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Q: “Did you know Tom McDonald could go forward and actually kick goals?” BERNIE: “Well, the goals he kicked were floaters and that’s actually all he kicks, so I’m not sure how they floated through.

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Neville Jetta. Kept Eddie Betts to just two goals and nine touches. I'm still convinced he'd be talked up as an All Australian if he played for Hawthorn or Geelong.

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That's another huge win without Hogan in the team.

First Geelong at Geelong, then Hawks at the G coming off 9 straight wins, now Crows in Adelaide.

 

I firmly believe that we are a better team with Hogan in the side, but clearly we should be doing things differently when he is. What should we do about this little conundrum?

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1 minute ago, jako13 said:

worst 74 hit out game ever....... ??...is there such a thing - won the taps haven't seen the stats but surely we smashed the clearances.. and smashed him around the ground. 

Hit outs were 76-29 but clearances were 38-49 and centre clearances an utterly incredible 6-18.

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4 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Have been out at a birthday party and thought i had drunk too much when looking at scores. Assuming We must have corrected our insane handballing and kicked more tonight. Our winning games have seen a ratio of about 1.30 so far. Tonight?

Was pretty much 1 to 1 ratio wise, a few more kicks than handballs

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Just now, Demon Disciple said:

That's another huge win without Hogan in the team.

First Geelong at Geelong, then Hawks at the G coming off 9 straight wins, now Crows in Adelaide.

 

I firmly believe that we are a better team with Hogan in the side, but clearly we should be doing things differently when he is. What should we do about this little conundrum?

Hogan needs to change the way he plays (less calling for ball on his head) and Melbourne need to stop always looking for him as the first option.

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I love the umpires tonight well for part of it anyway!!

in the third qrt we held two crows players while they didn't have the ball in their f50 and no free kick was called and then it goes down to our f50 and Garlett gets thrown around and is paid the free kick and goals. 

Priceless. 

I did have a chuckle to myself about that. 

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Mixed feelings on this win,  will mean nothing if we lose next week, we are still playing one bad qtr every game, also we were down by 26 points in 2nd quarter before we got our game going, this has to change if we are to make finals. Second week in a row we lost hit outs badly but still won the clearances, we would be top 4 if max was playing 

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1 minute ago, DemonWorshipper said:

Jayden is on SEN right now chatting to the 'Gladiators'. Sounds confident he'll play next week.

 

Great to hear that he is sounding ok.

Brave kamakazee type.

Inspirational.

I suspect however that he will be "cautiously managed".

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18 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Yep and best of all I pocketed a couple of hundred bucks after putting a lazy $20 bucks on!!:wub:

Didn't some galoot on this site say  our chances were "never in a million years" !

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Salem anyone?

Very solid all game. Definitely in the best players for mine.

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5 minutes ago, jako13 said:

worst 74 hit out game ever....... ??...is there such a thing - won the taps haven't seen the stats but surely we smashed the clearances.. and smashed him around the ground. 

Much ado about nothing Shakespeare

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7 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

Most will have absolutely nothing negative to say about tonight - and then DLand kept crashing after the win and delivered us something to complain about!

The perfect evening.

Reading through the Matchday thread is pretty funny....from about page 10 to 17.......and then along came Bugg..

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2 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Hogan needs to change the way he plays (less calling for ball on his head) and Melbourne need to stop always looking for him as the first option.

 

4 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

That's another huge win without Hogan in the team.

First Geelong at Geelong, then Hawks at the G coming off 9 straight wins, now Crows in Adelaide.

 

I firmly believe that we are a better team with Hogan in the side, but clearly we should be doing things differently when he is. What should we do about this little conundrum?

Hopefully Hogan, and the team, will learn that Jesse is part of the team, part of the forward line and though I think we all agree that we are (at least potentially) better with him, he needs to be more team focused. 

What ishis tackle count per game this year?

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2 on 1 contests.

Even in the recent past, we would have both players attempt to tackle a lone opponent. It looked like the objective was to force a stoppage.

Tonight, one of our players would peel off in the belief that his teammate would win the contest and handball.

Did anyone else notice this?

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12 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Having not seen the game other than the highlights, this is really pleasing to read.

Against much better opposition than last week, we've learned a couple of really important lessons.

You'll enjoy the replay :)

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On 11/05/2017 at 7:52 AM, rjay said:

Melbourne on the rebound after last weeks loss will be a difficult proposition for Adelaide...

Well there you have it...

We've been conditioned to be worried about other teams on the rebound against us.

Maybe it's time to realise we are good enough to beat anyone on a given day.

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1 minute ago, Wadda We Sing said:

Reading through the Matchday thread is pretty funny....from about page 10 to 17.......and the along came Bugg..

I said the the Game day thread that Bugg would probably get a ton of the ball but cost us about 3 goals from turnovers. I reckon I ended up about -6 in my predictions there...

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