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Thought it was a terrific team performance today, but there were some really important individual efforts as well. Viney and Gawn in the middle (they are becoming A grade) and Watts up forward. Bugg's disposal is messy and I'd say even poor, but his attack on the footy is usually first class.

It's also the best I've seen our zonal defence work. We still made some mistakes back there, so definitely some stuff to work on, but we had a couple of young blokes back there. Hunt's debut was exciting and Wagner built on his solid first week to play an excellent game today.

It was also interesting to see Kent spend some more time in the midfield this week. He still makes some silly mistakes, but if he continues to build, I'll happily ingest that humble pie come the end of the year.

Competition for spots is certainly heating up. Let's get that TV deal signed and a few more of these performances and Jesse will be signing on the dotted line.

Oh and thought Frost played his best game for the club. Not always great to look at, but his pace was really important today. Our press with Kennedy, Kent, Frost, Hogan and even Pedersen was fantastic. We also got our zones right all day. Collingwood didn't work hard enough and they are clearly down on confidence now, but they continually looked up and had no one to kick to when they had ball in hand. That's a credit to our organisation - Watts and Hogan also both showed terrific leadership at points, directing traffic from half back and ensuring their team mates were in the right positions.

I want to see us bury Richmond next week, but surely we've now dispelled those posters who say we haven't improved. Essendon was disgusting, but our last two weeks have been terrific. We've been far more consistent within games and that is a clear improvement on previous years.

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I am feeling strange in 2016.

In spite of the poor game against Essendrug and the near miss last week I now expect to win games.

Very strange feeling after the last decade.

Please don't anyone wake me up.

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3 minutes ago, Emerald said:

It looked like Goodwin coached the first half and Roos the second half.

Hyperbole. You were in the box were you? 

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Just touched down in Perth.

You bloody ripper!!

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4 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Hyperbole. You were in the box were you? 

Just hyperbole Moon lol

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1 hour ago, Wiseblood said:

Plenty to like about today.

Loved the 4 goals from Watts, and that was the standout.  He kicked 3 crucial goals when the game was up for grabs which was brilliant.

Bit of love for Viney? He has been A grade this year.

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I think some need to man up and give Paul Roos an apology. After the Essendon game many wanted him gone and replaced with Goodwin.

At the end of the day Roosy is still the top dog. Forget about Goodwin for now. We know what we'll get from him in the future.

Time to kill off any ounce of confidence the tigers may have next week.

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The only part of today that i am fairly dissapointed was our inability to really put them to the sword, we should have won today by ten goals plus, as we push up the ladder we need the % boosts especially with the comp so close.

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2 minutes ago, McQueen said:

Just touched down in Perth.

You bloody ripper!!

It's not *that* exciting to be in Perth is it?? :P

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17 minutes ago, old dee said:

And guess what we will do again in a few weeks.

Does it get any better than beating the Pies twice in the one year?

Its their grand final you know

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Looking forward to seeing some kids at future games with numbers 29 and 42 on the backs of their Melbourne jumpers.

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1 hour ago, AmDamDemon said:

Does this mean we are now "our Premiers"? 

 

Suck [censored] Eddie. Brilliant boys. Wagner, Harmes, Hunt...

Go Dees!

So, colonwood lost another grand final hey? Nice.

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2 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Hyperbole. You were in the box were you? 

Mooney you are a serial over reactor, Emerald may have meant the different styles in play were evident (OR NOT). We won and different approaches/ styles will be required from time to time. Go listen to Gawny speak about the challenge of playing different styles of ruckmen. I apologies, I forgot you will over react to what I said and find a way to be obnoxious about my comments. 

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Pleased with his game are you Demon Jack?

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Just now, dworship said:

Mooney you are a serial over reactor, Emerald may have meant the different styles in play were evident (OR NOT). We won and different approaches/ styles will be required from time to time. Go listen to Gawny speak about the challenge of playing different styles of ruckmen. I apologies, I forgot you will over react to what I said and find a way to be obnoxious about my comments. 

It's all cool,we won,lets just be happy.

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3 minutes ago, dworship said:

Mooney you are a serial over reactor, Emerald may have meant the different styles in play were evident (OR NOT). We won and different approaches/ styles will be required from time to time. Go listen to Gawny speak about the challenge of playing different styles of ruckmen. I apologies, I forgot you will over react to what I said and find a way to be obnoxious about my comments. 

Irony.

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Norf are on top of the ladder....so that makes me feel even better out the loss last week.

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6 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

We now need to smash the Tigers. Do that and it's season back on track. Sets us up for a good season. 

It is in the bag Mr Shadow.

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42 minutes ago, ding said:

We beat the Filth in a game they have pumped themselves up for.... and we beat them convincingly.

 

Now read tomorrows papers and see how Colonwood are "in crisis", and MFC barely rate a mention.

I'm very glad we won.

 

Would hate to have seen you 'tarding it up on here again after another loss ;)

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Can't believe the pin heads in the press making Collingwood favorites, with comments like Melbourne are really a team they should beat. Have they really watched them play the past few weeks?

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