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This is what real belief can do,

now bottle it.

Here we come pies, were are not going to be the push overs you thought!! B)

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Good to see you on the bandwagon HN. Welcome aboard.

Nah, nothing different about Neeld's approach. Just hard, contested, disciplined footy using the same game plan over 4 quarters.

Mark Neeld. Get around 'im!

Do you have any idea what you are talking about RR? This game was played very much more freely - more of an open, running anywhere contest, not stoppages around the boundary line etc ., etc. ...

Even the commentators could see that!

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So proud of the boys,Amazing!!!

85 tackles,great pressure all night.

Loved Riv,Nicho,Garlo and JT's game.

Bloody hell,i'm pumped!

Posted

Rift between players and coach, hahah which muppet was going on about that???

Garland forward? what a move!! Give him some goal kicking practice and make it permanent!! Thought Macdonald was great back last night, just needs a bit of composure which will come in time.

So happy with the boys tonight, and without Frawley, win!!

I love exclamation marks it seems

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Do you have any idea what you are talking about RR? This game was played very much more freely - more of an open, running anywhere contest, not stoppages around the boundary line etc ., etc. ...

Even the commentators could see that!

Hahaha. All aboard Hardnut. Wooohooo!


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Great to have a win, a little confidence and self belief goes a long long way.

Bottle it and bring it back next week.

Watts looks a natural back, Garland a target up forward. Tom Mac looks a beauty out there (can't believe I bagged him on here a few weeks back!) A few missed targets to whinge about, other than that everyone played their part - not many passengers if any. Liked it all.

Hate those Bomber prIcks, and their feral supporters. Onto the Pies next week

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Do you have any idea what you are talking about RR? This game was played very much more freely - more of an open, running anywhere contest, not stoppages around the boundary line etc ., etc. ...

Even the commentators could see that!

Were you watching the same game as the rest of us? At times Essendon were free flowing, but it was grunt football. The Dees won through body contact and attack on the footy.

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FYI, 1st time an 18th team has beat a top 1 or 2 side.

Nice to have some positive history for a while.

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I love stats, and two stats really stand out for me tonight

One We had our biggest win of the season

Two We gave the top team their biggest defeat of the season

Stats tell you all you need to know.

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Rift between players and coach, hahah which muppet was going on about that???

The rookie hack at the HWT building @ 11pm on a Tuesday night; his desk bare and his boss haranguing him for a scoop.

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Were you watching the same game as the rest of us? At times Essendon were free flowing, but it was grunt football. The Dees won through body contact and attack on the footy.

Agree entirely, it was good contested footy, but there were no complicated plans - that's why it worked! My reference to free flowing was meant to mean the players were free to follow their natural instincts, which is also good.

Perhaps someone at MFC is listening at last.

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The idea that players were 'natural' was only borne about by their willingness to play the Neeld brand of footy - that's why after 3 months it started to click.

The free flowing BS we were all accustomed to was a fool's paradise.

Finally, a coach that knows what's needed....(neelded? ha ha )

I thought young Tom Mc was sensational tonight - what a find.

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It's a grand old flag tonight....happy for the boys, happy for the coach, happy for the supporters - so happy to see the boys try their guts out all night and how great to see their response at the end of the game especially that big smile on Mitchs face, fantastic.

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Saw Sylvia after the game , smirking, grinning and laughing..........WTF........Oh thats right we won

As you were....

Yeah good call - I saw Spencil and Martin looking pretty smug in the stands as well. The papers will be all over it.

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Agree entirely, it was good contested footy, but there were no complicated plans - that's why it worked! My reference to free flowing was meant to mean the players were free to follow their natural instincts, which is also good.

Perhaps someone at MFC is listening at last.

Yeah it was a real free-flowing 5 goal-a-piece shoot out lol

Show some humility boy and admit you were wrong.

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Bloody Dee's have stuffed up my footy tips this round.

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Who cried?

Go on, fess up...

I did.

A little tear formed in my one eye ! :-))))))
Posted

Love Neeld on Garland. Had a chance to look at the draft notes during the week and it turns out he was drafted as a forward, so I thought we'd try him up there.

This was well known a few years ago - which is why some of us wanted him up forward (and Warnock to remain in the backline at the time)! Surely this wasn't Neeld's first look at the draft notes!

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