AFL Toast RND 6: Win In the West

[The Airing of Grievances]

Not sure I want a bloke who’s laughing and joking with opposition a minute after a close loss. Didn’t like it at all.

Maybe he's just not invested with WCE but on what I 've seen tonight and a couple of earlier games I'm not convinced he's worth the trade currency that's being talked about. And on what he saw tonight, maybe he's not overly keen to come to the Hangar.

 

[Stopher]

Not a great game from B McKay, but that last contest was a clear push.

And how many goals did they kick from either outside 50 or from greater than 45 degrees angle? Seemed like all of them!

 

[ghostdog]

Really liked Elijah Hewitt's game. He's going to be good for them. Same with Jack Williams.

 

[FlyingV]

Look, I’m fairly sure we won’t lose a game again this season after watching that

 

[MiguelM]

Any chance the umps know what 15 metres is?

 

[Megabattimus]

****, it felt so good having the real Peter Wright back. Fingers crossed he can carry this form into next week and beyond.

 

[Goat Hird]

Didn't we draft a young ruckman from WA?

 

[dank420_]

Goldy in the rooms negotiating a bonus...

That’s racist

 

[Andronicus]

Didn't we draft a young ruckman from WA?

Paddy Ryder, but that was a while ago.

 

[DallasCrane316]

Scott presser. They think Duursma is okay but sent him to hospital as a precaution.

Not sounding great for Draper. Had calf tightness on the other leg at 3/4 time. Then has likely done the achilles.

 

[VelvetSledge]

Ass.

 

[Sporno 4 Pyros]

Didn't we draft a young ruckman from WA?

Gerryen who sounds like a good long term prospect but came dead last in the preseason 2km time trial.
It takes rucks a long time to get the body to play at afl level (Bryan has been on the list for 5 years before he got a consistent game). A first year guy up against someone like Nankervis would be slaughtered

 

[naraku]

Well, we've made it up to 10th. 3 wins in a row. We're trying to develop, but **** me, Draper going down hurts.

 

[Don_Gia]

Had time to stew on this game…2 wins on the road…probably didn’t pencil in the Port game as a win at the start of the year…but probably didn’t pencil
in the Adelaide loss either…not bad first 5 games

 

[nipst@r]

Credit where credit is due - McGrath played a game.

A half. But 2nd half was great.

 

[Blind Turn]

Utterly disgraceful performance. Where is the leadership to set up the ground when Menzie is having a shot

It should be a given when Menzie is having a shot at goal (jokes)

 

[the PILL]

Glad that's out of the way, hate everything about going over there. The umps, the crowd, the shameless barracking by the commentators (sucked right tf in Schofield).

Bank the win and on to the Anzac Day...

Shattered for Draper, looked like he was having a few tears in the rooms at one stage, just cruel really. Well done to big Pete, miss seeing those big beautiful 50 metre lasers.

 

[Call Me Cake]

I guess the real win is the friends we've made along the way

 

[Squeaky]

Won the game but lost a hell of a lot in the last two matches!
Draper is huge in the middle for us, giving us a first look.

 

[BratPack]

Why did you do that to Drapes?

Was this over the sacrilegious drinking thing?

 

[biglaycock]

Glad that's out of the way, hate everything about going over there. The umps, the crowd, the shameless barracking by the commentators (sucked right tf in Schofield).

Bank the win and on to the Anzac Day...

Shattered for Draper, looked like he was having a few tears in the rooms at one stage, just cruel really. Well done to big Pete, miss seeing those big beautiful 50 metre lasers.

What about Pavlich trying to argue that Flynn’s mark should’ve been paid even after watching the slo-mo of it bouncing off his teammates arm

 

[hurlygurdy]

I’d like them to continue to explore the two ruck option next week

 

[windyhill]

Paddy Ryder, but that was a while ago.

Graham Moss.

 

[Happyskeret]

Phew, never in doubt!!!

Author's Note: there was a lot of doubt.

Hope Draper and Duursma are okay.

I sympathise with Duursma. I had two rucks both land on me in a match which broke several ribs and winded me like you never believe.

 

[gillon]

There is nothing honourable about limping past one of the worst teams of the past decade. The last few years we’ve managed to barely scrape wins against wooden spoon quality teams. Lower mid-table hell again this year.

Side note: I don’t think a single supporter was surprised when they managed to go coast to coast for a goal after that last Menzie behind.