Trengove on SEN 3rd July

[The Chazz 4,077]

No sorry, been on this board too long to accept that, one person says "Dunn is crap", and quite a few jump onboard, don't want to be seen to be different or not following the trend, one of the more sad things that is happening in modern society, one of the reasons everybody thinks Reality Television is real

Sorry back at you, I'm not going to accept you thinking I'm a sheep. I say Dunn was crap on Saturday night becasue that's what I observed with my own eyes, not becasue that's what the generally feeling on Demonland was.

[The Chazz 4,077]

FWIW I thought he played ok - a bit stiff on one occasion when the ball should have got oob but didn't and we paid the price. Have a look on you he has pklayed on in the past fortnight - given away inches on both occasions - went to Kosi when Pederson coudln;t lay a feather duster on him and quietened him down, and did well IMHO last week as well. He is certainly part of our best team, or would you go back to Pederson. Spare me

It potentially shows what we have with Pedersen if he can't beat Kosi, moreso than what we have with Dunn.

I would imagine with a backline of Frawley, Garland and Tom Mc, the return of Grimes would see Dunn in a situation of being forced out of the team.

[drdrake 3,162]

One thing we need to remember for 3 quarters we kept a team to 6 goals, the defensive pressure was great but it was more about us controllong the footy. Once we controlled the footy it enabled the team to set up defensively to keep it in our forward half. The last quarter we just didn't control the ball, it was basically centre bounce clearance goal, we didn't have any chance to slow the game down as we just couldn't get the footy.

Football is a simple game, if you have the footy and your opponent doesn't they can't score but you can.

[Little Richard 6,262]

The wind has changed, read some of the posts towards the end of last season....along the lines of "well bugger me, if Dunn hasn't surprised me, and resurrected his career", unfortunately along with Nicho has now got the target back, and to think everybody thought Fitzpatrick was a dud as well, surprised no calls for him to be dropped, what's wrong proved people wrong AGAIN

The winds change along with a players form, Dunn played better last year than he has so far this year ergo sum people are going to call for him to be dropped.

[rjay 24,882]

The winds change along with a players form, Dunn played better last year than he has so far this year ergo sum people are going to call for him to be dropped.

He's not getting the amount of ball he was last year, Terlich and Garland have been sweeping up a fair bit of that. I think he has played a more defensive role and over the last couple of weeks I can't see where anyone has kicked a bag on him even though he has been playing undersized. There are a few others that would go before Dunn.

[deanox 9,898]

He's not getting the amount of ball he was last year, Terlich and Garland have been sweeping up a fair bit of that. I think he has played a more defensive role and over the last couple of weeks I can't see where anyone has kicked a bag on him even though he has been playing undersized. There are a few others that would go before Dunn.

He has also played on taller opponents and been more accountable in the past few weeks.

I like Dunn as I think he brings a lot to the table and is versatile. Unfortunately his field kicking has let him down this year. He wouldn't be my first to delist because he is one of the few players who can plug holes all over the ground if needed.

[deanox 9,898]

One thing we need to remember for 3 quarters we kept a team to 6 goals, the defensive pressure was great but it was more about us controllong the footy. Once we controlled the footy it enabled the team to set up defensively to keep it in our forward half. The last quarter we just didn't control the ball, it was basically centre bounce clearance goal, we didn't have any chance to slow the game down as we just couldn't get the footy.

Football is a simple game, if you have the footy and your opponent doesn't they can't score but you can.

Great post. We got rattled. The dogs started winning the football and we couldn't get our hands on it.

Watts' mark was so important because it got the footy back in our hands and allowed us to control the game again.

My favourite part of the first 3 quarters was our chains of possession. It was great to hold onto the ball 3, 4 or more disposals in a row.

This week if Sydney get on top of us we need to go back to basics and get ball in hand. Cheap easy touches on the back line is fine. I'm happy for then to kick it around, build up possession and try to work the ball forward. Even if it means switch back and forth looking for an option. You can't score if you don't have the ball. Also, having the ball in hand adds confidence to the players.

This year we have tended to blaze forward which gives possession away.

Edited July 3, 2013 by deanox

[Satyriconhome 10,723]

Nice to see not "all" the posters on Demonland are so anti Dunn, that means that we "all" watch the game

[Machsy 2,858]

Love to hear someone ask him if he is injured.

So if he isn't you can pat yourself on the back for kicking Trengove every chance you get?

His speed has diminished as he has bulked up and missed chunks of preseason.

It's happened to many a player, then suddenly one year they regain all their pace & look a million bucks.

It's part of developing a mature AFL body.

Edited July 3, 2013 by Machiavelli

[Johnny Karate 559]

Nice to see not "all" the posters on Demonland are so anti Dunn, that means that we "all" watch the game

What a pretentious load of rot. Dunn has been an average footballer over his career, regardless of Saturday night.

You talk of 'Orc hunting' yet anybody who dares disagree with you is an idiot. The irony is delicious when you openly characterise others as unthinking plebians for reading between the lines and forming their own opinions rather than taking the party line at face value. Total pseud behaviour.

You're the biggest troll on here, ruining the boards with your Mr Peabody positivity, often flying in the face of all logic. Too bad the moniker of 'Baghdad Bob' was already taken.

[RickyJ45 407]

How many times did he say the word "obviously"?

Trenners is particularly fond of the word.

This is another reason why Gary Ayres should not coach.

Imagine the team meetings .... obivous obvisouly

[LegsLeoncelli 162]

Scott "Captain Not-so" Lucas could be employed as an assistant to provide an interesting counterpoint at team meetings...

[monoccular 17,413]

How many times did he say the word "obviously"?

Seems to be a common word used by AFL players to fill in time whilst they think of a response, in similar vein to "ummm" and "ahhh".

Trenners is particularly fond of the word.

Nathan Jones on one of the Sunday TV footy shows used 'obviously' many times...Must be a favourite of the Melbourne boys.

Yeah..but, no...but........ it seems that this is the current buzzword.....obviously!

[monoccular 17,413]

"Coming from Neeldy, he probably took the more defensive approach and really tried to put a strangle on the game, and there's no doubt we've learnt some great principles from that, which we showed on the weekend as well," Trengove said on SEN radio. Slightly different take

Interesting slant that - I thought that the attacking was great, but they couldn't "put a strangle on the game" when needed in Q4. Will come with time.

spot on there just do, dont think, don't hope, just do

....obviously.

[Johnny Jimbo 26]

missed the L in niggler the first time I read this, still wasnt surprised to see dunny nominated.