For those interested:

We had the equal youngest team for the round on the weekend and second least experienced (Brisbane 74.3 games ~ 75.1)

This group is going to enjoy growing together.

6 hours ago, willmoy said:

 Therein lies another more serious, complex, and sinister take on those umpires in question. Were they instructed to get a more "popular" team over the line, quietly....

I dunno, but I have absolutely no doubt they were instructed to give GWS a free ride when they first started. Of course my only evidence is having watched their matches.

19 hours ago, ProDee said:

What a bizarre post.

The question was asked if there'd ever been a player booed as much as Goodes and I gave an answer.

Yeah fair enough. The point still stands though that the circumstances were completely different. 

How good it is to see our supporters coming to the game and barracking for their new team. No more negative comments and general despair from the stands. Supporters expectations have suddenly changed now we are watching our young team play attractive attacking footy, and actually kicking goals. 

4 hours ago, nutbean said:

I think we are turning the ball over far more than last year but I am not unduly fazed by that. With great adventure comes more risk.

Last year we were chipping backwards defensively across the ground then stopping and then chipping back the other way and stopping. Very little hard run and spread down the field - this meant low inside 50 counts and low scores.

A more attacking mindset comes with the caveat that you the risk of turnover is greater and we are seeing that. But I am a great supporter of continuing the mindset as we have such competitive beasts playing that whilst we may get burned by some turnovers ( which we are ) we are also winning back our fair share of ball as well.

Not sure if this is right but one thing s for sure, the turnovers are not happening so much in our defensive area...

I don't know if this has been mentioned anywhere but Garlett kicked 4 goals and handed off 3 that I saw.  The AFLCA gave Gawn & Viney 9 each; very nice, and Garlett 1. May as well just buy him an ice-cream.

12 hours ago, jackaub said:

My wife reckons he runs like he is holding a ticking bomb and not the ball. That's exactly how he looks sorta crazy!!

 

Something I noticed for some odd reason watching the video of all our goals on the MFC website.

If you go around 5.24 of the video, Frost gets a free kick just forward of centre. Around him are players including Gawn, Viney and Bugg. As soon as the umpire says it's Frost's free kick all three of them immediately sprint off into the forward line. By the time Frost kicks the ball to FF (he doesn't take too long), all three of them are at the next contest.

That kind of running and spreading has not been evident in our play since...ever. It's a small thing, but it's those kinds of things I see us doing now on a regular basis.

4 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Yeah fair enough. The point still stands though that the circumstances were completely different. 

goodes got the hell boodedl out of him  for no other reason  than the fact he is a prikkk  colour nothing to do with it   , ya soft eggs , get over yourself 

just like to add australian  of the year   YOU ARE JOKING 

4 minutes ago, BarnDee said:

just like to add australian  of the year   YOU ARE JOKING 

Lovely sediment.

1 hour ago, titan_uranus said:

Something I noticed for some odd reason watching the video of all our goals on the MFC website.

If you go around 5.24 of the video, Frost gets a free kick just forward of centre. Around him are players including Gawn, Viney and Bugg. As soon as the umpire says it's Frost's free kick all three of them immediately sprint off into the forward line. By the time Frost kicks the ball to FF (he doesn't take too long), all three of them are at the next contest.

That kind of running and spreading has not been evident in our play since...ever. It's a small thing, but it's those kinds of things I see us doing now on a regular basis.

I think we did that under Bailey. It's the running the other way that I'm seeing more than I ever have. That's also the beauty of having really pacy players down back (Hunt, Lumumba in particular) to cover any of those plays that break through the press. Love that they seem to be spreading though. They've clearly worked on that over pre-season and they are just starting to believe in each other, which gives them the confidence to run forward of the ball in expectation of providing an outlet for their team mates.

On 4/25/2016 at 10:38 PM, SaberFang said:

Cotchin: But... but... *sniffle*...  This year we were finally meant to win a final! 

 

Who'd want to play for Freo

12 hours ago, BarnDee said:

goodes got the hell boodedl out of him  for no other reason  than the fact he is a prikkk  colour nothing to do with it   , ya soft eggs , get over yourself 

Yep rightio 

On 4/25/2016 at 9:50 PM, Deestroy All said:

Lumumba, I'd hope. 

Lumumba's been very good the last 3 weeks, part of the reason we are able to break open from half back with running play. His disposal and decision making has been pretty good, I think you're underselling him here. Yeah last year he was very poor and even in the first two games this year but since the North game he has been a key in getting us moving from half back.

10 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Lumumba's been very good the last 3 weeks, part of the reason we are able to break open from half back with running play. His disposal and decision making has been pretty good, I think you're underselling him here. Yeah last year he was very poor and even in the first two games this year but since the North game he has been a key in getting us moving from half back.

I think he's a bloke that needs others working for him. He can't entirely create himself. I thought he wasn't our worst against Essendon either. He was trying to create, but it was another of those days like 2015, where we simply didn't bring the work rate. We're playing a game style that is perfectly suited to Lumumba and that's exactly why we brought him in.

On 26 April 2016 at 4:26 PM, ProDee said:

For those interested:

We had the equal youngest team for the round on the weekend and second least experienced (Brisbane 74.3 games ~ 75.1)

This group is going to enjoy growing together.

thats a good stat, considering we had our best 22 out there barring VB

On 25/04/2016 at 2:08 PM, Redleg said:

Not sure, but they do it, so maybe that is the rule. 

Just checked it is not a rule. 

i know it was against the rules, but frankly i can't see anything logically wrong or undesirable about a handpass instead of a kick

22 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Something I noticed for some odd reason watching the video of all our goals on the MFC website.

If you go around 5.24 of the video, Frost gets a free kick just forward of centre. Around him are players including Gawn, Viney and Bugg. As soon as the umpire says it's Frost's free kick all three of them immediately sprint off into the forward line. By the time Frost kicks the ball to FF (he doesn't take too long), all three of them are at the next contest.

That kind of running and spreading has not been evident in our play since...ever. It's a small thing, but it's those kinds of things I see us doing now on a regular basis.

Definitely a lot more players around the football, I noticed in a ball up there is almost alway 3 players behind the ball to tackle if the opposition gets the ball but as soon as we win the ball back the players all spread to create options to handball out of the traffic to find a players in space who can kick it a free option.

We finally have a game plan that works!!