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3 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Yeah and imagine if Henderson was playing for the Cats. 

There are no excuses. We should be in this game and we are not. 

No matter how many disappointment this club faces, they don’t seem to learn. Goodwin has a lot of answer for. Poor selection and awful match day coaching. Either we are serious about winning or we are trying to develop NQRs like Wagner and Maynard and Hannan?!

Agree, Wagner not even close, Maynard VFL and Hannan doesn’t do enough week in week out.

That quarter was atrocious, disposal poor, not running, not tackling.

Hopefully it can only get better!

Good to see Ablett give the umpire coaching tips at qtr time, he and Selwood get a dream run!

 
4 minutes ago, Darkhorse72 said:

The whole telecast has been all Geelong, I thought it was out home game.  Nothing about Melbourne.  Surely they can find something to promote us.

Think the Drugfather. Watson may just Orgasm soon over Geelongs midfield 

 

1 minute ago, Redleg said:

Hunt had a shot and missed from straight in front. 

I stand corrected. ........one touch.


1 minute ago, Nasher said:

In lieu of being at the ground, I watched the player tracker on the AFL Live app and it looks to me like Lever is always the spare defender at stoppage setups, but by the time the ball arrives in their 50 he's always been forced to take someone. This suggests that we're not getting back as quickly as Geelong are getting forward - this to me is a whole of system failure rather than an individual.

I accept this is a lot to extrapolate based on watching dots move about a phone screen.

Lever is setting up that way. The problem is that a forward drops back and then slips behind him when they get the ball. They've scored repeatedly by taking a Mark over the back with Lever desperately trying to get back to make a contest. He's being out-positioned every time.

2 minutes ago, praha said:

You're joking?

geelong has been at 80% efficiency going forward the whole game. literally all they had to do was steady defensively and they'd establish the lead.

yeah we'll come back, kick 5 or 6 in a row, but we're still going to lose. This game may well as be round 14 2017. We play exactly the same time of football. 

Geelong is simply too efficienct around the ground. there's no way the cats lose from here.

this is more whether geelong is the type of team that loses from here, rather than if we have what it takes to win.

Geelong does not lose games from here.

I’ld still like to think we can win from here and see if we can change our structures to stem the bleeding. Obviously can’t do it on the fly, unngeelong.

 

We had almost none of it that quarter a few they haven't put a match winning lead on us yet.

Still have faith that if we put it together in the 3rd, we are right back in it.  With Taylor out, they are playing one man down and I don't think that should be underrated.  Loozing for the reverse of last year.


We dont get the 1st goal it's over

So I haven’t been able to get to watch or listen to any of it but so far everyone’s concerns about Maynard and Wagner being selected have been justified. I honestly have no clue how either got considered for round 1 after their JLT efforts. 

We need this max. Cmon.

Gone. Looking forward to a rout from here.


2 minutes ago, reynolds46 said:

we didn't and it is

?

Next to no forward pressure. They are just strolling out with the ball


We gove them as much time as they need.

 

No urgency at all.

 

 

I subscribed to the Watch AFL overseas thing, and i cant even be bothered opening it.... whats the score?

they have time to make a mistake, find their footing and waltz it out.


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