Match Preview and Team Selection - Round 7

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21 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

God I hate that word when describing a player. 

Can't blame Werridee for having a ?vocabulary!

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31 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

God I hate that word when describing a player. 

Umpires on the other hand....

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7 hours ago, FarNorthernD said:

If anyone is looking for a definition of "a very Melbourne thing to do" I think we have a contender. 

Yeah and now Oliver will be out with facial fractures for 8-12 months 

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Isaac Smith ran riot last week against the ‘Aints last week and it was beautiful to watch. It’s time for Jayden Hunt to do the same and take the game on again as we know he can, lots of running bounces - get a step or two outside of the 50 arch and launch for home. Don’t worry about bombing ‘into’ the forward line - just go straight over the top - we know he can do it.

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3 minutes ago, DemonWheels said:

Isaac Smith ran riot last week against the ‘Aints last week and it was beautiful to watch. It’s time for Jayden Hunt to do the same and take the game on again as we know he can, lots of running bounces - get a step or two outside of the 50 arch and launch for home. Don’t worry about bombing ‘into’ the forward line - just go straight over the top - we know he can do it.

Hunt absolutely needs to step up.  If he lays another egg he will be out of the team next week with Salem and Viney coming back.

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1 minute ago, Petraccattack said:

Hunt absolutely needs to step up. 

Bloody oath , I got him on my membership card for crissakes 

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10 minutes ago, Deemented Are Go! said:

Bloody oath , I got him on my membership card for crissakes 

Well that seals it..he HAS to step up then!

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12 minutes ago, Deemented Are Go! said:

Bloody oath , I got him on my membership card for crissakes 

I had Brayshaw a couple of years ago on my card and he barely got on the ground with all the concussion issues he had that year.

I’ve since decided it was all my fault and I jinxed him so I go with the generic card these days.

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Does anyone know which round our other replacement game is? The magnet fixture you receive with your membership used to have an asterisk next to them, not this years one. 

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6 minutes ago, DemonWheels said:

I had Brayshaw a couple of years ago on my card and he barely got on the ground with all the concussion issues he had that year.

I’ve since decided it was all my fault and I jinxed him so I go with the generic card these days.

Can you get Dangerfields pic on your next card ?...I would love to see him have the year Brayshaw had.

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7 minutes ago, Males said:

Does anyone know which round our other replacement game is? The magnet fixture you receive with your membership used to have an asterisk next to them, not this years one. 

Round 9 V Carlton Sunday.

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14 hours ago, Trisul said:

Carlton.

Wasn't it Carlton as well last year? Is this a strategy for the AFL to pump up Carltons home crowd numbers?

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6 hours ago, DemonWheels said:

I had Brayshaw a couple of years ago on my card and he barely got on the ground with all the concussion issues he had that year.

I’ve since decided it was all my fault and I jinxed him so I go with the generic card these days.

Yep. Sorry guys, it’s all my fault Hunts been not great this year. 

I’m also 0-3 for live games attended (Gee, Haw, Rich).

Ill just go hide under a rock 

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4 hours ago, FireInTheBelly said:

Wasn't it Carlton as well last year? Is this a strategy for the AFL to pump up Carltons home crowd numbers?

Interesting question and for they would be, they would be trying to pump up all of the lower drawing teams like Carlton.

As an aside Dees currently average the 3rd highest attendance for the year, behind only Pies and Tigs. (From yesterday’s Hun).

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7 hours ago, DemonWheels said:

Isaac Smith ran riot last week against the ‘Aints last week and it was beautiful to watch. It’s time for Jayden Hunt to do the same and take the game on again as we know he can, lots of running bounces - get a step or two outside of the 50 arch and launch for home. Don’t worry about bombing ‘into’ the forward line - just go straight over the top - we know he can do it.

Love the excitement Hunt brings but very predictable. No left foot, runs at a 45 degree angle towards boundary and bombs it long. Really needs to tidy this and should be further advanced at this stage. 

