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Right now the Hogan May deal looks very ordinary we don't have the talent of either.

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    I'm going to be watching petracca and t.mcdonald like a fricking hawk tonight 

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    Personally i'd consider playing Trac out of the square and make him a leading forward. Tell him his job is to kick goals and give him the license to go for it. 

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    40 minutes ago, binman said:

    Personally i'd consider playing Trac out of the square and make him a leading forward. Tell him his job is to kick goals and give him the license to go for it. 

    Too slow for that job he would not get away from the defenders and he is a poor kick for goal.

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    agreed. As far from the goals st possible. I'd put him centre square to touch the ball a bit more

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    1 hour ago, binman said:

    Personally i'd consider playing Trac out of the square and make him a leading forward. Tell him his job is to kick goals and give him the license to go for it. 

    Unless he can run and find space and his team mates can kick the pill on to his chest, with bullet like precision, CP would be completely smothered and left standing on the rebound. 

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    33 minutes ago, hemingway said:

    Unless he can run and find space and his team mates can kick the pill on to his chest, with bullet like precision, CP would be completely smothered and left standing on the rebound. 

    Yep !!!!

    Trac is something of an opportunist player.

    There's an art to being a lead up forward. He doesn't strike me as it.

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    2 hours ago, hemingway said:

    Unless he can run and find space and his team mates can kick the pill on to his chest, with bullet like precision, CP would be completely smothered and left standing on the rebound. 

    Even than, he's be too slow with bullet passes as he would have 6'-3"  or 6'-4"  reaching past him defenders to punch clear. and again once ball is on the ground he is still too slow on his feet

    His hands are quite good, so IMo, he should be rotating in the middle with Oli.

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    On 4/4/2019 at 4:53 PM, Satyriconhome said:

    Absolute twaddle, don't know which bit some on here don't get, we have a team of 22 that has put in two poor performances, one where the midfield failed and were duly criticised,  the other where the midfield started to get it together but the team connection was horrible

    We have players stuttering to find match day form, not from an injury point of view but pure and simple form

     

     

    Are you still denying we had a horrible preseason? You said all summer that our injuries and surgeries were of no concern, despite half team being in rehab.

    0-3, bottom of the ladder, terrible percentage, dysfunctional all over the ground.  

     

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    What an insipid performance, from a club that has done nothing for almost 20 yrs. I knew this would happen when they inflated their egos in the off season. Let's evaluate last night's team.

    Jones- done nothing this yr , runs one way poor disposal

    Viney- underdone no mongrel

    TMac- out of form can't get near it

    Max- improving

    Melk-- big head needs to stick to the basics

    Oliver- down last night needs to hit the scoreboard.

    Petrracca - bighead needs to stick to the basics

    Brayshaw- great player only runs one way

    Oscar- CASEY

    ANB- fringe player loved by coach.

    Hunt- Wingman likely peaked

    FROST- Casey 2nds

    Weids- improving slowly.

    C Wagner- fringe

    J Wagner-fringe

    Nev- hindered by our ridiculous zone defence needs one on one

    Lockhart- to early to say

    KK- Not fit looks lost.

    Salem- doing his best.

    Harmes- doing his best

    Fritz - improving played out of position

    Hibberd- not enough run looks out of form.

     

    The same defensive issues were around last year. We were scored heavily against by good kicking teams who kick through that defensive zone or that's what they call it.  Surely we couldn't be worse one in one like the Swans, Afterall as soon as they get it they just bash it fwd like we do.

    Our fwd line, just a clogged up mess of players competing for the same ball.

    Last night reminds me of 2013, letting a team kick more than four goals in the first quarter is just unacceptable?

    Gutless performance what team do we play into form this week.

    Disgusted 

     

     

     

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    22 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

    Goody is chatting to SEN at 12.

    He is sounding tired to me

    Hang in there Goody 

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    49 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    He is sounding tired to me

    Hang in there Goody 

    Not as tired as me.

     

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    12 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

     

    Are you still denying we had a horrible preseason? You said all summer that our injuries and surgeries were of no concern, despite half team being in rehab.

    0-3, bottom of the ladder, terrible percentage, dysfunctional all over the ground.  

     

    We always have terrible preseasons.
    Injuries galore and the players never seem to learn anything from season to season.
    B grade medicos and coaching dept.
    B grade players.

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    6 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

    Not as tired as me.

     

    Fair Comment. But i don’t want anymore tragedy at the MFC

    I want cups

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    What we want and what we get are polar opposites.

    You want cups ....... That's funny in a dark way.

     

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    5 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

    We always have terrible preseasons.
    Injuries galore and the players never seem to learn anything from season to season.
    B grade medicos and coaching dept.
    B grade players.

    And lots of non-evidence based orthopaedic surgery.

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    Need to perform some lobotomies. 

     

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