Al, it's just more of the same old same old that upsets me.
We go there and get treated like 2nd-class citizens by the AFL: makeshift dressing rooms in the carpark, makeshift coaches box made from an old media box, and the phone line from the coach to the bench breaks down.
The umpires set the agenda straight away with two identical incidents within seconds of each other having two different interpretations. We lay a tackle -play on -they lay a tackle, holding the ball.
Carlton start clogging up our forward line in the second half, and we stop to an absolute crawl and try to chip our way around it and get blown away 5 goals to zip.
Collingwood put their full ground press on, and we can't get the ball past our half-back line. Are we keeping our powder dry for round one?? Well, we can only hope. But judging by the way Carlton were able to break through Collingwood's zone and hang in the game to the extent where they could've pinched it with a 9-pointer at the end as they pressed forward, I'd say we're in for another hammering come round one again.