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mauriesy Redleg

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There were a few minor positives today, like Dunn and Martin.

But there was one huge negative ... turnovers. I've never seen a team turnover the ball so many times with kicks directly to the opposition. It was like they just kicked to any player wearing blue. You can't separate out any particular player, they all did it and it was atrocious.

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crap...

Obviously you didn't see the game...next time open your eyes.

Was impressed with Dunn's job. Cooney beat him in the first quarter though. Valenti - room for improvement prefer to wait and see over the next two months.

Martin - at least he has a brain in defence, not bad composure for only his second game. Heaps of talent waiting to be tapped into.

Morton I was a bit disappointed in at times. He needs another pre-season or two. Still young. Needs to be more confident and improve on decision making. That will come. Remember he was pick 4 - not a pick 1. (ie Sylvia was a pick 3).

I was a bit disappointed in one piece of play where C.Bruce had the ball - he had the option to give it to Morton out wide with no-one in sight on him. Bruce saw him and elected to go inboard.......result turnover with a crappy handball. That was either a bad choice or a clear lack of confidence in Morton by Bruce. I am hoping it wasnt the latter.

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i had something on today, so couldn't get to the game, and only saw bits and pieces of it on the TV...

from what I did see I thought Juice played really well... presented well, took some good marks and had a few shots on goal... given we didn't kick many i'd say he had a pretty good game from what I saw...

and Dunn giving Cooney a bath was great to see again :)

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That would suggest he had some to start off with.

beat me to it ;)

regarding bells game, i thought he was improved on before he was dropped. he still played a great defensive game, but i thought his disposal was much improved...

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I question that effective Possie stat, I think if it lands with in 20m of a Melbourne player it is effective. Our footskills were terrible today every player couldn't hit targets.

Positive we have some young players coming through, but we need some real good quality. I have had the opinion that we need to draft the best key forward with our first pick but watching the last few weeks we need to add some quality to our midfield. We lost Trav last year and now we miss an outside midfielder with great skills.

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Obviously you didn't see the game...next time open your eyes.

Was impressed with Dunn's job. Cooney beat him in the first quarter though. Valenti - room for improvement prefer to wait and see over the next two months.

Martin - at least he has a brain in defence, not bad composure for only his second game. Heaps of talent waiting to be tapped into.

Morton I was a bit disappointed in at times. He needs another pre-season or two. Still young. Needs to be more confident and improve on decision making. That will come. Remember he was pick 4 - not a pick 1. (ie Sylvia was a pick 3).

I was a bit disappointed in one piece of play where C.Bruce had the ball - he had the option to give it to Morton out wide with no-one in sight on him. Bruce saw him and elected to go inboard.......result turnover with a crappy handball. That was either a bad choice or a clear lack of confidence in Morton by Bruce. I am hoping it wasnt the latter.

crap = yze magic jinxing him... (to yze magic, bit of tongue in cheek, love your work but you do occasionally, unintentionally, act as a kiss of death) no i haven't seen the game (that will be rectified this evening) but i have been to enough sandy matches to be very excited Stephen, if anything much more so than juice who needs to learn to kick like half our list.

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i'm just a few steps ahead of you guys. blah blah blah

not to mention me wanting .........blah blah

Its quite amusing watching someone spend so much time pumping up their own tyres then perpetually puncturing them with some of the most trite and ridiculous criticisms of players.

Other posters have more aptly summed you up.

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There were a few minor positives today, like Dunn and Martin.

But there was one huge negative ... turnovers. I've never seen a team turnover the ball so many times with kicks directly to the opposition. It was like they just kicked to any player wearing blue. You can't separate out any particular player, they all did it and it was atrocious.

Correct

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I think Bell and Bartram were suprisingly good in their respective jobs on Brad Johnson and akermanis. Im glad DB had the balls to do it instead of doing a ND and playing bruce on Brad Johnson, effectively taking him out of the game when we need his ball grabbing gifts in the middle.

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I think Bell and Bartram were suprisingly good in their respective jobs on Brad Johnson and akermanis. Im glad DB had the balls to do it instead of doing a ND and playing bruce on Brad Johnson, effectively taking him out of the game when we need his ball grabbing gifts in the middle.

If he continues to massacre the ball on disposal then all those gifts need to come with a pretty good warranty.

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I think a few of you are missing the best positive to come out of the game yesterday. Did anyone notice how hard guys were working when they didn't have the ball? I did. And it blew me away. These kids have really got some ticker. Yeah they butchered the ball by hand and foot. But there was a reason why the Bullies didn't blow us right out of water like they did in Rd. 2. It's because those kids wouldn't lie down. There skill level WILL improve. Look out when it does

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I was again rapt with some of the performances today..

Simon Buckley was excellent, showed some really good signs!

Martin was sensational, looked the part, this kid is a real BIG talent! with composure!

Morton played a good second half, and again looks 2-3cm taller!!

Valenti is getting better all the time!

Garland is Garland...

Dunn took another scalp!

CJ is really coming into his own, wow, was great!

Bell was Bell, thanks 4 coming!

Newton, well, hard to say, had a bit of a crack, needs alot more games..

But overall, alot of positives!! Especially Martin and Buckley..

Ive never EVER seen us have so many quality kids, its genuinely exciting!

Its not far away guys, not at all!

Agree with all except for Morton who I thought was pretty ordinary all day.

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