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Posted
2 hours ago, rjay said:

Frost - no spacial awareness.

Frost - no more please...

Please Frost lovers do you finally understand why we can't carry him any longer...of course he wasn't on his own today but between him and Oscar we need May back asap...

Lever - Come back soon

Melbourne need Frost and Hunt more than you know.

We are still slow and one-paced.  6/6/6 might make our plight worse.

 

Brayshaw - Our best today

 

Spago - Casey Casey Casey

Rucks - 5 metres behind (at boundary throw ins)

Kick ins - Far too safe

Uncontested possessions - We got obliterated

Neal- Bullen - Tackled O K

Jack Watts - Good on him 

Jack Viney - Limped off last week at Casey.  Was limping today.  Why the hell was he picked.  Either the medical staff got it wrong or Viney is wagging the dog.

 

Did the West Coast game expose us?  I read Goodwin saw it as our off-day and never reviewed it.  Scratched my head about this all summer.  Fox Footy reckoned Lycett would have been hauled into Match Committe to discuss last years’s PF.

 

 

Get ready for the opposition to really expose or one-paced brigade.  They will stretch us wide, and accumulate uncontested possession.

 

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21 players - Absolutely bloody disgraceful

Salem - An absolute champion

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Viney - shouldn't have played

Jones - that dropped mark

Salem - Classic Christian Salem

Jetta - Not quite Jetta

Hibberd - Had no run

O. McDonald - Constantly air balled

Frost - Athlete but nah

Petracca - In and out

T. McDonald - Worst as forward

Weidemann - Didn't have delivery

Spargo - Tried but limited

Oliver - Couldn't get involved

Brayshaw - Almost no impact

Harmes - Couldn't drive home

Gawn - Covered and Beaten

Hunt - Moments of influence

Neal-Bullen - Had no impact

Sparrow - Solid first game

Fritsch - Lacks some confidence 

Melksham - Only forward target

Hoare - Who is Hoare?

Wagner - Never again, pls

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Thought you were very rough on Wagner Praha.

At least he chased aplied some pressure on the ball carrier in our front half. On today's performance i 'd drop Spargo way before i would Wagner. 

Posted
2 hours ago, TGR said:

Melbourne need Frost and Hunt more than you know.

We are still slow and one-paced.  6/6/6 might make our plight worse.

I know we need some pace in the team 'TGR'  but Frost isn't the answer.

He's fast of foot but slow of brain and got caught out of position or caught running into opponents time and again.

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The worst thing Spargo did was that handball over the top to Melksham for a goal.

If an AFL footballer can’t kick a goal from 20 metres out ditrectly in front then he needs to give the game away.

Yes, Melksham kicked the goal but it created a risk of a turnover that should never happen for what should be a guaranteed set shot goal.

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So i take it there is absolutely no point in watching what transpired today. Thank god we won our Cricket Semi final today.

Is this the Reality check we needed?

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Posted
1 hour ago, deebug said:

Trac needs to go to Cassey, for a few weeks, he just not doing enough.

Doubt it . Viney, Jones, ANB, Spargo, Frost,  Hore, McDonald ( both) are ahead of him in the queue. No goals Jones, ANB,Spargo- joke.

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MFC - Very bad day

Team ball movement- slow slow slow 

Kicking out - slow, short, poor

Not so good:

Viney, Gawn, Oliver, Harmes, Jetta, TMac, Hibberd, Petracca - well below average ok

Jones - will not chase (did not mark!), end is near!

Frost - replace with May

OMac - was no Mac

Spargo - brushed aside easily, at least smart

ANB - missed two & disappeared

Fritsch - a bit spasmodic 

Weid - not his best (no easy possessions, slow ball movement, into forward line)

Showed something:

Hunt - had one crack

Newbies:

Hore - looked very slow, out of position, replace with anyone

Wagner - had a crack

Sparrow - some good signs

The Good

Salem - a class act

Melksham - forward line spark

Normally don’t bother with player summary but found it cathartic!

Shocker of a performance, hopefully can only get better,  roll on round 2!

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11 hours ago, Win4theAges said:

So i take it there is absolutely no point in watching what transpired today. Thank god we won our Cricket Semi final today.

Is this the Reality check we needed?

It's much, much worse than a reality check.

