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54 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I was thinking the same thing SteveHermanDan.

A couple of the Dogs ins are average players who normally play like stars against us. Not interested in their ins and outs.

I thought it was Steve The Man J or Dan.

PS:- Our Casey side looks good. Some handy players listed here. I reckon 15 of them would have played for us in the seniors in past years.

B: Dean Terlich, Lynden Dunn, Ben Newton

HB: Billy Stretch, Jack Hutchins, James Munro

C: Jack Grimes, Jack Trengove, Christian Petracca

HF: Sam Frost, Oscar McDonald, Christian Salem

F: Angus Brayshaw, Tim Smith, Declan Keilty

Foll: Jake Spencer, Alex Neal-Bullen, Viv Michie

I/C (from): Liam Hulett, Joel Smith, Max King, Chris Dawes, Paul Pattison, Sam Weideman, Jordan Moncrieff, Mitch White, Angus Scott, Jake Gains, Kody Wilson, Ed Morris, Jason Briggs

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13 hours ago, JackoTheMuss said:

Yaawwwn.

As a relative newbie to DL, but a fanatic nonetheless, the childish [censored]-for-tat on some threads are getting reeeally boring. I'm looking at you picket and stuie amongst others.

I come on here to observe and engage in footy discussion on the 'team we love', not schoolyard dummy spits and d**k waving!!

Can't ya'll grow up and play nice? 

We're all here with the same passion.

 GO DEES. Take it right up to the Dogs and do us proud this week. 

Errrrr all we did was go back and forth about team selection. Not sure why mods even deleted it, it's more relevant to the thread than the above post.

This place is getting a bit ridiculous like that. Deleting footy posts now but leaving up a whole page about Bernie's "creep face".

 

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A few stats for those interested. Taken from full 25 man squad. I have added a bit at the bottom directly comparing backline vs forwards for comparison.

            MFC         WBFC              Diff   
Average Age 23.2 23.6   -0.4  
Average Games 59.9 69.5   -9.6  
           
Back Line          
Ave Age 23.7 28.0   -4.3  
Ave Games 64.2 137.5   -73.3  
           
Fol (includes wing)          
Ave Age 24.0 23.0   1.0  
Ave Games 91.7 64.7   27.0  
           
Fwd          
Ave Age 23.8 24.3   -0.5  
Ave Games 64.7 73.8   -9.2  
           
Int          
Ave Age 21.4 19.7   1.7  
Ave Games 24.9 11.7   13.1  
           
Melbourne          
Games     Backline               Fol          Fwd             Int          total
0-50 2 2 3 6 13
51-100 3 2 1 1 7
101-150 1 0 2 0 3
151-200 0 1 0 0 1
200+ 0 1 0 0 1
          25
WBFC          
Games     Backline               Fol           Fwd              Int          total
0-50 2 2 2 7 13
51-100 1 4 2 0 7
101-150 0 0 1 0 1
151-200 0 0 1 0 1
200+ 3 0 0 0 3
          25
           
  MFC Back     WB Fwd             Diff  
Age           23.7            24.3   -0.7  
Games           64.2            73.8   -9.7  
           
    MFC Fwd     WB Back      
Age 23.8 28.0   -4.2  
Games 64.7 137.5   -72.8  

 

This week is fairly close in age and experience except for their backline which has a lot of experience over our forward line. 

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Not that I'm bothered, but I'm surprised there hasn't been more scrutiny around the Lumumba situation. If he was concussed against RIchmond, played against St Kilda and has now missed two weeks with the same issue, that doesn't reflect well on the club.

Hope to see Grimes and maybe Neal-Bullen in this week, for Kent and Michie. Salem can have a run at Casey.

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On 5/13/2016 at 10:54 AM, poita said:

Not that I'm bothered, but I'm surprised there hasn't been more scrutiny around the Lumumba situation. If he was concussed against RIchmond, played against St Kilda and has now missed two weeks with the same issue, that doesn't reflect well on the club.

Hope to see Grimes and maybe Neal-Bullen in this week, for Kent and Michie. Salem can have a run at Casey.

I agree, Neal Bullen has well and truely earned a run and he's a pretty good substitute for Kent

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1 hour ago, stevethemanjordan said:

Mate.

This is the Dees you're talking about.

No amount of opposition players missing will influence a result for us.

In fact, if anything we're worse off, such is our history against undermanned sides.

First I laughed.

Then I agreed.

Now I'm sad.

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15 hours ago, olisik said:

Lin Jong will have a field day against us as per usual. Need to rough him up early 

 

14 hours ago, Leoncelli_36 said:

Seriously! He gets us every time. Gotta get a match up for him. 

I was a bit mystified by this  - which game in particular made you both jump to this conclusion.

He has played against us twice - both last year. 

First game he had 9 touches and in the second game he had 14 touches. Not that I draw too much from supercoach but he was rated 2nd worst on ground in his first outing and 5th worst on ground in his second).

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3 minutes ago, nutbean said:

 

I was a bit mystified by this  - which game in particular made you both jump to this conclusion.

He has played against us twice - both last year. 

