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GAME DAY - Round 2, 2017


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Just now, dl4e said:

Overusing the ball. Keep it simple and go long. That would beat Carlton.

The game plan is clearly to handball out of traffic then kick forward.  The problem is when we're in space, we kick to a contest that allows them to contest, or we just plain old snuff the kick.  Disposal quality needs to improve.

I'm not expecting the mode of ball use to change, I'm just hoping the quality does.

Still pretty comfortable with where we're sitting.  They're more in it than they should be but I haven't felt they've been a genuine threat at any stage.  

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Salem looks good. Gawn going ok. Not much to write home about. Tyson looks underdone and has been terrible. Melksham just cannot execute - just an ordinary footballer to be honest. Hunt has been ok, he is having a dip. Lewis hasn't been great by foot today, and wasn't great by foot last week either. Brayshaw has made a few simple errors. I think Neville Jetta has been fantastic, cannot teach what Jetta does down back.

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Just now, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

There were so many cringy post on DL this week.  We habitually get ahead of ourselves and don't offer the opposition the respect they warrant.  We're a good young team, but we were patting ourselves on the back for a match that hadn't even been played yet.

The old "it's the supporters fault" again.

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1 minute ago, Nasher said:

The old "it's the supporters fault" again.

Agree, couldn't cares less how far ahead we as supporters get, so long as the team stay grounded, what we think has no consequence on how the players' go. This isn't the butterfly effect ffs.

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I think our guys are over thinking it. Brayshaw makes a mistake and then works too hard to rectify it and loses his positioning. Tom McDonald stuff ups a kick and takes it out on Cripps resulting in a free.

we just need to get the ball into the right players hands and trust and we'll get the momentum back our way. 

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Wow I must be at a different game to everyone else! I see a team that basically has the ball on a string, just need to move it forward quicker and tidy up the overuse of the ball and we will crush Carlton. They are playing a super defensive style of play to which we just need to kick it over the flood before they have the chance to clog up the forward 50. Demons by 35points

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8 minutes ago, barneymfc said:

tyson shocking viney shocking  ,very ahead of them selves, watts great gawn great the rest have big heads and need to wake up

 

Tyson had no JLT and not long in the 2s. He takes a while to warm up into the season.

We are not coming out of defence as quick as last week and can't find the middle kick into the zone to then really break it over the back. As everyone has said poor skills into fwd 50.

would be just as happy with a scrappy win here.

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7 minutes ago, Pates said:

So I only watched the last 5min of he quarter but I would dispute that big time. We were on top for much of that time I was watching but just made poor decisions with the final kick into the 50. We are on top in the middle, we just need to make the most of it.

Goodwin also needs to give TMac a clip for that last few minutes. A direct and unnecessary turnover turned into what should have been a forward thrust for us into a forward entry for the Blues, then preceded to bump a Blues player off the ball when we got the short kick in. Result: Blues get another crack at it and a goal. That has given them momentum going into the second half. 

Granted but this game is up for grabs. No doubt about it. They will have the belief now and it's all you need. Melbourne has been in Carlton's position many times the past few years and we've rolled over the top.  Vs Carlton in 2014 comes to mind. If we play the second half as we did the first, Carlton will win.

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4 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

There were so many cringy post on DL this week.  We habitually get ahead of ourselves and don't offer the opposition the respect they warrant.  We're a good young team, but we were patting ourselves on the back for a match that hadn't even been played yet.

There were posters who should know better arguing that anything less than 3 goals for every Carlton goal would be a disappointment.

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2 minutes ago, KingDingAling said:

Salem looks good. Gawn going ok. Not much to write home about. Tyson looks underdone and has been terrible. Melksham just cannot execute - just an ordinary footballer to be honest. Hunt has been ok, he is having a dip. Lewis hasn't been great by foot today, and wasn't great by foot last week either. Brayshaw has made a few simple errors. I think Neville Jetta has been fantastic, cannot teach what Jetta does down back.

Brayshaw pretty good at getting it and has certainly marked well. Unfortunately he tends to telegraph his short / medium passes which are intercepted far too often/easily leaving us exposed In the intercept rebound. He isnt alone here with intercepts but must be topping the charts. If this was any other team i doubt we would be even 10 points up with the number of turnovers and intercepts so far.

Need to clear out the forward line a little and go more direct to Hoges/Weid with Jeffy crumbing. Hit Trac up on the arc if he gets free also 

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1 minute ago, Rusty Nails said:

Need to clear out the forward line a little and go more direct to Hoges/Weid with Jeffy crumbing. Hit Trac up on the arc if he gets free also 

Agree with all of it.

Empty the forward 50, lead back into it not out from it

Hit up a leading forward not a stationary one, and have a crumber at the foot of that contest (funny how Garlett got a goal from the spilt Hogan mark)

Get long kicks manning the 50, too many times we were not confident in kicking the long goal (do that and the carlton defense will press up, allowing us to kick it further into the forward line)

 

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How the f was Viney a free and silvagnis not!

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