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3 Good Things Vs North Melbourne

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1. The relief and surprise, that Kent and Bugg, can display great work ethic for 4 quarters (see Kent's contested work to set up Clarry's goal) and also have accurate kicking

2. Similarly, Hogan's work rate this year has been immense, he is more selfless and that helps the forward line function and be less one dimensional

3. Jeff Garlett... sublime and will knock off Eddie for AA.

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    1: We won! 

    2: The steady improvement in Wagner.

    3: Max Gawn just beautiful to watch.

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    1. We are the top Vic. Side

    2. We stopped North drawing level on all-time win loss ratio.

    3. Bigg can kick straight.

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    1. Salem building some form. Has some mongrel in him and he is a great ball user. If we are looking for that player to take a leap that will make us more dangerous, it could be Salem.

    2. Hogan's return. Easy to forget that 2017 was a personal and professional horror show for Jesse. He has responded better than most could with some outstanding early season form. His work rate is Nick Riewoldt like, and we all know what kind of career Nick had.

    3. Contented footy. We are a hard side to win contested footy against, and I still think we can improve. Might end up being the best contested team in the comp by the end of season.

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    1/ we give a 4 goal start, we don’t panic and think the world is falling in - we go onto win the game by 6 goals

    2/ our depth is starting to shine, we can bring players in and they shine

    3/ our game plan is solid but I feel there still is improvements to be made still plenty to work on but we seamed to have learned to play the whole game out

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    1.  Hogan just immense.   Ability to play the connection role between back and forward.   Started the year superbly. 

    2.  Fritsch' possession count might be low but he shows moments of rare class.  

    3.  Bugg and Kent putting them through the big sticks

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      On 08/04/2018 at 20:19, Danelska said:

    1. The relief and surprise, that Kent and Bugg, can display great work ethic for 4 quarters (see Kent's contested work to set up Clarry's goal) and also have accurate kicking

    Interestingly, Roos commented on what a hard worker Kent is, and it was good to see him getting reward for it.

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    Hogan & Gawn

    Bugg & Kent

    We were still running away from them right up until the very end of the Game

    Woooooooooo Hooooooooooooooo Hoodooooooooooooooooooooo..........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      On 08/04/2018 at 22:28, Adzman said:

    1. Salem building some form. Has some mongrel in him and he is a great ball user. If we are looking for that player to take a leap that will make us more dangerous, it could be Salem.

    2. Hogan's return. Easy to forget that 2017 was a personal and professional horror show for Jesse. He has responded better than most could with some outstanding early season form. His work rate is Nick Riewoldt like, and we all know what kind of career Nick had.

    3. Contented footy. We are a hard side to win contested footy against, and I still think we can improve. Might end up being the best contested team in the comp by the end of season.

    The best sort of footy.

    I'll add two other matters that I don't think have been mentioned (apologies if I missed it):

    #1. Crowd of over 35,000. For a North game, that's a good number. 

    #2. It was a Saturday game starting at 2.10 pm. (If the AFL is reading this, just maybe that was a contributor to #1).

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    We won!!!

    Max!!!!

    We didn't panic after such a bad start. A sign of a maturing (but not quite there yet) side.

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    1. Kent's 4 quarters.

    2. Kent's kicking skill.

    3. Kent's pace.

    Everything else... Gawn, Hogan, even Bugg... came as no surprise. But this from a guy I had written off was massive for us. He brought those three things, all of which we lack hugely. With hunt woefully out of form, we are dying for pace and kicking skill. The difference he makes to our 22 is absolutely massive.

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    One of our highest scores under Goodwin

    Max and Hogan just superb

    Its early days but were slowly building

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    1. Having Max & Hogan both back makes a massive difference 

    2. Salem’s best game

    3. Still huge room for improvement 

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    Played three good games.......

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    1. Won the game

    2. The highest scoring team in the competition after 3 rounds

    3. Even team performance 

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    1. Kicking 18 goals with Hogan kicking only 1 of those, whilst racking up 25 possessions up the ground.

    2. The way Oliver dealt with his tag, including his ability to play as a deep forward.

    3. Salem's game in the midfield - far more strength than I've seen from him before. Promising sign.

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    1. Gawn. 

    2. Kent (got a coaches vote)

    3. Sportsbet’s 24 points up , you win. 

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      On 09/04/2018 at 01:09, DaveyDee said:

    1/ we give a 4 goal start, we don’t panic and think the world is falling in - we go onto win the game by 6 goals

    2/ our depth is starting to shine, we can bring players in and they shine

    3/ our game plan is solid but I feel there still is improvements to be made still plenty to work on but we seamed to have learned to play the whole game out

    The depth is awesome with players like Pedo....Tmac...Viney....Braysh in the wings with Balic,....Weideman and Hannan starring at Casey. 

     

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