First game he had 9 touches and in the second game he had 14 touches. Not that I draw too much from supercoach but he was rated 2nd worst on ground in his first outing and 5th worst on ground in his second).

had a bit of a day out though in the nab

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12 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

had a bit of a day out though in the nab

Yup - and in the season proper last year he was horrible. 

To me we need to put work into the likes of Libba, Wallis, McCrae, Bontempelli and Stringer - if we can keep those five under control we are a long way to winning the game.

 

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1 hour ago, nutbean said:

Yup - and in the season proper last year he was horrible. 

To me we need to put work into the likes of Libba, Wallis, McCrae, Bontempelli and Stringer - if we can keep those five under control we are a long way to winning the game.

Tyson head to head with Libba. Viney head to head with Wallis. These first two match ups will probably switch around a bit. Bugg and Jones in a defensive role with license to run off McCrae. Surely there's got to be questions over McCrae's attack on the footy. Outside he's silky, but in close, I reckon if we rough him up early there's a chance we sap his confidence. Vince to play his negating role on Bontempelli, but ensure his opponent has to work hard the other way - if Vince can hit the scoreboard and negate Bontempelli like he did at the G last year, I think we're a big show. The final match up worries me, but we do have options (Tommy Mac) if it goes pear-shaped, but I'd start Garland (given he's in the team) on Stringer.

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22 hours ago, leucopogon said:

I disagree, the Saints outplayed us and have the track record to back up that performance. We would've won the Nirth game if it went for another minute longer.

I firmly believe that is was the OPSM team that beat us in the game against the Kangas.

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I think our final interchange will be Alex Neal-Bullen, Christian Petracca, Christian Salem, Billy Stretch.

If there is any truth in Stringer suffering a bad corky (not of the king variety - oldies joke) last weekend, then he may be a little restricted making whoever gets him's job a little easier; or is full recovery from a bad corky possible within a week?

I mentioned this in another thread, but I also think the fact that the Dogs habit of dropping when tackled will be under scrutiny as the umpires will not want to be the subject of more scrutiny themselves following last week's debacle against the Crows.  This could work in our favour as they will either have to change their playing style or possibly find themselves on the wrong end of a few holding the ball decisions.

Also, I don't know why people have this idea that Kim ill Jong only has a "day out" against us; from the time I first saw him play early last year, I have rated him as a very good player, regardless of who he is up against.

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2 hours ago, nutbean said:

 

I was a bit mystified by this  - which game in particular made you both jump to this conclusion.

He has played against us twice - both last year. 

First game he had 9 touches and in the second game he had 14 touches. Not that I draw too much from supercoach but he was rated 2nd worst on ground in his first outing and 5th worst on ground in his second).

And has been in and out of the side pretty much the whole time he's been at the dogs including this year.

There's about 15-20 players they have that I'm more concerned about playing on Sunday than him.

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26 minutes ago, hardtack said:

I think our final interchange will be Alex Neal-Bullen, Christian Petracca, Christian Salem, Billy Stretch.

If there is any truth in Stringer suffering a bad corky (not of the king variety - oldies joke) last weekend, then he may be a little restricted making whoever gets him's job a little easier; or is full recovery from a bad corky possible within a week?

I mentioned this in another thread, but I also think the fact that the Dogs habit of dropping when tackled will be under scrutiny as the umpires will not want to be the subject of more scrutiny themselves following last week's debacle against the Crows.  This could work in our favour as they will either have to change their playing style or possibly find themselves on the wrong end of a few holding the ball decisions.

Also, I don't know why people have this idea that Kim ill Jong only has a "day out" against us; from the time I first saw him play early last year, I have rated him as a very good player, regardless of who he is up against.

Never been picked to play more than 13 games in a season.

Career average disposals 14. He's a trier but a limited player, hence why more often than not he plays for their VFL side.

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We win this game and almost certainly go into the 8, with a realistic chance of staying there.

Lose and we'll continue lurking just out of the 8, with a realistic chance of staying there.

Oooh, I'm a little fired up for this one.

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my only concern is not playing dunn ,dont get it,he has been the back bone of the club through tough times and is fantastic at the G if every player tried like him we would be a great tem

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4 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

We win this game and almost certainly go into the 8, with a realistic chance of staying there.

Lose and we'll continue lurking just out of the 8, with a realistic chance of staying there.

Oooh, I'm a little fired up for this one.

Me too!  By 2:00pm on Sunday, I expect to be so nervous I could have a colonoscopy without the pre-med

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1 minute ago, Deeoldfart said:

Me too!  By 2:00pm on Sunday, I expect to be so nervous I could have a colonoscopy without the per-med

Be careful, if you will be that strung up an hour twenty before the game I am worried you wont make it!

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17 minutes ago, Deeoldfart said:

Me too!  By 2:00pm on Sunday, I expect to be so nervous I could have a colonoscopy without the per-med

 

15 minutes ago, Chris said:

Be careful, if you will be that strung up an hour twenty before the game I am worried you wont make it!

 

By half time the MCC will be delivering babies over the bar and the Great Southern Stand will be awash with burst pancreas.

It'll be like 2005 all over again.

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