27 minutes ago, sisso said:

Melbourne will win easily...Essendon are worse than North and Brisbane

........and just imagine if we lose........oy vey

17 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

so true but even worse as some have gone backwards.

That's what makes so mad about Petracca missing ... time for him to take on a game and really star. Cameos are fine but he needs to influence a whole game.

Hogan is the bright star of a pretty dismal start. Sure it has impacted our scoring but at CHF he is a potential elite of the game.

That’s why I called him a low impact bull after Tuesday’s game. Just laid back cruising for the most and knows he ain’t going to be dropped. 

If we play the same style of game this week Essendon will get us by 60+ points, they are a front running side that love open space, we want to keep the ball safe in confined space if it gets outside we will be done very quickly.  That is our issue we haven't been able to stop sides getting the ball outside

35 minutes ago, america de cali said:

........and just imagine if we lose........oy vey

People on here *may* get a tad upset....

2 hours ago, sisso said:

Melbourne will win easily...Essendon are worse than North and Brisbane

Phew...

I love it....fronting up to a depleted Essendon...going in favourite. 

We always walk away with the choccies.....?? 

Whoever loses Sunday is going nowhere in '18

Why can i hear David Byrne.....?

3 hours ago, jnrmac said:

Great lets just wait another four years when they have another 80 games under their belt.

My age and my patience keep telling me i should be grateful for small mercies.

31 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Phew...

I love it....fronting up to a depleted Essendon...going in favourite. 

We always walk away with the choccies.....?? 

Whoever loses Sunday is going nowhere in '18

Why can i hear David Byrne.....?

That's not North Ballarat and Brisbane Bears, is it??

Surprisingly balanced article and i found myself agreeing with most of his points.in particular the lack of dare and risk taking (and as he suggests maybe some of the fumbling and skill errors), which as Carey points out is often the result of the fear of the reaction from the coach.

Classic example on Sat was Stretch in the last quarter on the Swan St side.. 5 goals down and instead of going long to a free player up field (a difficult kick given he was about 50 metres away) he elected to hold it up and 

The notion of there being some pretty serious internal communication issues (goodwin to players, Goodwin to other coaches) seems to be gathering momentum. Which is a real concern.

Of course it might be a beat up but my feeling is there is something in it.

I really hope i'm wrong and if not really hope Goodwin puts his money where his mouth is in terms of being committed to learning and personal development (see several of early interviews) and sort things out quick smart. 

Look we played poorly on the weekend and I was gutted. But we got the ball into our 50 a lot and were terribly inefficient. Some of the things like 4 flying for a mark/spoil or 3/4 players tackling 1 player rather than waiting on the outside can be easily fixed with a bit of nous and leadership on the ground. 

Ess are much worse and we should spank them. I say 45 points.

27 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Look we played poorly on the weekend and I was gutted. But we got the ball into our 50 a lot and were terribly inefficient. Some of the things like 4 flying for a mark/spoil or 3/4 players tackling 1 player rather than waiting on the outside can be easily fixed with a bit of nous and leadership on the ground. 

Ess are much worse and we should spank them. I say 45 points.

Well on this we are in agreement Jnr. I think we will bring too much physical pressure for the bombers and surely to goodness will be more attacking. Ethiad suits us and i also predict a pretty comfortable win

Will be an interesting tussle.

Both teams will have a lot of fresh faces which does not always bode well from a performance viewpoint.

Neither team is playing well but you can mount an argument that Melbourne is not playing as badly as Essendon.

Whoever loses can almost write off their season ( yes... mathematically possible but would take a big turnaround).

Between the coaches I will leave it to readers to guess who will have the edge tactics wise.

Of course while a loss will be devastating a win will only provide a small filip to the winner.

Go Dees ... never felt so flat before a game

@Diamond_Jim..how does that argument go..not playing as bad as Ess ?

They've only been thumped once...us twice....in a row

They're actually above us...if only just i accept.

We should be playing for the NQR cup....

Oh wait... Moorcroft ?

28 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

@Diamond_Jim..how does that argument go..not playing as bad as Ess ?

They've only been thumped once...us twice....in a row

They're actually above us...if only just i accept.

We should be playing for the NQR cup....

Oh wait... Moorcroft ?

I suppose it was that they were hopeless most of the Anzac day game against a mid level at best team while we only sucked for around half a game against the premiers.

I admit it's a hard choice but you have to find some positives in what at present is a dismal MFC world.

1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

Look we played poorly on the weekend and I was gutted. But we got the ball into our 50 a lot and were terribly inefficient. Some of the things like 4 flying for a mark/spoil or 3/4 players tackling 1 player rather than waiting on the outside can be easily fixed with a bit of nous and leadership on the ground. 

Ess are much worse and we should spank them. I say 45 points.

Has been happening for about 5/6 years now this brain dead defending.

3 hours ago, beelzebub said:

Whoever loses Sunday is going nowhere in '18

Why can i hear David Byrne.....?

Hey, if we lose we can have a full concert.

 

We're on a road to nowhere

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was

Once in a lifetime

Burning down the house

Crosseyed and painless

Take me to the river, drop me in the water

Nothing but flowers

 

58 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

We should be playing for the NQR cup....

Oh wait... Moorcroft ?

The Heffernan-Moorcroft Trophy

In commemoration of those fine dual-club players ... if we lose, we have to take a few hundred grand and flush it down the dunny.

If Essendon lose, they are not allowed to polish their 2000 cup for a week.

6th season defining match of the season.

Carey writes the same article every year. Ignore. 

Its D day for the Druggos too.

3 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

Its D day for the Druggos too.

Very much so...loser becomes 2018 irrelevant.

I rate Carey as a commentator. He is articulate and usually insightful, but this article lacks anything but the obvious. He is just going through the motions.

There's more to learn about the team from this website than that article, and considering some of the fly-off-the-handle material on here, that's not saying a lot for the Duck's effort.

I don't really care what happens. I'm taking a break this weekend and not going. I may also skip the St Kilda game. 

If it’s D-day it may as well be F-day. Of course it’s important, any blind nonghead can see that. It’s about whether we are willing to make a statement and grind out the result we need, them we look to next week.

10 hours ago, sisso said:

Melbourne will win easily...Essendon are worse than North and Brisbane

Norf are tracking pretty well just quietly.  All the stats from the Pies match suggest Essendrug are up and about (in general play...albeit their pressure factor is right off).  Roughly tracking (in general play) at about the level we were when we played Geelong.

The trouble on Weds was their their shocking scoring efficiency and lack of pressure, not unlike our "Hawks horribilis" match.

The disposals per goal were uncannily similar, although our efficiency in front of goal plumbed the depths of despair in comparison...

Demons (vs Hawks)

Essendrug (vs Pies)

If they fix their conversion aspect inside 50 and up their pressure and we don't and we bring a level of form any less than the match against the Cats, we will be pummeled.  We will need to clean up in front of goals and have a super solid match (and a significant improvement on the previous 2 matches obviously) to beat them at Etihad.

Sorry guys... Mods can you clean that up please....tried to post and hit faded saving post button a few times as it wasn't saving.  Then all of a sudden 5 saves popped up grrr.

Can you please bring the delete option back??  This happens a fair bit now