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Post Match Discussion - Round 8

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I can't for the life of me see why there is all this love for Toumpas.

We carried him today.

Please... The kid has coped criticism most of his career and probably rightly so, but today he deserves a pat on the back.. Was probably his best game for the club. Give the kid credit where it's due
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    I will take the Pies on QB.

    And I'll bring the sauce, but who will win? :)

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    I can't for the life of me see why there is all this love for Toumpas.

    We carried him today.

    Are you related to Picket Fence?

    Ran extremely hard, laid six tackles and backed into a pack, Made two blunders but Nathan Jones made an even worse one, showed his class with the ball by foot.

    In the words of Christian Petracca.. ''Be Quite''

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    I can't for the life of me see why there is all this love for Toumpas.

    We carried him today.

    There's always one...
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    And I'll bring the sauce, but who will win? :)

    Easy the mighty Dees.

    Retribution is at hand.

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    Nope. Grimes should go. His disposal and decision making is still VFL standard. And go around again, Gus. We need you.

    the dogs only scored three goals from turnover, i hate posters who spew out the same rubbish about players whether its true or not.
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    Please... The kid has coped criticism most of his career and probably rightly so, but today he deserves a pat on the back.. Was probably his best game for the club. Give the kid credit where it's due

    Please I studied him today... He is a hang out...... Granted he played better in the second half....Hardly reason to sing all the praise... Then again we love mediocrity. :\

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    Easy the mighty Dees.

    Retribution is at hand.

    Glad to read you're positive now, OD. Another fickle one in these parts. :P
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    Are you related to Picket Fence?

    Ran extremely hard, laid six tackles and backed into a pack, Made two blunders but Nathan Jones made an even worse one, showed his class with the ball by foot.

    In the words of Christian Petracca.. ''Be Quite''

    Quiet, DD36.

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    Great Win. Great Day

    I took my son, his girlfriend for her 1st ever game, and my mum for her 3rd ever game.

    3 rows back from the fence. What a great afternoon. The women's match was fantastic to see, great skills, and we won!. Something Melbourne has handled really well.

    The whole lead up to the game for the 'newbees' blew them away. ... And the game they got right into.

    Mind you they did resort early to the cry of the innocent...'just KICK IT!' But they loved it.

    We really have the makings of a great team and I really think we will see the rebirth of a great club.

    It was a great afternoon.

    And my MUM (she's 80) loves Howe, everyone loves HOGES.... and my favourite today.... Fitzy.... WOW! He has got something I never knew he had. He CAN play at this level.

    Go Dees

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    the dogs only scored three goals from turnover, i hate posters who spew out the same rubbish about players whether its true or not.

    It's not just turn overs, it's poor decision making. Once in the third he tried to kick a goal from an impossible angle, instead of centering the ball. Then in the fourth, he kicked it right into the goalsquare and it was rushed through. He's a dumb player, with ordinary disposal. We can't carry him past this season and if we don't delist him, he'll only ever be depth.
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    Glad to read you're positive now, OD. Another fickle one in these parts. :P

    You can crow tonight AF I dont mind

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    Grimes was good today - Took some solid marks, made some good spoils. Don't think he turned it over once while rebounding out of the 50. He was certainly better than Lumumba

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    As a back men fitzy played the perfect game. He didn't give us any T Mac cringe worthy moments which I thought he would've. He would beat his man or out sprint them then give it to someone who can move the ball along. He impressed me so much today. The toump kept growing in confidence and he started to get some possessions that led to scores. Yeah he ain't quick or strong but if he keeps gut running like that he will get the ball and he uses it so well. It was sad to hear that someone kidnapped spencer and stole his identity today. Whoever did that should get a AFL contract after his prison stint.

    Pure gold!!

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    3Dee's not so 3 word player analysis;

    JONES - You bloody animal

    FITZY - Hello sunshine!

    BRAYSHAW - When this kid gets the footy you experience "calmness", quality

    WATTS - poise, that delivery to Toump is why he is in the 22.

    TOUMPAS - give toump a chance, doom and gloom haters give yourself an uppercut, sure he turned over a goal in the back pocket, so did Jones.

    vandenBURG - he is like that incoming wall on a Japanese game show, you know the one where the contestant has to make the shape of the cut out wall to avoid being blocked into the pool?

    SPENCER - I love ruckmen who tap to themselves, he earned big points today.

    HOGAN - that handball alone was something elite

    GRIMES - yeah boy! haven't given my six Demonland votes but he has to register.

    GARLETT - always looks dangerous

    HOWE - easily best game of the season

    VINCE - a frill necked lizard

    LUMUMBA - still finding his feet in the team, hungry at the contest

    GARLAND, DUNN, T-MAC - Plugged it, thankyou

    PEDO - can damage in offence, strong hands in front

    CROSS - cool headed experience was flawless today

    last but not least the coaches picked it to pieces today.

    It's a grand old flag..

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    bad for the digestion, one after t' other...

    I consider next week an aperitif .

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    Brayshaw: . “It could’ve gone one or two ways there. They could’ve kicked on or we could’ve dug in … and that’s what we did"

    Great summary from the young man!

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    I think Toump seemed to have more freedom. Was in some bounces, played as an attacking midfielder/forward. Definitely better suited to that than playing behind the ball (he made one costly blunder on the goal line). His game was a sigh of relief, finally showing some potential.

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    Toumpas disappointed me twice today. The ridiculous panicked handball in the square in the third that cost us...enough said.

    And going nack with the flight on the wing in the first, he stuck his hand up and did nothing when he should have taken the mark. BUT immediately after he ran about 150 hard metres to end up with a mark and shot on goal. All was forgiven.

    i hope he kicks on I really do..i want to like him so much.

    The turnover in the goalsquare I'm pretty sure was the result of whoever it was running past calling for the ball when they were wearing a doggie player as a shawl. Look at the replay. Toump was getting set to go the other way then whips his head around at the call and then I'm pretty sure tried to stop the handpass halfway through when he saw what he was passing to. That goal belongs to the idiot calling for the ball, not the idiot who passed it to him.

    Nope. Grimes should go. His disposal and decision making is still VFL standard. And go around again, Gus. We need you.

    I only saw the second half, but Grimes looked pretty damn good today. He nailed a lot of passes, some quite difficult, he defended well and he put his body in. His stats back that up. 22 disposals, 1 clanger, 8 marks, 6 r50s. Grimes was pretty bloody good today.

    I'm really looking forward to downloading this game and watching the whole thing tomorrow. It looked like it was just a whole team effort. The inclusions all worked out well, a few fringe players showed that they really can play and certain opponents were made to look pretty average. Great game.

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    Well done to PR and his team today, they took some risks and played attacking football. Credit where credit due, they played hard good footy. Definitely not the demons of old, I can see a future with our young draftees. Just need to keep topping up with more mids.

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    According to AFL.com.au, Vandenberg wasn't even in our best 6 players.

    Wtf?

    They obviously do it from the ivory tower at headquarters and radio

    Nice to win.

    Not going to get overly excited though.

    Fitzpatrick, one good game. Let's see him back it up now against tougher opposition.

    Did you find it in you to sing the song or are you waiting for a few more years

    Same goes with Toumpas.

    I think we need to see a bare minimum in effort from these guys and also a cap on how many mistakes certain players make during a game.

    We need consistency in form from many of our players over several games if we're going to stay competitive.

    Not just one flashy game here and there.

    Vandenberg is proof that if you have a desire to compete and you're cool and calm with the ball, you can consistently have an impact. This is from a mature age rookie who's coming off half an AFL pre-season. And his first at that.

    Hogan and Brayshaw also display these characteristics.

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