AFL Game Day - Round 2, 2025

[The Underdog]

Solid win against North last week is suddenly looking a whole lot better.

[JanLorMill]

Melbourne are terrible.

[JanLorMill]

Solid win against North last week is suddenly looking a whole lot better.

Yes the form has held up well though I think it says more about how bad Melbourne is.

[azabob]

How good is it watching Melbourne getting trounced?

[jazzadogs]

Cam Zurhaar just received the softest front on contact free ever. Naughton and Darcy were stooged big time on Friday night.

There was a free kick in the early game, against Duggan I think, for walking across the boundary with minimal pressure. It was about 98% similar to Daicos on Friday, except Duggan didn't ground the ball so no try!

[Sedat]

Melbourne's putrid forward line would function better with Disco Roach in it instead of Disco Turner

[jeemak]

Go back five or six quarters of footy and people were worrying about Melbourne being back to their best and looking great. They were in quicksand in the last quarter today.

[Bornadog]

Go back five or six quarters of footy and people were worrying about Melbourne being back to their best and looking great. They were in quicksand in the last quarter today.

Great to see them go down today

[CarnTheScray]

Solid win against North last week is suddenly looking a whole lot better.

I told my North mate that I thought the played well last week. Thought they lacked poise and maybe some confidence, plus it was the worst conditions we have played in for years, I reckon Darwin would’ve been cooler. He was still of the opinion they’d finish bottom and wouldn’t get a win for half the season. Early days but guess who was wrong.

[jeemak]

Great to see them go down today

Yeah, absolutely. It still smarts that they got to play round zero last year and had an additional week's preparation over us. It was only at the end of the game where it really blew out and that start made football way less enjoyable than it could have been.

In the last year they've lost their CEO, their president, a heart and soul team man in Neal-Bullen, Joel Smith to drug suspension (done for trafficking, probably just sorting out his mates and offering them rack out of the blue, right?), Lachie Hunter who they couldn't get back on track and keep fit, and almost lost their best non-rucking midfielder because of how they treated him after almost losing his life in an on-field incident, and their car aerial removing tweaker second best non-rucking midfielder because Geelong were sniffing around (nice culture down there). All at the same time senior players are bashing people on the Peninsula.

Oh....their coach is also apparently a shocking gambler and party boy who is overseeing a shit show whilst being abusive to club staff. But is safe.

And the biggest stories in footyland are JUH's absences, and Luke Beveridge's contract. Second biggest protection racket behind Geelong's treatment, or maybe even on par. Long live the establishment.

[Uninformed]

Jack McCrae - best on. Bailey Smith - best on last week (pathetic without him this week.) Caleb - among North's best. Dunkley - always in Brisbane's bests. Zaine still has a career, Stringer gets the occasional game. Dahl - did well. Hamling - starred for a while.

And we are still going to win it this year!

We are very well coached!

[jeemak]

Jack McCrae - best on. Bailey Smith - best on last week (pathetic without him this week.) Caleb - among North's best. Dunkley - always in Brisbane's bests. Zaine still has a career, Stringer gets the occasional game. Dahl - did well. Hamling - starred for a while.

And we are still going to win it this year!

We are very well coached!

Couldn't be happier for Jacko at the moment. The game changed over the last few years and we needed to inject pace into our mix, and unfortunately that pushed him to the periphery and he's not a peripheral player (and posters might know I advocated for him to replace Libba as our main source midfielder, due to Libba's concussion history - which I'm looking silly for given Libba's form).

Here's how he's started his career at the Saints vs. his last All Australian season with us in 2021:

https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_compare?playerStatus1=A&tid1=16&playerStatus2=A&ti d2=16&type=A&pid1=3800&pid2=3800&fid1=S&fid2=P&fopt2=2021

Here's how he's going vs. Libba for this season:

https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_compare?playerStatus1=A&tid1=16&playerStatus2=A&ti d2=8&type=A&pid1=3800&pid2=3486&fid1=S&fid2=S

Jack's metres gained in round one weren't great from memory, so he's a bit behind his 2021 numbers of 462. Libba's have been good and perhaps it's just a part of his game I don't notice enough (Footywire hasn't got his career number, but last year he was averaging 293m, so this year is a massive step up), it's maybe something he's had to lift in lieu of Bont being out.

Both of these guys use the ball really well. Jack needs, as always, to hit the scoreboard more.

The comparison between these two will be a good watch this season.

[Bornadog]

Yeah, absolutely. It still smarts that they got to play round zero last year and had an additional week's preparation over us. It was only at the end of the game where it really blew out and that start made football way less enjoyable than it could have been.

In the last year they've lost their CEO, their president, a heart and soul team man in Neal-Bullen, Joel Smith to drug suspension (done for trafficking, probably just sorting out his mates and offering them rack out of the blue, right?), Lachie Hunter who they couldn't get back on track and keep fit, and almost lost their best non-rucking midfielder because of how they treated him after almost losing his life in an on-field incident, and their car aerial removing tweaker second best non-rucking midfielder because Geelong were sniffing around (nice culture down there). All at the same time senior players are bashing people on the Peninsula.

Oh....their coach is also apparently a shocking gambler and party boy who is overseeing a shit show whilst being abusive to club staff. But is safe.

And the biggest stories in footyland are JUH's absences, and Luke Beveridge's contract. Second biggest protection racket behind Geelong's treatment, or maybe even on par. Long live the establishment.

In the coach's post match preser he hinted Gawn has issues - so add that to the above

[jeemak]

In the coach's post match preser he hinted Gawn has issues - so add that to the above

I think there's an ill family member, on that front.

[Bornadog]

I think there's an ill family member, on that front.

Fair enough, but the coach shouldn't have brought it up the way he did. Was he using it as an excuse for Gawn being beaten?