On 30/04/2017 at 07:27, Lucifer's Hero said:

Even today's hero, Pedobear (whom I love) had 8.

Wrong column. They were marks.

  On 30/04/2017 at 10:41, jumbo returns said:

I've been hard on him for a couple of weeks now, but he was dangerous, dangerous, dangerous today

I hope he stays forward and plays deep every game

I agree JR ... Petracca has a touch of Darren Jarman about him and he knows where the goals are.  And he's only going to get better & better. 

Play him out of the goal square with a licence to roam with Jesse up at CHF.  We can play another tall at deep forward as a sort of a modern day decoy (i.e. take a tall defender out of the play)

The key is to move the ball quickly into the forward line with pinpoint passing or to one-out situations.  Do that and we'll trouble most teams.  The 3rd quarter today showed what we're capable of. 

Sam Frost plays like a man possessed.

Absolute beast.

I agree Frost has definitely taken a few steps forward in the few games he's played this year.

Love the confidence in the club and himself to take out the oppositions No.1 forward and also attack with his pace. A lot of pressure acts from Sam.

Frost was the main reason T-Mac was able to play up the ground more.

  On 30/04/2017 at 10:25, don't make me angry said:

it was a good win but how typical of demonland we win and most post are negative, save the negativity for the losses

What is worse is that the negativity isn't particularly analytical

2 takeaways for me from today were:

- we finally managed to not go AWOL for parts of the game. No easy goals out the back at the end of quarters, and really managed to keep the match on our terms when we got in front (most of the last half). The players felt very deliberate and clear in keeping control at those critical moments.

- not unrelated to the above, but we look such a better team with Lewis and Hibbard. Add Gawn and Hogan to that side, and when the story of this year comes to be written, it's going to be one of "what might have been". It's easy to see how we could have been 6 0 at this stage had we had those 4 players every game.

  On 30/04/2017 at 11:07, monoccular said:

Surely you are not questioning Gil's ability to make a sensible decision and to enforce it. ?

?  still sponsored by OPSM. Will definitely go to some place else for my glasses if that is what OPSM offer.  

You say you can't call what you can't see ....... well, these muppets repeatedly do just that.  Can't see a throw, because it isn't, but can't believe it wasn't.  

or, die Valkyrie who seemed to have a good comeback game at VFL this weekend. 

A Rheingold  answer

  On 30/04/2017 at 11:23, bing181 said:

- not unrelated to the above, but we look such a better team with Lewis and Hibbard. Add Gawn and Hogan to that side, and when the story of this year comes to be written, it's going to be one of "what might have been". It's easy to see how we could have been 6 0 at this stage had we had those 4 players every game.

This, I think, is going to be spot on come late-August or, maybe, mid-September.

  On 30/04/2017 at 11:09, Dee-licious said:

Also Oscar played nearly every minute of the game (99%) game time and had 14 1%ers. Had a few ah poo moments (ANB handball and being out muscled) but much more confident than he was. A good strong backline with the 6 back there. 

14 one percenters.   Impressive.  

Where do you access these data?   Is 14 some sort of record? 

  On 30/04/2017 at 11:14, dazzledavey36 said:

Sam Frost plays like a man possessed.

Absolute beast.

Richmond though lol.

Running around thinking they'd won a grand final against us last week after we were two players down for an entire half of AFL football. 

They are truly a joke.

  On 30/04/2017 at 11:14, dazzledavey36 said:

Sam Frost plays like a man possessed.

Absolute beast.

Our best backman today, him & Salem excellent 

  On 30/04/2017 at 11:41, monoccular said:

14 one percenters.   Impressive.  

Look. It's a funny stat. Watch the reply and decide for yourself what counts as a 1%er.

 

T Macs goal is a classic!

 Viney switched on at that moment..

  On 30/04/2017 at 11:14, dazzledavey36 said:

Sam Frost plays like a man possessed.

Absolute beast.

If Joel Smith comes on like we hope, we are going to have 3 very special athletic defenders in Frost, Hunt and Smith.  They will be perfect for aggressive setups and zones with their unbelievable closing speed and leaps.  

  On 30/04/2017 at 11:40, titan_uranus said:

This, I think, is going to be spot on come late-August or, maybe, mid-September.

Early days yet, but we've won every match that Lewis played.

Coincidence?

  On 30/04/2017 at 11:41, monoccular said:

14 one percenters.   Impressive.  

Where do you access these data?   Is 14 some sort of record? 

Just the AFL site, Advanced Stats.

  On 30/04/2017 at 11:41, monoccular said:

14 one percenters.   Impressive.  

Where do you access these data?   Is 14 some sort of record? 

Not sure about the record, but he had the most in the AFL for Round 6.

Sidenote - Dom Tysons nine inside 50's were second most for the round. If he can just clean uphis kicking even a little bit he will be so much more dangerous.

http://www.footywire.com/

Interestingly, we currently have the 5th best attack in the comp. Not bad for a forward line that has been borderline dysfunctional at times.

  On 30/04/2017 at 06:26, FireInTheBelly said:

Good result. Hopefully we can play this mob at the G as our home game next year.

Yeah. Good luck with that. I cannot recall the last time it was our home game at the MCG.

  On 30/04/2017 at 11:14, dazzledavey36 said:

Sam Frost plays like a man possessed.

Absolute beast.

Frosty earned some serious stripes today. He had quite a few opportunities.

Anyone mentioned Lewis' goal? How the [censored]? The old ball wedged between the goalposts, what a kick. 

We beat this bunch of front runners with perhaps the worst half of football, then being good in the third, and OK in the last.  We are yet to put a full game of our new game plan together.  Essendon are essentially making up the numbers, and we have to be better than this if we plan to beat good teams.

We are the sort of team that used to run others into form.  We face Hawks next week, who were pretty good two weeks ago, and poor last week.  Need to play more than 2 1/2 quarters of football.

Lots of good signs, even with the list issues we have at the moment.  Plastic beer cup half full, rather than half empty. 

Vince in the middle is great for two reasons. He's a good midfielder and it stops it from turning it over in the backline. Winning!

Tom's best game in a year I reckon 

  On 30/04/2017 at 06:25, leave it to deever said:

Hibberd has been a great replacement for Dunn

A nice pick up. Pitty we couldn't have retained Dunn & Howe in favour of Melk amd O-Mac. Both a fair way ahead of these two, even if they look uglier in B&W.