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26 minutes ago, Biffen said:

All the backs look good when the mids and forwards are pressuring and spoiling up the ground.

Without the pressure from the rest of the team he is going to look very ordinary again.

You mean like Chip Frawley?

 

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On 9/15/2018 at 5:22 AM, TGR said:

A majority here owe OMac an apology.  The Hawkins game was only a month ago, where he was on song and delivery was almost unstoppable.

 

 

  OMac's best game for the club last night.  A sense of calm now when he gets it.  Will progress and mature ala his brother and D.Grimes.

A bit rich coming from you. Where's your apology for Jordan Lewis? Haven't heard a peep from that Trainwreck of a thread criticising him all year. ?

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21 minutes ago, johndemonic said:

A bit rich coming from you. Where's your apology for Jordan Lewis? Haven't heard a peep from that Trainwreck of a thread criticising him all year. ?

 

Bit of a detour, but refer to Joe Boy’s 3 word about my thoughts on Lewis’s game.

The consensus is that Vince and Lewis can no longer play in the same team.  The truth is he would have been dropped this year if his name wasn’t JL.  I didn’t hear anything from you about his head-duck in the elimination.  If it was Watts or OMac, the last rites would have been administered.

Unlike the Geelong final, Lewis was physically invested against Hawthorn, in what was his best game for the club.  He remains our Achilles heel IMO.  But like most things on here, the generals will come out after the war has ended and epitaphs written.

 

 

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On ‎9‎/‎15‎/‎2018 at 11:54 AM, Sir Why You Little said:

His game last night was awesome. He worried us all but he has confidence now. 

Next week is going to be another tough day, but he is up to it. 

Never Doubted him!!?

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48 minutes ago, TGR said:

 

Bit of a detour, but refer to Joe Boy’s 3 word about my thoughts on Lewis’s game.

The consensus is that Vince and Lewis can no longer play in the same team.  The truth is he would have been dropped this year if his name wasn’t JL.  I didn’t hear anything from you about his head-duck in the elimination.  If it was Watts or OMac, the last rites would have been administered.

Unlike the Geelong final, Lewis was physically invested against Hawthorn, in what was his best game for the club.  He remains our Achilles heel IMO.  But like most things on here, the generals will come out after the war has ended and epitaphs written.

 

 

Here lies TGR, who died the way he lived... It sounded like a combine harvester, it looked like a combine harvester, but he refused to see a combine harvester...

*Apologies to Rowan Atkinson

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13 hours ago, DeeZone said:

Signed on for two more years last week. Yayyyyy..........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry to upset your day by missing something jeez !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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14 hours ago, TGR said:

 

Bit of a detour, but refer to Joe Boy’s 3 word about my thoughts on Lewis’s game.

Unlike the Geelong final, Lewis was physically invested against Hawthorn, in what was his best game for the club.  He remains our Achilles heel IMO. 

 

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Strange.  I've been with you all the way on Lewis and said so early last year.  I think he's had a much better year this year and thought he was very good against Geelong and terrible on Friday against Hawks.

He really worries me on a fast deck in Perth but he isn't going to be dropped.  He's a classic "very good things and very bad things" footballer at the moment.  I'm just hoping he has a good one on Saturday because a bad one could cost us the game.

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He is gonna need to play out of his skin against WC. Biggest game of his life.

If he and Frosty can take care of their big men, we are that much closer to a GF.

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O Mac has definitely improved with experience. But he has been helped by a better functioning defensive unit, too. We now see far fewer instances of three Demon defenders all going for the same mark (or spoil) leaving an opposition small forward loose to capitalise on the inevitable loose ball.  And like any defender, he's also helped by the ball not coming in as often or as quickly either because the mids and forwards keep pressuring their opponents and our defenders (particularly Salem, Hibberd and Fritsch) dispose of the ball out of defence with improved efficiency so it doesn't rebound so quickly.   

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43 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

O Mac has definitely improved with experience. But he has been helped by a better functioning defensive unit, too. We now see far fewer instances of three Demon defenders all going for the same mark (or spoil) leaving an opposition small forward loose to capitalise on the inevitable loose ball.  And like any defender, he's also helped by the ball not coming in as often or as quickly either because the mids and forwards keep pressuring their opponents and our defenders (particularly Salem, Hibberd and Fritsch) dispose of the ball out of defence with improved efficiency so it doesn't rebound so quickly.   

Agree on all points.

The other thing he has benefited from is the synergy of the backline, which after a pretty long period of flux has been really settled in the last 7-8 weeks.

No coincidence in that time teams have averaged only aprox 70 points against us. Synergy is critical for defensive units.

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On 9/16/2018 at 6:07 PM, Petraccattack said:

O Mac and Frosty flogged Walker and Jenkins at Adelaide Oval a couple of months ago.

Darling and Kennedy a bigger threat, but our boys have shown they can take on dual established tall forwards and win.

 

Even Prancer the Great struggles if the opposition midfield gets too free and deliver, though I doubt if Brooooossse would recognize that. 

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