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Good games from Dawes and Howe. Good work to the boys. I like the idea of seeing Mac forward. Come draft time we might end up with a Key Defender or 2 instead of a key forward and McDonald could go full time forward. I just don't trust his kicking.

Also - how good is Taylor! And Aish will look good for the dees next year

Dont forget Frost.
 

Just because it was a low scoring game, doesn't mean it was a bad win. To me it looked like a repeatable style of win based on strong defence and a range of key forwards. Ugly doesn't necessarily mean bad.

It was bad.

What happened?

Sorry, mate. Was out for dinner. He went in under duress and they were saying he wouldn't have played had it not been Maddie's match. I'd say he'll miss next week, then again I didn't expect him to play this year. So he could well come up for next week.

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

But I'll admit it was the ugliest win we've had since Neeld was coach.


Yes I thought also we managed to actually close the game down in the last qtr making scoring for them more difficult.

I thought our blokes played to instructions and punched constructively.

Jetta's game along with Viney's was a beauty. Van Dam's tackles really solid. He'll be on burial detail next year.

Exactly. But then the comment came from someone who thought Gawn was rubbish last week. Not a great reader of the game.

Gawn was rubbish last week. Hmm maybe more "ineffective" than "rubbish" actually but same thing.

 

Gawn was rubbish last week. Hmm maybe more "ineffective" than "rubbish" actually but same thing.

No he wasn't

Burgs, I love your work mate, but seriously, no post match Harmes interview? The kid is living out all our collective dreams, I wanted to see him beam.

Whatever happened to Ellie McKenzie? Did she get dropped from her role once Jordie was dumped from the leadership group? At least she was up and about, Burgs comes across as the most droll and boring man on the planet. I'm sure he isn't mind you, just his delivery is so... restrained.


We kept a team to 4 goals. We were never threatened.

It was ugly, not bad.

sorry bob but was both

Whatever happened to Ellie McKenzie? Did she get dropped from her role once Jordie was dumped from the leadership group? At least she was up and about, Burgs comes across as the most droll and boring man on the planet. I'm sure he isn't mind you, just his delivery is so... restrained.

Haven't heard Ellie before but i'm happy with Burgo's work

Seems to get along with all the players and his write-ups are usually pretty good

sorry bob but was both

We could win by 200+ points and you'd find a way to make sure you couldn't enjoy it.

I don't take any of your comments seriously.

Haven't seen the stats so I could be completely wrong but I felt we got slaughtered in the clearances.

My issue with that is that Gawn won a lot more hit outs and beat the two Lions, but we still got killed at stoppages.

On that, does blame lay at the feet of Gawn or the midfielders..

Haven't seen the stats so I could be completely wrong but I felt we got slaughtered in the clearances.

My issue with that is that Gawn won a lot more hit outs and beat the two Lions, but we still got killed at stoppages.

On that, does blame lay at the feet of Gawn or the midfielders..

We got smashed in the clearances. 43-22.

To me it's a combination of Brisbane's superior midfield (Christensen had 8, Beams 7, Rocky 5) and our midfield getting used to Gawn as our ruckman. He is a different style of playing to the big Russian.


Burgs, I love your work mate, but seriously, no post match Harmes interview? The kid is living out all our collective dreams, I wanted to see him beam.

I'll give you a hypothetical version:

Matt Burgan: "I'm here with a fine young man and lifelong Dees supporter after the fine win by the Dees in Round 16 over the Lions, James Harmes, with a fine performance with 15 touches on a fine Melbourne day at the AFLs finest venue, the MCG.

James, how do you feel?"

James Harmes: "Well Matt, I...." [cutoff]

Matt Burgan: "That's fine, thanks James."

Haven't seen the stats so I could be completely wrong but I felt we got slaughtered in the clearances.

My issue with that is that Gawn won a lot more hit outs and beat the two Lions, but we still got killed at stoppages.

On that, does blame lay at the feet of Gawn or the midfielders..

Midfielders. We had an off game in the midfield, but our defence more than made up for it. I'm not too worried although I think Gawn can tire easily

Midfielders. We had an off game in the midfield, but our defence more than made up for it. I'm not too worried although I think Gawn can tire easily

We clearly had men back.Including Hogan.

Gawn was still clunking vital marks at the end.

I thought the umpiring was poor today. Brisbane kicked 4 goals, two of which were directly from questionable umpiring decisions. There's absolutely no that should have been 50 against JKH, and Christensen's free kick in the last was marginal at best (his constant staging never helps the situation).

But the one part of umpiring that gets me, and it happened again today (JKH first quarter) is when they randomly ping us for HTB due to the player 'not making a genuine attempt'. Pretty [censored] hard to make an attempt when you have no prior opportunity and the ball is pinned to you. Always against us.

I thought the umpiring was poor today. Brisbane kicked 4 goals, two of which were directly from questionable umpiring decisions. There's absolutely no that should have been 50 against JKH, and Christensen's free kick in the last was marginal at best (his constant staging never helps the situation).

But the one part of umpiring that gets me, and it happened again today (JKH first quarter) is when they randomly ping us for HTB due to the player 'not making a genuine attempt'. Pretty [censored] hard to make an attempt when you have no prior opportunity and the ball is pinned to you. Always against us.

I though we copped a really rough run also


We clearly had men back.Including Hogan.

Gawn was still clunking vital marks at the end.

Hogan's deceptively quick. He can turn up at half back in the blink of an eye and take a contested mark like he never moved from the 50

I thought the umpiring was poor today. Brisbane kicked 4 goals, two of which were directly from questionable umpiring decisions. There's absolutely no that should have been 50 against JKH, and Christensen's free kick in the last was marginal at best (his constant staging never helps the situation).

But the one part of umpiring that gets me, and it happened again today (JKH first quarter) is when they randomly ping us for HTB due to the player 'not making a genuine attempt'. Pretty [censored] hard to make an attempt when you have no prior opportunity and the ball is pinned to you. Always against us.

I agree but it's not confined to 'always against us'. It's one of the many inconsistencies in the umpiring. Sometimes forgetting to make a fake attempt to punch away an immovable ball or neglecting to go into fake spasms will get you pinged, sometimes not.

That 50m 'penalty' was just the sort of momentum changer that previously would have caused us to crumble.

Hogan's deceptively quick. He can turn up at half back in the blink of an eye and take a contested mark like he never moved from the 50

Seems to be switching with Tom Mac more lately.

 

It would've been nice to kick a higher score and it wasn't a game for the ages, but to keep a side to 4 goals is seriously good going.


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