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Post Match Discussion - Round 1

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Thought it was a gripping and entertaining game of footy. Props to the usual bunch of drawing long bows from short sample sizes - no, we don't yet know if we are "same old Melbourne". Besides, I thoug

Lucifers Hero
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Agreed.  He was very valuable until this happened: This was quite a few seconds after Selwood 'tunnelled' Salem.  What strikes me about this pic is that: Salem is out but is kept on the f

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? Three out of those four were in everything. 

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Well, we didn't lose because Maynard and Wagner were in the team, both did enough. The fact that apart from one bad quarter, we equalled or outscored them for most of the rest of the match shows that the team we had on the park was capable of winning.

But too many out there not doing enough for enough of the time: Hunt, Harmes, Hannan, Salem, Garlett, Melksham, even Lever ... that coupled with some shonky kicking.

Roll on next week.

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1 minute ago, brendan said:

That will be a valuable lesson I’m thinking, should never have lost that 

I’m sick of us learning lessons. We need to win these. 

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I won't question effort.

I will question football smarts and composure.

Max should have dobbed that. Simple.

One positive is that we can hang with the best. Now, we need to be able to deliver in the clutch (or in that last kick's case deliver what is expected).

Furthermore, we need to learn to recognize when to slow down much sooner. A 5 goal margin compared to a 2 goal one (which might have happened had we switched on sooner) might have made all the difference.

 

 

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Just now, Colin B. Flaubert said:

I won't question effort.

I will question football smarts and composure.

Max should have dobbed that. Simple.

One positive is that we can hang with the best. Now, we need to be able to deliver in the clutch (or in that last kick's case deliver what is expected).

 

 

Geelong today were way off the best in the league

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I thought Wagner was average personally. 

Overall tackle and footy IQ was poor when it counted, when will we learn!

We even had the run with the Umps! 

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Still haven't learned how to deliver inside 50 effectively, and we missed so many tackles. Those were the two things that got us the most IMO.

Good spectacle though, not shattered.

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51 marks to 102 marks. 

That means nothing. Contested marking was pretty even. It’s how they play the game compared to how we play the game. 

The issue was that we wasted so many inside 50 entries and they were so efficient. 

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Why dom and gus weren't playing id like to know

2nd qtr was abysmal.

Maybe one day we will win these games.

They better destroy bears next week.

 

 

 

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