JLT Round 4, Thursday 9th March - West Coast at Subiaco

[brendan 3,437]

Skills are shocking, lot of work to do won't beat saints with simple turnovers 

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

Tyson isn't exciting me.

[Wiseblood 24,637]

Tyson is having a mare, no doubt about it.  Still had 19 possies though and he'll be better for the run.  He is a certainty for Round 1.

[olisik 4,060]

Why isn't Trengove playing

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

3 minutes ago, Chris said:

Are these umpires on f ING drugs!

Couriers got the shipment wrong. It was supposed to go to the WCE rooms!

[Moneider96 1,045]

13 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Lol

Are you actually going to say something substantive or is that it?

Edited March 9, 2017 by Moneider96

[Redjacket 756]

This is getting uglier. Almost the 2015 Dees. 

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

2 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

Fantastic learning curve, the weagles defensive press is brilliant. 

Just lacking a bit of pace and need to tidy the skills. 

Our pressure and endeavour are top notch.  

Sounds like a minor tweak Cards. Problem is we have been suffering from these deficiencies for decades now in a major way. 1994 maybe the last time we looked like a reasonably competitive team in this area although my memory is somewhat hazey through the fog of so many horror years

[dazzledavey36 55,372]

Club believed their own hype and got sucked in by the media. Hopefully this brings them back to earth.

[Chris 2,892]

Has anyone else noticed that heaps of frees against WC get a replay and none of our seem to? That one against Max was a joke, he was trying to get anywhere near the ball while Petrie didn't care where it was and sheparded max away. 

[DeeZee 7,445]

West Coast just the better team, really showing up our deficiencies, we are very panicky under pressure

[Age 485]

Absolutely nothing has changed with this team. Still can't kick and until we can we will be nothing. I notice we have even dragged lewis' kicking down and he is missing them now. 

[Steve Lattimer 29]

Having small holes in obvious places and quotes of "Melbourne of old" is strange when we aren't being smashed by over 100 points.

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

3 minutes ago, olisik said:

Why isn't Trengove playing

Because we probably cant afford to put an even slower team on the park?

[Domgus Petrogan 146]

Melkshams kicking has been ok. 

[Redjacket 756]

Just now, Age said:

Absolutely nothing has changed with this team. Still can't kick and until we can we will be nothing. I notice we have even dragged lewis' kicking down and he is missing them now. 

We Melbournize everyone. 

[radar 1,865]

Not a pretty sight ringside from Subiaco

[Steve Lattimer 29]

1 minute ago, Age said:

Absolutely nothing has changed with this team. Still can't kick and until we can we will be nothing. I notice we have even dragged lewis' kicking down and he is missing them now. 

You have obviously watched none of our games.

[olisik 4,060]

Tall forward dominance by the opposition is de ja vu

[Chris 2,892]

Oliver seems to have a tag on him, good learning for him. Viney and Jones are very quiet. Garland doing OK, Trengove unsighted, Watts and Tyson rusty, skills poor. 

Funny I don't think we are playing well at all but we are still kind of in it. 

[Pates 9,660]

Salem doing some good things, deserved goal. 

[3Dee 1,153]

Maybe they'll play Trengove in the fourth quarter? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

[Wiseblood 24,637]

Tough quarter for us.  I thought we actually controlled large parts of it, but once again the turnovers let us down and we allowed them to kick some very easy goals.

The same players who were up and about at half time continued on in the third.  If we could clean up our disposal going forward then we could have hit the scoreboard more.

Make no mistake - the Eagles are a highly talented, well drilled outfit who know their own deck like the back of their hand.  This result is not necessarily unexpected.

[PaulRB 6,411]

still a Q to go...

we've got this.

#newmelbourne

[Steve Lattimer 29]

Basically playing like this would in the past be 100 points.