Geez sportnutz, your post brought tears to my eyes. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi oi oi !

After watching the roosters/ sharks game i switched over to watch the lions/ carlton last quarter. The blues must have been ordinary in the 1st 3 quarters , but it was good footy to watch as they had the lions on the back foot kicking 7 straight goals and then aker kicking a couple.

Carlton did pretty well, but I reckon Brisbane went to sleep and let them back in. During the week, Voss had talked about the fact that the Lions are missing a 'killer instinct' and aren't putting teams away by as much as they should. It happened again last night. They probably should have won by about 80 points last night, but credit to the Blues for putting up a good fight.

Amazing 3rd quarter by the lions, no wonder they took it a bit easy in the last.

I didnt see the first three quarters, were the lions "in their groove", because when carlton forced the pace in the last 1/4 they seemed to get rattled,that seems the way to play them, st kilda did it and for a while the swans did it, but in the last 5-10 minutes they steadied and controlled the ball.

Brisbane started brilliantly in the first quarter, were okay in the 2nd quarter and then went beserk in the first part of the 3rd quarter to lead by 71 points. I think at that point they sort of put the cue in the rack, but I'm not taking anything away from Carlton. They played very well to come back.

Thanks sportz,i cant watch all of the games live, but i get to see 10 of the 15 games in NRL and AFL, like you i dont normally watch a game a couple of hours later unless it is between 2 top teams.I didnt want to keep flicking over last night because i was watching my money go round, had my biggest bet on football in years on the roosters.

Lions looked unbeatable in the first 3 quarters...and the Saints keep winning...does that put Eddie's Pies out for the 8?

I had the Pies at 33-1 to make the 8.
And that was before the St.Kilda game.
I think 33's is still about the right odds.

watched bits and pieces of the kangaroos/ pt adel game, even though i backed the kangaroos , i couldnt believe the score, the power had none [ha ha] and lived up to their away record; hopeless.