Outside of the Joel Smith injury, this was the perfect win IMO.  

Just look at the maturity of the players in the last term and the way in which they continued to hunt the opposition with crunching tackles and hard running.  It was fantastic to watch and further proof of how far this side had come.

I know many will talk about the Gold Coast injuries, and you can't argue they fielded a very poor side today, but we are still missing Lever, Viney, Hibberd and Melksham, four very important players for us and it shows how good our depth is that, even with those guys out, we can still smash a side by 16 goals.

So much to like about our performance as a whole, and to come out and put the Suns to the sword in the first term was very satisfying to watch.   You could name 15 players who had a major impact, and everyone played their role.

Enjoy it all, as this Melbourne side has the ability to go somewhere special this year.  The last 3 games, to me, are all extremely winnable and I see no reason why we can't finish in the Top 4 at the end of Round 23.

Demons!

I tipped 96 points, so i will take that. 

Now the real work begins. 

Percentage is officially not a factor for us now. We have taken care of that which killed us last season.

Now we just need enough wins.      

3 massive games coming up. 

Enjoy this week for a minute then move on. 

Finals are not a certainty and if we miss out it would be an absolute heartbreaker. 

Lets get it happening Dees!

We got the suns in one quarter and just built on it. Losing Smith hurts because it feels like our depth is really being challenged in defence. 

Have to be happy with a 90+ win, only criticisms are that we took the foot off during the second and third quarters and missed some really simple shots on goal. Still wasteful going into 50. Could’ve won by a lot more. 

Lets reload for Swans next week, massive game!

4th and 132.8%

Hard to beat that first quarter. Everything after that almost felt disappointing... almost. 

Great win though. We all would have loved another 9-1 quarter but the fact that we built on it then blew it open again in the last was pleasing. You can’t expect to be allowed to do as you will for an entire game.

Feel a little bit for Gold Coast. With the experience discrepancy, on paper an annihilation was always on the cards, despite the concerns of the MFCSS sufferers. Teams full of kids fall away at the end of seasons, we’ve all seen it ourselves.

Can’t wait for Sydney next week now.

Give me the head of Richmond.

I wont have to see my therapist this week...

I also thought Vanders had a good, solid return.  He didn't do anything special but you can see that, with more game time, he could be very, very handy with finals around the corner.  You could almost expect him to keep his spot when Melksham returns, as I feel like he brings a little more to the table than someone like JKH. 

Having said that, it goes to show that we had good depth and there will be some fierce competition for spots in the next three weeks.

Smashed their confidence in the 1st and just preserved ourselves for next week and beyond.

Joel Smith the only blemish. Hope the lad is ok, doesn't look good tho.???

Losing Smith late was a big blow, but that was a pretty great win in what was tough conditions - so windy today

Finally learning to put the foot to the throat. That was exactly the way we should have dominated against a poor team. The first term was as good as i have seen since i was in my 20's. Fast, hard and committed.

Been saying it far weeks.....

We will play finals.

As bad a side as I can remember seeing us play. Got the job done - really strong performance aside from some third quarter inaccuracy. 

We need now to bring that same effort next Sunday.

A sloppy 96 point win if such a thing exists. I’m already thinking about next week and I suspect some of the players were too.

Bag the percentage and onto the Swans.

Good to see that Hogan finally found a way to remove Chris Dawes brick gloves. 

We did what we had to - 4 points and percentage!

Look out Swans!!

 

 

Edited August 5, 20187 yr by david_neitz_is_my_dad

Drop Gawn. Sick of him getting beaten. 

The AFL has a bit of a problem on its hands with this GCFC experiment.

Edited August 5, 20187 yr by Skuit

We have NOT made finals. And of the last three games our best chance, and the only game we'd go in as favourites, is against the Swans. This is sort of an elimination final for both sides.

Watching the Suns reminded me of us during the Neeld years. They were terrible today

5 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

We did what we had to - 4 points and percentage!

Look out Swans!!

They are nothing special Bbo we can beat them if we kick a little straighter. We seriously missed some sitters. 

Props to Salem who is quietly becoming one of our best players. 26 disposals at 92% efficiency. 11 score involvements second only to Hogan and Oliver. 

There are some players I get nervous about when the ball is in their vicinity. He isn’t one of them.