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    Autopsy Autopsy vs Richmond - the Zurhaar HBF game

    75 points is our biggest winning margin since R22 2019 (i.e., the Brown 10 goals v Port game that always seems to be the comparison for the last time we did anything great in a match). It was a little lairy in places - some of their easy goals from clearance showed just how much we were relying...
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    Autopsy Autopsy vs Brisbane

    Agree with most of the takes in here. It was a decent effort across the game against the reigning premiers, but that's at a team level - individually, too many did too little today and that's enough to leave an exploitable weak link or two. Zurhaar's well out of form; Duursma's trajectory this...
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    Autopsy Autopsy vs Carlton

    Proof that the whole game doesn't have to be great for it to be a great win. A bit like the win over Melbourne last year (but better) with how everyone just came together in the last term to play exceptionally well - defensive desperation, working hard to create options in space, confident...
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    Autopsy Autopsy vs Essendon - good grief

    2019 R22 v Port - Ben Brown 10 goal game. And possibly our only non-Melbourne night win in that span is the 2023 R2 win over Fremantle?
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    Autopsy Autopsy vs Essendon - good grief

    Goes into the 'inhumanely ugly wins' file alongside beating the West Coast WAFL top-ups by a similar margin in 2022 - sure, ultimately it goes into the right columns on the ladder, but it really doesn't bode well. Three of the four quarters were utterly turgid from both sides. I think we...
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    Game Day the 💩* v 💩 GAME DAY THREAD

    Dire stuff so far, don't know how we're in front. Won't last for long if we keep letting them run it forward in waves from turnovers - unlike our forward line, they appear to have leading targets to hit up on that play, even with their dreadful skills enough of those will stick and hurt us. Not...
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    Autopsy Autopsy Vs Wet toast - it was nice while it lasted

    As we approach Easter, so we get shades of the Good Friday debacle last year, apparently. Or at least, the same complete lack of defensive effort. How many times in the middle quarters did one release handball see 3-4 West Coast players running unopposed goalside of a stoppage? Or they clear the...
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    Autopsy Autopsy vs Port Adelaide - Round 1, 2026 - W

    I was there! But that was 47-39 at half time - we were on top in general play in the first half, for sure, but hadn't been putting it on the scoreboard. I certainly didn't feel confident it was in hand at half time. My point was that our 'dominant' matches in recent years have all been either...
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    Autopsy Autopsy vs Port Adelaide - Round 1, 2026 - W

    Awesome win to start the season. Have to go back a long way to find a game where we were on top as comprehensively for as long as this - maybe Adelaide 2020, maybe further? - the kind of game where, if not for the learned dread of following North and watching over a decade of big leads erased...
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    AFLW NMFC AFLW 2025 | 27 straight wins | 29 games unbeaten | Back to Back premiers 2024/25 | Invincibles | KLWT is a Roo w/ #37

    Agree with all of this. Despite their pressure being where it needed to be from the start, you could tell they were at a strategic dead end the moment they were flooding all their numbers back in the first couple of minutes - and if that didn't make it obvious enough, they got a good forward...
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    Rules 7 new rules - AFL Rule Changes for 2026

    Every bit as hare-brained as rule changes usually are for this sport. Can't call it a surprise at this point, but still disappointing that lessons are somehow never learnt... The last disposal OOB free kick is entrenching the trend of the last 10-15 years towards a broader interpretation of...
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    Preview 2025 Brownlow thread

    Not sure that much of the blame falls on the fan vote when this is one of the T&Cs for the MOTY voting - blame the 'AFL Game Analysis Committee'...:
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    AFLW NMFC AFLW 2025 | 27 straight wins | 29 games unbeaten | Back to Back premiers 2024/25 | Invincibles | KLWT is a Roo w/ #37

    It's hard to write much on how well this team is going, and single out great performances, when we have so many players with considerably incredible output - Garner and Riddell today, for example, brilliant as usual but that's just normal for them. And the story of this season so far for us has...
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