2 hours ago, rollinson 65 said:

Takes me back to '87, youngsters...

northey as coach...

stynes, viney senior, stretch, lyon, the febey boys, the late (great) robbie flower, and all the other guys...

we had an enforcer in those days, name was (political correctness requires deletion)...

when the top teams decide to take out the dees' match winners, who is our enforcer in 2016?

I know the rules have changed, but the game has not as far as I can see...

just asking...

 

grinter, strawbs odwyer, fidge,

10 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

 

I wish I didnt look it up.. it makes for horrid reading. The infamous game vs Port.

B Lynden Dunn, Tom Gillies, Daniel Nicholson

HB Jack Watts, James Frawley, Colin Garland

C Jack Viney, Jack Grimes, Jimmy Toumpas

HF Jeremy Howe, James Sellar, Colin Sylvia

F Shannon Byrnes, Mitch Clark, Cameron Pederson

Fol Mark Jamar, Jordie McKenzie, Nathan Jones

I/C  Matt Jones, David Rodan, Luke Tapscott

Sub - Sam Blease

Can we send a Terminator back in time to take most of this team out?

11 minutes ago, The Song Formerly Known As said:

At the time I sadly actually thought this team was ok.

i an full of too much bias for my team 

 

As we all are, Song.

11 minutes ago, The Song Formerly Known As said:

At the time I sadly actually thought this team was ok.

i an full of too much bias for my team 

 

As we all are, Song.

Not to bag Roos-Goodwin and to note they came up with some great moves today....

But does anyone think our 2nd and 3rd quarter malaise was contributed to by putting BOTH Hogan and Watts behind the ball for the last 3 or so minutes of the first quarter when it was 5 goals to 1 since about the first 10 minutes and we had all the play?

1 man back I can live with. But seems silly to me. We ended up defending and not moving the ball for a few minutes instead of maybe getting another goal.

 

Also we still need to work on our last minute game close out. 

Gawn hit it forward did he not? GWS had 3 coming through the middle opposed to Kent who peeled off from a flanking spot, no on was at half forward coming through with them. It just wasn't quite right. 

I'd have 3 extra behind the ball but you got to have one at CHF coming through with the runners. And have to do all that you can to kill the centre bounce and/or get a clearance out to a wing and get a kick backwards for a mark or fight for a throw in. Anyway, we did enough. 

No one was out marking Hogan down in the backline under that high ball. Strong punch. Game over

10 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

I wish I didnt look it up.. it makes for horrid reading. The infamous game vs Port.

B Lynden Dunn, Tom Gillies, Daniel Nicholson

HB Jack Watts, James Frawley, Colin Garland

C Jack Viney, Jack Grimes, Jimmy Toumpas

HF Jeremy Howe, James Sellar, Colin Sylvia

F Shannon Byrnes, Mitch Clark, Cameron Pederson

Fol Mark Jamar, Jordie McKenzie, Nathan Jones

I/C  Matt Jones, David Rodan, Luke Tapscott

Sub - Sam Blease

Tom Gillies was one of the worst footballers we have had I think.

16 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Also we still need to work on our last minute game close out. 

Gawn hit it forward did he not? GWS had 3 coming through the middle opposed to Kent who peeled off from a flanking spot, no on was at half forward coming through with them. It just wasn't quite right. 

I'd have 3 extra behind the ball but you got to have one at CHF coming through with the runners. And have to do all that you can to kill the centre bounce and/or get a clearance out to a wing and get a kick backwards for a mark or fight for a throw in. Anyway, we did enough. 

No one was out marking Hogan down in the backline under that high ball. Strong punch. Game over

It was an improved effort on the St Kilda debacle from last year (not hard though) but we still need to work on those situations. Needed someone forward of the ball to bump/block GWS's runners and/or create a contest if the ball went that way.

7 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

Should have been 10 goals down at 3/4 time. 

Got out of jail.

how can you say that after witnessing the final quarter demolition job we put on

6 hours ago, Wells 11 said:

loved the win and hate to be picky...but Gawns tap at the last centre bounce was Stkilda all over again. I was amazed we didn't get that right. All Melb players behind him and he taps forward? Anyway...post match review will at least be a good place to be this week, Bank the win and great fro morale but I think you gotta say we've got a lot of room for improvement also.

 

We fuggin won!!!

6 hours ago, Emerald said:

I just got home,still have no voice from booing Scully and the umpires.I enjoyed celebrating the win but now that I've settled down it feels like a pyrrhic victory but I'll take it.

don't talk 5hite

A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Someone who wins a Pyrrhic victory has been victorious in some way. However, the heavy toll negates any sense of achievement or profit. Another term for this would be "hollow victory".

