Monday, June 30, 2014: Terrible EOFY Smother...

Can't write a Smother. My fingers are suffering from frostbite after shivering away in the Great Southern Stand last night. On the bright side, the AFL did seem to get two things right;

1. The complete lack of an audience meant that queues for amenities were short.
2. In 8 degrees, on a Sunday night, Etihad Stadium actually seemed like a good idea.

That's about it though, I am about to call Gill and ask to be compensated for the Carlton fans I was unable to gloat in front of. (We were going to do a Smother about Todd Carney, but we haven't seen a leak like that since ASADA).


The Monday Wrap:
Friday:
Geelong 89 defeated Essendon 80
Saturday:
Hawthorn 116 defeated Gold Coast 63
Richmond 117 defeated St. Kilda 73
Fremantle 88 defeated West Coast 81
Sydney 106 defeated GWS 60
Brisbane 70 defeated North Melbourne 66
Sunday:
Western Bulldogs 91 defeated Melbourne 85
Adelaide 99 defeated Port Adelaide 76
Collingwood 91 defeated Carlton 76

Ladder
Hawthorn - 44
Port Adelaide - 44
Sydney - 44
Sydney - 40
Fremantle - 40
Geelong - 40
Collingwood - 36
North Melbourne - 32
Gold Coast - 32
Adelaide - 28
Essendon - 28
West Coast - 24
Western Bulldogs - 20
Richmond - 16
Carlton - 16
Melbourne - 16
GWS - 16
Brisbane - 16
St. Kilda - 12

In the news...
In the wash-up from last night's sparsely attended Collingwood Carlton game, Mitch Robinson has been handed a two match ban for striking Taylor Adams (if he hadn't, three or four Collingwood supporters sitting behind me would have loved to line up 'Turnover' Taylor). Steven Morris of Richmond and Melbourne's Neville Jetta have both been offered a week. The full MRP report is here.