7 hours ago, Males said:

Does anyone know which round our other replacement game is? The magnet fixture you receive with your membership used to have an asterisk next to them, not this years one. 

Carlton 

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22 hours ago, pinkshark said:

My views on Goodwin are unaltered.  He is admirably and luckily bluffing his way through.  He is consistent only at inconsistency.  Results this weekend will prove this.    When we lose, its always in the same manner.  Over the top, out the back, Lever and McDonald looking stupid, inept forward entries to outmanned contests, exhausted from attack, and no energy and or structure to defend.  Week in week out.  This suggests he is not learning.  Just occupying, collecting a cheque, satisfying and fulfilling an ego and desire to one day be the coach of an AFL footy side.  Thus, it will be a loss this week and Goodwin, since taking over will have coached us to 16 wins and 16 losses.  In 5 weeks time the Jesse Hogan is returning to WA bandwagon will start rolling.  For make no mistake, if we are not at least two games above .500 in 5 weeks time then it will be obvious to all, pundits, Jackson, Bartlett, the board, that Goodwin is not cut out for it.  So, Goodwin's future head coaching career will be determined  by mid jun.  And so it should be.  He should be very worried.  

Hey pink i, you should ring Bomber up and ask for a refund.

 

Edit:- I went over the top 1st time - sorry

Edited May 3, 2018 by ManDee

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14 hours ago, brendan said:

Saints bigfooty gone into meltdown over acres being “managed”

This seems more like a headline in "Farmers' Digest".

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12 hours ago, CHF said:

Interchange for me should be Spargo, Fritch, Smith and Garlett/ANB. Toss up between the last two for me. Do not mind either way. Spargo and Fritch stay after performance last week and I would like to see Smith get a run to see what he has got to bring.

I still do not like the look of the team with Vince, Lewis and Jones  there. 

So are you thinking they need to drop all 3 or just 1? Is leg speed your issue? 

I think leg speed is there issue but I also think they are needed to lead and direct on the ground. 

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1 hour ago, SFebey said:

Love the excitement Hunt brings but very predictable. No left foot, runs at a 45 degree angle towards boundary and bombs it long. Really needs to tidy this and should be further advanced at this stage. 

Carlton 

Good point. He looks much more dangerous when he runs through/to the middle

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2 hours ago, SFebey said:

Love the excitement Hunt brings but very predictable. No left foot, runs at a 45 degree angle towards boundary and bombs it long. Really needs to tidy this and should be further advanced at this stage.

This is a huge bugbear of mine.

Classic example last week was when he took that mark over McDonand-Tipungwuti and then tried to run around him and kick the ball into the forward line, but because he ran on this angle to get around McDonand-Tipungwuti he was forced to kick to the pocket.

If he simply went straight back and kicked over the man on the mark he could have kicked the ball to the hot-spot and not to the pocket because he wasn't on an angle.

The fact that he doesn't have a sidestep and can only run in straight lines doesn't help things either.

 

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55 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

This is a huge bugbear of mine.

Classic example last week was when he took that mark over McDonand-Tipungwuti and then tried to run around him and kick the ball into the forward line, but because he ran on this angle to get around McDonand-Tipungwuti he was forced to kick to the pocket.

If he simply went straight back and kicked over the man on the mark he could have kicked the ball to the hot-spot and not to the pocket because he wasn't on an angle.

The fact that he doesn't have a sidestep and can only run in straight lines doesn't help things either.

 

Y'know, I'd reckon Stan Alves should be contacted to assist both Harmes and Hunt in their quest for sidestepping on the run, in using both feet to kick rapier-like passes to teammates down the field, to engage in that supersonic dash and carry on the outside and to crash through the packs where everyone is waiting for something to happen. He was the Demons' master at all of those things. And then there was the Alves' blind turns...

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14 hours ago, DemonOX said:

God I hate that word when describing a player. 

I have in the past suggested to Admin that it be added to the list of blocked words.