6 hours ago, Wells 11 said:

loved the win and hate to be picky...but Gawns tap at the last centre bounce was Stkilda all over again. I was amazed we didn't get that right. All Melb players behind him and he taps forward? Anyway...post match review will at least be a good place to be this week, Bank the win and great fro morale but I think you gotta say we've got a lot of room for improvement also.

 

We fuggin won!!!

6 hours ago, Wells 11 said:

loved the win and hate to be picky...but Gawns tap at the last centre bounce was Stkilda all over again. I was amazed we didn't get that right. All Melb players behind him and he taps forward? Anyway...post match review will at least be a good place to be this week, Bank the win and great fro morale but I think you gotta say we've got a lot of room for improvement also.

 

We fuggin won!!!

Lot of deja vu about this thread.

Did anyone notice Daisy Pearce's kicking during Robbo's specky competition at quarter time? She could teach the boys a thing or two.

5 hours ago, AdamFarr said:

We did look out on our feet at the end of the third, but then in the last, GWS looked out on their feet. I'm just not convinced our work rate was good enough during quarters 2 and 3.

We fuggin won!!!

53 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Also we still need to work on our last minute game close out. 

Gawn hit it forward did he not? GWS had 3 coming through the middle opposed to Kent who peeled off from a flanking spot, no on was at half forward coming through with them. It just wasn't quite right. 

I'd have 3 extra behind the ball but you got to have one at CHF coming through with the runners. And have to do all that you can to kill the centre bounce and/or get a clearance out to a wing and get a kick backwards for a mark or fight for a throw in. Anyway, we did enough. 

No one was out marking Hogan down in the backline under that high ball. Strong punch. Game over

 

... the ball went to Shiel,  who balked then fed it out to running gws player,  who drove the ball deep from the run....  Hogan Watts & Pederson were all down in deep defence at the time,  waiting for the ball,  with hogan guarding the hole in front of the gws tall forward.

Nice to win Round 1 against a fancied opponent with 3 top 3 mids / forwards to come into the team over the next month. 

Trengove

Brayshaw

Petracca

18 hours ago, Emerald said:

Did anyone notice Daisy Pearce's kicking during Robbo's specky competition at quarter time? She could teach the boys a thing or two.

It is one thing being a good kick, it is another thing being a good kick under pressure in the AFL.

Should note for those not at the ground that it was swirly as always but the breeze favoured the city end by a couple of goals IMO.

Made our first quarter look better. Explained to some extent why we had a lot of play in the 2nd but couldn't convert with a packed forward line - we had to open the game up more whilst not being burnt on the over lap. 

Similarly the 3rd quarter was partially about holding on and staying in the game given we couldn't get the same run on as the first. 

Once we get up and running in the last I did feel a bit of wind at our backs physically as well as metaphorically. 

Conditions don't excuse a poor middle half of the game, but might explain some of why the game looked as it did. 

18 hours ago, PaulRB said:

Nice to win Round 1 against a fancied opponent with 3 top 3 mids / forwards to come into the team over the next month. 

Trengove

Brayshaw

Petracca

Brayshaw alone is a handy inclusion. Tyson out - Brayshaw in.

Nice to win Round 1 against a fancied opponent with 3 top 3 mids / forwards to come into the team over the next month. 

Trengove

Brayshaw

Petracca

10 hours ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

You know who the chief butchers were today for us?

Watts and Viney.  5 Clangers each. 

 

10 hours ago, Undeeterred said:

I find that extremely hard to believe.

And yet, amazingly, the facts don't change. Vandenburg, Garlett, Vince, Hogan and Bugg were joint second with 4 each.

Anyway, it's a moot point. Viney had so many clangers because he had the ball in his teeth while picking up and knocking together two GWS players with his arms. Makes the ball drop a tad difficult.

Watts had a goal, two official goal assists and at one point it flashed on screen during the game that he had some crazy number of score involvements. He took risks in dangerous places and came out well ahead.

If you want some really impressive clanger numbers, Heath Shaw the All-Australian rebounding defender had 8, on his way to 50% disposal efficiency. Somebody did a quietly superb job today.

5 hours ago, Nasher said:

Hehe. On reflecting on Kennedy's game I randomly remembered Howe and the best zero possession half Roosy had ever seen.

Lots of water to go under the bridge yet, but so far so good on that trade. Thought Kennedy was instrumental in the last quarter resurgence. 

and a best and fairest  finish that was vastly higher than anybody who watched the season would have thought

Roosy wasn't born yesterday

3 hours ago, Tony Tea said:

Hilarious reading the gameday thread. There was so much moaning, grizzling and doom & glooming that it barely registered that Melbourne hit the front.

Get a grip, girlfriends.

really? I missed it. I was at the ground screaming my lungs out like a real supporter