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I'm genuinely surprised to see Petracca get votes. I had no difficulty identifying the top 4 in my votes but struggled with the last two, but at no time did I think Petracca's game was vote-worthy. In fact, I wondered after the game whether he might be close to a demotion to Casey. Amazed how we can see things so differently.

 
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Maxy consolidates his lead as Clarrie and Salem move into second and third spots respectively. Harmes consolidates fifth spot putting daylight between him and sixth and making it a 5 horse race.

    PLAYER VOTES
1 GAWN Max.png Max Gawn 72
2 OLIVER Clayton.png Clayton Oliver 62
3 SALEM Christian.png Christian Salem 59
4 BRAYSHAW Angus.png Angus Brayshaw 57
5 HARMES James.png James Harmes 54
6 MELKSHAM Jake.png Jake Melksham 22
7 FROST Sam.png Sam Frost 18
7 HORE Marty.png Marty Hore 18
9 JONES Nathan.png Nathan Jones 15
9 VINEY Jack.png Jack Viney 15
11 HUNT Jayden.png Jayden Hunt 12
12 HIBBERD Michael.png Michael Hibberd 10
13 LOCKHART Jay.png Jay Lockhart 6
14 FRITSCH Bayley.png Bayley Fritsch 4
14 MCDONALD Tom.png Tom McDoanld 4
14 PREUSS Braydon.png Braydon Preuss 4
17 WAGNER Corey.png Corey Wagner 3
18 NEAL BULLEN Alex.png Alex Neal-Bullen 2
18 PETRACCA Christian.png Christian Petracca 2
20 JETTA Neville.png Neville Jetta 1
20 STRETCH Billy.png Billy Stretch 1
2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I'm genuinely surprised to see Petracca get votes. I had no difficulty identifying the top 4 in my votes but struggled with the last two, but at no time did I think Petracca's game was vote-worthy. In fact, I wondered after the game whether he might be close to a demotion to Casey. Amazed how we can see things so differently.

I thought he was great. He had a direct assist for our first goal and brought the ball down in Hunt's direction against two opponents to score our second. There was another assist that should have been a goal and a number of times where he either won the ball or crashed in and allowed others to do so. He's not getting huge disposal numbers and his set shot was horrible, but he had a big impact.

 
6 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I'm genuinely surprised to see Petracca get votes. I had no difficulty identifying the top 4 in my votes but struggled with the last two, but at no time did I think Petracca's game was vote-worthy. In fact, I wondered after the game whether he might be close to a demotion to Casey. Amazed how we can see things so differently.

 

4 hours ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

I thought he was great. He had a direct assist for our first goal and brought the ball down in Hunt's direction against two opponents to score our second. There was another assist that should have been a goal and a number of times where he either won the ball or crashed in and allowed others to do so. He's not getting huge disposal numbers and his set shot was horrible, but he had a big impact.

I didn't see this game..  I listened to it.

But I am concerned about how some of our players perceive of how they are going.  and how we judge them...  effecting their own perceptions of themselves.   Some players are too hard on themselves,  and some, maybe not hard enough,  in some ways

 

https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/fts_match_statistics?mid=9776&sby=14#t1

https://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2019/7/melb-v-haw#full-time-stats

Melbourne

Player K H D M HO FF FA T G B AF
1 Max Gawn 13 4 17 6 46 2 0 2 0 0 121
2 James Harmes 17 14 31 6 0 2 3 5 1 1 117
3 Michael Hibberd 17 9 26 8 0 2 1 2 0 0 100
3 Jay Lockhart 13 7 20 8 0 1 0 4 1 0 100
5 Christian Salem 18 8 26 5 0 0 0 3 0 0 97
5 Clayton Oliver 13 17 30 8 0 3 4 2 0 1 97
7 Marty Hore 14 4 18 7 0 2 0 2 0 0 81
8 Nathan Jones 11 9 20 1 0 2 2 5 1 1 77
9 Alex Neal-Bullen 8 4 12 1 0 1 0 8 1 0 74
9 Jake Melksham 10 10 20 2 0 0 1 5 0 1 74
11 Jayden Hunt 9 6 15 5 0 0 1 1 2 1 68
11 Billy Stretch 10 8 18 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 68
13 Angus Brayshaw 11 10 21 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 65
14 Bayley Fritsch 11 3 14 6 0 1 2 0 1 1 59
15 Tom McDonald 8 3 11 3 2 2 1 3 1 0 58
16 Oscar McDonald 8 0 8 6 0 0 0 2 0 0 50
17 Jordan Lewis 8 5 13 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 45
18 Josh Wagner 4 5 9 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 44
19 Jeff Garlett 5 4 9 2 0 1 1 2 1 2 43
19 Christian Petracca 6 5 11 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 43
21 Sam Frost 7 5 12 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 40
22 Declan Keilty 3 3 6 2 3 1 1 2 0 0 30

 

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