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2 minutes ago, faultydet said:

Sometimes you can see the required intensity, and hunger for the contest even though you are a fair way behind on the scoreboard, and that always gives you hope.

 

We are being annihilated in the contest, and are looking as flat as a tack. I have very little confidence that we can finish in front.

Yep, very reminiscent of some other lazy performances this year. One of those matches where we're flat from the opening bounce and spend the rest of the game just hanging in there, without ever having a dominant patch where we convert goals.

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Question: Would you trade the Hawthorn win of two weeks ago for a victory over Essendon and one today over the Blues? We'd be even with North on points, but we wouldn't have seen that groundbreaking win against the most-hated of hated flogs Hawthorn.

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We needed a bullocking forward out there today. A Chris Dawes/Cam Pedersen would have been invaluable. It was a big reason why many of us said that Brad Miller shouldn't have been delisted in 2010. Not everyone in the forward line is there to kick goals exclusively!

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1 minute ago, Moonshadow said:

Sub out Michie or ANB.

Don't care that rule is no longer used.

When selection costs Melbourne *and* Casey a win.

(I don't really believe that - was just an amusing thought.)

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3 Goals is nothing really.
We should get our free kick count up this half, Roosy should get a rocket up them, throw a hard tag on Gibbs.
We are a better team with more run and fitness, our leaders need to stand up and we need to come out really attacking the footy this half, we can blow a team like Carlton away within a quarter, I have faith.

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Sitting in the stand disappointed with first half showing, read some posts on here   pure comedy   you don't turn up on game day you lose   hopefully second half a bit better    which poster is going off the roof of the Southern Stand first?

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11 minutes ago, Nasher said:

No change to my previously stated view: harsh to blame him for a kick that went over his head.

Can I blame him for falling over straight after then?

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can anybody explain to me why Hogan led to the point post instead of straight up the middle when he did convert that goal. Its like he's got an invisible rubber band attached to the point post whenever he's inside forward 50. Sick of it.


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6 minutes ago, Die Hard Demon said:

reckon we brought anb & Michie in to counter the wet weather... too bad it's not raining!! 

It's raining now, could turn out to be a great move after all! Time will tell ?

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2 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

I bloody hope so.

About the only positive I can find at the moment is that we have played like almost total crap, but are still in the game on the scoreboard.

Exactly. Get 3 quick ones and Carlton will start think about their end of year footy trip.

 

Still tipping 40+

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1 minute ago, SaberFang said:

Yep, very reminiscent of other performances last year. One of those matches where we're flat from the opening bounce and spend the rest of the game just hanging in there, without ever having a dominant patch where we convert goals.

And if the umpires continue to [censored] us in the ass, my neighbours will surely call the police on me before the game is over.

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8 minutes ago, Theo said:

Could have drafted Cripps ahead of Salem. Jason Taylor's decision?

Hindsight hero?

Pretty well every team in the comp could have picked Cripps before whoever they took. He went where he was rated.

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I think they haven't counted one point for us? Have a look at the behinds on the AFL match centre. Should have one extra point?

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1 minute ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

We needed a bullocking forward out there today. A Chris Dawes/Cam Pedersen would have been invaluable. It was a big reason why many of us said that Brad Miller shouldn't have been delisted in 2010. Not everyone in the forward line is there to kick goals exclusively!

Yeah. That's what we need: Brad Miller.

 

Of course, he does have the best finals performance by a Melbourne player in the last 10 years. Slim pickings there though.

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2 minutes ago, barneymfc said:

who or what is a donjon

Don Juan - spanish man-about-town and womaniser. Gibbs looks like him with hair and beard. 

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rain isn't going to help us at all, Carlton are hunting in packs and tackling much more fiercely than us today. Rain will just exacerbate the enormous gap in effort.

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Many missing a point here...

We don't just have to win, we need to smash them for ℅  !!!!

Not going to happen ergo bye bye September !!!


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3 minutes ago, SaberFang said:

Yep, very reminiscent of some other lazy performances this year. 

Don't know that we're lazy, but we're certainly flat.

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24 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

ANB and Michie were inspired selections.

Yeah they have been the worst and the total reason that we are behind.

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unfair to attack our players like so many are. the umpires are giving them no chance.

 

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Just now, Chook said:

Yeah. That's what we need: Brad Miller.

 

Of course, he does have the best finals performance by a Melbourne player in the last 10 years. Slim pickings there though.

Not the individual. We need that type of bloke who makes space in the forward line. 

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Brilliant effort one-on-one there from Jack Watts. That is exactly what we needed after half-time. Exactly.

And he misses. Oh god this is just not our day.

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