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Viney - was surprisingly quiet

Jones - mistake after mistake

Salem - holds head high

Jetta - some silly frees

Hibberd - just another game

O. McDonald - misjudges the flight

Frost - tried but failed

Petracca - missing persons unit

T. McDonald - only good early

Weidemann - was good early

Spargo - slow forward pocket

Oliver - screwed my dreamteam

Brayshaw - good then faded

Harmes - should've tagged rockliff

Gawn - Clumsy and slow 

Hunt - one good run

Neal-Bullen - costly early misses

Sparrow - ball drop though?

 Fritsch - must go forward

Melksham - too team oriented

Hore - just a player

Wagner - just a player

Posted
1 hour ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

It's much, much worse than a reality check.

A reality check in that we are no where near fit enough. How can we not score a point in the last quarter?

F$%# me sideways.


Posted
14 hours ago, praha said:

Viney - shouldn't have played

Jones - that dropped mark

Salem - Classic Christian Salem

Jetta - Not quite Jetta

Hibberd - Had no run

O. McDonald - Constantly air balled

Frost - Athlete but nah

Petracca - In and out

T. McDonald - Worst as forward

Weidemann - Didn't have delivery

Spargo - Tried but limited

Oliver - Couldn't get involved

Brayshaw - Almost no impact

Harmes - Couldn't drive home

Gawn - Covered and Beaten

Hunt - Moments of influence

Neal-Bullen - Had no impact

Sparrow - Solid first game

Fritsch - Lacks some confidence 

Melksham - Only forward target

Hoare - Who is Hoare?

Wagner - Never again, pls

I went to school with a Hoare. 

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Posted
13 hours ago, rjay said:

I know we need some pace in the team 'TGR'  but Frost isn't the answer.

He's fast of foot but slow of brain and got caught out of position or caught running into opponents time and again.

Until yesterday I was prepared to be lenient. I thought he may develop into a player.

But....well....dumb is ....dumb......is costly.

Experiment over.

Posted (edited)
3 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Until yesterday I was prepared to be lenient. I thought he may develop into a player.

But....well....dumb is ....dumb......is costly.

Experiment over.

frost got me very angry

mind you. so did maxy and many others, but frost took the cake

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Posted
18 hours ago, Tom Dyson said:

J. Watts: reliable and effective 

(three words that were never ushered in his time at MFC) 

Also - showed some mongrel.

Another 3 words neither uttered nor ushered in his time at MFC.

 

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Posted
5 hours ago, D4Life said:

MFC - Very bad day

Team ball movement- slow slow slow 

Kicking out - slow, short, poor

Not so good:

Viney, Gawn, Oliver, Harmes, Jetta, TMac, Hibberd, Petracca - well below average ok

Jones - will not chase (did not mark!), end is near!

Frost - replace with May

OMac - was no Mac

Spargo - brushed aside easily, at least smart

ANB - missed two & disappeared

Fritsch - a bit spasmodic 

Weid - not his best (no easy possessions, slow ball movement, into forward line)

Showed something:

Hunt - had one crack

Newbies:

Hore - looked very slow, out of position, replace with anyone

Wagner - had a crack

Sparrow - some good signs

The Good

Salem - a class act

Melksham - forward line spark

Normally don’t bother with player summary but found it cathartic!

Shocker of a performance, hopefully can only get better,  roll on round 2!

Thanks D......Someone explain to me why, with the new rule on 'kick outs' why the coach wouldn't have some sort of game plan to utilize the extra distance you can cover, instead of going short & trying to pinpoint players? Watched a few games on the telly this weekend & a lot of teams trying to kick over that HB line to the centreline.....

Surely that would have some merit, or is that too obvious?

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3 hours ago, Win4theAges said:

A reality check in that we are no where near fit enough. How can we not score a point in the last quarter?

F$%# me sideways.

I believe our preseason is based on going through a long season into September.

In other words our older players should be going into the start of season just a tad underdone, and find match fitness as they build into the season, otherwise they could be burnt out in Spring.

Our younger players should be fitter than Jones and Co, but many had operations to work through.   So they will also be finding match fitness during the season.

This in turn puts pressure on our forwards and our defenders.

We need gut runners atmo, and the loss of JKH',  imo is hurting, at the moment.

 

The only others I can see realistically, to help with spread and some speed,  are Jordan and Lockhart.

 

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