least Krueger is a huge body who loves the physical stuff. AJ’s best footy was always as a leading, uncontested third forward, with Checkers and Cox occupying the key defenders. He was never a KPF, even in his best form. And his form right now is...

It's pretty clear you've made a hardline decision on Freddy and nothing is gonna change your opinion. But this is just plain wrong, and I'm amazed you'd defend the selection of Ash over Kreuger. Kreuger is no world beater. And he isn't in great form in the VFL. And he will likely get injured in...

It’s the little things that stand out on the re-watch. In Q2, when we’re getting played all over, he takes a neat grab on the wing, then takes on the man on the mark to gain an extra 15 metres, then hits Mihocek out the back for a shot on goal. Excellent play when we didn’t look like scoring...

Worpel just handed the ball to Will Day from a ball up. I DEMAND A FREE KICK FOR BRISBANE! Weird, that’s the first time I’ve ever said that

He's the story of our season. His handling and his decision making is genuinely elite by AFL standard, and he combines it with an amazing defensive pressure game, and a powerful athletic profile. Forget being a future player, he's a player in the now. If we had a full squad to choose from, he...

...how is he this good? It honestly doesn't make sense. His skills are great, he makes excellent decisions, he takes the game on and advanced the play, his hands are insanely clean and one-touch, he wins the hard ball down low, he is a sneaky good contested mark for someone of his size, he...

Can't believe you'd do Richards dirty like that (I'm kidding, I loved Blairy)

You'd think we have to pull the trigger and get poor Allen off, he's nowhere near the level. Sidey back to the wing, and pray that Parker can show something down back? Good lord, we are so injured 😅

We're obviously about to pull the "Mihocek manoeuvre"... by which I don't mean playing Brodie Mihocek. I mean naming Charlie Dean at CHF and turning a VFL backman into a champion AFL forward.

To be fair to the coaching staff, persevering with Mitchell won us the flag, he was absolutely immense in the GF. But I agree that I'm enjoying seeing how comfortable Lachie is at the level and would love to see him get a continued run of games.

Charlie will be a player in time, but in his 3 games so far we've gone 0-3 and made Jesse Hogan, Logan McDonald and Ben King look like '90s Wayne Carey. We're unbeaten with Frampton in the team, he's acquitted himself well even when players like McKay have had the upper hand (although three of...

Just commenting to say I'd like this post... if I could. Maybe next week.